Support behind the passage of hate-crime legislation when the state legislature returns next week continues to build, as business executives from more than 70 local companies including Home Depot, Delta, Georgia Power, and Coca-Cola signed a letter urging lawmakers to pass a “comprehensive, specific and clear” bill. Most lawmakers have likewise voiced support for the idea, but last year a version got tied up in the Senate, and it faces another tricky path this time around. But with such big names lining up behind it following the recent racial-injustice protests across Georgia (and the country), the odds of hate-crime legislation passing when the legislature returns seem to be RISING…
ICE operation catches criminals
During the Biden administration illegal immigrants overwhelmed systems ranging from healthcare to schools. Illegal alien street gangs flourished. Now, though, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the results of an enhanced immigration enforcement operation throughout Georgia. “Operation Safe Community” yielded 1,226 immigration arrests in recent weeks. Of those individuals who snuck across our borders, 720 had been convicted or charged with crimes in the U.S. According to ICE, the criminal histories of the arrested aliens include sex crimes, crimes against children, aggravated assault, assault and battery, drug crimes, lewd and lascivious acts, weapons crimes and burglary. Incarceration and deportation of Georgia’s illegal immigrants are RISING…
