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.

[Geechie]

1. Next step is to break child labor laws

Don’t think they won’t - already done in other red states

[Geechie]

2. And don't forget about prison labor

What a bargain!

[mitch96]

3. I wonder how Publix, a big donor to the repuke party is gonna see this? If demand goes down

things could get dicy.. Don't mess with the 1%'ers money.. Ask Santos..
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[carpetbagger]

4. They won't care

They never signed onto the Coalition of Immokalee (Florida) Workers Fair Food agreement. The biggest players all have (the big restaurant providers, the 4 largest fast food companies, and WM), so the only reason not to is political. Their native Florida neighbor schtick doesn't apply to the neighbors who bring their food to the table.

One of the founder's kids (the one who runs the family foundation) ponied up $3M to fund the January 6th rally. This is what Publix money is for.