Going full papers please.
Around 772,000 Florida workers, students, and community members are undocumented. And Governor Ron DeSantis wants to make it a felony for anyone to have them in their home or even give them a ride.
Senate Bill 1718, part of Desantis’s broad repressive legislative agenda this year, targets not just undocumented people but also anyone associated with them. The bill, which is likely to pass the Republican-controlled state legislature, criminalizes anyone who transports an undocumented person “into or within this state.” In other words, anyone—co-worker, friend, neighbor, classmate—giving a simple ride to someone they know or care about who is undocumented would be guilty of a third-degree felony.
The bill also criminalizes anyone who “conceals, harbors, or shields” (or “attempts” to do so) an undocumented person in “any place within this state.” Nearly 4 percent of Floridians are undocumented. The bill text, reading like an edict issued in Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Shadow Children series, foments fear about these hundreds of thousands of people. It isn’t hard to imagine law enforcement agencies conflating a house party or simple afternoon cup of tea with a secret migrant-harboring operation.
what about the alcoholic republican 50 year old restaurant owners who are employing them in their kitchens?
Surprisingly, also a felony
The bill imposes thousands of dollars of fines on private employers who give work to undocumented people; employers are not allowed to continue employing someone if they find out they are undocumented. And any undocumented person who works without appropriate identification papers would be liable to a third-degree felony. The bill also prohibits undocumented people from being admitted to the Florida bar, overturning standing law that currently allows it.
Conservatives destroying their criminally underpaid slave labor because they just hate brown people that much
Also,
Finally, the bill orders Medicaid-accepting hospitals to ask patients to indicate their citizenship status. Ostensibly meant as a cost-tracker for undocumented patient care, the bill reads that the question must be accompanied with an assurance that the patient’s response will not affect care or result in a report to immigration authorities.
Fucking disgusting.
employers are not allowed to continue employing someone if they find out they are undocumented
This is just don't ask don't tell. The restaurant owners will not be punished.
Or it'll be selectively enforced against businesses not deemed right-wing enough / that stand in the way of politicians interests. Invested in redevelopment of a city block but owners are refusing to sell? Oh look, an immigration raid.
Add this to the pile of why Ron is going to fall apart once the primary starts. You're only supposed to do culture war stuff to rile up the hooting chuds, you don't actually do shit like this that might touch businesses!
Republican money wants immigrants as immediately disposable labor. That means they have to actually be here, and it means you can't throw a felony at any middle manager who's job it is to hire them and look the other way.
a felony is pretty fucking intense. like losing your voting rights intense
That's part of the point. Disenfranchise your political opponents so they are kicked off the voter role.
only until you get out and pay your fines and shit...assuming you can figure out how much you "owe". Florida sort of ended felony disenfranchisement by referendum, but the fascists made it more complicated because of course they did.
DeSantis may end up crashing and burning in the primaries. But we are in a new reality. Before - there were people like Pat Buchanan saying this kind of stuff. But he only ran for president to get a wider platform for his ideas and to try to normalize them.
And now in 2023 - they are normalized.
I wonder if eventually the GOP justices will legislate from the bench and make this a federal reality. Also I can imagine Biden during the debates...
"My opponent wants people to hunt the undocumented for sport. This is grotesque. We are a nation of laws. A permit should be necessary..."
And now in 2023 - they are normalized.
I mean, this time ten years ago, Democrats were favored to retake the state and the biggest point of debate was whether health care reform was working. Today, we're in a knock-down drag-out fight over which country we need to do a full scale invasion of next.
This isn't an immigration thing, strictly speaking. Back when Clinton took California promising to close the border and Bush 43 was courting the hispanic vote with his Work Visas platform, we had just as many white nationalist psychos demanding blood and soil. They were just more evenly split between the parties.
Now we've simply galvenized the opinion into a single caucus while installing a ratchet at the Executive Level that only lets Presidents increase the annual amount of killing.
“My opponent wants people to hunt the undocumented for sport. This is grotesque. We are a nation of laws. A permit should be necessary…”
That is a state in a real Death Spiral. Between DeSantis, bank failures, and the next few hurricane seasons, I genuinely wonder how its going to stave off a hard economic collapse. When that happens, I'd be far more worried about emigration, if I were running the state.
There'd be a horrible human cost in the meantime, but at least it'll fall apart quickly after it destroy's Florida's economy and pisses off everyone with enough power to abuse undocumented labor.
satanists literally would have imprisoned Jesus's grandparents
At every turn in this biblial text we are reminded that Ruth is a foreigner. She is introduced as Ruth the Moabite by the narrator, and then again as “a young Moabite woman, the one who returned with Naomi from the territory of Moab” (2:6). The author does not want us to miss this simple fact: Ruth is an immigrant and everyone knows it.
The scene is set with Ruth the Moabite gleaning, walking in a field gathering up what is left behind by the harvesters. It is hard to imagine that many in our food system today would tolerate such behavior. Some grocery stores even lock their dumpsters to prevent people from gleaning what they might otherwise purchase inside.
https://politicaltheology.com/the-politics-of-welcoming-the-immigrant-ruth-21-23/
trying to smuggle an undocumented worker whose body miraculously doesn't have microplastics which prevent childbirth
does this apply to pregnant people? they think a fertilized embryo is a person but you don't get papers until you're born
Imagine if a single Dem would push out a ton of sweet leftist proposals that have no chance of passing but make them look good.
Isnt that what the whole student loan forgiveness thing was?
