Tallahassee, FL. Florida Governor was beseeched with complaints by Florida farmers, hospitality industries, and construction companies who said that the new legislation that took effect July 1 was creating a labor shortage that was threatening the state’s economy and might drive many businesses into bankruptcy. The new law that DeSantis had designed and ballyhooed through the legislature, was designed to prevent undocumented immigrants from working in Florida and provided severe penalties to workers and employers alike. “Who's going to pick the oranges, who going to pick the strawberries, who is going to clean the toilets, and who is going to mow the lawns?” asked Jose Lopez-Schwartz, an editorial editor of The Brevard Times.
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“I find it interesting that most of the persons affected are of Hispanic heritage,” Lopez-Schwartz continued since most of the other workers in those fields are either native-born Blacks or Rednecks.” Other media outlets voiced similar concerns and criticism of the DeSantis sponsored legislation.
“I always anticipated the effect of this legislation and had sponsored a solution to handle the labor shortage,” DeSantis said at a hastily called press conference, “but some gay, woke, gender transitioning Democrats torpedoed the companion legislation. Lesbians also.” [At this point in his press conference, DeSantis was interrupted by his youngest son, the one with long hair, who asked: “Daddy, I have to go pee-pee. Can I use the Girl’s bathroom like they do at Disney?” DeSantis’s wife, Cassie, pulled him away by the ear, and DeSantis then continued.]
“Under the ‘Florida Documented Immigrant Law,’ undocumented immigrants who have no felony convictions, can pay an annual fee of $100 and receive a badge and certificate that labels them as a ‘Florida Documented Immigrant’ that will permit the holder to continue to work in businesses and industries that pay minimum wage or less. They will be required to wear the badge or a jalapeno-shaped red patch on their clothing to properly identify them. Those persons who do not comply must leave the state and pay a $200 exit tax, at which time they will receive a bus ticket to a sanctuary city and a bottle of Zephyrhills water.”
The legislation will be reintroduced at a special session of the Florida Legislature, at a date and time to which will be announced in the newsletter of Never Back Down, a Super PAC created to support the governor’s presidential ambitions.
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