A sweeping law that took effect Saturday is having a ripple effect on Florida’s illegal alien population.
This from westernjournal.com.
Yvette Cruz with the Farmworkers Association of Florida told CBS News last week prior to the implementation of state Senate Bill 1718:
We are hearing people are starting to leave.
She said:
We’re just gonna keep seeing that more as the law will take effect.
The legislation was signed into law by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on May 10, two weeks before he announced his campaign for president.
DeSantis said in a statement at the time:
The Biden Border Crisis has wreaked havoc across the United States and has put Americans in danger. In Florida, we will not stand idly by while the federal government abandons its lawful duties to protect our country.
The legislation I signed today gives Florida the most ambitious anti-illegal immigration laws in the country, fighting back against reckless federal government policies and ensuring the Florida taxpayers are not footing the bill for illegal immigration.
According to ABC News:
– SB 1718 has multiple provisions aimed at illegal immigration.
– Anyone who knowingly transports undocumented immigrants into Florida could face a felony charge.
– Out-of-state driver’s licenses given to undocumented immigrants are no longer good in the state.
According to WTVJ-TV:
– The new law also expands worker verification requirements.
Further:
– A company with 25 or more employees must use E-Verify to document new hires’ eligibility. If not, the business could lose its license and faces fines of $1,000 per day per employee.
DeSantis spokesman Jeremy Redfern said:
– Any business that exploits this crisis by employing illegal aliens instead of Floridians will be held accountable.
According to NBC News:
[A]s a result of the law, one illegal immigrant plans to stay until he has to leave the country and return to Mexico.
On Instagram, NBC News correspondent Guad Venegas posted a warning Thursday (June 29th).
He said:
Florida’s new immigration law takes effect in just a few hours on July 1st. It’s meant to crack down on companies that hire undocumented workers. It will also make life much harder for the undocumented in the state.
These are workers who are ESSENTIAL to the Construction, Service, and Agriculture industry. Many wonder if Ron DeSantis and state officials will be able to enforce the law. There have been many reports saying some undocumented workers are leaving the state, but today I spoke to a few who told me they’re ‘gonna stay and figure it out, as they always do.’
According to The Wall Street Journal:
Some employers are concerned about vacancies.
Hitesh Kotecha, who owns a produce packaging facility, said:
The employee who wants to work on the farm is not available anymore. How are we going to run the farms?
Tom Murphy, co-president of Coastal Construction, said:
We’ve seen some fallout on job sites, particularly as it relates to hourly labor as a result of this new law.
While we fully support documentation of the immigrant workforce, the new law is aggravating an already trying situation.
During a recent news conference, DeSantis said the people who created the illegal immigrant problem are the ones to blame—and it was clear he included [Joe-Joe Biden and his Regime].
Standing with a sign that read “Biden’s Border Crisis,” the governor said:
At the end of the day, you wouldn’t have the illegal immigration problem if you didn’t have a lot of people that were facilitating this in our country.
And so in Florida, that’s not a good bet for you to do that here.
