‘A step in the right direction’ on Florida Senate’s immigration bill

By Travis Pillow
04.05.11 | 10:56 am

A crowd of protestors swarmed Sen. Anitere Flores, R-Miami, after yesterday’s meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which ended with the passage of a controversial immigration-enforcement bill. She emphasized that the Senate’s bill never contained some of the more contentious provisions of the House proposal, and that a newly added amendment made some of the enforcement measures voluntary for state and local law enforcement. #

She said that she felt squeezed, with advocates for tougher enforcement on one side and immigrant-rights and some business groups on the other. #

“I’ve been called words I wouldn’t ever want my son to hear,â€