Florida’s Anti-Immigrant Law: SB 1718

Earlier this year, Florida passed SB 1718, a new and aggressive anti-immigrant law, that criminalizes people as human smugglers who “knowingly and willfully ” cross the line into Florida with people who they know or should know are undocumented. The law also purports to invalidate out of state licenses issued to undocumented immigrants, requires hospitals to ask about immigration status, and a host of other provisions.

The ACLU of Florida has a helpful discussion here of what is included in SB 1718.

We have previously posted about Florida’s SB 1718 here.

The law is already being challenged in court, including in this lawsuit brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the ACLU, American Immigration Council, and Americans for Immigrant Justice.

Yesterday Claudia Grisales of Morning Edition on NPR produced this story featuring how the new immigration law is harming the local economy in Florida.

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