Republicans in the Georgia Senate scored a big legislative victory this week, passing a bill to throw undocumented immigrants out of all state colleges and universities. The bill wasn’t passed to save money. only 300 of the state’s 310,000  students are undocumented and those young scholars are paying out-of-state tuition.  It was passed because...
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Georgia’s new anti-immigrant law, which still has not gone into effect, may cost the state $391 million in lost agricultural revenues. Georgia’s economy is projected to take a $391 million hit and shed about 3,260 jobs this year because of farm labor shortages, according to a report released Tuesday by the state’s agricultural industry....
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The new Georgia board set up by Governor Nathan Deal to enforce the state’s anti-immigrant law has a weird vision of what enforcement means. Normally an oversight board would look to make sure the law is not being exceeded by “overzealous” local cops who might target Latinos who are in the United States with...
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A local TV reporter asked Georgi Gov. Nathan Deal’s press spokesman Brian Robinson about the governor’s new panel charged with enforcing the state’s new anti-immigrant law. The panel members are all white men with anti-immigrant views. One member, Phil Kent, heads a racist organization. I’ve written more about Kent here. Robinson was asked about...
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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is asking Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal to reconsider his appointment of racist Phil Kent to the panel overseeing the state’s harsh anti-immigrant law. According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution: Kent dismissed the ADL’s criticism, calling the organization a “left wing group.” Kent has warned that the white race will soon...
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Georgia’s second-worst-in-the-nation anti-immigrant law will be enforced under the oversight of the leader of a hate group. Georgia Governor Nathan Deal has named Phil Kent, the head of Americans for Immigration Control, to his Immigration Enforcement Review Board. The all-white board serves as an immigration inquisition checking to make sure local governments are arresting...
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Jay Bookman, columnist for the Atlanta Journal Constitution says that Georgia’s new anti-immigrant law has exposed the hypocrisy in the state’s debate over illegal immigration. Here are some excerpts: Whatever else it accomplishes, passage of House Bill 87 has brought a welcome clarity to the debate over illegal immigration in Georgia. It has cast...
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The lead editorial in the July 4 edition of the New York Times rips into new anti-immigrant laws being passed across the South: Editorial It Gets Even Worse Published: July 3, 2011 If you thought the do-it-yourself anti-immigrant schemes couldn’t get any more repellent, you were wrong. New laws in Georgia, Alabama and South...
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A judge has blocked implementation of key provisions of Georgia’s harsh new anti-immigrant law: A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked parts of Georgia’s strict new law targeting illegal immigration from taking effect, including a provision that authorizes police to check the immigration status of suspects without proper identification and to detain illegal immigrants....
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Georgia’s new anti-immigrant law is patterned on Arizona’s SB-1070. A hearing on its constitutionality was heard in federal court on Monday and it did not go well for the state. Here is a transcript of parts of the hearing published by the Atlanta Journal Constitution in which U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Thrash grills...
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