{"id":18038,"date":"2023-06-09T05:58:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T12:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/florida-lawmaker-says-e-verify-mandate-has-a-lot-of-negative-consequences\/"},"modified":"2023-06-09T05:58:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T12:58:26","slug":"florida-lawmaker-says-e-verify-mandate-has-a-lot-of-negative-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/florida-lawmaker-says-e-verify-mandate-has-a-lot-of-negative-consequences\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida lawmaker says E-Verify mandate has \u2018a lot of negative consequences\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3 class=\"standard-heading\"><span><span><span><span><span><span>Dive Brief:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span><span><span><span><span>Florida Rep. Rick Roth, a Republican, said this week that the state\u2019s new E-Verify law, which goes into effect next month, has led migrant families to flee the state, creating a \u201cbig problem\u201d for industries like construction, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/florida-gop-lawmaker-urges-immigrants-stay-voted-anti-immigration-bill-2023-6\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Insider reported<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span><span><span><span><span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span><span><span><span>During a meeting in Hialeah, Florida, on Monday, Roth reportedly told constituents that migrants have fled to other states like Georgia. &#8220;The bill has a lot of negative consequences that I&#8217;m trying to mitigate,&#8221; Roth told Insider, adding that he still supports the new law.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span><span><span><span>Starting July 1, the state will require private companies with more than 25 employees to ensure workers\u2019 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/news\/florida-require-e-verify-private-companies-immigrants-construction\/649778\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>immigration status with E-Verify<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span><span><span><span><span> \u2014 a federal documentation system for confirming citizenship and authorization to work in the U.S. \u2014\u00a0 as a means of preventing foreign-born individuals who are not authorized to work in the U.S. from filling jobs.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"standard-heading\"><span><span><span><span><span><span>Dive Insight:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/news\/contractors-uncertainty-florida-immigration-labor-E-Verify\/650661\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Critics of the legislation<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span><span><span><span><span> saw this exodus of workers coming. Within a few days of the bill\u2019s signing, stories of abandoned <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/video-abandoned-florida-construction-site-anti-immigration-law-1800804\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>construction jobsites nabbed national headlines<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span><span><span><span><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>\u201cAnecdotally, things have already gotten tougher in Florida in the last week,\u201d Madelin Zavodny, labor economist and professor at the University of North Florida, told Construction Dive shortly after the bill\u2019s signing. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of fear among the unauthorized immigrant population about what the law means for them, and I\u2019m sure their employers are getting nervous as well.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Among the concerns raised by experts was the mixture of families with immigration status: some authorized to work, others not. Under the new law, transportation of an unauthorized immigrant could be a crime, meaning dropping a relative off at work could come with a new risk for some families.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Roth addressed that with Insider.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>&#8220;The negatives is there are families leaving Florida right now where some of them work, some of the family members are legal, and some of them are not,&#8221; Roth said to Insider. &#8220;But they&#8217;re all deciding that they&#8217;re not going to split up and live in two different states. So it&#8217;s going to be a major problem for the agriculture, construction and tourism, which just about happens to be most jobs in Florida.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Nonetheless, Roth said the bill had a useful purpose for his party\u2019s political line: sending the message \u201cStay away from Florida,\u201d to unauthorized workers.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/news\/florida-lawmaker-e-verify-mandate-negative-immigrants\/652499\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Dive Brief: Florida Rep. Rick Roth, a Republican, said this week that the state\u2019s new E-Verify law, which goes &#8230; <a title=\"Florida lawmaker says E-Verify mandate has \u2018a lot of negative consequences\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/florida-lawmaker-says-e-verify-mandate-has-a-lot-of-negative-consequences\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Florida lawmaker says E-Verify mandate has \u2018a lot of negative consequences\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[457],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-construction-dive","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}