Georgia's Proposed Immigration Law

Recently the Georgia General Assembly passed an immigration law that has been deemed one of the toughest in the nation. A lot of people in the agriculture industry are worried about how this will affect their business's. The law prohibits business's to deduct labor costs for individuals who cannot provide legal and acceptable documentation of their citizenship. The state has also threatened to penalize any business owners who knowingly hire undocumented workers. Some farm bureaus and agriculture councils disagree with the actions by the state. They believe that it is a national level issue, and should not be be handled on a federal government level, some people have even began to protest and boycott the law.

I personally agree with the state of GA. This has been an ongoing issue for quite sometime. It is unethical and unconstitutional to allow these immigrants who have shown up, without any means of citizenship and are considered illegal, to work on our territory, use our resources, and get paid for doing so by the government; especially when there are hardworking immigrant/citizens who came to the states in hopes of bettering themselves and their families that had to go through years of strenuous legal and governmental processes just to receive the same rights. It is unfair to to let these individuals continue to reek our countries benefits when they nor we consider them apart of our country.

As for the Business owners, who put themselves in this situation by sloping down to these levels just for cheap labor, I believe they should be held accountable for their actions just the same. The economy has been in a decline of the last couple of years and there are plenty of hardworking citizens who are in desperate needs of jobs. If companies would only hire them instead of using illegals that they use for the sake of being able to pocket more money. In addition, aren't these same greedy business owners who hire these immigrants, the same people who go around complaining when their taxes/money are going to help support them, through health care programs, or food supply companies?

In conclusion, i am not prejudice to the idea of having the addition of other cultures in our country, seeing as most all of us were considered immigrants at some point in time. But i do believe that if you are wanting to live and profit from our nations resources that you should go through the right legal processes to receive citizenship before being allowed to do so, otherwise it is unfair to the thousands of other immigrants who did receive legal documentation, and our being socially persecuted for their fellow immigrants mistakes.