The Florida Legislature is considering a sweeping package of immigration measures that would represent the toughest crackdown on illegal immigration by any state in more than a decade. From The New York Times.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to a crowd at Adventure Outdoors gun store, March 30, 2023, in Smyrna, Ga.
“We need to do everything in our power to protect the people of Florida from what’s going on at the border and the border crisis,” DeSantis said at a news conference on Feb. 23 during which he unveiled his proposals and spoke from a lectern emblazoned with the words “Biden’s Border Crisis.” Over the past decade, and especially since the pandemic, even some Republican-led states have introduced policies to provide residents in the country illegally with health care, access to higher education, driver’s licenses and worker protections.
Draft legislation presented in March calls for the state to take on some of the authority now exercised by the federal government, creating a border police force and making it a state felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, to illegally cross the border into Texas. Neither the state nor the federal government has data on how many immigrants reached Florida during the latest border surge last year, but there are signs that the state has been heavily affected.
Under the proposed new bills, a person could be charged with a third-degree felony for knowingly transporting, concealing or harboring immigrants in the country illegally, punishable by up to five years in prison.
One of the most heavily debated provisions is one that targets hospitals, which would be required to collect data on the immigration status of patients and to submit it to the state. The law would not prohibit treatment, but critics warn that it would discourage immigrants in the country illegally from seeking care.
Felice Gorordo, an entrepreneur in Miami who is trying to attract companies to Florida and create a tech hub, said the proposal to eliminate in-state tuition for students in the country without legal permission was counterproductive.
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