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By signing his latest fascist legislation which criminalizes undocumented immigrants for…well… just being in Florida, De Santis has effectively chased out virtually the entire undocumented poplulation of the state, which means more than 80% of the construction workers, and nearly 100% of the agricultural workers. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. It cascades from there. I just spent half an hour on tiktok, for an old timer like me that’s a bit of a challenge, but it was worth it. In that short amount of time, I saw latin truckers blocking entire highways with their boycotting and refusing to deliver loads in Florida, or to take loads out. They aren’t even undocumented, that’s just the solidarity folks.

  • dog
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    not only is desantis screwing everything up for his florida residents, i saw a news article where his fellow florida republican representatives were basically holding meetings with residents to say his e-verify bill doesn’t have any teeth and it’s only meant to scare xD what a clown. turning on his own party members in the state, too. classic gop move

    edit: here’s an article like the one i described, https://www.cltampa.com/news/the-bill-is-100-supposed-to-scare-you-gop-lawmakers-explain-floridas-new-immigration-law-to-hispanic-leaders-15773022

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      Hey I didn’t vote for this, I voted for the dem who was a republican a while back… Man we’re fucked down here.

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    Will y’all still be laughing when he signs legislation sending prisoners to do essential labor? When he starts buying more prisoners from other states when the Florida prison population runs low? Or when he starts rounding more people up to be new prison labor?

    That’s how fascists work: they double down.

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      Exactly he won’t back down and this is always been his next step. Unfortunately it will go different. Like his law making child sex abuse the death penalty. At the same time calling trans and LGBQT community in whole groomers.

      He admires Hitler and is wanting that power to do what he is doing on a national level. Why we need to keep him out of the whitehouse.

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              Yeah, because I hate the quote because it’s extremely problematic for exactly the reason I pointed out.

              Plenty of people use that shit to justify letting the poor suffer and die because we deserve it for not voting out our oppressors. We deserve the government we get because we didn’t vote harder. Fuck that.

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    21 year ago

    Our immigration policy is such an embarrassment. Ignoring the obvious moral side of things, because that doesn’t play with a lot of people, it’s just necessary for the economy. We have a huge demand for these laborers and we simply don’t have a domestic work force to meet that demand. We’re crippling ourselves.