"Hurricane Milton is expected to unleash its greatest force over hundreds of thousands of immigrants who don’t speak English, most of them Latin Americans harvesting oranges and tomatoes in the fields along Florida’s I-4 corridor, washing dishes in restaurants, cleaning hotel rooms and working construction.
For the Spanish speakers and a smaller number of African refugees , new lives in the U.S. were already a daily struggle because of the language barrier and lack of resources.
Milton has turned those obstacles into a matter of life and death."
Of course, a big part of it is fear of deportation, skepticism of help being offered by people in military and police uniforms, and justifiable doubt about reassurances that citizenship status will not be checked.
https://apnews.com/article/florida-immigrants-hurricane-milton-latin-america-70c2a91ae2bc3f55eb14c7af4c0d9de2
#Milton
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