{"id":13661,"date":"2019-03-06T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=13661"},"modified":"2019-03-19T21:27:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T02:27:04","slug":"guest-column-in-todays-camilla-ga-enterprise-newspaper-republican-rep-jay-powell-joins-democrats-in-holding-back-bill-on-cost-of-incarceration-of-illegal-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/06\/guest-column-in-todays-camilla-ga-enterprise-newspaper-republican-rep-jay-powell-joins-democrats-in-holding-back-bill-on-cost-of-incarceration-of-illegal-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest column in today’s Camilla (GA) Mitchell County Enterprise-Journal newspaper: Republican Rep Jay Powell joins Democrats in holding back bill on cost of incarceration of illegal immigrants HB 202"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image: Dustin Inman Society<\/p><\/div>\n

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Camilla Enterprise<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Opinion<\/p>\n

March 6, 2019<\/p>\n

Inside the State Capitol: Immigration<\/strong><\/p>\n

HB 202 imperiled in Atlanta<\/strong><\/p>\n

Republican Rep Jay Powell joins Democrats in holding back bill on cost of incarceration of illegal immigrants<\/h3>\n

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D.A. King<\/p>\n

HB 202<\/a> from Rep Jesse Petrea (R- Savannah) is a simple and long-overdue one-page state bill that would require the Georgia Department of Corrections to publish a public, quarterly report on the number of non-citizens in the state prison system, the number of that group who already are suspected to be here illegally, the home nations and crimes committed along with the percentage of the entire prison population these aliens represent.<\/p>\n

For many Capitol observers it has long been understood that Georgia Democrats hope taxpayers don\u2019t ever see any official hard data on any part of the cost of illegal immigration. Now, with crossover day looming, the House Rules Committee – with Camilla\u2019s Republican Rep Jay Powell as chairman – seems poised to prove that it\u2019s not only the Democrats who take that view.<\/p>\n

Crossover Day is the last day by which legislation must be passed by either the House or the Senate to have a chance to become law in the state legislature. This year, Crossover Day is tomorrow, Thursday, March 7.<\/p>\n

Powell\u2019s House Rules Committee serves as the filter on what legislation that has already been vetted and passed by the public committee system goes to the full House for a vote on final passage. As chairman, Rep Powell has landed one of the most powerful positions under the state Capitol\u2019s famous Gold Dome.<\/p>\n

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Rules Chairman Jay Powell (R- Camilla)
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Rep Jay Powell \u2013 photo: Georgia House<\/p>\n

Including many members of the Republican House, conservatives were shocked last week when Powell joined the Democrats on the Rules Committee and expressed his objection to HB 202. Rep Powell has final say on what bills are passed out of the committee to see a vote in the House. As can be seen on House video<\/a> archives, he sarcastically asked the bill\u2019s sponsor why the bill to shed public light on the number of non-citizens in the prison system and their immigration status was even needed.<\/p>\n

The most commonly offered response from conservative voters to Powell\u2019s remarkable question is that \u201cit is our tax dollars being used to pay for the incarceration of the foreigners, we have a right to know and because it is our state, that\u2019s why.\u201d<\/p>\n

It should be noted for readers here that the U. S. Department of Homeland Security reports that Georgia is home to more illegal aliens than is Arizona. The Georgia Budget and Policy Institute notes that our state has more illegals than \u201cgreen card\u201d holders.<\/p>\n

The bill \u2013 and Powell\u2019s refusal to allow the House to vote on it – has drawn national news coverage. Among other outlets, Breitbart News has run a March 1 story entitled \u201cGeorgia Establishment Legislators Try to Hide Migrant Crime from Voters.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Right now Georgians who want official information on the cost of locking up criminal aliens are calling Rep Powell\u2019s office in Atlanta at 404-656-5141 and emailing (jay.powell@house.ga.gov) to urge him to allow a vote on HB 202. And a lot of far-left Democrat voters are calling his office to tell him to hold back the bill.<\/p>\n

Readers here can show which outcome they favor by calling or emailing Rep Jay Powell with either message. There is still time to change Rep Powell\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n

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A former Gold Dome lobbyist, King is proprietor of the \u2018Immigration Politics Georgia<\/a>\u2019 website and a nationally recognized authority on immigration. He is not a member of any political party.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Camilla Enterprise Opinion March 6, 2019 Inside the State Capitol: Immigration HB 202 imperiled in Atlanta Republican Rep Jay Powell joins Democrats in holding back bill on cost of incarceration of illegal immigrants   D.A. King HB 202 from Rep Jesse Petrea (R- Savannah) is a simple and long-overdue one-page state bill that would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13661"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13752,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13661\/revisions\/13752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}