"As Florida officials enable Trump’s mass deportation policies, lawmakers in the state are looking to children to take on some of the jobs that have typically been done by immigrants.

Making its way through the state Senate is a new law, Senate Bill 918, that aims to loosen child labor laws and allow teenagers to work overnight shifts."

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/florida-child-labor-law-sb-918-rcna198275

Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/florida-republicans-immigrant-jobs-child-labor

Governor Ron DeSantis leads push to loosen child labor laws as immigration crackdown leads to workforce shortage.

DeSantis, who leads the nation in immigration enforcement lies, found a way to fill the essential jobs of immigrant WKRs targeted for deportation.

The bill progressed this week thru the R-dominated st senate seeks to remove numerous existing protections for teenage workers, & allow them to be the cheap labor. Children, as young as 14, could soon be allowed to work overnight shifts w/o a break. It may become the law in FL.

#ChildLabor #Deportaitions #Immigrants #USPol https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/florida-republicans-immigrant-jobs-child-labor

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"Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants"

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/25/business/florida-child-labor-laws

If you’re in #Florida, call and make sure your state senator is voting against the loosening of #ChildLabor laws in our state. It only passed the committee vote 5 to 4 which means even many Republicans do not agree with this legislation. We have a chance to stop this madness. I just called my rep and he’s voting against, thank goodness, and he’s a republican.

https://m.flsenate.gov/senators

Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants.

@CNN reports: "The state’s legislature on Tuesday advanced a bill that would loosen child labor laws, allowing children as young as 14 years old to work overnight shifts."

https://flip.it/at41B1

Florida child labor bill SB 918 would let minors as young as 14 work overnight
Floridas Nazi Gov. #FascistRonDeathSantis and state legislatures have been working to fill a void left behind in the wake of the state penalizing employers who hired undocumented workers. A new bill, SB 918, shows that child labor is their answer https://www.pnj.com/story/news/2025/03/25/florida-child-labor-law-bill-2025/82657143007/ #FloridaFascistState #ChildLabor

Holy shit

#DeSantis admits that the #WorkerShortages created by anti-#immigrant laws need to be eased by putting teenagers to work by relaxing #ChildLabor protection standards.

#USpol #law #immigration #economy #Trump

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article302704319.html