Despite threats of court challenges and economic boycotts, Georgia governor Nathan Deal has signed into law one of the nation’s most toughest and controversial immigration enforcement measures. Georgia’s House Bill 87 is partly modeled on a controversial immigration law passed by Arizona last year. The AJC reports that House Bill 87 empowers police to investigate […]
President Barack Obama plans to meet Thursday with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer — their first face-to-face since the governor signed the state’s controversial immigration reform law. The president has called the Arizona law misguided.
Hours after being released from jail, a Kennesaw State University student who has become the focus of an immigration debate told supporters and reporters “I never thought I was going to be caught up in this messed-up system.” Jessica Colotl said that she is evaluating whether to return to school and hoping that proposed national immigration reforms will help her stay in the country.
Cobb County authorities are looking to re-arrest Jessica Colotl, the Kennesaw State University senior and illegal immigrant at the center of a growing controversy. Colotl – who was caught driving without a license, sent to an immigration detention center and released last week – was 10 years old when her parents brought her to the U.S. from Mexico.
