“We’re talking about people who illegally came here, and then after illegally coming here, committed a violent or a sexual crime on our people,” he said. Opponents “want to deny that or they want to pretend it isn’t so — knowing it is — and I think that’s inappropriate,” (Petrea) said.”
“I’ve got to get on and off the House floor and I’ve got to do it by Monday, and I think I can,” Petrea said. “My chances [for passage] in the Senate would be very good,” he said.
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Republican legislators in Georgia may get a chance to vote for some control over — and transparency into — the chaotic flood of President Joe Biden’s illegal migrants into their state.
“Clearly, there is no control of the issue,” said Republican Rep. Jesse Petrea (R-Savannnah), whose draft bill (HB 136) can be voted through the House if it first gets through the House’s rule committee by Monday.
People hold up signs as they protest the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) and the recent detentions of illegal immigrants in Washington, DC on July 16, 2018. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
“I’ve got to get on and off the House floor and I’ve got to do it by Monday, and I think I can,” Petrea said. “My chances [for passage] in the Senate would be very good,” he said.
However, a similar bill “was stopped in the Republican rules committee of the House in 2019,” said D.A. King, the founder of the New Dustin Inman Society, which seeks to track and reduce the smuggling of illegal migrants into Georgia.
The resistance from the [GOP] establishment comes from the fact that this bill will create hard, accurate, and official numbers on at least one monetary cost of illegal immigration in Georgia — that being the cost of prison and incarceration.
We have learned in committee that there are about 1,500 criminal aliens in the prison system with ICE detainers [confirmatiom of illegal status by the federal agency]. But we know there are more criminal aliens because, obviously, all criminal aliens in the system do not have ICE detainers. I personally think it could be as high as another third.
We also learned that the cost of prison confinement is $73 per day. If you do the math on the $73 per day times the 1,500 ICE detainers, you come up with about $40 million a year that taxpayers are paying for the incarceration of these undocumented [and undeported] workers. That number will obviously go up.”
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