The government of Mexico is lamenting new Florida laws that recently went into effect with the intention of curbing illegal immigration.

The Mexican government released a statement Saturday lambasting Florida's Senate Bill 1718, which has provoked months of outrage from Mexican leaders since it was passed in the Republican-controlled state legislature in early May.

"While the Government of Mexico respects the processes and measures taken by state legislatures in the United States, it believes that SB1718 will affect the human rights of thousands of Mexicans, including children, and will exacerbate hostile environments, which may lead to hate crimes and acts against the migrant community," the Mexican government said in a statement.

"The measure does not reflect the migrants’ valuable contribution to the economy, society and culture of Florida and the country," the statement added.

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Fox News reached out to DeSantis's office for comment, but they did not immediately respond.

For the 2023-2024 fiscal year, SB1718 provides $12 million to the "Division of Emergency Management for the Unauthorized Alien Transport Program." 

SB1718 was signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on May 10 and went into effect July 1.

The initiative drew national attention last year when DeSantis flew a group of South American migrants from Texas to the liberal enclave of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, which had touted broad support for sanctuary policies. Local leadership quickly claimed the wealthy islanders did not have enough resources to support the migrants, who were bussed to a military base in Cape Cod.

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The bill would also require hospitals to ask patients about their legal status, mandate medium- and large-sized employers to use the federal E-Verify system to check the legal status of new employees, and allow anyone caught knowingly transporting illegal migrants to be charged with human trafficking.

"Criminalization is not the way to solve the issue of undocumented immigration. The existence of transnational labor markets, and the intense ties of trade and tourism between Mexico and Florida, cannot be overlooked by measures inspired by xenophobic and white nationalist sentiments," the Mexican government said in its Saturday statement.

Mexico has promised to offer comprehensive legal and diplomatic services to Mexican nationals affected by SB1718.

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The government added, "Mexico’s consular staff will be trained in the scope of SB1718, and in publicizing messages and recommendations through the 'Know and Exercise Your Rights' strategy, which seeks to educate our community about their basic rights, in order to provide the highest level of support to victims who take legal actions against acts of harassment, violence, abuse, discrimination of all kinds and racial profiling."

DeSantis, who is seeking the GOP presidential nomination for 2024, unveiled Monday his plan to police the southern border by pledging to give local authorities more power to enforce the nation's immigration laws. 

One of the biggest changes would be to deputize local and state law enforcement officers to be able to deport migrants.

"On Jan. 20, 2025, we will be on a mission to stop the invasion at our southern border to fight the drug cartels that are poisoning our citizenry, to build the border wall, and to reestablish the sovereignty of this nation," DeSantis said during a campaign visit to Eagle Pass, Texas. 

He added, "We are done with promises. We are done with slogans. Now is the time for action. No excuses. We will get the job done."

Fox News' Danielle Wallace, Louis Casiano and Bill Melugin contributed to this report.

The world has been mesmerized by the idea of exploring the wreckage of the RMS Titanic ever since oceanographer Robert Ballard discovered the doomed ship 400 miles off St. John, N.L. in 1985.

Such a mission was famously represented in the fictitious 1997 exploration of late Bill Paxton's Brock Lovett character in James Cameron's "Titanic" film, as Lovett offers shipwreck survivor Rose DeWitt Bukater a trip to the wreck – albeit from a boat floating above the wreck as an unmanned submersible dives to the ship to record video and retrieve mementos from it.

The April 14, 1912 sinking returned to the headlines last week following the fatal accident involving the OceanGate Titan submersible, which had been ferrying wealthy adventure-seekers to the hull.

The youngest explorer ever to visit the shipwreck, Sebastian Harris, spoke out to Fox News about his own harrowing experience on an earlier voyage, when he accompanied his father and a Russian explorer to the depths of the Atlantic in 2005.

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Sebastian was 13 when he, his father – expedition leader G. Michael Harris, and Mir II submersible designer Anatoly Sagalevich traveled to the shipwreck.

"While we got down to [the] depth where it flowed over the bow, I spent some time placing a plaque. And then shortly after that, you know, as far as I knew, I fell asleep essentially," Sebastian told ‘The Story,’ Monday, adding his father tried to shake him awake.

"Turns out we were at 17% oxygen [in the submersible]. And so what happens? You go unconscious. They realized what the issue was, cranked the oxygen back up and ultimately everything was fine," he said.

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The elder Harris recalled his shock at initially believing his son fell asleep just as they crested the deck of the Titanic, telling host Martha MacCallum that he and Sagalevich were piloting the Mir when he noticed his son appeared asleep, but soon realized he wasn't moving.

"So I looked up and I saw that we were at 17%. And I reached back and I opened the O2 bottle and Anatoly turned and he said, ‘What are you doing?’ -- And I said 'He's passed out' -- And Anatoly then reached back and he just cranked that bottle open and it was literally inside of 10 seconds, as if somebody flipped a switch and Sebastian was back to, ‘Whoa, this is so cool’."

Sebastian's father said the episode shows the extremely dangerous environment explorers must consider when trying to explore the Titanic's shipwreck. 

He told MacCallum the water pressure at that depth is 6,000 psi – the average car tire is inflated to about 40 psi – which he calculated to mean a submersible's breached hull will crush in on itself within 2 nanoseconds.

"The good news is it takes your spinal column 4mnanoseconds to register to your brain that there's a problem," he said, suggesting the crew on the doomed OceanGate submersible "literally blinked and had no idea what happened to them."

"But it just goes to show you, this is not an environment where you test vehicles. There are testing facilities out there, certification companies out there."

Director James Cameron - who is a submersible designer himself - agreed, telling ABC News last week he found the tragic story of the sub eerily similar to what happened to the doomed ship Titanic in 1912.

Cameron noted in the interview that "many people in the community were very concerned about this sub." He said "a number of the top players" in the community "even wrote letters to the company saying that what they were doing was too experimental to carry passengers." 

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"I’m struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship and yet he steamed at full speed into an ice field on a moonless night and many people died as a result," Cameron told the outlet. 

"And for a very similar tragedy, where warnings went unheeded, to take place at the same exact site, with all the diving that’s going on all around the world, I think is just astonishing. It’s really quite surreal," he added.

The elder Harris said that, as someone who has taken the voyage, it was difficult to not sound like a "naysayer" when he doubted the survival of the OceanGate crew early on in the timeline.

"You should not be taking passengers in a paying, you know, paying money to be in an experimental vehicle that is not certified and tested," he said.

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"The Mir I and II [have taken] over 500 dives: Great, great vehicles."