Musings on Immigration

The Georgia State Legislature passed SB 160 this last session.  SB 160 manipulates the way HB 87 is implemented, will bring great hardship to many businesses that contract with those who contract with the state, increases the scope of influence of the Immigration Enforcement Review Board (IERB), and likely violates federal law.   Simply put, SB 160 is Bad for Georgia Business, Bad for Georgia's Economy, Bad for all Immigrants in Georgia, and bad for Georgia's national image. It is important to understand why SB 160 is bad in so many ways. Section 1  expands HB 87 (Georgia’s Anti-Immigration law) by modifying its “Definition” of “contractor” to which entities HB 87 applies, and more importantly modifies the requirement in HB87 that the E-Verify requirements for state contractors for building projects to now include all sub and sub-sub contractors of such contractors in EVERY state contract for construction, products or services, with the excep...

HB 125 is Bad for Business, Bad for the Economy, Bad for Immigrants and Bad for Georgia. Section 1 expands HB 87 (Georgia’s Anti-Immigration law) by modifying its “Definitions” of “contractor” and to which entities HB 87 applies Section 2 extends HB 87’s E-Verify Requirement and Future IMAGE requirement to every employer in Georgia Section 2 expands the scope of the mandate of the un-oversighted Immigration Enforcement Review Board Section 3 modifies and increases the mandatory application of E-Verify to Georgia Employers Section 3 increases compliance costs for State Agencies, Counties and Municipalities Section 4, while limiting HB 87’s compliance requirement to NEW licenses, requires additional compliance efforts by businesses and state agencies, counties and municipalities Section 5 substantially modifies the penalties imposable by the Immigration Enforcement Review Board Section 6 eliminates the Federal and Attorney General definitio...