Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is pushing for legislation to lift regulations on how many hours teenagers are allowed to work, saying that lifting the restrictions will help ease the state’s labor shortages. 

The Republican governor’s office, joining other states in trying to revamp or change child-labor laws, has pitched a bill for the current legislative session to cut the time restrictions, reported The Wall Street Journal on Thursday. 

“What’s wrong with expecting our young people to be working part-time?” DeSantis said during an immigration roundtable event last month. “Why do we say we need to import foreigners, even import them illegally, when, you know, teenagers used to work at these resorts?”

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