Good, the teenagers of legislators and those very rich in Palm Beach and Naples will be happy to fill in where needed, esp those overnights before IB and AP classes. Good thinking DeSantis. Glad for jobs those teenagers are.
Of course not. It will be children from Immokalee and children who need to help their parents and who need money for college. And I will watch this play out for children who don't take IB or AP classes because they work overnights and the FL gov thinks this is an answer. Send your kids overnight!
I would take my children out of Florida. How can we help those with no resources in leaving? I can’t believe this happened so fast. We were freaking warned!!! 🤬🤬🤬
They should of thought of these things before they kidnapped all the immigrants in the middle of the night and moved them to El Sal and put them in filthy horrible prisons they will never get out of alive. Let DeSantis work over night without a meal break.
DeSantis would rather put children in fields to labor than admit the immigrants were a solution to problem, not a problem. The Republican politicians got votes by fear mongering, misinforming and miseducating people. Now they will hold onto their power by exploiting children.
Well, it’s the Gods and Clods theory. Everyone can’t be rich and privileged because there will still need to be Clods who make our clothes and our food. There has to be minimum wage slaves and outsourced cheap goods and services. We need to keep the poor poor so they’ll work for us.
This is exactly why they want lots of poor families in this country to have lots of babies. In just a few years, they can have an uneducated workforce. No unions, no insurance, low wages. Everything the slavemasters want.
When you throw out the immigrants and poor whose only option was to work for poverty wages, the only alternative are the children of the working poor. There is only one sure way to stop the right-wing fascists who currently control the US. Millions of us must hit the streets. Make DC look like this.
Won’t be able to do that… apparently in order to make DC “safe and beautiful” people won’t be allowed there and a “robust federal law enforcement approach” taken.
His executive orders are little more than drug addled pipe dreams. They are not laws. They are not allowed to violate the Constitution which that does. This will be overturned just like most of his other EO that judges have blocked. It just takes a minute for them to wade through the shit.
They also flood the field so it gets hard to see all of the despicable shit they are doing. Like the Signal transgression being talked about like a minor oopsie instead of them being caught actively avoiding using proper channels that are archived and used for accountability.
Or the rather aggressive travels to Greenland that aren't getting much coverage and are filled with underhanded comments from Vance about military involvement.
They are trying to drown us in panic, chaos, and uncertainty while they dismantle the systems that we have built to provide services.
They overwhelm people. They bog down the system so it does take a few weeks to get them ruled on because there are so many. It lets them play the victim card to their morons because "look at how we are being litigated against! They didn't do this to Biden"
We purchase fashion and electronics from countries and companies that have been using child labor for decades. While exponentially growing homeless children population right here. We already are that nation.
Whoever proposed this is nuts. No guaranteed meal breaks - even adults get breaks. Teenagers can do overnight shifts on school nights? School is important and should be their primary focus. Night shifts are for adults b/c safety is a concern. Children shouldn't be or have to be working, at all.
Well Trump's hero is President McKinley so why not? Just go full out robber baron no holds barred Industrial Revolution, let's take away women's right to vote, strip all workers protections, back to full industrial society (since that's what tariffs are all about) and get it over with
I am a Floridian here and it is much worse down here than this. I bet this passes too. They are already teaching our kids that being a slave benefited black people and they should be thankful. That was passed two years ago.
Because we don’t want immigrants here, that would work these jobs that white adults won’t work, we are going to have our poor children do the work. It’s poor family’s that’ll have to send their children to these jobs and subject them to these cruel conditions. Welcome to the Regime!
I’m willing to bet that White people will figure out a way to make this apply to only Black and Brown kids.
And they’ll make Work Camps a thing instead of juvenile detention.
And we know that Black kids are disproportionately punished for the slightest “offense”.
#slavery2.0
Especially the south always hated *insert N-word here* and liked to lynch them. Black folks aren't people to them. If you know that pigment skin color is only one genetic feature, you can see how dumb racism is. But these Bible Thumpers are exactly that: dumb.
Hollywood couldn't stage a production of such a distopia as fast as the current admin has. It's like Total Recall. How much worse could it be? Gladiators?
It's what 150, million Americans chose whether they accept responsibility or not. Third-party voters, conservative voters, and non-voters all fucked us. It's what they do best.
No teen is going to work in the fields. They will not even apply for those jobs.
This just means the jobs they do get fast food ect. they can now be exploited even by the employers who are already exploiting them. More profits for the rich.
Welcome to the 1930s.
1833 Factory Act banned children from working in textile factories under the age of nine. From nine to thirteen they were limited to nine hours a day and 48 hours a week.
Well, the parents voted for their kids to do so, and it was told to them in the campaign from many states so they are the ones looking out for their interest, so I have nothing for them, sorry. I can tell you no kid is going to do the work of a migrant worker. This isn't forced labor bill.
Republicans are the worst. I bet Richie rich and the gated community kids will be going to bed and getting sleep. Or probably sneaking out of the house to cause trouble.
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The children who will fall under this “work force” will be the children born in the US, by illegal immigrants, whom have been BARRED from attending school.
Holy shit.. i called it… the US isnt allowing immigrant children to go to school as part of the push to create sweat shops in the US using child labour. They’re cutting strangling out the countries US billionaires use for cheap, sweat shop child labour, and giving it to them at home in the US of A.
So if 14 year olds going to school doing the day and working at night how will they have time for themselves, spending time with family and friends and sleep? It's very clear republicans don't care about kids
If Republicans across America continue winning elections and gaining power, America will be an authoritarian society with no freedom or government for ‘the people’.
It started already. There will be no way back. The bureaucrats who could resist are dismissed. Why? To replace them with their own men. They are eliminating resistant bureaucrats. So after 2/3 years there will be only their 'men'. At that point there is no way back. And Putin will laugh.
This is sickening and infuriating. This is aimed at children of the poor and desperate. Do you think Musks kids or Trumps grandchildren will be working the second shift?
Why aren’t the grown ass Floridian republicans out there filling the void from the deported migrants???
JFC! These new child labor proposals are outrageous!
I honestly believe that Trump, his followers, and the GoP want to go back to the age of the robber barons of the 1800's, and in addition bring about an autocratic Christian Theocratic Dictatorship. Next they will probably rename the US to the "Republic of Gilead" (credit to Margaret Atwood)
Bro.. the people passing this bill have never worked a night in their life. It's an awful experience for even the most seasoned adults. And almost worse for their families..
They know their actions will lower life expectancy, there won’t be jobs, the billionaires will privatise everything. They are going to cull most of the population through poisoning the air and water, promoting vaccine misinformation, making it near impossible to get medical assistance…
Just think...THIS GUY could have been our president. Only one guy could be worse...(HINT) he's an ORANGE FELON WHO ATTACKS WOMEN IN DRESSING ROOMS AND THINKS HE CAN GRAB WOMEN BY THE PUSSY, JUST BECAUSE HE HAS MONEY.
Yes, and #RonDeSantis already stated he will make his own kids apply for jobs picking oranges in a farm to help the labor shortage in FL! What a leader... showing by example! Motherfucker!
It is about denigrate brown and black children, and very poor white children. After all, which children will be forced to take these jobs, either by their parents or to help feed their families? Not the politicians' kids!
Indicative of the real welfare queens and terrorists you need to worry about, not someone from another country. They're right in your backyard, running multi-billion dollar corporations, and holding office.
Your oppression is their profession.
I would not doubt that these assholes would use the children in the foster care system. Unadoptable children are going to have to work for their food and shelter. Completely disgusting. I really hate this country more and more. People who voted for this in Florida. Shame on you!!
Thank you! I'm so tired of this type of lazy, unfair, uninformed comment. It's just vague finger-wagging while offering nothing constructive. We're not sitting idly by, and we're open to reasonable and helpful advice.
The step after child labor is to strip more rights away from women so that they can be made into baby factories for the capitalist machine. Ensure cheap labor through lack of education opportunities etc. It's all so obvious.
You can tell that kid is a slacker. He still has all his toes. Get back to work and stop freeloading off your governm...I mean, parents. Yeah, parents.
I remember ol' four toe Troy. You'd think we'd call him that 'cause he lost one but nope he lost six. Least that's what they say. Wouldn't know, myself, because I can't count that high. Three finger Jimmy's the name.
When you can’t use immigrants for cheap and hard labor you need kids to do it.
Like in countries and times we thought we had risen above. Exploition of human beings. The exact reason your great grandparents immigrated from Europe to USA.
The ideology of Trump and MAGA.
How about this?
Nazi flags are ok. We see them at every DeSantis event.
Confederate flags are ok. They are on half of the pick-up trucks in Florida.
But Rainbow flags?
ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!
We have been living in a dictatorship in Florida for years and we are so sick of it.
Yeah, those little freeloaders need to fill those jobs American adults don't want to do. 14 year olds working the night shift at a slaughter house, kids in the fields before school, kids washing dishes at Denny's at 3 am. Get those little buggers working!!
Going back in time.
Back to slavery and helping the rich.
America resist and stop this before it's too late.
If you're not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem!
Can you imaging kids out there doing landscaping, picking at the farms, roofing in the Florida heat??!
I still ask: where are all the people that screamed immigrants were stealing their jobs?? It’s your time to shine!!!
Like many in the places outside of the USA, I grew up in the 70s watching yourself and other wonderful actors entertain us - groundbreaking as it turned out - a snapshot of the a America that should have been so much better than today.
From the man who used taxpayer funds to put up "Welcome to the Free State of Florida" signs at our borders while encouraging book banning and trying to ban vaccinations and masks. Free for whom? This is despicable.
I will fight until my last breath against this crap. That’s not the America that I know and not what was taught by my teachers. Against values of the constitution and progress. Ppl vote to hate others against their own progress. Shameful
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Roe wade
And contraception bans
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/making-the-district-of-columbia-safe-and-beautiful/
They are trying to drown us in panic, chaos, and uncertainty while they dismantle the systems that we have built to provide services.
I'm 88. I've heard stories from my parents and grandparents going back before I was born in 1938, when the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) was passed.
If one believes that common human decency would preclude exploiting children if restrictions are lifted, you're not paying attention.
I live in this asinine state.🤢🤮
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/business/florida-child-labor-laws/index.html
Working overnight on school nights. This is the work of a government that doesn't care about education at all.
Universities.
Bring back Child Labor.
And they’ll make Work Camps a thing instead of juvenile detention.
And we know that Black kids are disproportionately punished for the slightest “offense”.
#slavery2.0
I expected 107% participation in.
It was that important 🙀😿
ago and don't get fox so I don't get the right wing spin.
It's very nice 😸
The rich get richer,
the poor get more
misery.
I'm sure this isn't what they wanted ?
My Dad mined coal
at 14 in the late 40s.
Doesn't seem like progress to me.
Biff Tannen was a foreshadowing of Donald Trump.
Hail Herr DeSantis.
Time Travel.
We're rapidly reaching pre 1938 living and working conditions...
This just means the jobs they do get fast food ect. they can now be exploited even by the employers who are already exploiting them. More profits for the rich.
Welcome to the 1930s.
I'm literally lost for words.
#DoBetterAmerica
1833 Factory Act banned children from working in textile factories under the age of nine. From nine to thirteen they were limited to nine hours a day and 48 hours a week.
Next my state will probably make slave labor legal. 🤬
But these lessened work restrictions start at 16 for kids in schools but 14 for kids who are homeschooled.
So the kids with less adults from outside of the home checking in on them absolutely will be exploited more and they don’t deserve that.
It's always only the others.
Republicans are the worst. I bet Richie rich and the gated community kids will be going to bed and getting sleep. Or probably sneaking out of the house to cause trouble.
What a state.🤣🤣🤣
To others it is a reminder that when we let our guard down evil comes into our nation.
JFC! These new child labor proposals are outrageous!
This ain't no party, this ain't no disco,
this ain't no fooling around
No time for dancing, or lovey dovey,
I ain't got time for that now
#FAFO
Work till you die - you’re done at 19 and then we’ll just churn out more, but not the children of the very wealthy.
Go MAGA!
Education is the number one thing that pulls people out of poverty. Schools used to be the best way kids in poverty could get steady food.
Now they get to work in the fields.
This is not my country.
Your oppression is their profession.
Inhumane.
Is the next law mandatory employment for children?
Look fam. Just try googling the words “Arkansas woman arrested” or “Florida man found”
It’s not where you wanna go with your blue or purple state.
I promise.
https://open.substack.com/pub/noelkeith/p/tranquil-piece-of-mind-vol-3-no-5?r=4c7psw&utm_medium=ios
Sit idly by and watch the country continue to degrade?
Will they be forced?
Like in countries and times we thought we had risen above. Exploition of human beings. The exact reason your great grandparents immigrated from Europe to USA.
The ideology of Trump and MAGA.
Nazi flags are ok. We see them at every DeSantis event.
Confederate flags are ok. They are on half of the pick-up trucks in Florida.
But Rainbow flags?
ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!
We have been living in a dictatorship in Florida for years and we are so sick of it.
Back to slavery and helping the rich.
America resist and stop this before it's too late.
If you're not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem!
I still ask: where are all the people that screamed immigrants were stealing their jobs?? It’s your time to shine!!!
wish for and it must
be the racism are 2
thoughts that spring
to mind.
Time to shine indeed 😹😹😹
Was it always a myth?
You’re a wonderful human, George.
But America become blind when money is in the picture.