Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, U.S. Presidential candidate, Florida State's new immigration law ( F.L. 1718), which will take effect July 1st, 2023, will impose severe restrictions on immigrants without paper in general but especially to the tens of thousands of Haitians in an irregular migratory situation in Florida...

Among others:

An immigrant who leaves the State of Florida before July 1st, 2023, will have great difficulty returning to the State after this date…

The new law prohibits the use in Florida of driver's licenses issued to immigrants in other states...

The issuance of identification cards to immigrants will no longer be authorized in Florida…

The new law allows the State of Florida to take the DNA of immigrants in detention centers to file them in a database…

The law also aims to prevent the hiring of people in an irregular migration situation. Employers with more than 25 employees will have to verify, online, on a federal database, the legal status of the people they wish to hire. At the risk otherwise, of being imposed heavy fines…

To be continued...

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