'It's definitely chaos': How immigration law impacts Florida restaurants, construction The new law imposes tough criminal penalties on human traffickers, restrictions on undocumented residents, and new employment requirements that will next year include random audits of businesses suspected of hiring illegal workers.īut amid signs that thousands of migrants and their families are now choosing to leave Florida, including many legally in the U.S., even some of the governor's supporters are questioning the new law. Ron DeSantis, now campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination, pushed Senate Bill 1718 through the state’s GOP-dominated Legislature and signed it into law last month in Jacksonville.Īt the bill signing, DeSantis condemned President Joe Biden’s border policies for causing a massive influx of illegal arrivals, and said, “We have to stop this nonsense, this is not good for our country,” adding, “this is no way to run a government.” The departures are sparking fear that a labor shortage will leave crops unpicked, tourist hotels short of staff and construction sites idle. “We couldn’t run a business without them.”īut with one of the strictest laws in the nation taking effect July 1 aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration, Florida is being rocked by an exodus of migrant workers. “We all love them to death,” said Williams, whose family has been farming tomatoes for decades. In his packing plant, Graves Williams, a lifelong Republican, proudly explained the skill, labor and manpower needed to provide tomatoes across North America, a feat that he says wouldn’t be possible without immigrant laborers. On a June afternoon in Quincy, Florida, hundreds of gloved hands move 3,000 pounds of green tomatoes by-the-minute from plastic bins to conveyor belts to boxes to be sold across the country. Brenno Carillo, The Daytona Beach News-Journal
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