YES TO HB 59! GET ILLEGAL ALIENS OUT OF GEORGIA’S UNIVERSITY SYSTEM! THEY ARE ILLEGAL, DEPORTABLE AND CANNOT WORK LEGALLY UPON GRADUATION! YES TO HB 59! Action needed!
ACTION NEEDED!
This is a 2 minute action for HB 59
This is urgent and in addition to the calls and emails we need for HB 87!
ACTION NEEDED!
We may have a new problem: HB 59, a simple bill that makes it clear that the 2006 Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act – and federal law – intended to keep illegal aliens out of Georgia’s public funded university system has stalled in the House. The bill went through its House committee nearly a month ago. It should have come out of House Rules committee already. It hasn’t. The Speaker controls what does come out. We think it is a matter of timing, but cannot take a chance.
NOTE: All bills MUST be passed in either the House or the Senate before day 30 of the session to stay alive. Day 30 will likely be March 16. HB 59 must pass the House by next week. The white wine, “we are better than you mere citizens” set at the Board of Regents – including the Chancellor is working hard to kill HB 59. So is the illegal alien lobby.
HB 59 must be allowed to come out of the Rules Committee and go to the floor for a vote. A huge majority of Georgians make it clear (poll HERE) that we don’t want to educate illegal aliens in our limited university seats.HB 59:
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 36 of Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to verification of lawful presence within the United States, so as to clarify that postsecondary education is a state and local public benefit; to reserve postsecondary education benefits to citizens and lawfully present and eligible aliens; to require verification of the eligibility for such applicants for such benefits through the federal SAVE program; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
Please call and email the Speakers Capitol office starting today today today (Speaker David Ralston), 404.656.5020 – his assistant’s email address ( Diane Hardin) is HERE
Your message: “Please let HB 59 out of Rules now! I am one of the majority of Georgians who demand that we treat illegals like illegals! Please make it clear to the Speaker that Georgians all over the state are watching. Illegal aliens who are deportable at any time and are not eligible to work in the United States have no place taking university classroom seats from hopeful and trusting real immigrants and American citizen students. We must do everything possible to make Georgia unattractive to illegals!” Be polite and respectful!
c) āState or local public benefitā defined
(1) Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), for purposes of this subchapter the term āState or local public benefitā meansā
(A) any grant, contract, loan, professional license, or commercial license provided by an agency of a State or local government or by appropriated funds of a State or local government; and
(B) any retirement, welfare, health, disability, public or assisted housing, postsecondary education, food assistance, unemployment benefit, or any other similar benefit for which payments or assistance are provided to an individual, household, or family eligibility unit by an agency of a State or local government or by appropriated funds of a State or local government.