Bob Griggs suggests Gwinnett County is ignoring state law.
Almost 18 months after Georgia enacted one of the toughest illegal immigration laws in the nation, neither the county nor a single Gwinnett city has fully complied with the new requirements regarding eligibility for public benefits.
S.B. 529, enacted as the “Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act,” went [...]

As The Daily Citizen of Dalton, Georgia, reports:
People should be “screaming” about the uninstalled computer equipment for the 287(g) program at the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office, said both Republican candidates for sheriff at a GOP forum Monday night. Six Whitfield County jailers trained on the program in January. The federal program gives jailers access [...]

Pro-Illegal Immigration activists (and those of similar ilk) are unfortunately receiving death threats from a bunch of thugs, as the Atlanta Latino newspaper reports. Of course, it’s all because of the Nazis Stalinists Fascists Satanists Conservatives:
The activist blames the recent threat received by Rich Pellegrino on the attitude that State Sen. Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock), [...]

I mean, really, how can we want to enforce immigration policy when so many U.S. citizens have themselves worked in other countries illegally without papers….oh, wait. That’s not the case. Full story from the AJC.
About 200 people gathered on the steps of the state capitol Thursday to protest immigration raids and deportations. [...]

Sounds like a pretty good idea and one that officials in South Carolina are looking into, according to WLTX in the Midlands.
Having special facilities here in Georgia like those envisioned next door for those that are already being detained as their deportation proceedings go forward could simplify the logistical process and, more importantly, help open [...]

AJC: Gwinnett OKs money to screen inmates’ immigration status
The program could begin as early as October under terms of a resolution approved unanimously by the commission after a tense discussion.
The resolution gives Conway the 18 positions he said he needed to begin the program, but requires that he trim vacancies in the department to 12 [...]

Some might wear it as a badge of honor but MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann named Cong. Paul Broun the “worst person of the day” yesterday for getting some facts wrong regarding illegal immigration. Of course by posting this on Peach Pundit, more people will see it than saw it live, but hey we’re here to [...]

Fighting illegal immigration has been a hot button issue in the race for Gwinnett Commission Chairman. Incumbent Charles Bannister sent out a press release a few days ago urging Sheriff Butch Conway to participate in the so called 287(g) program I blogged about here.
After previously resisting, the Sheriff today said he would participate in [...]

From D.A. King’s article in today’s Gwinnett Daily Post:
Here in Georgia, after a unanimous recommendation from the Cobb Board of Commissioners to move ahead, Cobb County Sheriff Neil Warren has sent two classes of deputies to be trained by the feds under 287 (g) and on July 1 began screening all noncitizens booked into his [...]

Rep. Tom Price yesterday introduced a bill which would, in the words of a press release from his office, “ensure employers have the freedom to establish ‘English in the Workplace’ policies.” According to Price’s office:
The Common Sense English Act [H.R. 4464] amends Title VII of the Civil Rights Act so that it is NOT an [...]