A state Senate committee is seeking punishments for Georgia communities with so-called “sanctuary city” policies that protect undocumented immigrants.
The Committee on Public Safety approved a new version of HB 301 on Wednesday to impose more financial punishments on jurisdictions the state considers a sanctuary city, although there’s no one standard definition of what a sanctuary city is.
In Georgia, politicians have focused on jurisdictions that do not always interface with Immigration and Customs Enforcement when non-citizens are arrested unless in the case of a serious crime.
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