AJC’s Jim Galloway has the story. Basically it involves a 21 year old student of my alma mater, Kennesaw State University. Apparently she came into the US as a kid with her parents illegally. When she found out about her status in HS, she began working to become legal.
I’m with Jason on this one – this girl should not be deported.
But Eric Johnson wants to ban this girl – and many others – from Georgia Universities. In fact, per Mr. Galloway’s headline, Eric wants to ban American citizens from Georgia universities. You see, as the law is currently understood, anyone born on American soil is an American citizen – no matter the citizenship or immigration status of their parents. So if he is successful in banning all children of illegal immigrants from attending school in Georgia, he will be banning certain American citizens from attending school here.
This comes on the heels of Eric pandering to theocrats and talibaptists the day before in working against America’s last line of defense against Theocracy, the First Amendment. In that situation, a group of senior citizens was told – correctly – that they could not have an official prayer before their government-paid-for meal, but could instead have a moment of silent reflection similar to that enjoyed by school kids every morning. In steps Eric saying “to heck with the Federal government” and enforcing his own religious beliefs on everyone – something I did not expect from him at all.
I’ve had issues with Eric’s history for quite a while, but these past two days have been a bit too much of current actions for me to be comfortable with. As I told one friend, I know and understand he is playing his game to angle himself into the Republican GAGOV nod – I’ve expected that all along. But if theocracy and nativism is what he thinks he has to do to win, that is an EXTREMELY sad statement on either him or our State – and we’ll find out in July which.
