![]() ![]() To crack down on businesses hiring undocumented workers, SB 1718 will require private employers with 25 or more employees that are making new hires to use E-Verify, the federal online database that employers use to confirm whether someone is eligible to work in the U.S.īusiness advocates across the state are concerned. ![]() Senate Bill 1718, which takes effect on July 1, will offer a preview of the controversial changes DeSantis has said he'd like to see Congress implement.Īmong its provisions, the strict new state legislation limits social services for undocumented immigrants, allocates millions more tax dollars to expand DeSantis' migrant relocation program, invalidates driver's licenses issued to undocumented people by other states, and requires hospitals that get Medicaid dollars to ask for a patient's immigration status. immigration policies and newly arrived asylum-seekers. Ron DeSantis' sweeping new immigration law.įor years, the Republican presidential hopeful has railed relentlessly against U.S. Businesses are pledging to shutter their doors for the day to protest Gov. Pressure is growing for a boycott of Florida, including Latino truck drivers who vow to stop deliveries across the state and calls for an immigrant labor strike on June 1. ![]() Ron DeSantis signed the sweeping anti-immigration bill, which is among the strictest in the country, on May 10. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |