Governor of Florida and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis started his campaign on Tuesday in Iowa, where warned about the collapse of the border with Mexico, He blamed illegal immigration and stressed his commitment to “fighting” “sanctuary cities” in the United States.

“The border has been destroyed. Millions of illegal immigrants move in a lot of criminals and terrorists, drug cartels and fentanyl.”warned DeSantis at the first stop of his tri-state tour, which marks the official start of his campaign in the 2024 Republican Party primary.

“We are a sovereign nation and our borders must be respected”he told approximately 500 people in an audience at an evangelical Christian church in suburban Des Moines, where signs proclaimed “Great American Come Back,” his campaign slogan.

In his first campaign rally, which lasted about an hour, DeSantis assured that if he got to the White House, he would restore national sovereignty and declare “national emergency at the border”, and blaming American deaths on Mexican drug cartels.

He recounted his accomplishments as Governor of Florida to show “Realities and Facts” his track record and ability to take the presidency of the country.

In an internal vein, he referred to his merciless fight against indoctrination in school education, “gender ideology” and the condemnation of those teachers who confuse children by telling them they may have been born in the wrong body, or which force them to speak out on these issues.

He was rough at protecting the rights of parents in raising their children and prohibition of sex reassignment surgery for minors.

In this context, he went even further, stating that those doctors who perform this type of operation, they will not only “lose their license, but also go to jail”, some words that were greatly applauded by the helpers.