Three years ago this week, as coronavirus prompted scrutiny of the numbers and effects on workers besieged by shutdowns, Florida included 1.169 million workers in leisure and hospitality, 26% of them immigrants (only Hawaii and Nevada had higher percentages), according to the New American Economy Research Fund, using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
New Florida rules represent the most aggressive state effort in the nation to stanch the flow of the undocumented. In a war of words as well as ideologies throughout the precedent-setting Sunshine State, “immigrant” has become “alien,” and the words “unauthorized” or “undocumented” have become “illegal” and “unlawful” as Republican legislators and Gov. Ron DeSantis