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Brian Kemp

Scapegoat

In the fantasy land that Brian Kemp occupies, undocumented people are not our friends, family and loved ones; they are not small business owners helping to revive rural communities; they aren’t even other humans who deserve compassion, justice and dignity. In Brian Kemp and Donald Trump’s America, undocumented people are a useful scapegoat and the target of hateful policies to build walls, separate children from their parents and lock more people in cages. Despite having

Immigration and Refugees

Cagle and Kemp vie to continue Trump’s immigration legacy in Ga.

Trump’s immigration policies are so impossibly cruel, journalists are saying that the cruelty itself is meant to scare people out of coming to the United States. Under Trump, United States immigration policy has become increasingly inhumane, breaking up families and sending children and parents to separate detention facilities at growing rates. Nearly 1,500 children who arrived at the borders without an adult are missing probably because their U.S. sponsors are choosing not to keep in

Brian Kemp

GOP gov. candidates parrot Trump’s lies about immigration and crime

Trump infamously slithered into the White House by building support for his presidential campaign in part by using xenophobic slurs particularly those against Mexican immigrants. “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists,” he claimed. While we know these statements are simply false, Georgia’s conservative gubernatorial candidates in Georgia haven’t gotten the message. Or, more likely, they just don’t care about the truth. They’re still spewing Trump’s bogus, backwards anti-immigration sentiments, regardless of the story

2018 Legislative Session

Sen. Josh McKoon deletes his own Twitter poll in embarrassing defeat

In an embarrassing move, State Sen. Josh McKoon deleted his own Twitter poll on multilingual driver’s tests after it backfired on Monday. He asked, “Should Georgia offer the Driver’s License Examination in 11 different foreign languages?” Before he deleted the poll, about 70 percent of people had answered in the affirmative — evidently not the response McKoon was hoping for. The poll was an effort to bolster support for his recent bill proposing amending Georgia’s

Economy

TPS holders contribute $339.3 million to Georgia’s GDP every year

Trump’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status for Salvadorans living in the United States is going to have treacherous consequences for families, communities and the economy. Many Salvadorans have been here for almost two decades. They’ve gone to college, bought homes, owned businesses, worked hard and had kids, and now that’s all being torn away from them. Salvadorans who are now parents have to make the agonizing choice of leaving their children in the U.S.

Immigration and Refugees

Isakson: Congress should support Dreamers

Isakson is on the right side of an issue for a change: he believes that “Dreamers” should be allowed to stay in the U.S. However, he’s been all over the place with immigration issues in the past, how do we know that he isn’t supporting Dreamers now, only to vote against them staying in the future? In 2014, Isakson was one of the 22 Republican senators to work with Ted Cruz and declare Obama’s executive