Georgia approved a bill Thursday that is to take action against illegal immigration law.Georgia legislative passes Arizona style Immigration Bill Bill awaits Governor SignatureACLU threatens to sue, other groups are planning boycotts(CNN) --ungerührt by threats of boycotts and lawsuits, the Georgia joined legislature Thursday Arizona laws of the country passed, what may be one the toughest anti-immigration.
Republican dominated state House of representatives and Senate House Bill 87 during the last hours of the General Assembly passed Georgia in 2011. The Bill must be signed much Governor Nathan by Georgia GOP, before it can become law.
The Bill, among other things allows law enforcement officers question suspect in certain criminal investigations of their immigration status. People who during the Commission a crime punished illegal immigrants, and impose hefty it prison terms on those who use fake documents to get jobs.
Much is not committed to signing the Bill, but he promised, support one such legislation if he put to the Governor last year.
Read House Bill 87
After the vote the Bill author, Republican State Republic Matt Ramsey, declared we the work "done, we have been sent." have to do
Ramsey said that the law forced the States of the Federal Government issues decades-long failure to secure the country's borders.
Both Chambers passed the Bill after lengthy debate. Opponents argued that the Bill could promote racial profiling and discrimination. They also said that the measure could violate if the image and the State's economy.
Supporters accused of illegal immigrants, overcrowding Georgia schools and force the taxpayers bear the burden of payment for the emergency room medical care for undocumented residents.
"People here, legally or illegally, come to fulfill the dreams that they have for themselves and their families," said State Senator Vincent Fort, an Atlanta Democrat and an opponent of the Bill.
State Senator Renee Unterman, a suburb of Atlanta Republicans who countered the legislation, supports "they are illegal, they are going to use our services."
At the end was neither Chamber close vote. Senate passed the measure by 37 to 19. The Georgia House, provided the last passage of the Bill, it has approved in a 112-59 vote.
The vote on Thursday marked the second time in five years that Georgia was an anti-illegal immigration legislation is passed as one of the toughest in the nation was. Legislative law was passed in the year 2006 the State a, later in a law signed the Government contractor and public employer the names of the people that make it a federal database run, to determine whether they are legal resident of the United States.
House Bill 87 requires private companies with more than 10 employees, use the same database. The system is called E-Verify. The legislation allows State and local law enforcement to arrest illegal immigrants. It enforces also prison sentences of up to 1 year and fines of up to $1000 for people knowingly to transport the illegal immigrants during the Commission of a crime.
Workers due to the use of counterfeit identification could be sentenced to 15 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
The economy, including the powerful agricultural lobby, against strong the E-Verify deployment. A compromise last day House of representatives and Senate added language to the company, less than 11 workers from the Federal Republic of use database to legislators, however, the exemption employ account.
Republican State Senator John Bulloch, the the Chamber of agriculture and Consumer Affairs Committee Chairs, said, "in the end, I still don't like it, but it is a good law."
D.a.. King, an anti-illegal immigration and long-time lobbyist for stricter laws, the action called "one of the most well thought out, potentially effective immigration enforcement bills in the country."
"On the State level, this sets new bar," King said.
Demonstrators a candle-light vigil outside the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta Thursday night place. When entering, seven year old Jazlie Camacho said the crowd: "I'm here to ensure that they take away from this law."
Jazlie is an American citizen, but her parents are from Mexico.
Paulina Hernandez, Member of a group with the name of southerners to uncharted territory, said their organization to the boycott against the State is called.
"We are not prepared to say that Georgia is a State in the value of investments of the nation in, as it not the best interests of their people in the eye."
Already, several legal and activist groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, plan actions in an attempt to block the implementation of the action. She hope that the courts with them agree.
Arizona stopped last year a federal judge implementation of anti-immigration-law of the State to the Obama administration filed suit. President's lawyers argued that the Federal Government, and not the State, has the sole authority to regulate immigration.
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