6 bills will delve into immigrant matters
If they pass, the state would make living and working in Florida more difficult for those people here illegally.
Jose Cardenas

In the two years since immigration legislation stalled in Congress, many states have passed their own laws targeting illegal immigrants.

Soon Florida could join them.

Legislators have filed six bills that would, among other things, penalize farms and government contractors that hire undocumented immigrants or require local officials to report their arrests to federal authorities. Come spring, legislators could debate whether to make it harder for an estimated 850,000 illegal immigrants to live and work in Florida.

“Our federal government, in my opinion, has failed our citizens in dealing with the crisis of illegal immigration,â€