Yikes! From Bloomberg:
Georgia mayors, county commissioners and even business-license clerks may face $5,000 fines from a panel of state-sanctioned volunteers empowered to investigate complaints about compliance with a new immigration law.
The board will be able to subpoena witnesses and strip funding from public bodies it finds have violated the law and levy fines against governments and individuals.
The first-of-its-kind Immigration Enforcement Review Board is part of a law that took effect July 1, making Georgia one of six states that have taken immigration enforcement duties into their own hands. To date, the law has provoked a federal lawsuit, a court injunction and a shortage of fruit and vegetable pickers in Georgia’s harvest season. The enforcement board’s job is to keep government officials in line.
“This is a radical privatization of government power,” said Charles Kuck, a lawyer who is part of a legal team challenging the law. “There was no evidence presented, not even anecdotal evidence, that there was a problem that needed to be solved.”
Rahm Emanuel Immigration Support: Chicago Mayor Opens 'Office Of New Americans'
On Tuesday, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel made a bold, new goal: to make Chicago the most immigrant-friendly city in the world.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/20/rahm-emanuel-immigration-_n_904730.html
Posted by: Another Voice | July 21, 2011 at 07:06 AM
New panel to punish officials who violate illegal immigration laws
http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-politics-elections/new-panel-to-punish-1031339.html
Posted by: Another Voice | July 21, 2011 at 07:05 AM
Georgia restaurants report labor shortages after passage of anti-illegal immigration law
http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-politics-elections/georgia-restaurants-report-labor-1030243.html
Posted by: gg | July 20, 2011 at 05:25 PM
It's the south man what else can you say about that place....time stopped in terms on Civil Rights.
Posted by: Another Voice | July 20, 2011 at 07:32 AM
Georgia American Socialist Republic! Whoever thought that the country of Georgia will have less spying than our own soviet republic led by a commie pinko by the name of Nathan Deal!
Posted by: George Chell | July 20, 2011 at 04:16 AM
Mass exodus as immigrants flee Alabama - Beason , Alabama immigration sponsor refers to blacks as ‘aborigines’
http://coloradoindependent.com/94278/immigrants-already-beginning-to-flee-alabama
Posted by: gg | July 19, 2011 at 11:09 PM