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Georgia Legislature set to target illegal immigration
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | January 4, 2011 | Jeremy Redmon

Posted on 01/05/2011 2:32:23 AM PST by moonshinner_09

Complaining that the federal government has fallen down on the job, Georgia lawmakers are putting a big bull’s-eye on illegal immigration this year.The state’s legislative session won't begin until Monday. But lawmakers got started weeks ago, “prefiling” bills that would block illegal immigrants from attending state colleges and punish government contractors who hire them. Yet more legislation is on the way. Much more.

A pair of Republican lawmakers is preparing to file omnibus legislation in each chamber some time in the coming days. On Tuesday, Rep. Matt Ramsey -- a co-chairman of a special study committee on immigration -- outlined for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution what the legislation will likely include:

Ways to encourage more communities to apply to join a federal immigration enforcement program called 287(g). Through the program, local police officers and sheriff's deputies are given the power to question people about whether they are in the country legally and issue arrest warrants, prepare charging documents, and detain and transport people for immigration violations; Measures to toughen an existing Georgia law requiring state and local government contractors to ensure their employees are eligible to legally work in the United States. The legislation could also include incentives for other private employees to participate in E-Verify, a federal work authorization program; Provisions to ensure the identification people use to get public benefits in Georgia are “secure and verifiable.” Ramsey said he and other legislators are also studying a tough new Arizona law that allows police officers to check the immigration status of people they stop for questioning. The Obama administration has argued that it is the federal government's responsibility to enforce immigration laws, and it successfully sued to halt key parts of Arizona's law last year.

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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: aliens; blog; georgia; state
The Obama administration has argued that it is the federal government's responsibility to enforce immigration laws,and yet another lawsuit for team Obama. Lawyers really love to watch their dollar grow
1 posted on 01/05/2011 2:32:29 AM PST by moonshinner_09
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To: moonshinner_09

Sue us too!

Every Southern state has some kind of similar crackdown in the works.


2 posted on 01/05/2011 3:03:38 AM PST by WilliamHouston
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To: moonshinner_09

“it is the federal government’s responsibility to enforce immigration laws”.
And since the feds refuse to enforce these laws that leaves it up to individual states.
Round up ALL illegals and send them packing to from where they came.


3 posted on 01/05/2011 3:29:03 AM PST by Joe Boucher
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To: WilliamHouston

Not here in North Carolina, at least not that I’ve heard. Even if the new Republican-led General Assembly passed something like what Georgia is considering, Governor Perdue (D) won’t sign it. Meanwhile, cities like here in Durham make themselves sanctuary cities for illegals without penalty.

}:-)4


4 posted on 01/05/2011 4:28:44 AM PST by Moose4 ("By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!")
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To: Joe Boucher
"Round up ALL illegals and send them packing to from where they came."

Exactly. They ruined their own country and now they want to invade ours and ruin it also. They'll get NO sympathy from me...this cancer needs to be cut out by any means necessary.

5 posted on 01/05/2011 4:47:33 AM PST by Mich Patriot (...politics is the second oldest profession...it bears a striking resemblance to the first." RReagan)
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To: moonshinner_09

Here in gwinnett county Georgia we have a website called Gwinnett mugs.Visit the website and see who is committing the crimes and I dont mean jaywalking either.We have had enough and the incomming governor will sign legislation making the state of Georgia one of the toughest with regards to the illegals.


6 posted on 01/05/2011 5:12:23 AM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: moonshinner_09

Here in gwinnett county Georgia we have a website called Gwinnett mugs.Visit the website and see who is committing the crimes and I dont mean jaywalking either.We have had enough and the incomming governor will sign legislation making the state of Georgia one of the toughest with regards to the illegals.


7 posted on 01/05/2011 5:14:26 AM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Joe Boucher

“Round up ALL illegals and send them packing to from where they came. “

Too expensive, and a logistical nightmare... BUT, it would be fun to watch the festival on CNPMSNBC if states would all round up their illegal residents and bus them to DC for Cinco de Mayo.

Throw a big party... then let the Feds clean it up and sort ‘em all out.


8 posted on 01/05/2011 6:03:59 AM PST by MWF054 (Give me liberty or give me debt... can't have both.)
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To: moonshinner_09

We rank 5th in the nation as far as illegals go and we are NOT near the border! We are a major hub for the drug cartels, Lawrenceville, GA. We have the distinction of having our own episode on Gangland (Gwinnett County Gangs) on the Discovery Channel! In a matter of 10 yrs. the illegals have taken over entire towns, where you are not safe anymore! Kidnappings, meth, home invasions, murder...unbelievable.


9 posted on 01/05/2011 6:47:45 AM PST by panthermom
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE

I moved out of Gwinnett county because it just exploded!


10 posted on 01/05/2011 6:49:03 AM PST by panthermom
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To: MWF054

More expensive than feeding them, educating them, paying for their healthcare, etc.? I think not!

However, if we make living here inhospitable many will leave and then there will be less to deport.


11 posted on 01/05/2011 6:50:46 AM PST by panthermom
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To: panthermom

When I moved here in 97 Gwinnet WAS the suburbs. Now it’s Juarez! I’ve never seen anything like it in all my life. Never have I seen an entire population completely displaced by foreigners.


12 posted on 01/05/2011 7:06:14 AM PST by The Toll
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To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; 7.62 x 51mm; ..

Ping!


13 posted on 01/05/2011 7:16:39 AM PST by HiJinx (Where did 2010 go?)
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To: The Toll

That is why we got out, it was like living in a foreign country, 3rd world at that.

I worked in the Parkview school system, when my kids started there, Parkview and the feeder schools in the cluster where some of the best in the country, not anymore. I know so many people that have said, Thank God their kids made it through before the decline and if they had younger kids they would move. That is what we did.


14 posted on 01/05/2011 7:27:27 AM PST by panthermom
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To: panthermom

I remember seeing an article in the AJC in the beginning of 2010. It was about the number of “undocumented” people that had been through Gwinnett’s prison system in 2009. The numbers were beyond imaginable.


15 posted on 01/05/2011 7:33:51 AM PST by The Toll
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To: MWF054
Too expensive, and a logistical nightmare...

Only if the 'Rats and goobermint functionaries get to decide the means and methods. They don't need catered gourmet meals, dancing lessons, Temperpedic beds, 1000 square feet per person, ad nauseum. And a minimum of a year in processing.

House them in tents or temporary barracks. Feed them MREs. And move them out to the border on busses within a week.

It's been done in the past, albeit with less illegals (operation Wetback), but it can be done again with a few more. The expense is not 1/100th of their cost per year to taxpayers. Sheriff Joe Arpaio could easily plan the logistics.

Deport ALL ILLEGALS NOW and their anchor babies too !

16 posted on 01/05/2011 9:35:22 AM PST by jimt
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To: jimt

Cut ‘em off from all entitlements, fine the heck out of their employers and otherwise make their lives miserable most of them will deport themselves.


17 posted on 01/05/2011 9:46:56 AM PST by Little Ray (The Gods of the Copybook Heading, with terror and slaughter return!)
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