cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/30921399
A dispute between Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Republican leaders of the Legislature over conflicting views of an immigration crackdown escalated Monday after the governor labeled as “bizarre” lawmakers’ proposal to strip him of immigration enforcement powers.
What could they possibly even disagree about? It’s a lot of words but it doesn’t say what their beef is in particular. By shifting it to the Department of Agriculture it seems like they’re listening to agri-business owners saying, “But Black Dynamite, I sell drugs to the community”.
My understanding is that desantis at one point cracked down too hard on migrants, either successfully kicking them out or simply scaring them off to work elsewhere, resulting in Florida farms being unable to find enough cheap labor to harvest a lot of their fruit crops that year. This isn’t stated to be in response to that but it seems like the obvious subtext
The state GOP wants to grandstand and fearmonger about immigration but they don’t want to actually get rid of the people harvesting the crops, just make their conditions as deplorable as possible. Idk if DeSantis is just dumb or a true believer or what.
link: https://www.npr.org/2024/04/26/1242236604/florida-economy-immigration-businesses-workers-undocumented
if there’s a better explanation I’m all ears tho
Pretty sure this is it. They’re afraid he’s gonna try and grandstand himself up to DC and fuck their farms over.