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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRon DeSantis Wants to Make It a Felony to Have an Undocumented Person in Your Home or Car
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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 Desantiss 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, anyoneco-worker, friend, neighbor, classmategiving 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 Haddixs Shadow Children series, foments fear about these hundreds of thousands of people. It isnt hard to imagine law enforcement agencies conflating a house party or simple afternoon cup of tea with a secret migrant-harboring operation.
Under the framework, any person with a prior conviction who commits the crime of hosting an undocumented person would be liable to an even higher second-degree felony.
The bill imposes thousands of dollars of fines on private employers who give work to undocumented people; employers are not allowed to continue employing someone if they find out they are undocumented. And any undocumented person who works without appropriate identification papers would be liable to a third-degree felony. The bill also prohibits undocumented people from being admitted to the Florida bar, overturning standing law that currently allows it.
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Bristlecone
(10,127 posts)Isnt that how these things always seem to turn out?
TheBlackAdder
(28,189 posts)msongs
(67,403 posts)chicoescuela
(1,025 posts)BlueWaveNeverEnd
(7,921 posts)Phoenix61
(17,003 posts)LoisB
(7,203 posts)canetoad
(17,153 posts)Of the conservative supreme court.
global1
(25,242 posts)he's going to be labeled as a crack pot and will lose his followers.
This guy is not presidential material. The Repugs better keep their distance from him and not let him into their primaries. They should have learned their lesson with Tr**p.
They need to keep Tr**p out this time as well.
I can't even imagine living through another 4 years of Tr**p or 4 years of a DeSantis.
I can't stand to look or listen to either of these two guys.
hedda_foil
(16,373 posts)Chakaconcarne
(2,446 posts)Desantis is way too confident... he won't win 2024 if nominated..
But he will continue to screw the US no matter what he does.
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Moron. Do we demand to see a person's papers before giving them a ride?
I guess you just know because they "look foreign."
wnylib
(21,445 posts)If you know another language, preferably Spanish, use it in public to throw people off and make them think you are undocumented.
Hotler
(11,420 posts)Learn to speak Spanish or another language. I just started working on Spanish. Learn for free.
https://www.duolingo.com/
wnylib
(21,445 posts)a number of people by using it in public, sometimes intentionally, sometimes not.
treestar
(82,383 posts)for some of them. Even speaking gibberish and they will assume it is a foreign language.
allegorical oracle
(2,357 posts)Freethinker65
(10,017 posts)Home health care workers, child care workers, hospitality workers, agricultural workers, food service workers, landscaping and maintenance workers, day laborers, etc. The wealthy in Florida depend on these laborers whether they realize it or not. DeSantis's wealthy donors realize it all too well.
usedtobedemgurl
(1,137 posts)1) is this retroactive? I am asking for a friend who flew a bunch of (what he considered illegals) people abd flew them up to Nantucket. Another part of this is another friend transported people (for the sake of the bill, we will call them illegals) into the state of Florida, from Texas. I hear my friend may transport more folks up north. I would hate for either of them to get arrested!
2) so if farmers pick up migrant workers, the farmers will be charged? What qualifies as a house? If I had an Orange friend in Florida, and he lived on an estate of sorts, does that count as a house? Because it has been rumored there are illegals working on his estate!
Now wouldnt that be a circular firing squad, if my Orange friend tried turning in my other friend? And, of course, if my first friend went after the orange one. The latter could definitely happen, if my non-orange friend started to lose an election campaign and decided to turn the big guns on the orange guy.
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)1) It can't be - ex post facto laws are unconstitutional - but that never stopped Piss Boy before.
2) Of course not! And it wouldn't surprise me if your orange friend had illegals working in his home; he's employed them before.
Chipper Chat
(9,678 posts)And ask for it back.
Kick DeSantis,s ass to alabama.
2naSalit
(86,579 posts)wealthy folks with undocumented domestic help are really gonna love this one. Florida's got a whole population of those folks so meatball Ron might have some 'splainin' to do.
Fullduplexxx
(7,860 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,703 posts)If only they would wake up down south.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Emile
(22,707 posts)How many bus rides?
usedtobe
(2 posts)Hospitals?
Fly Undocumented persons anywhere in the US but don't take them to the corner hospital? Another well thought out FUBAR idea courtesy of Gov Disasterous
KS Toronado
(17,220 posts)bluedigger
(17,086 posts)That seems fair.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Hotler
(11,420 posts)There's got to be something dirty in this guys closet that can be used to make him go away. This man is a danger to our democracy.
ripcord
(5,372 posts)As long as they send the Social Security numbers as required by law, for obvious reasons it isn't up to them to identify fraudulent documents.
Lettuce Be
(2,336 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)ripcord
(5,372 posts)8 USC §1324(a)(1)(A)(iii) says that it is illegal for someone to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection any person he or she knows is an illegal alien.
old as dirt
(1,972 posts)andym
(5,443 posts)It explains everything he is doing. He probably doesn't even care about these issues personally--it's all for show for the most socially conservative. His biggest weakness as a politician is that he is a phony, and that is what will eventually catch up with him.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Say a flat tire.
Would death satan require the good samaratin to ask for the person's "papers?"
And would it be a felony if the undocumented person were, for instance, Caucasian from russia?
He's crazy!
dsc
(52,160 posts)but people who work for Uber face jail. I also don't see any need to know if the person is undocumented except for employers.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)people in this bill, SB and HB 1718. Yes, it's targeted specifically at immigrants -- and Floridians who somehow enable their pursuit of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness -- but it's part of the dreadful RW goal of purging the liberal decency and commitment to the rights of ALL individuals built into our justice system.
Liberal decency and respect for others is the antithesis of the indecency fundamental to RW extremism and fascism. They are completely incompatible.
This bill, like increasingly others across the nation, undermines everyone's rights not to be jailed for looking the wrong way at a policeman. WHO first decides there's cause to believe we "probably" knew a passenger was undocumented or seeking an abortion?
Polybius
(15,398 posts)Never once have I had to ask "are you a citizen?"
Scottie Mom
(5,812 posts)Is a Lyft or Uber driver suppose to check the immigration status on any rider with a foreign accent?!?!
🤷🏻?♀️
old as dirt
(1,972 posts)It's deja vu all over again.
Reminds me of 2010.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100610080003/http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-06-08-immigration_N.htm
As I pointed out back then, this law would have made me a felon just for driving my wife to the grocery store.
Tickle
(2,518 posts)against the law to employ undocumented?
I'll be interested to see the effect this has on the undocumented in Florida