New Florida immigration law slammed for trapping  indispensable migrant farmworkers in a field of fear

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Photo: Florida Department of Health

By Noreen Marcus, FloridaBulldog.org

As Florida’s governor tries to demonize and evict immigrants – once even shipping them to an island off Massachusetts – farmworker advocates are fighting back in Miami federal court.

They’re attacking a new state law that makes it a felony to bring undocumented immigrants into Florida. The law doesn’t distinguish between transporting people for illegal purposes and for legitimate ones such as farm work.

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