Read about the National Lawyers Guild HERE. 

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College dreamers in Trump’s America

STORY: Sasha Aslanian | Catherine Winter

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August, 2017

Georgia and D.A. King featured about 43:00 – that 4-minute part of the audio linked below. You can listen to the entire 54-minute production HERE. We are grateful to have been included. You can see the letter mentioned in the audio that I delivered to Governor Deal HERE.

I received this via email today from a third party. The document in question does not show Connell’s personal address – it shows the address of the Cobb County Chamber of Commerce where he is president and CEO:

UPDATED 21 August 4:53 PM – redacted address of Cobb Chamber of Commerce where Connell is president and CEO.

Atlanta traffic – photo AJC

From today’s Marietta Daily Journal on Sen. Johnny Isakson and the RAISE Act:

“When asked about an immigration bill co-sponsored by his junior colleague, Sen. David Perdue, R-Georgia, to place new limits on legal immigration by favoring those with technical or English skills rather than those with family connections, Isakson said he supported legal immigration, adding that his forefathers came to this country without speaking any English.

“We are very fortunate that America opens its shores to the tired, the poor, yearning to be free,” he said.

Isakson said he wants the country to enforce its immigration laws and ensure that people coming in are doing so legally. He also said .”

Bonus Fast Facts on U.S. immigration levels and the Atlanta region’s population growth (80K) in the last year HERE.

photo: AJC

More immigrants live in the US (46m) than any other country. Germany, Russia, Saudi Arabia only others w/ 10m+

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Bonus fact:  – Atlanta region added 80,000 people in the last year HERE.

Getty images:

Photo by: Gosia Wozniacka

Farms adjusting to life without immigrant labor: Report
Stephen Dinan
The Washington Times – Thursday, August 10, 2017

“Farmers addicted to cheap illegal immigrant labor are facing disruptions, but not devastation, as they adjust to world with fewer unauthorized workers, according to a new report Thursday.

The Migration Policy Institute found that farms are plugging gaps by using machines, enticing workers to stay by offering health care — and are even tapping legal guest workers to fill empty jobs.

Its analysis said warnings from immigrant-rights advocates of food shortages have not generally come to pass. The agriculture industry, it says, has seen an upheaval as farmers shift strategies to try to deal with the evolving labor force.

Mechanization — either as a replacement or as assistance to current workers — is growing, as is better treatment of migrants in the hopes that they’ll stick around. Indeed, the days of field workers ranging from farm to farm with each seasonal crop are over, and farms are making a push to keep their workforce stable and in place through better conditions and bonuses.

“In response to the dwindling arrival of newcomers from Mexico, farm employers are increasingly pursuing four strategies to meet their labor needs: satisfy, stretch, substitute and supplement,” Philip Martin, an agriculture professor at the University of California, Davis, said in the report…” MORE HERE

Obama eased rules to welcome 1 million illegal youths, status now in doubt.
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