TALHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) – Florida lawmakers have passed what is called the country’s “strongest” immigration bill. Legislative leaders say they did this for the safety of all Floridians.
“If this is implemented in the future, Florida families, Florida children, Florida grandchildren, father and mother will be safer,” said Sen. R-Wauchula, President Ben Albritton.
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But some argue that what is being implemented is merely a “hard story” and that more work needs to be done.
“They’re all trying to serve Donald Trump, but this isn’t really going to help Florida communities become safer,” said D-Tampa’s Fentrice Driskell, a minority leader in the House. I said. “It sounds like a tough story, but it’s a waste of taxpayer dollars.”
After “hashing out” their differences, Governor Ron DeSantis and legislative leaders have touted the recently passed immigration bill as a roadmap for other states. But even this, Republicans and Democrats agree that this is just the beginning.
“Everyone sits down. This isn’t just a window dressing. We’re starting work. You’re going to see a lot going on very quickly,” DeSantis said. Ta.
Focusing on criminals, the new illegal immigration bill mandates the death penalty, criminalizes entering Florida as an illegal immigrant, and state and local law enforcement agencies support the federal government in enforcing immigrants, crossing borders. It calls for the gang to be strengthened criminal penalties. Crimes committed by illegals, including voter crimes.
The new bill package also ends incentives such as in-state tuition fees for undocumented immigrants. That’s the controversial part of the law facing opposition from both Democrats and students.
Before signing the governor, legislators would say what about other incentives like employment?
“It was part of America’s dream, it was to live a better life and make a living. That’s the biggest economic incentive.” “We all have illegal immigrants coming to the United States. This amendment simply states that if we talk tough, we are actually tough, we can actually go ahead and go ahead It requires that, along with other states in the US, it has more thresholds than Florida, which actually has more than 25 employees, so it has the requirement of e-verify.
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Pizzo wanted to take a closer look at E-Verify, a database that checks the status of employees’ citizenship. It’s already needed for businesses across the state with at least 25 employees.
“For Florida, if we are going to be tough on illegal immigrants, to curb the tide and to curb the crisis, we will be honest with ourselves and require all Florida employers to use electronic verification. It should,” Pizzo said.
Leader Pizzo introduced the bill on Monday in his second attempt, aiming to achieve the same goals as the previous amendments.
The governor and legislative leaders believe that expanding e-verify is something that can be covered during regular sessions.
In the bill signing the press conference, reporters asked DeSantis whether they would support measures to expand electronic verification to employers with fewer than 25 employees. When DeSantis originally proposed e-verify, he shared that he wanted it for all his employees and all new hires.
“I will absolutely support that, and I will also support the funds for it,” DeSantis said. “If they say, ‘Hey, this will be a requirement for everyone, make it very quick and easy,’ then if you provide funding, I think it’s a home run. ”
Albritton was also asked if Congress would address the issue of electronic testing, and he said “potentially.”
“I’m sure I’ll be open to that,” Albritton said. “Everything we’re doing in this bill was about the infrastructure of the state government, not the private sector, so it was in no particular order. It didn’t fit the call. That’s what’s going on.”
Albritton says the E-Verify measurements didn’t fit into the special session call, but Democrats added that Republicans are simply choosing winners and losers.
“The Florida Republicans want to sound like immigrants are tough, but they don’t actually want to fix it, so they want to hear it, so it was well ruled out,” Driskel said. “Because if they really want to fix it, they’ll push Congress and President Donald Trump to address these issues.”
When asked about e-Verify House Speaker R-Miami, Daniel Perez, he said that members are always at the table to bring in further laws.
“We were able to do better with the e-verify enforcement, but these are what we’re seeing now,” Perez said.
Currently, the illegal immigration bill does not include any additional requirements for screening workers via e-verify.
The Capitol is likely to further their efforts regarding laws, particularly those relating to the onboarding of the governor and legislative leaders.
