Florida “cracked down” on illegal immigrants. Here’s a progress report. - Kevin Drum

Florida “cracked down” on illegal immigrants. Here’s a progress report. - Kevin Drum

The Wall Street Journal reports that workers have left Florida since it passed a Trump-like law a couple of years ago that cracked down on illegal immigrants: Still, the law hasn’t resulted in huge disruptions to the state’s labor market, as some predicted. Huh. Maybe the jobs they took were ones Americans were willing to do after all. Or— Oh, wait. The Journal explains: Certain provisions were watered down before the bill passed or in its imple…