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.
I would think desantis supporters are the kind of people who would be hiring undocumented people to build their patio deck or whatever for next to nothing. All I know is Texas though and that’s how it works here.
hiring people to do work for you and then dropping a dime on them to ICE or eager-to-cooperate law enforcement before payment is one of the "smart business moves" reactionaries enjoy doing. or if they are "nicer" they'll pay them, but if the workers complain or seem likely to organize, they get the law to come kick doors in.
legislation like this and the culture it fosters is a license for employers to do whatever they want to people. some slavery ring just got busted up in georgia a few years ago involving hundreds of vegetable pickers.