Republican House Chairman in Georgia, Carl Rogers, blocks vote on bill to protect college seats for legal residents

Conservative voters in the Gainesville area should pay close attention to Georgia’s pending House Bill 59 – a bill the illegal alien lobby is desperate to kill.

It is important 2011 produced legislation with wide General Assembly Republican backing that essentially says the legislative intent of the landmark 2006 Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act (SB 529) regarding public benefits to illegal aliens actually be obeyed. And enforced.

A bill that says we must obey the law. Again.

Voters should also lean in to learn about the N. Georgia Republican legislator who is blocking the path of the bill getting to the House floor where it has the GOP votes to easily pass.

The germane section of the 2006 state law says that the classroom seats in the entire public-funded post secondary education system in Georgia should only go to eligible admission applicants. Under federal law – which is part of the state law – “post secondary education” is a state and local public benefit for which illegal aliens are ineligible. Along with welfare, food assistance, assisted housing and unemployment benefits.

None of this is stopping the Board of Regents from continuing to admit illegals who are ineligible to work anywhere in the USA to all but five schools in the University System of Georgia – while real immigrants and American citizens, including active duty military personnel and veterans are denied classroom space due to finite capacity in the remaining public-funded institutions.

HB 59 would erase any wiggle room the USG bosses pretend exists to continue to defy the 2006 law and contains language that apparently is far too clear for the Chairman of the House Higher Education Committee who has “suspended” the bill for “two or three weeks”

The bill went through the same committee last year and passed by a wide margin. Because it was held back to focus on the now famously effective HB 87, it must again receive a majority committee “YEA” vote to move forward.

On January 31 and while conservative voters were at work or looking for a job, upon being confronted by a room full of hard-left and vocal opponents who were organized by the ACLU, Amnesty International and various anti-enforcement ethnic groups, the House Higher Education committee Chairman, former Democrat Carl Rogers, refused to allow a vote. This despite an obvious presence of enough Republican votes to pass.

Rogers actually polled the anti-enforcement audience for a show of hands on opposition to or support for the legislation. Ice cream was not served. There were no arrests, despite the self-described illegal aliens having affixed a red “U” – for undocumented – to their chests.

Any bill that does not clear one chamber or another by the end of day legislative-day thirty goes to the legislative graveyard, which apparently is the intent of the curiously reluctant committee boss. As I write, it is day fifteeen of the forty-day session.

In remarks to the press, Rogers claimed the year-old, extremely simple bill was “not ready” and said he “plans to meet with college leaders and others to look at adding flexibility to the bill.”

Flexible? Maybe we admit illegals and cheat legal residents out of an education opportunity every other week, every odd year… every new moon, what? How “flexible” does Rogers have in mind?

Did I mention HB 59 has already cleared the same committee once under a different Chairman?

“Sometimes government is the problem” was a quote from one committee attendee opposed to enforcement.

Indeed.

Readers would do hopeful young citizens and real immigrant students a huge favor if they take five minutes to call Republican Representative Carl Rogers insisting that members of his committee be allowed to vote on HB 59 and end the ongoing defacto amnesty for illegals in our university system.