Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Day 32: Lobbing Opposing Anti-Immigrant Bill HB125. CALL/EMAIL/LOBBY/SIGN PETITION to the Georgia Senate


Day 32: Lobbing Opposing Anti-Immigrant Bill HB125. CALL/EMAIL/LOBBY/SIGN PETITION to the Georgia Senate

Tuesday 03/12/2013. Thirty-Second Day at the Georgia Legislative Session. As we mentioned yesterday, today was the ACLU lobby day against anti-immigrant bill HB125. We had a good turn out, and participants did a great job explaining the problems of the anti-immigrant HB125, bill that hurts immigrant families (DACA recipients) and foreign visitors (passports). Thank you very much!

Nonetheless, this battle is by no means over. There are 8 more legislative days in this 2013 Georgia Legislative Session (about 3 more weeks including the current one). WE NEED TO KEEP WORKING. These are some actions we need to keep doing against the bill:  

1.   CALL/EMAIL/LOBBY the Lt. Governor and Senators, especiallymembers of the Judiciary Non-Civil Committee of the Georgia Senate. Urge them to OPPOSE ANTI-IMMIGRANT HB125.
   
   Lt. Governor Casey Cagle (404) 656-5030
   Sen. Butch Miller, Majority Caucus Chair (404) 656-6578
   Sen. Jeff Mullis, Rules Committee Chairman (404) 656-0057
   Sen. Jesse Stone, Chairman Senate Judiciary Non-Civil (404) 463-1314
Sen. William Ligon, Jr., Vice Chair (404) 656-0045
Sen. Curt Thompson, Secretary (404) 463-1318
Sen. Josh McKoon, Ex-Officio (404) 463-3931
Sen. Charlie Bethel, Member (404) 651-7738
Sen. John Crosby, Member (404) 463-5258
Sen. Vincent Fort, Member (404) 656-5091
Sen. Hunter Hill, Member (404) 463-2518
Sen. Ron Ramsey, Sr., Member (404) 463-2598


3. Support SB160. This is a tricky one though. The current version SB 160/CSFA/2 is a good one, ergo worth support. However, SB160 is been referred to the very same committee that high jacked HB125, and made it what it is now. So we need to be cautious to what comes out of this committee.



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