Republican lawmakers urge immigrants to stay in Florida despite new immigration law

Republican lawmakers who voted for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' stringent immigration law are downplaying its potential impact on immigrant residents in the Miami-Dade area. The law makes it a felony to transport an undocumented person into the state, invalidates out-of-state driver's licenses issued to immigrants without legal status, and requires private businesses with 25 or more employees to use a federal system to confirm if new employees are eligible to work in the U.S. Many undocumented workers have left the state in anticipation of the law going into effect next month. Republican lawmakers are being criticized for dismissing the law as a "scare tactic."