(30 May 2023)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Homestead, Florida - 27 May 2023
1. Various protest march
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Raina Osorio, agricultural worker from El Salvador:
“(When I first heard about the law) I was very afraid, because I am an immigrant. My (immigration) case is still pending. I don't have a resolution ready to be able to say that I'm safe. My daughters need (my) support, they need to study in order to have a better future. I am afraid to return to my country and for my daughters to return again to where they had to suffer violence. I am afraid about not being able to provide them with everything they need.”
3. Various people praying
4. Various boy holding sign saying “We are not eligal, we are undocument.”
5. Women hugging
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Virginia Vicente, activist with WeCount worker’s center:
“The people need to know at this moment that we need to unite. Now is the moment in which we all must unite in a single force to tell this governor that we are a strong force, that we immigrants are united, that we integral for the Florida economy and that we are here and we are not leaving.”
7. Various, protest
8. Wide, Vice Mayor of Homestead Julio Guzman chanting
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Julio Guzman, Vice Mayor of Homestead:
“I think this law creates division. I think this law creates confusion. It breaks up families, and I don't support the law. So I want to say that the city of Homestead has come together and we are united. And I will continue to stand with the people of Homestead and the immigrants to make sure that they are well-represented.”
10. Various, march
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of immigrants and their families marched in the agricultural town of Homestead on Saturday in protest of a new law placing additional restrictions on undocumented immigration.
The law signed earlier this month by Gov. Ron DeSantis expands requirements for businesses with more than 25 staffers to use E-Verify, a federal system that determines if employees can legally work in the U.S. It prohibits local governments from providing money to organizations that issue identification cards to people illegally in the country and invalidates out-of-state driver’s licenses held by undocumented immigrants.
Another provision requires hospitals that accept Medicaid to include a citizenship question on intake forms, which critics said was intended to dissuade undocumented immigrants from seeking medical care.
Undocumented immigrants, who are widely represented in Florida’s agricultural, construction and tourism industries, say the law is discriminatory against law-abiding workers integral for the state’s economy.
“I think this law creates division. I think this law creates confusion. It breaks up families, and I don't support the law,” Julio Guzman, the Vice Mayor of Homestead, told The Associated Press after Saturday’s rally.
DeSantis, who announced his candidacy for the presidency last week, has made immigration a top priority and has espoused hard-right positions on undocumented immigration geared toward winning support among Republican primary voters.
The Florida governor framed the law as a counter to Democratic President Joe Biden’s border policy, previously saying “we won’t turn a blind eye to the dangers of Biden’s Border Crisis. We will continue to take steps to protect Floridians from reckless federal open-border policies.”
AP video shot by Daniel Kozin
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