But They Will Likely Dance Around a Measure Hold Employers Accountable for Hiring Illegal Immigrants
Associated Press: A new session of the Georgia state legislature begins Monday, Jan. 10. Along with the new session, though, comes dealing with many of the same old problems that plagued the legislature during the last session -- the budget, taxes, education, immigration, and health care, among other pertinent topics. Of them all, it is doubtful that one will be as politically charged as the illegal immigration issue. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia is one of the state's grown weary of waiting on the federal government to crack down on illegal immigration, and the state just might become one that enacts laws to combat the growing illegal population. Two bills await the incoming session, having been filed in the previous session. They are bills that would not only ban illegal immigrants from attending state colleges but also make it illegal for government contractors to hire illegal immigrants as labor. The former seems to be a slap at the federal DREAM Act (which failed passage in the recent lame-duck session of the U. S. Congress), which provided, in part, a path to citizenship via a four year college degree for those in the United States illegally, and would no doubt be obviated should such a federal law be instituted. The latter is a response to the various reports of numerous government agencies, both federal and state, that have employed illegal immigrants.
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