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HB 191 AS AMENDED AND PASSED BY GEORGIA SENATE YESTERDAY DRIVER'S LICENSES TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
4/15/03
The Georgia Senate passed a bill with amendments by Democrat Sen. Sam Zamarripa which effectively resurrects House Bill 578 -- a proposal to grant driver's licenses to illegal immigrants from Latin America. (Unconstitutional, but why enforce the Constitution?) A vote to reconsider will be held THURSDAY April 17th.
These usually conservative Republican Senators voted for House Bill 191 as amended. These Senators must be convinced to VOTE FOR Reconsideration and then VOTE HB 191 DOWN. Please contact them and encourage them to change their minds on supporting illegal immigrants. Georgia legislative offices do not have caller ID, so please call from anywhere.
- Senate Majority Leader Tom Price (R-Roswell) - As Majority Leader, Sen. Price has great influence over the rest of the Republican Senators. Please call to find out why he voted for this terrible proposal and urge him to change his mind. Office Phone: 404 656-0040 TPrice@legis.state.ga.us
- Don Cheeks (R-Augusta) - Office Phone: 404 656-0045 dcheek@legis.state.ga.us
- Bill Hamrick (R-Douglasville) - Office Phone: 404 656-0036 bhamrick@yahoo.com
- Seth Harp (R-Midland) - Office Phone: 404 463-3931 sethharp@aol.com
- Joey Brush (R-Martinez) - Office Phone: 404 657-0407 jbrush@legis.state.ga.us
- Hill (R-Reidsville) - Office Phone: 404 656-5038 jhill@legis.state.ga.us
- Robert Lamutt (R-Marietta) - Office Phone: 404 656-5085 rlamutt@mindspring.com
- Dan Moody (R-Alpharetta) - Office Phone: 404 463-8055 danmoody@bellsouth.net
- Charles Tanksley (R-Marietta) - Office Phone: 404 656-0150 charlie@browningtanksley.com
These Senators must be contacted and convinced to VOTE FOR RECONSIDERATION and then VOTE House Bill 191 DOWN.
All foreign citizens who are legal Georgia residents can already obtain driver's licenses. The only beneficiaries of this bill are illegal immigrants from Latin America which, by precluding the rest of the world, violates the national origin provision of Constitutional anti-discrimination protections.
This can only be considered a dishonest attempt to subvert both immigration and civil rights laws to grant Georgia driver,s licenses to illegal immigrants. Other bills in the past have unsuccessfully proposed driver,s licenses for illegal immigrants. This is the first ever to pass out of the Georgia Senate. And it is striking in that it favors one group of illegal immigrants over all others, a clearly discriminatory sanction.
The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits states from denying any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. The laws of a state must treat an individual in the same manner as others in similar conditions and circumstances. The equal protection clause is violated when a state grants a particular class of individuals the right to engage in activity yet denies other individuals the same right.
PLEASE help us defeat this. Call or email these State Senators and demand they VOTE FOR RECONSIDERATION of House Bill 191 and then VOTE IT DOWN.
Thanks.
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