Posted on 02/24/2023 1:35:41 PM PST by Jacquerie
Critics say it’s a hate-filled agenda that will lead to fear, division, violence, discrimination, and a weakened FL.
Gov. Ron DeSantis has unveiled an anti-immigration agenda that would deny jobs, education, and possibly health care for hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who call Florida home.
If the governor gets his way with the state Legislature — as is likely — all private employers would have to screen potential hires against the dodgy E-Verify database maintained by the federal government.
Undocumented immigrants would lose the ability to pay in-state tuition at Florida colleges and universities. That would undo 2014 legislation that DeSantis’ lieutenant governor, Jeanette Nunez, sponsored while serving in the Florida Senate to assist so-called “dreamers.”
These immigrants would lose the ability to practice law, and hospitals would have to report how many undocumented immigrants they treat and how much money it costs. Also, stiff prison sentences would apply for people who transport undocumented people.
Those aren’t bugs; they’re features, DeSantis explained during a news conference Thursday in Jacksonville. The idea, he said, it to make Florida less hospitable to undocumented immigrants.
“If you remove the enticement of employment, then they’re not going to want to come illegally to the state of Florida.”
Under the framework the governor announced, penalties for smuggling undocumented immigrants would increase to a minimum five years’ prison sentence and $5,000 fines; if the immigrant is younger than 18 the punishment would increase to 15 years and $10,000. Each person smuggled would count as a separate offense, and the immigrant could be held as a material witness.
(Excerpt) Read more at floridaphoenix.com ...
Allowing illegal aliens to practice law is crazy!
They have already demonstrated their utter disdain for the law!
Congress should require it in every State or lose all federal funds
Well, so has every progressive....
ILLEGAL aliens….
GOOD!!!
Kick every single.illegal.oug. seize everything they have, their bank accounts, everything. Kick these bastards out.
So hopefully he’s abandoned his plan to ship them off to someone else’s (yours/mine) community.
I like the headline.
Congress etc. is the problem, not the solution.
paging the chicken littles that were running around screeching “desantis is a deep state globalist”...
Hopefully not ...
You forgot a few ...
Send him your address.
Other State governors need to follow his lead. We DON'T HAVE TO wait for the Feds to act.
My community isn’t a “sanctuary state” ... I see that you are flying a California flag ... YOUR COMMUNITY IS THE HEART OF THE PROBLEM. CLEAN UP YOUR OWN ACT, CALIFORNIAN!!!
i’m on a diet...
“weakened FL. Gov. Ron DeSantis”
Weakened? How did that happen?
Those aren’t immigrants
paging the chicken littles that were running around screeching “desantis is a deep state globalist”...Why did Ron DeSantis appoint a WEF person to his administration to counter climate change?
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