GA 16-11-202 - GA 16-11-202

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Preempted. - In a pre-enforcement constitutional challenge to sections 7 and 8 of Georgia House Bill 87, the Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act of 2011, in which Georgia officials appealed a district court's entry of a preliminary injunction enjoining enforcement of those two sections, the district court did not err in finding that section 7 was preempted by the criminal provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act, particularly 8 U.S.C. § 1324. Section 7 created state criminal violations for: (1) transporting or moving an illegal alien, O.C.G.A. § 16-11-200(b) ; (2) concealing or harboring an illegal alien, O.C.G.A. § 16-11-201(b) ; and (3) inducing an illegal alien to enter the State of Georgia, O.C.G.A. § 16-11-202(b) . Ga. Latino Alliance for Human R...