A more in depth analysis will be coming this evening, but the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals just made absolutely clear why Georgia’s HB 87 and SB 40 are going to be found unconstitutional if passed by the State Legislature. In United States of America v. Arizona, Judge Paez writes specifically as to Section 2(B), which is the “show me …
It It Walks Like a Duck . . . .
Yesterday during the second public hearing on HB 87 before the Georgia General Assembly’s House Judiciary Committee, the bill’s author and at least two sponsors presented a rather startling new tactic. They each stated, and the Chairman did so quite vociferously, that “HB 87 is NOT like the Arizona law.” The Chairman argued that it was very different from the …
How Much will SB 40 and HB 87 Cost?
Why is no one asking how much SB 40 and HB 87 will cost the state of Georgia taxpayers? The startling numbers for the similar Utah legislation just came down–$11 Milllion Dollars! And that is in a state a third the size of Utah. Ask your Georgia Legislature today–how much “enforcing” federal law is going to cost the State of …
SB 40—The Emperor STILL Has No Clothes, or Exhibit A in Why States Should Not Attempt to Legislate on Immigration Matters
If you thought HB 87 was the wrong path to follow to try to fix the problems associated with illegal immigration, then do not get on the SB 40 Super Highway. SB 40 has so many inconsistencies, incongruities, and flat out confusing sections that if by some miracle it is passed, it would never see the daylight of its effective …