Georgia’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp signed a law that will require jails to check the immigration status of inmates and collaborate with federal immigration officials.
The law, HB1105, would threaten to strip funding from sheriff’s offices that refuse to work with federal immigration officials when they have individuals in their custody who appear to be in the country illegally.
Kemp said that the legislation “became one of our top priorities following the senseless death of Laken Riley at the hands of someone in this country illegally who had already been arrested even after crossing the border.”
“If you enter our country illegally and proceed to commit further crime in our communities, we will not allow your crimes to go unanswered,” the Republican Governor went on to add.
An illegal immigrant from Venezuela named Jose Ibarra was charged in the murder of 22 year-old…
