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Florida Republican who voted for anti-immigrant bill admits it's doing harm (www.newsweek.com)

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Rick Roth said the bill's passage had led to "unintended consequences" and that "farmers are mad as hell" after a mass exodus of undocumented workers.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The intention was, as it always is, to make immigrant labour easier to exploit without affecting supply. But they forgot that immigrants have other options in the middle of a national labour shortage. Oops.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ah that explains it. Good for the immigrants though, I hope every single one managed to find better than this bullshit attempt at slavery.