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photo: Georgia House
Breitbart News
March 27, 2018
Neil Munro
GOP Rep. in Georgia: Immigration Enforcement is Like Nazi Germany
The state of Georgia will be like Nazi Germany if it requires enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws, says a business-first Republican in the state legislature.
The claim was made by GOP Rep. Heath Clark as he announced his subcommittee was gutting a pro-American immigration reform bill which is backed by Lt. Governor Casey Cagle in the GOP gubernatorial primaries.
“This isn’t Nazi Germany — we are not asking people to carry their papers around on them at all times,” said Clark, the vice chairman of the House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee.
The original Cagle-backed bill — Senate Bill 452 — says police shall notify local, state and federal officials when they arrest an illegal immigrant.
But Clark and his allies took out the word “shall” and inserted “may” at the behest of business lobbies. That change allows local business groups and ethnic lobbies to pressure police chiefs to minimize the reporting and deportation of the many illegal-immigrant workers in Georgia who hold down Americans’ wages.
Clark explained March 20:
In section one we did change a ‘shall’ back to a ‘may.’ There were some concerns within the business community with international companies. A CEO or somebody might be here with a foreign driver’s license and if they were pulled over for, for some reason, and if they didn’t have their visa on them. You know most people don’t carry that around on them on a permanent basis because they don’t want to lose it because it’s a pain to get another one. We want to allow for discretion, for the police officer to maintain some discretion there … This isn’t Nazi Germany – we’re not asking people to carry their papers around on them at all times… More here. [2]