The Florida bill's transportation provision, which would make it a felony to transport people who may be in the country without legal status, has religious leaders and groups worried about how they will carry out their pastoral work and live their beliefs.
The bill could make it a felony to transport undocumented immigrants, with one prominent Latino evangelical pastor saying it would "criminalize the church's work."
"We have schools, we have Sunday school, we have church vans that bring them to worship, we have soup kitchens that we sometimes drive people to who are undocumented because they need food. Sometimes we take them to their lawyer," Salguero told NBC News. Garcia accused the"extreme left" and the media of lying about the bill. She stated she is proud of her record on behalf of immigrants and looks forward to more work on"issues that improve the quality of life for all our residents and protect the most vulnerable."
Soerens said even if bill sponsors and backers assure churches and religious groups the measure wouldn’t be used against them, most would likely be advised by their lawyers that they have legal liability, so churches and religious groups would not want to put themselves at risk. "There are over 3,000 Latino evangelical churches in Florida, that's not counting Latino Catholic churches and other Latino mainline ," he said. Add in Haitian immigrants and churches that serve them, and it's clear that the state is heavily populated by immigrants, he said.
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