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Emile

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Mon Jan 20, 2025, 05:05 AM Jan 20

What Happened After Florida Cracked Down on Illegal Immigration

State’s experience is instructive as Trump prepares to overhaul U.S. immigration system

Florida’s 2023 law cracking down on undocumented immigrants has prompted some workers to leave the state and made filling jobs harder for some small businesses.

Still, the law hasn’t resulted in huge disruptions to the state’s labor market, as some predicted. Certain provisions were watered down before the bill passed or in its implementation, and the state has done little to enforce the law.

“Initially, when the law came out, there were a lot of people that left,” said Tibor Torok, president of Bob Hilson & Co., a roofing company in Homestead. “I’ve since heard and seen that a lot of them have come back because there was no real enforcement.”

Torok said about five of his 35 employees departed suddenly after the law passed, some heading to North Carolina and Indiana. Three have since returned, seeking their old jobs, said Torok, who wasn’t able to hire them back because of concern about their paperwork.
The law, which took effect in July 2023, requires businesses and other private employers with 25 or more employees to use the federal government’s E-Verify system to check workers’ eligibility for employment, or face fines of up to $1,000 a day. It also invalidated out-of-state driver’s licenses issued to people unauthorized to be in the U.S. and toughened penalties for transporting undocumented immigrants.

Read more at: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/what-happened-after-florida-cracked-down-on-undocumented-workers-17b56b5c

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