HB 87 in Georgia
Effects of Georgia's immigration law:
- Legal workers are staying away from farms, which cannot fill needed positions
- Business in other states are mobilizing to try and prevent similar laws from being passed
- We are finding out that convicts don't particularly like farm work (and a former mayor compares the strategy to slavery)
- We are seeing a split--though small--among Republicans, and questions about whether these state laws violate conservative principles
- Local law enforcement officials are saying they won't immediately enforce the law
I am guessing these were not the desired outcomes for the law's supporters.
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The truth is that the law is backfiring in ways they never had dreamed of. Blind conservative ideology.
Unfortunately, there are large number of populist simpletons that think if they just shout ILLEGAL enough times immigrants will just disappear and spontaneous prosperity will break out for the "real Americans" who are left. Facts are irrelevant to these people. They apparently have collected enough signatures to force a referendum on Maryland's DREAM act and if it goes down it would be a huge setback for immigration sanity given Maryland is a blue state.
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