Illegals working in Georgia 3-22-24

There are 339,000 Illegal Immigrants living in Georgia. About half of them were men who came to Georgia in the 1980s to work construction and day labor. Day labor teams would collect at filling stations in Doraville GA waiting for customers to pick them up. Some took the Buford Highway bus and lived in apartments nearby. Many illegals and refugees from the 2015 refugee incursion lived in Clarkston GA apartment complexes in DeKalb County. 

Many Mexican Illegal men sent money home to their families and traveled back to Mexico for Christmas.

They worked in teams to remove trees, do landscaping, drywall, siding, painting and digging for sewer line replacement. Their crew chiefs spoke Spanish and English. They worked for local companies.

Gainesville GA in Hall County has large chicken processing plants and illegal immigrant women have worked there for years, cutting chickens into parts and making $20 per hour. There are also illegals working in warehouses, matching bar-codes and fitting products into master containers for shipment to major stores.

Georgia has banned sanctuary cities since 2009, but the illegals who arrived in the 1980s have settled in many Georgia counties, some went back to Mexico and others have sought a path to citizenship.

Georgia has not seen the high numbers of illegals experienced by other cities. Atlanta Metro crime reports show that most crimes are committed by young Black and Hispanic men. Drug gangs operate in Georgia and arrests are reported.

The “anchor-baby” problem needs to be solved. The US Supreme Court needs to deal with this and it may require that Congress draft an Amendment. The problem word is “Born” and it needs to include that their parents need to be US citizens.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader