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BUSINESSES CLOSE ACROSS FLORIDA TO PROTEST NEW IMMIGRATION LAW

Businesses closed Thursday across Florida to protest new state immigration
law.(WCTV/ Gray Florida Capital Bureau)
By Cody Butler
Published: Jun. 1, 2023 at 5:03 PM EDT|Updated: 8 minutes ago

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) - Thousands of businesses
across Florida closed Thursday in protest of a new immigration law.

Florida’s new immigration law, set to take effect July 1, requires businesses
with 25 or more employees to use E-verify, a national program that verifies if
someone is allowed to work in the U-S. It also allows police to randomly audit
businesses suspected of employing illegal immigrants and provides $12 million to
bus migrants from border states to so-called sanctuary cities.

Several groups, including the Hispanic Federation, organized the “A Day Without
Immigrants” demonstrations. The goal was to show how the law could affect
communities statewide.

“The immigrants are a very large portion of the working community in all of the
country, not just Florida,” said Moncerratt Guraz, one business owner joining in
the protests.

Guraz owns two businesses, including LuLu’s Taqueria in Tallahassee. Both
businesses were among several closed Thursday to bring sunshine to Florida’s new
immigration law.

She said cutting profits for the day was hard, especially since people were
still coming to the door.

“I know we are doing it for a good reason. I hope they can all understand why
we’re doing this. I know a lot of our customers really support us,” Guraz said.

One Florida Republican supporting the law said he believes the rule will benefit
the state.

“We need to enforce our immigration law. If folks are not able to find
employment then it’s going to reduce that draw, at least to Florida,” Rep. Mike
Beltran, (R) Lithia said.

But the state director of the Hispanic Federation, Laudi Campo, questioned that
reasoning.

“They’re underpaid and they still do the job,” Campo said. “And they’re covering
a piece of labor that others won’t do.”

Guraz is hoping this protest raises awareness about the immigrants working in
the community.

“Immigrants are humans,” Guraz said. “We have rights.”

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