TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2014 The Florida House has approved legislation that would require all employers, regardless of size, to verify the immigration status of new hires through the federal E-Verify system.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
The Florida House wants all employers to use E-Verify
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The federal database allows employers to verify someone’s authorization to work
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The measure failed last year in the Florida Senate<\/p>\n
Currently, only businesses with 25 or more employees must use E-Verify to confirm whether a prospective worker is authorized to work in the United States.<\/p>\n
Republican supporters said the measure would strengthen workforce integrity and hold employers accountable for hiring undocumented workers.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf this bill passes, it will expose a lot of lawbreakers that are harming Floridians, harming law-abiding people who want to get into the workforce,\u201d said Florida Rep. Berny Jacques, a Republican from Clearwater and the bill\u2019s sponsor.<\/p>\n
Democrats and other critics warned the legislation could deepen the stigma against immigrant communities and disrupt key industries that rely heavily on migrant labor, such as agriculture.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt a time that these communities are under attack, we don\u2019t need to add any fuel to the fire,\u201d said Florida Rep. Dotie Joseph, a Democrat from North Miami. \u201cStop doing the most.\u201d<\/p>\n
The proposal would make Florida one of the few states to mandate universal use of E-Verify. A similar plan passed the House last year but stalled in the Senate.<\/p>\n
Republican leaders are revisiting the issue as part of a broader push to strengthen immigration enforcement at the state level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2014 The Florida House has approved legislation that would require all employers, regardless of size, to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4318,3140,6074,28,30,29,2203,2287,115,139,99,135],"class_list":["post-121172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-app-latest-local-state-politics-stories","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-capital-connection","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-jason-delgado","tag-local-politics","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-politics","tag-tampa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}