courtesy of Bob Andres, bandres@ajc.com
Starting July 1 under Georgia’s House Bill 87, police will be empowered to investigate the immigration status of certain suspects. The measure -- which is partly patterned after Arizona's law -- also sets new hiring requirements for employers and penalizes people who transport or harbor illegal immigrants here.
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Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, ignoring months of protest from his state’s business, faith and immigrant communities, signed HB 87, an immigration enforcement bill modeled on Arizona’s SB 1070 that passed the state legislature last month.
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“We have a right to remain in this state where we have lived, worked, and studied, for some of us, nearly all of our lives,” said Georgina Perez, an undocumented student and a member of the Georgia Undocumented Youth Alliance. “We will not obey a law that is unjust, that is meant to drive out our families and criminalize our community.”
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