Georgia lawmaker files tough immigration law

[The Northerner]

ATLANTA (AP) — A state lawmaker on Wednesday filed a bill that would crack down on illegal immigration in Georgia and that mirrors some provisions in a controversial law that took effect in Arizona last year.

The "Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act of 2011" was filed by Rep. Matt Ramsey, a Peachtree City Republican who co-chaired a legislative study commission on illegal immigration in the fall.

The Georgia legislation would require law enforcement officers to, when enforcing other laws, try to determine an individual's immigration status if an officer "develops reasonable suspicion" that the person is an illegal immigrant, according to a copy of the bill provided to The Associated Press. Upon confirming that such a person is an illegal immigrant, the officer would be authorized to arrest that person and take him or her to a federal jail.

The bill would also impose penalties on people who encourage an illegal immigrant to come to Georgia or who transport or hide illegal immigrants once they're in the state.

Read more: http://www.necn.com/01/26/11/Ga-lawmaker-files-tough-immigration-law/landing_nation.html?&blockID=3&apID=f946d5a5186548ddaeaa594ce18d3e0e

[abelenkpe]

1. If they want to discourage immigration

all lawmakers need to do is arrest and fine heavily business owners that lure workers to the states illegally. But Republicans would never do anything harsh to business owners. Just the desperate workers seeking a way to make a living.

[d_r]

2. but then

who would work in the carpet mills in Dalton, or clean the houses in Dunwoody, or staff the restaurants of Savannah or shovel gravel for the road construction on I-75?

[abelenkpe]

5. My point is that republicans don't really want to

discourage immigration as it is their wealthy business owning contributors that benefit the most from the work of immigrants.

They're just pandering to a select crowd of immigration fearing supporters with no intent of actually doing something substantial.
No one had a problem with immigrants during the boom years and it isn't novel that sentiment has turned against them during lean times. I read recently that during Hoovers years as president that there was a program called the Mexican repatriation act that basically forced a half million Mexican immigrants to return to Mexico. Not a particularly proud moment in our history. Also, reading press from other countries as the economy gets worse there is more and more anti immigrant rhetoric expressed as the unemployed look for reasons to justify their predicament.

The real causes of unemployment and what led to the economic crash are not those working alongside us struggling to make ends meet and feed their family. They are above us in gated mansions funding think tanks, media outlets and lobbyists who spread disinformation to keep us fighting amongst ourselves lest we turn our eyes to them.

But I'm sure you know that. ;)

[Erose999]

6. Or work in the chicken plants in Cumming and Gainesville....

there are literally billboards in Mexico telling people to come to the chicken plants in GA.

Were they serious about stopping immigration they would go after the employers who hire illegals. But they won't do that because that would require shutting down some big, politically well-connected companies like Tyson chicken.

[onehandle]

3. Who in the fuck is going to build the thousands of mini-mansions for Republicans in our suburbs?

And clean them and cook in them?

Peachtree City, btw, is a white white white golf community outside of Atlanta.

[Erose999]

7. Yep, Fayette County is just one big ass country club. Cobb County too,

every few years they have a book burning or some other stunt to embarrass GA in front of the rest of the Union.

The really shitty part is this will surely pass now that we have a one-party system of gov't.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. Nasty little pasty-faced doughboy. Figures...

[Erose999]

8. Can't have Tea without crackers , LOL

[Erose999]

9. Bump for the night crew, this is pretty important. Over in Arizona, their state legislature is tryin

to pass a bill authorizing unlimited taxpayer funds to defend challenges to SB1070 in the courts. And you know that the GOOP in GA would stoop to the same level, looting the public treasury to defend their precious racial profiling legislation.

Meanwhile, in the gated Country Club communities of Metro Atlanta, the doors of the owners of businesses that hire illegals are NOT to be knocked on.