The new Florida immigration law met with fear of profiling, distrust

Brian de Los Rios said it became more difficult for him to erect the ends.

Its sales on the Spanish product product Latin Touch in Brandon have decreased by more than 30% since January. He worries that many of his Latin American clients have ceased to come because new immigration policies with Tallahas and Washington, the district of Columbia

He believes that reports of raids and videos on social networks showing immigration agents arresting people without legal status near shopping centers or neighborhoods do not restrain customers.

“I don’t know how longer we can continue. The fear of people is real, ”said de Los -Rios, 41 years old.

Governor Ron landing last week has signed up new, harder laws on the state that will make Florida “the strongest state in the country for immigration”, he wrote on social networks. The law adheres to the impetus of President Trump to stringent immigration rules, including stronger border security, the end of programs that helped immigrants to obtain legal status, and streamline mass deportations.

But local lawyers and non -profit organizations in Tampa with deep concern responded to the new law on Florida immigration. Some say the law contains significant loopholes and contradictions, such as the inability to strengthen E-verify or add more resources to ensure and monitor business compliance. Others predict that new laws will create more uncertainty, selective performance and potential racial bias, even against those who have legal status.

Elizabeth Gutiereres, the founder of non -profit enterprises Latinas, which develops labor training and opportunities for minorities and Latin American women in Vimumumi, stated that the state government exceeds and unable to resolve more urgent issues of state issues.

“The Florida Anti-Imigrant Act harms families, business and public security,” Gutierres said. “This does nothing to meet the most critical needs of the state, such as the creation of jobs with greater wages and construction of housing, which all residents of Florida can afford.”

The new Florida legislation, approved on Thursday, allocates almost $ 300 million for immigration and abolishes a law that has previously allowed dreamers to be alerted by the parents of the parents and universities.

The new provisions also provide for the death penalty for immigrants living in the country who illegally carry out offenses and establish a new offense for joining Florida after illegal arrival in the United States. The new law did not require more companies to use E-verify, a system that checks the legal status of an employee, and has not added more funding to its implementation.

Aline Unterberger, the Executive Director of the Community Research Institute, founded in Tampa, stated that these new laws on the state are not only unnecessary but cruel, potentially separating people from their families, regardless of their legal status.

Unerberger stated that many Puerto -Ricans who are US citizens have already been arrested by immigration agents. She said 40% of children in public schools in Hillsboro district are Spanish or Latin American, and many are fighting mental health problems with pandemic. New laws, she said, only add to these problems, creating more problems later.

“There was a choice in Florida, but decided to create a crisis when they were not there. A policy that calls for racial profiling, without requiring electronic peaks for employers, sends a clear signal that the real intention is the immigrant “regardless of their status.”

The most unauthorized population of immigrants in the country is in California (1.8 million), Texas (1.6 million) and Florida (1.2 million), according to data Pew Research Center. At the same time, these states make up 41 percent of the country’s unauthorized population.

Kara Gross, Legislative Director and Senior Policy Lawyer at Florida ASLUs, stated that Florida’s law is ready to strain the state’s relations with his domestic and paid taxes paying immigrant communities, facilitating the climate of “fear and distrust”.

“By implementing some of the most released immigration policies in the country, Florida sends a clear message that the communities of immigrants are not welcome,” Gross said.

Erosion of trust between the communities of immigrants and government agencies will be one of the most direct and pernicious consequences of this law, Gross reports.

“The widespread nature of the law will inevitably lead to the racial and ethnic profiling of those who are perceived as an immigrant based on the color of their skin, the emphasis in their voice, the neighborhoods in which they live, or the restaurants and enterprises they often visit,” she said.

Juan Lozano, a community health worker of the Florida Farid Farm Association, stated that the new legislation would do more harm than any.

Juan Lozano, Medical Assistance to the Florida Farm Farm Association, stated that new legislation would cause more harm than the 2023 immigration bill, SB 1718.

This blocked the local identity certificates for unauthorized immigrants, abolished freelance licenses, criminalized transportation of immigrants without legal status, required hospitals to report immigration status and entrust electronic check for enterprises of 25 or more employees.

“Soon we will understand that one of the biggest political mistakes is made against the whole community,” Lausano said. “It’s really sad.”