U.S. Immigration Enforcement and Customs (ICE) officers are continuing to conduct arrests across Georgia— and in just the first two weeks the result was the arrest of 325 immigrants with criminal records. But there’s more to come in Georgia, as told by President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan to this writer.
According to the Migration Policy Institute, there are at least 393,000 illegal immigrants living in the Peach State– and all too many of them are criminal gang members including murderers, rapists and drug traffickers.
The president last Wednesday signed the Laken-Riley Act into law—named after a 22-year-old Augusta University nursing student Laken Riley who was murdered and mutilated by an illegal alien gang member from Venezuela. Under this law, states can now enforce immigration laws in cooperation with the federal government. And the law also empowers federal law enforcement to arrest and detain any illegal immigrant arrested for a misdemeanor or violent crime.
Supporting Trump’s nationwide illegal immigration crackdown are many Republicans in the General Assembly who back legislation requiring state law enforcement to cooperate with ICE. In this context, state Sen. Blake Tillery, R-Vidalia, introduced Senate Bill 21. This legislation would remove sanctuary areas such as Athens-Clarke
County as protected locations for illegal immigrants and mandate that state law enforcement cooperate with the federal Department of Homeland Security.
“The citizens of our state are demanding that if you’re going to commit a crime while you’re here, we need you to go home,” Tillery said.
