Saturday, January 11, 2025

Latinos in Florida seek to overturn district maps that do not represent them

After a new redrawing of districts in different states was carried out throughout the country, which were rethought based on what was reported in the 2020 Census, the Latino community in the state of Florida seeks to annul the maps that will be approved this week, since they say they do not allow the necessary and timely representation to be able to confront their problems.  

And while it is true that more than a quarter of Florida's population is Latino, districts are not being created with a greater proportion of this community, said Kira Romero-Craft, director of the Southeast Latino Justice Region, who highlighted that the new 28th Congressional District has been mapped in such a way that it is mostly