{"id":988,"date":"2007-08-28T12:51:45","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T16:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=988"},"modified":"2008-08-02T13:33:53","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T17:33:53","slug":"georgia-employers-lobby-for-relaxed-immigration-rules-and-increased-profitslaws-are-for-suckers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/28\/georgia-employers-lobby-for-relaxed-immigration-rules-and-increased-profitslaws-are-for-suckers\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia employers lobby for relaxed immigration rules and increased profits&#8230;laws are for suckers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also see: WE NEED TAXPAYER SUBSIDIZED LABOR! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coxwashington.com\/hp\/content\/reporters\/stories\/2007\/05\/30\/BC_GA_IMMIG_STATES27.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Georgia employers lobby for relaxed immigration rules and increased profits&#8230;laws are for suckers!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Found in GALEO from SavannahNow.com THANKS JERRY!<br \/>\nWritten by Walter Jones<br \/>\nPosted on 2007-08-18<\/p>\n<p>Walter Jones<br \/>\nAugust 18, 2007 <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ATLANTA &#8211; A coalition of Georgia businesses hasn&#8217;t let up its campaign for immigration legislation despite seeing the issue bog down in Congress and criticism hurled its way. <\/p>\n<p>The coalition of 21 individual businesses and trade associations, called Georgia Employers for Immigration Reform, argues that the state&#8217;s economy depends on immigrant workers and that the jobs of native Georgians could be lost if federal law stops the flow of illegal immigrants. The group suffered a defeat June 29 when the Senate failed to stop a filibuster resulting in no vote on a bipartisan reform bill the group supported. <\/p>\n<p>And a video has been posted on the<br \/>\nYouTube Internet site by someone calling for a boycott against Pilgrim&#8217;s Pride Corp. , the state&#8217;s largest chicken company and a leader in the coalition. <\/p>\n<p>Still, coalition members are looking forward to another debate on the floor of the Senate. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had a couple of skull sessions, and we continue to follow what the Congress is doing,&#8221; said spokesman Jay Morgan . &#8220;We know that there are a lot of people who are having, shall we say, voter&#8217;s remorse. They really didn&#8217;t want the issue to die without a resolution.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>During Congress&#8217; August recess, coalition members have met with some representatives and senators. At the same time, they&#8217;ve urged their employees to buttonhole the members of Congress with the same message. <\/p>\n<p>To get the public on board, or at least dampen some criticism in this staunchly conservative state, the coalition has also run an ad in a<br \/>\nMacon newspaper and on some radio stations. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galeo.org\/story.php?story_id=0000003477\">More&#8230;<\/a>and remember, they will never give up on amnesty. Ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also see: WE NEED TAXPAYER SUBSIDIZED LABOR! here. Georgia employers lobby for relaxed immigration rules and increased profits&#8230;laws are for suckers! Found in GALEO from SavannahNow.com THANKS JERRY! Written by Walter Jones Posted on 2007-08-18 Walter Jones August 18, 2007 ATLANTA &#8211; A coalition of Georgia businesses hasn&#8217;t let up its campaign for immigration legislation [&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\/988"}],"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=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}