A federal judge reined in his restriction of Georgia's immigration law,
finding that law enforcement can check the immigration status of
criminal suspects who cannot provide specified identity documents.
Immigrant advocacy groups sued Gov. Nathan Deal and other state officials in June 2011, challenging the constitutionality of House Bill 87, also known as Georgia's Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act of 2011.
The Northern District of Georgia dismissed most constitutional challenges to the law, but blocked two provisions of the act after concluding the plaintiffs were likely to prove that federal law pre-empted those sections.
In August 2012, a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit affirmed the block against section 7 of the law, which penalized the transportation and harbor of illegal immigrants and inducing an illegal alien to enter Georgia.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/07/29/59780.htm
Immigrant advocacy groups sued Gov. Nathan Deal and other state officials in June 2011, challenging the constitutionality of House Bill 87, also known as Georgia's Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act of 2011.
The Northern District of Georgia dismissed most constitutional challenges to the law, but blocked two provisions of the act after concluding the plaintiffs were likely to prove that federal law pre-empted those sections.
In August 2012, a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit affirmed the block against section 7 of the law, which penalized the transportation and harbor of illegal immigrants and inducing an illegal alien to enter Georgia.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/07/29/59780.htm
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