Posted on Jun 7, 2023
To keep immigrants from fleeing, Florida GOP focus on immigration law loopholes
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Florida Republicans who voted to pass the state's imminent anti-immigration law are trying to curb a potentially disastrous mass exodus of undocumented residents by touting the legislation's many "loopholes."
GOP Rep. Rick Roth, a third generation farmer, told NPR on Tuesday that state Senate Bill 1718, which goes into effect on July 1, was designed to "scare migrants." But he admitted that he and his colleagues were unprepared for the destabilization it would cause among the state's more established immigrant communities.
Roth and a handful of other Republicans, including state representatives Alina Garcia and Juan Fernandez-Barquin, are scrambling to allay fears of job losses or deportation, which they say are already driving workers out of the state.
"It's very dangerous for agriculture. We desperately need more legal workers and this is going to make it worse," he warned.
Florida Republicans who voted to pass the state's imminent anti-immigration law are trying to curb a potentially disastrous mass exodus of undocumented residents by touting the legislation's many "loopholes."
GOP Rep. Rick Roth, a third generation farmer, told NPR on Tuesday that state Senate Bill 1718, which goes into effect on July 1, was designed to "scare migrants." But he admitted that he and his colleagues were unprepared for the destabilization it would cause among the state's more established immigrant communities.
Roth and a handful of other Republicans, including state representatives Alina Garcia and Juan Fernandez-Barquin, are scrambling to allay fears of job losses or deportation, which they say are already driving workers out of the state.
"It's very dangerous for agriculture. We desperately need more legal workers and this is going to make it worse," he warned.
To keep immigrants from fleeing, Florida GOP focus on immigration law loopholes
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DeSantis is not the sharpest tool in the shed. He has a knee jerk reaction to everything. What idiot takes on his states largest employer. 4 generations of Americans are not trained to do the labor that immigrants had been doing since the 70's. They are too lazy.
America was built on the backs of immigrants. They aren't all evil. There are bad US Born citizens.
America was built on the backs of immigrants. They aren't all evil. There are bad US Born citizens.
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