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FLORIDA PLAN WOULD CRACK DOWN ON UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS




ACCORDING TO BISHOPS' SPOKESPERSON, THE PROPOSED PLAN ESSENTIALLY CRIMINALIZES
THE CHRISTIAN CALL TO CHARITY AND SERVICE, TO LOVE OUR NEIGHBOR AND TO SERVE THE
LEAST OF OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS



Mark Pattison
United States
April 21, 2023



When Ron DeSantis won re-election last November as Florida's governor by a 20%
margin, he also had the electoral coattails to carry a supermajority of his
fellow Republican in both the state House and Senate.

With such voting power in the state capital, nearly any legislation proposed by
DeSantis and Republican lawmakers has a good chance of passage.

One bill that has not passed at this writing is a measure that would crack down
hard on the undocumented population in the state. Here ae some of its
provisions:

Florida does not share a border with any other country. Its closest neighbor is
Cuba, 90 miles away. Still, nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants live in the
Sunshine State, according to a 2019 estimate by the Pew Research Center.

However, Cubans fleeing political repression and economic strife have managed to
board boats of any kind to seek a better life in Florida. So, too, have
Haitians, the poorest group in the Caribbean, with decades of inept or corrupt
leaders, economy-shattering earthquakes, punitive immigration steps taken by the
neighboring Dominican Republic, and recent gang violence has caused them to risk
their lives for a future in the United States. Many Latin Americans have also
made their way to Florida to work in the state's farms and fields.

The measures aimed at undocumented immigrants are considered the most drastic
considered by any state. They're part of DeSantis' Stop Woke series of bills and
laws intended not only to fix what  he considers wrong about Florida in
particular and the United States in general, but part of the groundwork he is
laying for an expected bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

DeSantis, a Catholic, is betting that, even though some may be tired of culture
war issues, he can take those issues to a GOP presidential nomination, and
perhaps even the White House.

  While supporters of the bill are rightly concerned about inaction on
immigration policy at the federal level, the bill creates great harm by
prohibiting activities that benefit society and aid vulnerable members of our
communities, said a statement by Michael Sheedy, executive director of the
Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops, the public policy arm of the state's
bishops.

The legislation would be harmful to families and citizens, including families
with mixed immigration status, who suddenly cannot bring a friend, a neighbor or
a loved one to church, or to the grocery store or the doctor without risking
imprisonment. It essentially criminalizes the Christian call to charity and
service, to love our neighbor and to serve the least of our brothers and
sisters, Sheedy said.

Its detrimental effects to various sectors of the economy, such as construction
and agriculture, would be far-reaching.




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