Giving them aid and comfort by taxing them more? Immigration law is a federal responsibility. The state Georgia cannot deport people, only the feds can. All Georgia is trying to do is exact a penalty on illegals in a 'round about way. Anyone wiring to another country will have to prove they are citizens or here legally or pay the extra 5% tax. Some citizens and legal aliens are going to get hit with this if they don't have the proper documents when they go to wire money. Mostly though this will hit illegals. As it is, before this law they wouldn't get hit with this tax, now they will. The state of Georgia will benefit, and illegal aliens will pay a penalty tax on their earnings here they didn't have to pay before. I can't imagine how you think this is "giving aid and comfort to illegal immigrants."
Is Georgia going to monitor the purchase of money orders? If not, all the proposed legislation will do is put a lag in the money flow down to Mexico because illegals will no longer wire money, they'll simply buy money orders and use snail mail.
This is why:
Section 274 felonies under the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, INA 274A(a)(1)(A):
A person (including a group of persons, business, organization, or LOCAL GOVERNMENT) commits a federal felony when she or he:
* ASSITS AN ALIEN S/HE SHOULD REASONABLY KNOW IS ILLEGALLY IN THE U.S. or who lacks employment authorization, by transporting, sheltering, or assisting him or her to obtain employment, or
* encourages that alien to remain in the U.S. by referring him or her to an employer or by acting as employer or agent for an employer in any way, or
* knowingly assists illegal aliens due to personal convictions.
Our federal laws can prosecute them.