truckers boycotting florida over anti immigrant laws

[moonshinegnomie]

it seems that twitter is exploding with latino truckers saying they wont take shipments to florida over their new anti immigranst laws.

Good. i hope this spreads. lets see places like florida,texas,and the other states pushing anti immigrant laws start to really feel the effects of their laws. I know there are already reports of contruction sites in florida shutting down too over a lack of manpower due to immigrants not working

Link to tweet

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[poli-junkie]

1. That's how you do it! 😎

[Nittersing]

2. Also, FL construction sites are lacking crews

There are a bunch of tweets about empty or highly reduced work forces at a lot of construction sites.

[malaise]

23. Good

Take that DeathSentence

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

27. That will also cause the price of housing to explode in FL

Welcome to California without all the greatness.

So love CA. Wish I could afford to live there again.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. A day without latinos.

[orthoclad]

4. Labor actions are effective.

[kimbutgar]

5. Florida needs to be rebuilt after all those devastating weather events earlier this year

its going to be worst if the Latinos refuse to do construction in that state.

[malaise]

24. Last year

And this year’s hurricane season begins in two weeks

[Cha]

6. TY! There should be Gigantic Pushback and hold Florida responsible

Link to tweet

[keithbvadu2]

7. Hire this truck driver. He's unemployed.

[SouthernDem4ever]

10. Was watching the history channel's Men who built America series

and they kept having the orange buffoon on commenting about how to be an industry titan along with another idiot Jim Cramer. Had to stop watching before I barfed. They picked the two biggest idiots on the planet.

[NullTuples]

11. Does "grifting" count as an industry?

[Hekate]

14. Apparently it does

[malaise]

25. He can't even drive a car

😀😀

[BlackSkimmer]

8. No idea who this tweeter is, but as usual, I take that with a grain of salt.

Let me know when trucks stop going into Florida.

Do you even know how most Florida Cubans feel about immigration?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. They closed the door behind them, so proud of themselves. . . . nt

[GreenWave]

16. Well stated!

[Hekate]

15. Mexicans are not Cubans & are not integrated into white conservative society. But you knew that.

[GreenWave]

17. Mexican ancestry accounts for about 75% of our Latinos

Imagine if they actually became the vocal majority of our Latinos and not the RWNJs.

[Hekate]

22. My US Congressman is Salud Carbajal, a first generation immigrant from Mexico...

… and a hardworking Dem for California.

[Cheezoholic]

20. Remember a lot of the Cubans that left initially

were a huge part of the problem in Cuba at the time. They were the wealthy land owners, the sugar cane cartels that worked Cuban laborers to the bone for little reward.

They were the wealthy Cuban business owners who catered to the darker side of American "tourism" at the expense of the their fellow Cubans who labored for little reward.

A good many were part of an oppressive regime of oligarchs that kept their knees on the necks of the majority.

Thats why they make such good Republicans over here

[Hekate]

26. They've been a reliable GOP base in Florida, I know that, and catered to by the US government...

…as refugees from Communism. They are now into their second and third generations as native born US citizens — Democrats need to recognize them for what they choose to be and move on.

Other Latino/Hispanic groups are more numerous, more recent, and in need of being brought along by Democrats as Democrats.

[Takket]

12. talked to my kid about this...

they said food deliveries will suffer and construction projects will grind to a halt. i certainly hope so. we as a people need to start standing up to desantis' brutal tactics

[progressoid]

13. Hmmm...how many own their own rigs and/or can afford to turn down gigs.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

19. I can and do refuse any load coming out of or going to FL. nt

[MarineCombatEngineer]

18. I've instructed my scheduling agent to reject loads going to or coming from FL.

and my other driver to refuse any business from FL.

This is my boycott of DeSatan's tyrant rule.

[Beachnutt]

21. They should do this in all the red states

or at least in Texas also, let cheap labor grind to a halt.
The Hispanic folks do look out for one another and stick together.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

28. Rumor has it that Mexican exporters to the US

Are starting to divert their deliveries to New Mexico, to avoid dealing with Texas. The shippers can't depend on getting their freight through since that stupid git Abbott gets wild hairs about "inspections" that often end up destroying perishable goods.

Southern New Mexico could use the business, that's for sure, even though it's a nightmare to drive through there. The altitude makes it a more expensive haul compared to the flatlands of the Rio Grande Valley, but better to face lower profits than risking losses of entire cargoes.

[roamer65]

29. New Mexico, then up to Colorado gets them around Texass.