New laws that Governor DeSantis has signed have begun to funnel illegal aliens out of Florida. Focusing on things like the driver’s licenses that other states issue to illegal aliens, to the social services used at hospitals the bill seeks to identify illegal aliens and punish those who employ them and allow them to stay in the country illegally.
“It is part of a sweeping immigration bill signed by Republican Florida governor and presidential candidate Ron DeSantis back in May that is prompting many to leave the state.
The run-up to the new law has sparked protests by immigrant workers, from those in the tourism and hospitality industry, to those who work in agricultural fields.
“We are hearing people are starting to leave,” Yvette Cruz with the Farmworkers Association of Florida told CBS News of reports of migrant workers abandoning fields and construction projects. “We’re just gonna keep seeing that more as the law will take effect.”
The law also includes harsh penalties for those who try and hire or transport undocumented migrants, which critics say can include family members.
It also requires hospitals that receive Medicaid funds to ask for a patient’s immigration status.
DeSantis claims the legislation is needed due to what he considers the Biden’s administration’s failure to secure the border.
“At the end of the day, you wouldn’t have the illegal immigration problem if you didn’t have a lot of people who were facilitating this in our country,” DeSantis recently said during a campaign rally.”
Good work Florida, good work DeSantis.
City, county,and state governments cannot continue to shovel out services and largess with both hands. Even the Feds will feel the pinch. As Maggie Thatcher said: “Sooner or later you run out of other peoples’ money.”
But spending other people’s money is how we show compassion!
I might believe the compassion claim a little bit more if most of the money didn’t end up in the pockets of their cronies.