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Desantis Declares Himself Emperor Of Florida?

To keep immigrants from fleeing, Florida GOP focus on immigration law loopholes : NPR - June 7, 2023 5:00 AM ET
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.
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I thought that right-wingers believed in taking responsibility for their actions.
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.
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Every business with at least 25 employees will have to check new hires with E-Verify, a database of whether one is legally able to work in the US. Hospitals that receive Medicaid money must ask for a patient's immigrant status. Transporting an undocumented immigrant is potentially a felony: human smuggling.

But by delving into the bill's details in public forums, Roth said, he hopes to persuade long-time immigrant residents who already have jobs not to flee the state because the law "is not as bad as you heard."

He added: "The bill really has a lot of loopholes in it that gives you comfort. And the main purpose of the bill is to deter people from coming and to tighten the enforcement in the future."

Had the bill been intended to be fully enforced, it would have included funding for enforcement, according to Roth. "So that's why I'm trying to tell people that it's more of a political bill than policy.

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"This bill is 100 percent supposed to scare you," Roth said. "I'm a farmer and the farmers are mad as hell. We are losing employees that are already starting to move to Georgia and other states. It's urgent that you talk to all your other people and convince them that you have resources, state representatives, other people that can explain the bill to you."
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What bullshit.
 
 
I anticipate a potential issue arising where legal immigrants could face difficulties when requesting services from Uber, taxis, or public transportation, as they may be repeatedly asked to provide their documents. This recurring experience may create an unfriendly environment for legal immigrants within the state. It is plausible that this situation might influence the voting decisions of Cuban individuals when their friends and family members are asked for documentation due to mistaken identity by anxious individuals who assume they are Mexican immigrants.
 
Farmers have been telling us that strict immigration laws will cause food prices to rise. Who is going to step forward and work the farms? Some kid that can't go 5 minutes without looking at their phone?
Repugs never seem to think things though.
 
Ha ha ha!

DeSantis has started a political battle with Disney. And cruise ships.
Then Trump. Now farmers.

Maybe he is a better candidate for GOP POTUS nominee than Trump. From the standpoint of a straight ticket Democrats voter.
Tom
 
Hardline DeSantis immigration law causes exodus of migrant workers from Florida agriculture and construction | The Independent
A new immigration law passed by Florida governor Ron DeSantis, described by observers as one of the harshest in the country, has caused a massive decline in the Sunshine State’s labour force since it took effect, according to some business owners.

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In Miami’s booming construction industry, some companies are reporpting up to a 25 per cent decline in workers, The Wall Street Joural reports.

There at least 400,000 undocumented immigrants working in the state, according to Samuel Vilchez Santiago, the American Business Immigration Coalition’s Florida director.
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Migrant Workers Flee Florida as New Immigration Law Takes Effect - WSJ - "Farm owners and construction companies say the law, which started July 1, has already diminished their workforce"

Some years back, there was a similar crackdown on undocumented immigrants in Georgia, and it produced a big exodus of farmworkers there also. The state's governor seemed baffled by what had happened.
 
Look up the Desantis "God Made a Fighter" ad on YouTube for evidence that Ron is the equal of Donald in demented egomania. The ad is berserk, and it shows you how nuts Repubs have become, because the ad was tailored for them, to build support for Ronboy. Ten years ago such an ad would have been impossible, and it would have been branded as blasphemy. Has it had any blowback at all? (BTW, I'm ready to retract this post if the ad turns out to be a parody made by a fellow wokie. Or by Trump, for that matter. But since I saw it on newscasts the week it came out, I'm assuming it's genuine and Ron really sees himself this way.)
 
Gospel said:
I anticipate a potential issue arising where legal immigrants could face difficulties when requesting services from Uber, taxis, or public transportation, as they may be repeatedly asked to provide their documents. This recurring experience may create an unfriendly environment for legal immigrants within the state. It is plausible that this situation might influence the voting decisions of Cuban individuals when their friends and family members are asked for documentation due to mistaken identity by anxious individuals who assume they are Mexican immigrants.
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Yup, this is why employers are specifically told not to attempt to verify the authenticity of most work authorization documents. Many of them lack anything resembling security features (at one point my wife was working on papers that I would have no problem producing with the equipment around me) and so verification ended up being more don't-hire-the-Hispanic. Yes, this approach made counterfeiting easier, but unless you have taken decent anti-counterfeit measures you can't expect to weed them out reliably.

Of course, this is actually a case of a desired outcome--it's anti-immigrant, not merely anti-illegal-immigrant.
 
Another article: Florida construction and agricultural workforces diminished after new immigration law takes effect
At multiple construction sites in Miami, workers shared with the Journal that they have lost about half of their crews; one man said he knows people who went to Indiana, where they could make $38 an hour instead of $25 and not have to worry about running afoul of the immigration law. Tom C. Murphy, co-president of Coastal Construction, told the Journal there was already a labor shortage before the law went into effect, and while "we fully support documentation of the immigrant workforce, the new law is aggravating an already trying situation."
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What a sight it is to see -- Republicans getting what they want and then squealing about it.
 
I'm pretty certain this campaign ad was designed by the same people who did Tucker Carlson's radiating testicles thirst trap.

 
www.nytimes.com

Opinion | Ron DeSantis Doesn’t Know Whether He’s Coming or Going (Published 2023)

The strange case of the governor of Florida’s presidential campaign.
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Bret Stephens said:
I guess my main takeaway is that DeSantis isn’t going to be the next president. He makes Trump seem tolerant, Ted Cruz seem likable, Mitch McConnell seem moderate, Lauren Boebert seem mature and Rick Santorum seem cool. Not what I would have expected out of the Florida governor six months ago, but here’s where I confess: You were right about him, and I was wrong.
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ZiprHead said:
www.nytimes.com

Opinion | Ron DeSantis Doesn’t Know Whether He’s Coming or Going (Published 2023)

The strange case of the governor of Florida’s presidential campaign.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
Bret Stephens said:
I guess my main takeaway is that DeSantis isn’t going to be the next president. He makes Trump seem tolerant, Ted Cruz seem likable, Mitch McConnell seem moderate, Lauren Boebert seem mature and Rick Santorum seem cool. Not what I would have expected out of the Florida governor six months ago, but here’s where I confess: You were right about him, and I was wrong.
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I dunno, being completely and obviously unfit and unqualified to be President appears to be the only way to get the job, if you're a Republican candidate.
 
bilby said:
I dunno, being completely and obviously unfit and unqualified to be President appears to be the only way to get the job, if you're a Republican candidate
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So ... even an effort like this doesn't qualify him?
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Elixir said:
bilby said:
I dunno, being completely and obviously unfit and unqualified to be President appears to be the only way to get the job, if you're a Republican candidate
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So ... even an effort like this doesn't qualify him?
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It's things like this that make me think he's got staff members who secretly hate him. "Oh yeah, Governor. You look great. Now go out there and get 'em, Tiger!"
 
Ford said:
It's things like this that make me think he's got staff members who secretly hate him.
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I know of at least two local politicians who remained oblivious to a competition between their staffs to make them say the dumbest thing in Queensland's Parliament.

It seems that they would just read verbatim whatever was printed for them, without noticing the deliberate gaffes, spoonerisms, and malapropisms placed there by their staff.

To qualify for the competition, the dumb comment had to appear in Hansard; It's probable that the two of whom I am aware were not the only unwitting competitors in this scheme.
 
bilby said:
Ford said:
It's things like this that make me think he's got staff members who secretly hate him.
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I know of at least two local politicians who remained oblivious to a competition between their staffs to make them say the dumbest thing in Queensland's Parliament.

It seems that they would just read verbatim whatever was printed for them, without noticing the deliberate gaffes, spoonerisms, and malapropisms placed there by their staff.

To qualify for the competition, the dumb comment had to appear in Hansard; It's probable that the two of whom I am aware were not the only unwitting competitors in this scheme.
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Hilarious.

I've known a few people who worked for some Arizona politicians, and even met a few of them myself.

The phone screener for my Congressman who had a right wing talk radio show after he left office? He confessed that talking to some of his listeners made him "lose faith in humanity."

Another one was also a phone screener for a talk radio show hosted by our infamous "Toughest Sheriff in America." She'd worked her way up to a sales job at our station, and escorted him (and his people) into my studio to record a PSA. She noted that despite having answered the phones on his talk show, he had absolutely no idea who she was just a few years later. She is memorable to put it mildly. I'm not saying he was senile...I'm just saying.

The last one was a campaign staffer for our late Senator John McCain. By all accounts he was great to work for. I had to edit a lot of audio in the aftermath of 9/11, and it was tough to get sound bites out of everyone...except McCain. He spoke in 30 and 40 second sound bites that rarely if ever needed to be cut down. I noted that to her once, and she said "oh, that's on purpose. He practices." McCain got invited on shows in no small part because he was so good at that skill. One time he was on our show and commented on a running bit we had. I thought "oh, he had a staffer tip him off to that, too," and she said "no, he really did listen to you guys."
 
Farmers and construction companies are already hurting for workers. What's next tourism, oh wait!
 
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