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America’s Lawyer E56: Republican lawmakers in Florida are in a full panic about Ron DeSantis’ recent anti-immigration law, and they are now BEGGING immigrants to stay in the state. Leaders in the technology industry have signed a joint letter warning that the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence could lead to our extinction if it isn’t reigned in. And former Vice President Mike Pence is officially running for President – but there may not be a part of the Republican base that is actually excited about him being in the race. All that, and more is coming up, so don’t go anywhere – America’s Lawyer starts right now.

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Hi, I'm Mike Papantonio and this is America's Lawyer. Republican lawmakers in Florida are in a full panic about Ron DeSantis' recent anti-immigration law, and now they're begging immigrants to please, please stay in Florida. Leaders in the technology industry have signed a joint letter warning that the rapid development of artificial intelligence could lead to our extinction, and it's signed by a lot of impressive people. And former Vice President Mike Pence, well, he's officially running for president, but there may not be a part of the Republican base that's excited about it at all. All that and more, it's all coming up. Don't go anywhere. America's Lawyer starts right now.

Republican lawmakers in Florida held an emergency meeting this week where they begged, they begged immigrants to, please, please stay in Florida. The state's about to experience massive economic pain thanks to Ron DeSantis, the guy who's running for president. His recent bill targets migrant workers in Florida, and it's really, really bad for Florida, possibly the entire southeast. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins joins me to talk about it. Farron, you know this story, this story is nauseating. If there's somebody that's followed this from beginning to know what these creeps have done behind closed doors, pick it up.

Yeah. What we saw this week was down in Hialeah, Florida, you had three Republican lawmakers, and we gotta name 'em. State Representative Alina Garcia, Rick Roth, and Juan Barquin held this meeting in South Florida behind closed doors. They've got their business leaders who are freaked out about the thought of losing all their migrant labor. So these lawmakers get up on stage and it's all on video, and they tell them, listen, there's no teeth in this bill. It's all for politics. It's all for show.

Right.

So what you have to do is you gotta tell your migrant workers, don't leave. Tell your migrant workers to tell their migrant friends, don't leave the state, because we're all panicked about it. And this is, again, this is all on video. Thomas Kennedy, reporter from South Florida caught it all.

So do you think this guy who's running for president didn't know that? Didn't know that this was a show, and then all of a sudden the construction industry is calling Tallahassee saying, what the hell? What have you done? This is our workforce. We can't build houses without them. We can't put roofs on houses without 'em. The citrus industry saying, who in the world do you think is gonna pick the oranges now? They're calling him, they're calling Republican representatives to say, have you gone frigging crazy? Because what's happening is they understand this. The entire GDP of Florida is going to be in the tank. So now we learn, they knew that all along. This was a scare tactic. This was all about the culture wars. We want to out culture war Trump. We wanna look so far to the right that we look like crazy people. Well, he's done it. He looks like a crazy man and the idiots in Tallahassee look even crazier, don't they?

They really do. And I'm glad you used that phrase, scare tactic, because that is what those lawmakers in, down in South Florida said. They said, this law is just a scare tactic. The goal is to keep people, migrants, from coming into Florida. We don't wanna lose the ones we've got.