TRANSLATION From the foreign language newspaper Mundo Hispanico on trying to convince the illegals to not migrate out of Georgia because of HB 87 HERE

Several activists communitarian proimmigrants and organizations insisted to the Latin undocumented people to maintain the calm and not to make decisions hurried after the promulgation from the law antiimmigrant HB87. These are some of their recommendations:

“We needed to maintain the calm and to make rational decisions, not based on the fear or the emotion. The HB87 will not be implemented until the 1 of July and we waited for demands similar to which happened in Arizona and Utah”. Jerry González, Executive Director of the Association of Elect Latin Civil servants of Georgia (GALEO) ——————–

“La Latin American Asociación (LAA) is very disappointed of which the governor signed the HB87, turning it into law. We are worried that it will cause economic difficulties for the state and many of our families. What we mean to him to our families is that, the first thing who we must remember, this law will not be effective until the 1 of July and that will be several demands that they will prohibit that this law becomes effective”. Jeffrey Mud wall, director of Operations of 
 Latin American Asociación (LAA) ——————–

“First, (the HB87) it is not law until the 1 of July and people must have a little faith, only right now we began the fight. They relax, follow with its life. They do not have to make drastic decisions without analyzing its situation. They speak with its lawyer if it is necessary”. Charles Kuck, lawyer ——————–

“We do not want that people flee from the state. Those that wants this law want that the community immigrant goes away. We think that we have the right to remain and that the immigrants are welcomes to Georgia. We animated to him to be united to the fight to form popular committees, committees of defense of the community and to work in each neighbourhood to protect its right to live here”. Lisa Adler, Amnesty International ——————–

“People need to know at this moment what is this law and to arm themselves with that knowledge and to share that information in her community, with its family and in her churches. (Thus) people will begin to understand what she is happening”. Helen Kim Ho, director of Asian American Legal Advocacy Center (AALAC) ——————–

“GLAHR asks to him to the community that does not let itself take by the panic against this law. This law can be fought and is necessary to fight it in all the fronts. And this law yes can be defeated and yes it is going away to defeat. State and local laws on migratory subjects normally have been countermanded by the courts because it does not correspond to him to the states, counties or cities to legislate on migratory subjects. That corresponds to him to the federal Government”. Adelina Nicholls, director of the Latin Alliance Pro Human rights of Georgia (GLAHR) ——————–

“We In this state Must right to have left where we have lived, worked and studied, some of us almost all the life. We will not obey a law that is unjust, that it only looks for to remove to our families and to criminalize our community. We will resist until justice prevails and HB87 and all the laws antiimmigrants are revoked”. Georgina Perez, student activist of the Alliance of Undocumented Young people of Atlanta HERE