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A Notion of Immigrants 0

The Orlando Sentinel’s Scott Maxwell explores how Florida’s governor managed to pander to the prejudiced and procure plaudits from right-wing media while changing practically nothing. Maxwell looks at a recently passed Florida law that purportedly requires employers to check the legal status of job applicants using the federal “E-Verify” system, except when it doesn’t. A nugget (emphasis added):

It mandates that state and local governments must use E-Verify before hiring anyone (as if Florida’s estimated 775,000 undocumented employees are working in the state’s park system or highway patrol). But it tells private employers without government contracts that they can either use E-Verify “or” just let employees fill out their own forms vouching for their immigration status. Which one do you think companies exploiting illegal labor would choose?

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