DHS Secretary Napolitano: U.S. Justice Will Decide Whether to Challenge Georgia Immigration Reform
Posted on May 9, 2011
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By Mike Klein, Editor

Georgia Public Policy Foundation

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano side-stepped whether the White House will challenge Georgia’s new immigration law in federal court when she spoke to an Atlanta Press Club luncheon on Saturday, but the secretary left no doubt President Barack Obama has no interest in state-by-state immigration reform.

“Those legal determinations will be made in consultation with the Department of Justice, but I think these efforts at the state-by-state level, first of all, they are predicated on a falsity,â€