O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 16-11-203 (2019)

Authority of law enforcement officers to enforce federal immigration laws; documentation

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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The testimony of any officer, employee, or agent of the federal government having confirmed that a person is an illegal alien shall be admissible to prove that the federal government has verified such person to be present in the United States in violation of federal immigration law. Verification that a person is present in the United States in violation of federal immigration law may also be established by any document authorized by law to be recorded or filed and in fact recorded or filed in a public office where items of this nature are kept.

History

(Code 1981, § 16-11-203, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 794, § 7/HB 87.)

Annotations

Editor’s notes. - Ga. L. 2017, p. 536, § 1-1/HB 452, not codified by the General

Assembly, provides: ‘‘This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Protect Georgia Act.’ ’’

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 74 Am. Jur. 2d, Terrorism, § 1 et seq.