{"id":8647,"date":"2017-03-26T13:28:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T18:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=8647"},"modified":"2017-03-26T14:03:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T19:03:56","slug":"hb-452-support-and-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/26\/hb-452-support-and-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminal aliens &#8211; HB 452 opposition in the Gold Dome hearings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2011-06-04t064017z_01_luc19_rtridsp_0_usa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8486\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2011-06-04t064017z_01_luc19_rtridsp_0_usa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2011-06-04t064017z_01_luc19_rtridsp_0_usa.jpg 665w, https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2011-06-04t064017z_01_luc19_rtridsp_0_usa-300x153.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo: CAPS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>National Review featured HB 452 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/445735\/georgia-bill-criminal-aliens\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Below are some of the opponents and what they told Georgia legislators about the bill.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discoverthenetworks.org\/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=6507\">American Immigration Lawyers Association<\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0 Says: The federal government continues to monitor these aliens after release and that they are not returned to their home countries because they may be exposed to torture; worried that the bill could expose aliens who are working as informants; did not like the term \u201cviolent criminal alien\u201d because they have already been punished.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-enforcement<a href=\"http:\/\/galeo.org\/old\/pdfs\/GALEO_MemSP.pdf\"> GALEO <\/a>intern witness<a href=\"http:\/\/Gisella Arriola ga immigration\"> Gisella Arriola<\/a> told the committee that said immigrants do not feel safe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guidestar.org\/FinDocuments\/2015\/581\/237\/2015-581237316-0c5f3f8f-9.pdf\"><strong>Latin American Association<\/strong><\/a> lobbyist David Schaefer: \u00a0the bill may not be understood by immigrant communities and could depress the reporting of crimes in immigrant communities. Sharing information on criminal aliens &#8211; including murderers could make Georgia<em> less<\/em> safe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/advancingjustice-atlanta.org\/page\/14\"><strong>Asian Americans Advancing Justice<\/strong><\/a> said this would lead to aliens and their families being targeted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/index.php?s=beginners+guide+\"><strong>Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO)<\/strong><\/a> lobbyist was concerned that kidnapping was a violent offense that could cause information to be shared. Dis not appreciate that concerned that the legal term \u201calien\u201d includes legal aliens.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Somali American Community Center<\/strong> said the law would be misused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: CAPS &nbsp; National Review featured HB 452 HERE. Below are some of the opponents and what they told Georgia legislators about the bill. &nbsp; American Immigration Lawyers Association:\u00a0 Says: The federal government continues to monitor these aliens after release and that they are not returned to their home countries because they may be exposed [&hellip;]<\/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\/8647"}],"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=8647"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8670,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8647\/revisions\/8670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}