Jailers in Georgia must now check the immigration status of inmates and apply to help enforce federal immigration law.
Governor Brian Kemp signed the bill into law this past week at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth. Most provisions take effect immediately.
The Republican governor signed a separate law that requires cash bail for 30 additional crimes and restricts people and charitable bail funds from posting cash bonds for more than three people a year unless they meet the requirements to become a bail bond company. That law takes effect July 1.
Kemp said Wednesday that the immigration bill, House Bill 1105, “became one of our top priorities following the senseless death of Laken Riley at the hands of someone in this country illegally who had already been arrested even after crossing the border.”
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