{"id":2423,"date":"2009-08-24T11:12:38","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T15:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=2423"},"modified":"2009-08-24T11:13:58","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T15:13:58","slug":"repost-from-august-2008-enforcement-works-illegal-aliens-leaving-open-borders-lobby-wailing-enforcement-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/24\/repost-from-august-2008-enforcement-works-illegal-aliens-leaving-open-borders-lobby-wailing-enforcement-works\/","title":{"rendered":"REPOST from August 2008 &#8211; Enforcement works: illegal aliens leaving &#8211; open borders lobby wailing ENFORCEMENT WORKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Enforcement works: illegal aliens leaving &#8211; open borders lobby wailing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Originally posted August 2008 and January 2009<br \/>\n<em>Chattanooga Times Free Press <\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cJerry Gonzalez, executive director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, said the general effects of Georgia\u2019s tougher immigration laws have been creating a lot of confusion and fear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe word-of-mouth is spreading that Georgia is an unwelcoming place, and that\u2019s not necessarily something we want to portray our state as,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>But state Sen. John Douglas, R-Social Circle, said the new laws he helped sponsor are having their desired effect.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration in reverse <\/p>\n<p>Jos\u00e9 G\u00f3mez is seeing fewer people in his gym in Dalton, Ga. Not because folks aren\u2019t as interested in staying healthy, he says, but because they\u2019re interested in staying out of jail. \u2014 New immigration laws in Georgia \u2014 among the toughest in the nation \u2014 are scaring families with illegal [aliens] out of the state, he says. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=2080\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enforcement works: illegal aliens leaving &#8211; open borders lobby wailing Originally posted August 2008 and January 2009 Chattanooga Times Free Press \u201cJerry Gonzalez, executive director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, said the general effects of Georgia\u2019s tougher immigration laws have been creating a lot of confusion and fear.\u201d \u201cThe word-of-mouth is spreading [&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\/2423"}],"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=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}