Florida restricted cheap immigrant labor, and its economy is awesome

Published May 2, 2024 10:18am ET



The economy would collapse, we are told by the open-borders lobby, without the millions of illegal immigrants needed to do jobs Americans won’t do.

So when Florida passed E-Verify, a law that requires employers to verify the identity of newly hired employees, and it was implemented on Jan. 1, 2023, open-borders advocates predicted imminent doom for the Florida economy. 

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