Opinion | DeSantis's drastic anti-immigration bill just got defanged

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : But even before the bill was watered down, its practical effect was going to do little to dissuade migrants from crossing the southern border to come to Florida, which was its express goal.
50% : A large majority of the Cubans, Nicaraguans, Haitians and Venezuelans who have arrived in Florida in recent years have presented themselves at the southern border and were "inspected" by the border patrol, Wilfredo O. Allen, a veteran Miami immigration lawyer, told me.
35% : How else to explain the parade of radical bills -- banning abortion after six weeks, loosening gun laws in a trigger-happy state -- inflicted on Florida this year?

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