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.
if there’s a better explanation I’m all ears tho
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