{"id":2169,"date":"2009-03-30T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T19:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2010-03-20T06:56:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T11:56:58","slug":"georgia-municipal-association-fights-legialation-to-control-illegal-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/30\/georgia-municipal-association-fights-legialation-to-control-illegal-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"GMA   The Georgia Municipal Association fights legislation aimed at enforcement of U.S. immigration laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Municipal Association (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmanet.com\/\">GMA<\/a>) still opposed to HB 2 and SB 20 <\/p>\n<p>I just came from the Georgia Capitol<\/p>\n<p><strong>CALLS NEEDED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Note: Georgia Municipal Association (GMA) not only is actively lobbying against the passage of HB 2 in the Capitol as you read this, but that very powerful non-profit organization has also joined forces with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galeo.org:80\/agenda.php?agenda_id=0000000584\">ACLU <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galeo.org\/agenda.php?agenda_id=0000000576\">MALDEF <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galeo.org\/pdfs\/GALEO_MemSP.pdf\">GALEO<\/a> to oppose SB 20.  Authored by Senator Chip Pearson, SB 20 would make it illegal under state law for a Georgia city or any local government to violate existing federal law in adapting a sanctuary policy for illegal aliens. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmanet.com:80\/Alert.aspx?CNID=37258\">SEE HERE <\/a>&#8211; <\/p>\n<p>Give them a call if you want and ask why they are fighting so hard to stop enforcement of our immigration laws. GMA legislative policy is run by a man named Lamar Norton.<\/p>\n<p>Sanctuary policies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diggersrealm.com\/mt\/archives\/003069.html\">cost lives.<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>From GMA Website:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Immigration Verification Statutes: Grantees to Submit Written Compliance<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.ga.gov\/legis\/2009_10\/sum\/hb2.htm\">House Bill 2<\/a>, Rep. Tom Rice (R-Norcross)<br \/>\nGMA Position: Oppose<br \/>\nContact: Ted Baggett, tbaggett@gmanet.com, (678) 686-6210<br \/>\nStatus: Pending in the Senate Rules Committee.<\/p>\n<p>HB 2 would require that recipients of LARP funds specify to DOT in writing their compliance with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/info\/ga_sect_9_sb529.html\">e-Verify and SAVE programs provisions<\/a>. These programs require verification of legal status of employees and public benefit recipients respectively. <\/p>\n<p>Immigration Verification Mandates: Loss of Funding<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.ga.gov\/legis\/2009_10\/sum\/sb20.htm\">Senate Bill 20<\/a>, Sen. Chip Pearson (R-Dawsonville)<br \/>\nGMA Position: Oppose<br \/>\nContact: Lamar Norton, lnorton@gmanet.com, (678) 686-6273<br \/>\nStatus: Pending in the House Rules Committee.<\/p>\n<p>SB 20 would allow the withholding of all state and state administered federal funds from cities if cities adopt policies that &#8220;prohibit or restrict local officials from communicating or cooperating with federal officials or law enforcement officers&#8221; in regards to immigration issues. No cities in Georgia are currently enacting sanctuary policies.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>ADD GMA to the long list of members of the illegal alien\/open borders lobby<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Municipal Association (GMA) still opposed to HB 2 and SB 20 I just came from the Georgia Capitol CALLS NEEDED Note: Georgia Municipal Association (GMA) not only is actively lobbying against the passage of HB 2 in the Capitol as you read this, but that very powerful non-profit organization has also joined forces with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169"}],"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=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}