Georgia lawmakers pass immigration control bill | Reuters: "The Georgia House of Representatives passed an Arizona-style bill to limit immigration on Tuesday, one day after the state Senate approved a similar proposal.
The legislation would give police the authority to question suspects about their immigration status.
But state senators stripped out a requirement for many private employers to check the immigration status of newly-hired employees on a federal database called E-Verify. The Georgia House voted to restore the E-Verify requirement.
The bill will now go back to the Senate and likely end up in a joint House-Senate conference committee,"
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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