On new Fla. immigration law, S. Florida farmer warns, 'Get ready to pay more at grocery store'

[LetMyPeopleVote]

DeathSantis wants to punish Florida citizens to score points with the MAGA nutcase. Florida now needs to find workers to harvest the crops and build houses

Link to tweet

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/law-targeting-undocumented-migrants-already-affecting-south-florida-farms/

"You're not going to get an entirely American (person) to come out and do the work that we do," said John Alger, C.E.O. of Alger Farms, Inc.

For over 40 years Alger has been in the farming industry, whose family owns over 1,200 acres of land in SW Miami-Dade. His employees do a variety of jobs "some tractor driving, some manual labor, it's hot there's mosquitoes, it's an uncomfortable situation; not easy."

Alger is not concerned about an aspect of the new immigration reform law that requires the use of the E-verify system to determine legal status, he says he hires – when necessary - less than 20.

Angel Leal, an immigration attorney in South Florida, told CBS News Miami the new system which will go in effect starting July 1st, "It's for 25 or more employees and applies for new hires, not existing employees. You must run them thru e-verify within three days, if you fail to comply, you could be fine $1000 a day."

"No matter what, people are scared, and they are leaving (the state of Florida) because they feel at risk," said Judith Peralta, who has been working in nurseries in Florida for six years.

[Lovie777]

1. DeSatan will only blame democrats because of inflation...........

We know why if that happens, but the cult will believe the GQP.

[70sEraVet]

2. Dont forget Social Security. We are dependent on working-age immigrants paying into the system

Its ridiculous that rightwing media scares their viewers with images of migrants, and in the next breath, scares them about Social Security running out of funds!

[MichMan]

3. I thought DU favored employers using e verify and not hiring undocumented workers

as well as not paying substandard wages with no benefits. When did it become a bad thing?

[genxlib]

4. Hey I know that guy

I went to college with that immigration lawyer.

It’s always weird when your drinking buddies become respected professionals.

[former9thward]

5. Arizona has had the exact same law for many years.

It has not caused any problems here. We have plenty of construction, restaurants, farming, yard work, hotels, etc. which were all mentioned in the OP.

[Aristus]

6. Yeah. Have fun paying $8 for a potato.

n/t

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

7. repubs will blame Biden for inflation