"... where they told reporters that it was immigrants who built this country." Yes it was... LEGAL immigrants who obeyed the laws of the land.

this law really would effect the economy really bad.
when GA is a state that depends on agriculture.
hispanics are the ones that work in the fields &farms that they help run the plantations.
if the sb law in arizona affected then real bad on there economic on agriculture that had caused the grocerys price rise up.
this law shouldn't be signed it. they should really think about the affects its going to have on the state,jobs and economy.

they shouldnt sign it it would have a dramatic impact on GA economy they should really think it through before they sigh it. it would affect many many people not just hipanics but people of all kinds regardles of race

Governor Deal must sign HB 87 and sign it quickly. Georgia taxpayers are having to pay for health care, education, housing, food stamps, and other benifits that these illegal invaders are receiving for FREE! They are being paid "under the table" and paying no taxes. They are sucking our economy dry and demanding more! It is time for Georgia to be for Georgians!

oh yes, it would be a bad thing if unemployed Georgians found work!

Do you know that there is a thing called the H2A visa. It allows farmers to hire all the legal foreign labor they need! LEGAL foreign workers! Bartow county has one of the highest, if not the highest percentage of unemployment in the state. All the employers in Bartow county that hire these illegals are to blame. If they did not hire them Georgians young and old could find work.

Don't fall for the lie that our economy would suffer if the illegals are not working on our farmers. IT"S A LIE! Plain and simple!

It appears our students are being brainwashed by leftist propaganda. Will said "Seeing how much controversy was generated over law in Arizona has Georgia citizens concerned."

Will, polling data shows over 70% of Georgians FAVOR this immigration bill. Maybe you should rephrase your comment to "has a few Georgians concerned".

it could have a GREAT impact and a favorable impact on the state. Putting legal immigrants and Americans to work before you hire someone who is illegal is always good for any state.
Putting the illegal aliens on the run because of stepped up enforcement is always a good thing, too.
Less illegals committing crimes in the state means the crime rate falls. Less gang members in the state is always a good thing. Less illegals in jails will save the county and state money. Not to mention their kids will not be using our free education system. There will be a chance that some will move to not be arrested because they are associated with MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS which has Atlanta as a main distribution point for the east coast of the united states.

so, Less criminals equals less crime. Besides, there are enough Americans committing crimes, we sure as heck dont need people from another country here in Georgia or the US committing more crimes..

Less tax money being spent on illegals who should not be getting food stamps, welfare, WIC or other state or federal monies too. Look what happened in los angeles county. the county supervisor came out a couple of months ago and said they found 650 million dollars of taxpayer money went to people who were in the US Illegally.

A couple of years ago, I applied for a job that I qualified for since I had four years previous experience in the same field. I got an interview, but they didn't hire me. I found the position listed again at the Department of Labor just 5 or 6 weeks ago. I went to the back to get my referral, but was shocked to hear the guy say that I had to speak spanish. My blood was boiling to say the least. I couldn't qualify for a job that I had been interviewed for in the past because I don't speak spanish. i have been out of work for four years...well, two were going back to school. I say boycott away...how much do they cost us in resources? The Hope Scholarship is being widdled away. Everybody is digging deepaer, but nobody seems to be doing the math.

Illegal immigration is sucking us dry! Deport all illegal alien squatters! The United States is for citizens.
If we weren't so dumb and gulible we would insist that Title 8.0 USC, Federal Immigration law was truely enforced universally, not ignored. It was designed to protect citizens from screwed up mess we have with the illegal alien invasion we have now. Go ahead citizen, keep being stupid! You are destroying your future by refusing to deport these people and hold your elected people accountable for the illegal resident rape of our social system and services...

Immigration bills will effect every State that passes them. Ga is not alone in this. What tigher immigration laws will do is cost up front but save over time. Every state will have increased costs in the prosecution of illegals. That cost however is more than offset by the opening up of jobs for LEGAL AMERICANS. If illegals are no loner allowed to get free medical then Ga will save a huge amount on that. Stopping illegals from receiving social services and food stamps will be additional savings. If the Feds take steps to reverse the decision that mandates states educating illegal kids then by removing them from the schools will cut the education costs to every taxpayer by as much as 30%. Farmers are going to have to use Legal workers. Yes signing these bills is overall best for the state, and tougher laws also need to be pushed through so the illegals can be removed from every community withing the state.

If you want to see the 14.5 trillion dollar US deficit reduced, we must enforce our immigration laws. In 1986 Immigration Control and Reform Act was a zero-tolerance policy that was subverted by business interests. We cannot afford any more half measures, from the ongoing resistance of politicians like Senator Harry Reid (D-NV in the growing reaching empowerment of the TEA PARTY. Illegal Immigration is an incendiary issue, caused over decades of Washington lack of sympathy to US worker, with estimates of 20 million foreign nationals feeding of the welfare system they have—NOT--attributed too? The worst issue is the instant baby citizenship law, which has become a perpetual foothold for hundreds of thousands of illegal families annually and probably the most fiscally of expenditure for taxpayers. Our overcrowded through k-12 schools are suffering, with hospital emergency rooms not far behind.

For the price of an airline ticket or dodging the US border patrol they arrive here with many afflictions, knowing from distant dialogue, that American physicians must treat you under the law. Arizona Policing laws (SB1070) subject to rejection by the Supreme Court in the future have dealt a sharp blow to the radical Leftists, that evidence is proving the laws are having a positive effect. Huge numbers of illegal unwelcome persons are moving out to places unknown. Interesting enough that I read an article that even though radical activists are boycotting Arizona in hope of eroding their commerce, the reverse has happened. Average Americans have seen through Obama's Department of In-Justice and streamed into the State, guaranteeing high concentrations of tourists. The Dept of InJustice elevated by Obama's Liberal Progressive-Marxist Czars to attack Arizonans policing laws through the mostly Leftists courts, but an intense silence has reigned about Utah's unconstitutional push for a Guest worker program. Arizona has a high foreclosure rate, but it was caused by the real estate crash, not boycotts. In fact it seems Canadians escaping from the cold weather swept in, brought properties and even my Ex-wife portends to buy a home there.

So the State of Arizona has made a roundabout turn, and the State is thriving and the populations of economic illegal immigrants are leaving for new turf. With malleable States nearby like Sanctuary California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado this is their final destination. These have been economic aliens and they have already devastated some of the Border States, with public service opportunities. President Obama held a meeting with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Richard Trumka, leader of the AFL-CIO and a host of open border organizations and business lobbyists at the White House.

Little is known because the conference was closed to the press media, reassured it will lead to a dead end. Their evident reason to be there is to push for a mass amnesty, even at a time when 10 million Americans are still unemployed. Most people have no conception of these ramifications of a full volume amnesty, better dive into the web pages of NumbersUSA or Judicial Watch. You are assured this is only two of a nationwide grassroots revolution of pro-sovereignty entities, whose main issue is the illegal alien occupation. But even more so join a local TEA PARTY because under no circumstances will any kind of amnesty be passed. Only if President Obama successfully is reelected will this matter come up for a vote and the TEA PARTY will fight this pretense tooth and nail. You break the law; you must pay a penalty for it. Another amnesty no matter the fact will just attract more and more foreign nationals across our borders or to our shores.

The border is a volatile sticking point on illegal immigration, which other than around most cities and towns there is no real fencing. Its still is wide open to the drug cartels, the people smugglers and possible terrorist incursions according to Rancher Jim Chilton as stated this in his testimony. In a letter he drafted and claimed to the Department of Interior (DOI) and U.S. Department of Agriculture conference in Washington, that there was no border fence along 50 miles of his land. It should prove to all Americans, that there really is no serious attempt, to stop the inroad movement of foreign nationals no matter their intent? If there was illegal trespassing on sovereign land would be a felony, like Mexico and other countries. Janet Napolitano should take a trip to the ranchers land, and then declare the border was secure. What a sickening joke. One thing is for sure, the promise to the people from the TEA PARTY is that their Senators and Congressman enact bills, to build the Double Layer Fence and restrict any new laws on immigration. Illegal immigration has many financially unexposed branches, that many remain hidden from public view. Importation of less than perfect professional skills is another form of visa fraud as a demand for cheap labor. For years, a million or more semi-skilled labor has been arriving through stealth amnesties. Attn: Our election system has been compromised, as a 4 States have detected fraud from mostly non-citizens.

And Remember buy AMERICAN. Or soon your job may disappear? Elect Donald Trump! He is a billionaire and owes nobody in either party favors. He will stop the Chinese ripping us off. We owe them just this year 300 Billion dollars. He will negotiate the Free trade Agreements, as they unfair to American industry, draining billions of dollars in inferior goods. It will end Communist Buildup a military on our dollars. He will remove the tax incentives to move businesses into Mexico or overseas such as Maytag. We should give visas to the highest representatives of skilled workers, who will never use welfare, and put the enforcement brakes on impoverished illegal foreigners once and for all.