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.
And NPR , an open-borders lobby ally, wants you to believe the economic apocalypse has come to pass. Under the headline, “A year later, Florida businesses say the state’s immigration law dealt a huge blow,” NPR reports, “Many local Florida businesses say the new law has led to workers leaving the state, hurting their bottom line.”
“A lot of people are scared,” strawberry farmer Fidel Sanchez said. “A lot of people went north and never came back.”
Sounds bad. NPR then cites something called the Florida Policy Institute, which claims the law “could cost the state’s economy $12.6 billion in its first year.”
Well, it’s been more than a year, and instead of relying on anecdotes and predictions from far-left activist groups, let’s look at actual data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Bureau of Labor Statistics .