Georgia Passed Immigration Bill Like Arizona's Bill

 

 

Arguing that the federal government has not done enough to protect the country’s borders, Georgia on Thursday followed Arizona’s lead in passing tough legislation aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration.

 

Both chambers of the state legislature passed a bill modeled on Arizona’s controversial immigration law, requiring businesses to confirm that new hires are legally eligible to work in the United States and authorizing police to check the immigration status of some criminal suspects.

 

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It figures that the Republican governor, Nathan Deal, who campaigned saying that he was all for this immigration reform is now waffling about whether he'll sign the bill into law.  (Liberals, before you celebrate that waffling, know this:  It's not that he's for the immigrants.   He's concerned about the "burden" to businesses that have to check on their job applicants.)

 

Here's more from the article above:

 

The bill requires employers with more than 10 employees to use the federal government’s E-Verify system to check workers’ immigration statuses. Police would be able to check the status of some suspects and to detain them. It would also penalize people who, while committing another crime, knowingly transport or harbor illegal immigrants, or encourage them to go to Georgia. And it would punish people who use fake identification to get a job with up to 15 years in prison and a fine of as much as $250,000.

 

All of that makes perfect sense to me.