Thread: VICTORY: Georgia Gov. Signs Expansion of Illegal Alien Crackdown (SB160)

VICTORY: Georgia Gov. Signs Expansion of Illegal Alien Crackdown (SB160)

by John Hill on APRIL 26, 2013 in


Way to go, Peach State!

Gov. Nathan Deal yesterday signed S.B. 160 – a tough expansion of Georgia’s H.B. 87, the Arizona-style law cracking down on illegal aliens, which passed in 2011.

The La Raza lobby was left stunned and upset, believing Deal would bend to the prevailing GOP pressure for immigration appeasement in Washington, and veto it. They were sadly mistaken.

Passed in the final hours of the General Assembly’s 40-day session – and despite fierce lobbying against it by ethnic intimidation groups, big business interests, and the ACLU – Senate Bill 160 was created to “fix” problems in licensing delays related to the old bill, but was later amended to add the following strong anti-illegal provisions, all now law:

• Bans illegal aliens from getting state driver’s licenses.
• Blocks illegal aliens from getting state, grants, public housing and retirement benefits.
• Prevents people from using foreign passports to obtain public benefits, unless those passports include records indicating they are in the country legally.
• Mandatory participation in E-Verify for contractors doing business with city, county and state government agencies.

SB 160 will take effect July 1.

About 1,500 illegals and supporters marched through downtown Atlanta on April 10 in support of the ‘Gang of 8′ amnesty plan, and to demand that Deal veto SB 160. Two days earlier, SWA posted a request to bombard to Governor’s office with calls, to our 22,000 Georgia members. Georgia’s citizens won the day, and the sour grapes were in abundant harvest yesterday:

Jerry Gonzalez, executive director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO), said

“It is a shame that Governor Deal continues to stoke anti-immigrant sentiment through signing SB160….The law will make Georgia more hostile toward foreigners and less competitive in the global marketplace. When the national GOP is moving toward immigration reform, Gov. Deal takes a huge step backward.”

Boo hoo! Martin Lopez, an illegal alien “immigrant rights activist” from Atlanta, was among those who demonstrated outside the state Capitol this month. He said many illegals have been using their foreign passports as a form of identification to get public benefits because the state’s 2011 law prohibits officials from accepting matricula consular cards when people apply. He said he doesn’t know “what they can do now”.

They can go back to their country, Mr. Lopez.

“I don’t really know the outcome — it is going to be big,” said Lopez. Yes it is. And other states should follow suit. With GOP cowardice in the face of Obama’s lawlessness, Arizona-style state actions are the principal weapons which remain against illegal aliens. And yesterday, Georgia made all Americans who respect the rule of law very proud.

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Thursday, April 25, 2013

Deal signs bill expanding immigration crackdown

By Jeremy Redmon

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Gov. Nathan Deal has quietly signed into law a measure that will expand Georgia’s sweeping crackdown on illegal immigration as Congress debates overhauling the nation’s immigration system.

Senate Bill 160 is aimed at blocking illegal immigrants from obtaining state driver’s licenses, grants, public housing and retirement benefits. The bill will also prevent people from using foreign passports to get public benefits in Georgia, unless those passports include paperwork indicating they are in the country legally.

Deal signed the measure Wednesday without public comment. The legislation expands on House Bill 87, a comprehensiveimmigration measure he signed into law in 2011.

The Republican governor’s decision to sign the new legislation comes as national GOP leaders are recalibrating their positions on immigration following President Barack Obama’s reelection win last year with about 70 percent of the Hispanic vote.

Congress is now considering a bipartisan bill that would provide a pathway to citizenship for the estimated 11 million immigrants living illegally in the U.S. The federal Homeland Security Department estimated there were 440,000 immigrants living illegally in Georgia in 2011.

About 1,500 people marched through downtown Atlanta on April 10 in support of Congress overhauling the nation’s immigrationsystem. Among other things, the demonstrators called on Deal to veto SB 160.

SB 160 is also intended to clean up several unintended problems created by the state’s 2011 immigration law.

For example, the bill is aimed at preventing massive backlogs for professional license renewals. Those backlogs were created by a provision in the 2011 law that requires applicants to show certain forms of “secure and verifiable” identification every time they renew their licenses.

“This legislation fixes some of the unintended consequences of the 2011 immigration legislation,” said Brian Robinson, a spokesman for the governor. “This will restore efficiency to government services, such as receiving a professional license, while still safeguarding taxpayers against the costs of illegal immigration.”

Secretary of State Brian Kemp, whose office handles professional license applications, praised the legislation.
“SB 160 will help hardworking Georgians get in the workforce faster,” he said in a prepared statement.

The Senate bill will also require all city, county and state government agencies to make their contractors to use a free online work-authorization program called E-Verify. Government agencies with fewer than two employees are now exempt from this requirement. SB 160 will take effect July 1.

Jerry Gonzalez, executive director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, criticized Deal’s decision to sign the measure.

“It is a shame that Governor Deal continues to stoke anti-immigrant sentiment through signing SB160,” Gonzalez said in an email. “The law will make Georgia more hostile toward foreigners and make Georgia less competitive in the global marketplace. When the national GOP is moving toward immigration reform, Gov. Deal takes a huge step backward.”

Republican state Rep. Dustin Hightower of Carrollton, who sponsored similar legislation in the House, offered a different view of SB 160.

“I think it will go a long way in protecting the citizens of Georgia and the taxpayers of Georgia,” said Hightower, who served on a legislative conference committee that helped craft the final version of SB 160.

Martin Lopez, an immigrant rights activist from Atlanta, was among those who demonstrated outside the state Capitol this month. He said many immigrants have been using their foreign passports as a form of identification because the state’s 2011 law prohibits officials from accepting matricula consular cards when people apply for public benefits.

“I don’t really know the outcome — it is going to be big,” said Lopez, who was illegally brought to the U.S. from Mexico when he was a child but has been granted a two-year reprieve from deportation.

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