Emilio Gonzalez

These are the bold things that are going to make people take notice that we live in a 2025 city that's organized as a 1975 city.

And that's got to stop.

Billy, I spent two years as a federal immigration director

And it is probably the best job I ever had.

And I got to tell you, for me personally as an immigrant, to be able to establish immigration policy, carry it out, be able to help people, that was powerfully moving in itself.

I used to get, you know, I don't like people reading my mail.

So whenever somebody would write a letter to Director de la Migra, the letter would make its way to my desk in stubby little pencil.

And I would read every single one.

And every one of them was a heartbreak.

I had to call parents whose kids were killed in combat, but they weren't citizens yet.

I naturalized over 150 soldiers.

that died in battle, but that were not U.S.

citizens.

By the way, the immigration director has the power to posthumously naturalize those people.

So the idea that you would have a mayor that is uncaring, I think, is a fallacy.

I am the immigration director who's going to be the mayor of the city of Miami, immigration director who will be mayor of the city with the largest immigrant population.

I will flip the argument on its head.

I know where to go.

I know who to talk to.

I've already said publicly that one of the first hires that I'm going to make is I'm going to create an immigration services coordinator for the city of Miami.