Georgia Legislature Makes It Easier for Illegals to Get Professional Licenses
By David North on April 21, 2021
Georgia’s state legislature — unless Gov. Brian Kemp takes corrective action — has made it easier for illegal aliens to get professional licenses in several occupations.
While the actual negative labor market impacts (in terms of numbers) are modest, the symbolism is huge.
Georgia currently has a carefully constructed technique for seeing to it that those illegally present in the U.S. do not get state professional licenses for a large range of regulated occupations, such as professional counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists, occupational therapists, and speech-language pathologists and audiologists.
Through a sneaky, indirect legislative maneuver, that structure is in danger of being demolished by causing Georgia to enter inter-state compacts on licensing these professions; by signing on to these compacts, the state would lose its current power to deny licenses to illegal aliens. The bills were sold to the legislature, according to immigration activist D.A. King, by stressing some of their other features, such as making it easier for military spouses to practice their professions in Georgia.
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