{"id":13843,"date":"2019-05-06T11:20:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T16:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=13843"},"modified":"2019-05-06T11:35:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T16:35:24","slug":"mcclatchey-news-service-galeos-anti-enforcement-judge-dax-lopez-asked-georgia-governor-to-veto-illegal-immigration-public-safety-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/06\/mcclatchey-news-service-galeos-anti-enforcement-judge-dax-lopez-asked-georgia-governor-to-veto-illegal-immigration-public-safety-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"McClatchey News Service: #GALEO’s anti-enforcement judge, Dax Lopez, asked Georgia governor to veto illegal immigration legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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State Court Judge and GALEO board member (circa 2011) Dax Lopez. Image: Twitter<\/p><\/div>\n

From the Charlotte Observer, Feb 2016.<\/p>\n

“Two years earlier, while Lopez was in private practice and a treasurer with the Latino association, he wrote then-Gov. Sonny Perdue, requesting a gubernatorial veto of two pieces of legislation, House Bill 978 and Senate Bill 350. Both measures were believed to disproportionately affect Georgia\u2019s growing immigrant community.<\/p>\n

Gov. Perdue did veto HB 978, which authorized the impounding of vehicles from operators who had no valid driver\u2019s licenses. But he signed Senate Bill 350 into law, making a fourth conviction for driving without a license a felony.<\/p>\n

The measure also requires police to determine the nationality of anyone jailed after being convicted for driving without a license. The Latino officials association opposed the measure, saying it would create tension between immigrants and law enforcement while making crime victims and witnesses less likely to contact police.”<\/p>\n

Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  From the Charlotte Observer, Feb 2016. “Two years earlier, while Lopez was in private practice and a treasurer with the Latino association, he wrote then-Gov. Sonny Perdue, requesting a gubernatorial veto of two pieces of legislation, House Bill 978 and Senate Bill 350. Both measures were believed to disproportionately affect Georgia\u2019s growing immigrant community. […]<\/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\/13843"}],"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=13843"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13852,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13843\/revisions\/13852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}