{"id":2120,"date":"2011-04-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/georgia-first-to-copy-arizona-anti-immigrant-bill.html"},"modified":"2011-04-26T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T12:00:00","slug":"georgia-first-to-copy-arizona-anti-immigrant-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/georgia-first-to-copy-arizona-anti-immigrant-bill.html","title":{"rendered":"Georgia first to copy Arizona anti-immigrant bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/a>\nGeorgia passes anti-immigrant law that benefits private prison companies.\n

\nSeth Freed Wessler wrote 15 April 2011,\n\nWelcome to the Wild, Wild South: Georgia Passes SB 1070 Copycat Bill<\/a>\n

\nMany worry about the financial costs of the bill. Though these are\nsurely not the greatest concerns for immigrant communities who would\nbe most impacted if Georgia\u2019s bill is enacted, many business groups\nare anxious. A national boycott of Arizona cost the state an estimated\n$250 million in lost taxes, tourism and other revenue, according to the\nCenter for American Progress.\n

\nEven before the Georgia bill passed, a group of organizations across\nthe country threatened to wage a boycott of the state of Georgia if it\nenacts the legislation.\n<\/blockquote>\nMost states that have had this bill introduced have had the good sense\nto get rid of it.\n\n\n

\nThis failure is despite a well-organized and well-funded strategy to move\nmore such bills across the country. Those efforts,\n\nas NPR reported<\/a> last\nyear, have involved a national network of state legislators and private\nenterprise, including private prison and immigrant detention companies\nwith clear interests in increasing the number of immigrant detainees.\n<\/blockquote>\nWhat private prison companies?\nThe one most active in Georgia is CCA.\nCCA, which has a\n\n“contract to manage detainee populations for U.S. Immigration and Customs\nEnforcement (\u201cICE\u201d) at the North Georgia Detention Center in Hall\nCounty, Georgia”.<\/a>\nCCA, which would thus be a direct beneficiary of this new anti-immigrant bill.\n

\nA bill that is not yet law, because the governor hasn’t signed it.\nHall County is where Governor Deal just signed into law another bill\nthat\n“would create a panel to study Georgia’s criminal justice system with an eye toward overhauling the state’s tough sentencing laws.”<\/a>\nHe can get a head start on that by vetoing this new sentencing law.\n

\nCCA is the company that wants to build a private prison in Lowndes County.\nHow can the afford the tax dollars?\nHow can Lowndes County afford the social costs?\n

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