Judge 'subjective, arbitrary' in Georgia ruling

'I've never heard offending another nation being a criteria under the law for consideration'

Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 6/30/2011 4:35:00 AM

The head of a grassroots immigration reform organization says it's outrageous that a federal judge has put a hold on some key elements of Georgia's new immigration law over concerns of how it might offend foreign governments and compel illegal aliens to leave the state.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Thrash halted two key provisions of the immigration bill recently signed by Republican Governor Nathan Deal, in response to a lawsuit filed by the ACLU. The provisions -- part of a law set to go into effect on Friday -- dealt with police stops and harboring illegal aliens.



William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), http://www.alipac.us/ expresses indignation that Judge Thrash expressed concerns about how the Georgia law would affect foreign relations, after Mexico and other nations filed briefs in favor of the ACLU lawsuit.

William Gheen (ALIPAC)"I've never heard offending another nation or offending anybody being a criteria under the law for consideration," Gheen tells OneNewsNow. "We have a judge here who is [being] completely subjective and arbitrary and loyal to people who have the destruction of the United States in mind instead of the well-being of the United States."

In his ruling Thrash also wrote: "The apparent legislative intent is to create such a climate of hostility, fear, mistrust, and insecurity that all illegal aliens will leave Georgia" -- to which Gheen says that is the whole idea.

"The illegal immigrants leave not when the law goes into effect, but when Americans merely say that they're going to start enforcing the law," he adds. "Therefore if President Obama were to announce that he was going to actually start doing his job, illegal immigrants would start to leave the United States in vast numbers -- much to the applause and relief of the American citizenry."

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