“We believe securing the border is important for our country,” DeSantis said. “Where the federal government has failed, the states are stepping up and doing our best to fill the void.”
The officers sent will be from the Florida Highway Patrol, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, as well as deputies from the sheriff’s offices in Brevard, Escambia, Hillsborough, Holmes, Lee, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and Walton counties.
Your mission is to reassure them that they are desperately needed to play a vital role in the success of Florida’s economy, a role they have been playing for decades.
Remind these potential Florida workers just how easy it will be for them to fit in Florida, where much of Florida’s agriculture industry is made up of undocumented workers just like them.
And that the new E-Verify law in Florida specifically exempts agricultural businesses from complying with the law that bans the hiring of nondocumented workers just like them. That’s how much we want them.
It also exempts any business with fewer than 150 employees from complying. This opens up the worlds of construction jobs, janitorial services, home health care and restaurant dishwasher jobs to them.
So your main task as Florida's ambassadors to these potential workers is to make sure they’re fully hydrated with Florida orange juice and to point them in the Sunshine State’s direction.
If they need a map and route suggestions to Florida, be prepared to assist them.
This is extremely important. Remember, the estimated 911,000 undocumented people who are already in Florida are just not enough to fill all the job vacancies we have.
These undocumented immigrants in Florida not only fill the vital roles in labor-intensive industries, but they have paid an estimated $1.3 billion in federal taxes and $588.3 million in state and local taxes, according to the 2018 data compiled by New American Economy, a bipartisan immigration research nonprofit based in New York.
To give you a little perspective, that’s $1.3 billion more than Tesla founder Elon Musk, the second-richest person in the world, paid in federal income taxes that year.
So, you might want to learn to say the words “Muchas gracias” to Florida’s incoming workers.
always impressed with the conservative love for fetuses in the womb
any help after birth is seen as un-american
...so, because 'conservatives' don't want to pay then the best answer is to kill them all so we don't have to pay?
just pointing out there's some inconsistency
if you're determined that a woman brings a fetus to term where she would choose otherwise
then you ought to be prepared to deal with the consequences
it's a complex question that your simple answer doesn't answer well
@justanotherbozo
“before birth=human
after birth=human
...and if we can't protect the weakest among us then what does that say about us as humans?“
“my argument is based on our humanity as a species, if our young are expendable then we are no different than any other animal.“
I’ve been pondering those words since you wrote them and I can’t help but think that is a strong and clear argument for allowing unaccompanied children to cross our border and be accepted with open arms.
Those words also supports igrowone’s comment of providing help in the way of food, housing, education, and healthcare for all children.
After all, if we can’t protect the weakest among us, then what does that say about us as humans? If our young are expendable, then we are no different than any other animal?
I’ve never considered myself a liberal, but you make a strong case for changing.
...you're making a moral equivalent that doesn't justify the murder of a helpless human for the sake of casual sex, if she would choose otherwise she ought to have the integrity to either choose to not get pregnant or to suffer the consequences if she does rather than to murder her child.
...and your simple answer to kill the baby doesn't answer the question at all.
...you're making a moral equivalent that doesn't justify the murder of a helpless human for the sake of casual sex, if she would choose otherwise she ought to have the integrity to either choose to not get pregnant or to suffer the consequences if she does rather than to murder her child.
...and your simple answer to kill the baby doesn't answer the question at all.
@justanotherbozo
“before birth=human
after birth=human
...and if we can't protect the weakest among us then what does that say about us as humans?“
“my argument is based on our humanity as a species, if our young are expendable then we are no different than any other animal.“
I’ve been pondering those words since you wrote them and I can’t help but think that is a strong and clear argument for allowing unaccompanied children to cross our border and be accepted with open arms.
Those words also supports igrowone’s comment of providing help in the way of food, housing, education, and healthcare for all children.
After all, if we can’t protect the weakest among us, then what does that say about us as humans? If our young are expendable, then we are no different than any other animal?
I’ve never considered myself a liberal, but you make a strong case for changing.
basically this sounds like "live by christian standards or you're wrong" so 31% of the worlds population get to determine right and wrong for the other 69%? why?
...where exactly did i say anything about christianity? ...and when did not killing babies become some christian commandment and not just something disgustingly wrong?
...maybe you should consider what it would have been like if it was you who had been aborted/murdered.
probably when you quoted a commandment...
if that were the case i would lack the ability to consider it...
why do you think you get to have any say at all about what any other person does with/to their bodies?