Discussion: Georgia Won't Process Benefits Application For Syrian Refugee Family

Note to self: cancel travel plans to Georgia.

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Not very. You can file a complaint for a “writ of mandamus” pretty quickly here and demand a speedy hearing on a motion for preliminary injunction to make sure that this executive order is suspended pending a decision (i.e., an order prohibiting anyone from following it while the case is pending)…then file a motion for summary judgment right quick. That should at least get these people the food stamps in the interim. His legal duties under the law are a matter of law that does not require much in the way of a huge factual investigation or issues of fact that would prevent summary judgment.

Of course, “quick” is a relative term and you’d be forced to go through the federal courts in GA to enforce the federal laws, so we’er still talking a few or several weeks. The wheels of justice are square.

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More Repuke grandstanding. Gawwd’ I hate that loony GOP Cult.

Wanna’ buy a gun, a bazooka…a tank? Well…we’ll process that immediately and carefully. ~wink…wink!~

Gee…Merry CHRISTmas. Hope Karma pays you back EXACTLY what you deserve, MoFo.

I think he -as his own republican lawyer warns, is wrong. Refugees are covered.

I just spent a month there two weeks past on a Saturday at Hartsfield on my way home from Belize.

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No–section 1 of the 14th amendment states that “[no state shall] deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” This would apply to any protections from the Bill of Rights.

Discrimination on the basis of national origin by any agency that receives federal funds was prohibited by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If Georgia refuses to process the application for assistance then the Feds can yank all SNAP funding.

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So fairly quick as far as legal matters go, but not so quick as far as not having to worry about feeding ones family in a strange city/culture where you don’t really know anyone or have any local support structure goes?

These guys really are the worse sort of assholes. You go through all the hoops and trials it takes to escape from the assholes in Syria and get approved for refuge status in the US only to be greeted by these pricks throwing you and your family under a bus for some quick political points.

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I won’t even fly over Georgia.

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I am a Georgia native.

After years of progress under moderately conservative Democratic leadership, my state has been governed by Establishment-to-hard-right Republicans for a dozen years. Our healthcare system has dropped to 46th in the nation, our education results are similarly plummeting, our only major metro area is mired in gridlock, and the tax burden to ordinary folks has actually increased while services have dropped. We’ve gone from the fastest growing economy east of the Mississippi to an employment laggard (the main reason that we have any economic growth at all is that City of Atlanta politicians — once upon a time, with a bit of help from the state — have consistently supported the world’s busiest airport).

Last month, our incompetent secretary of state allowed the private information for millions of voters to get out to the public, and there’s been no move for a serious investigation of what happened. In fact, Our Crooked Governor — the grand marshal in his own parade of nepotistic scandals — has said he’s just dandy with the whole mess.

Fearing that it would alienate conservative suburbanites (who don’t read it anyway), and now controlled by a very conservative silver-spoon multibillionaire, the state’s only major newspaper more than a decade ago simply eliminated its formerly great editorial page. Once upon a time, Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorialists Ralph McGill and Cynthia Tucker won Pulitzer Prizes. Now, the paper simply offers up “balanced” right-left columnists – hence failing to exercise the civic leadership that once upon a time helped to distinguish this state from Alabama and South Carolina.

Our Crooked Governor and his ideologue (so-called “Establishment”) attorney general have wasted my money and degraded my community by refusing to accept Medicaid money (that I paid for with my tax dollars), and by bringing multitudes of wasteful lawsuits against such demonstrable efficiencies as affordable healthcare and clean air. Now, in perfidious exploitation of the easily misdirected minds of Southern white voters, Our Crooked Governor is engaging in massive resistance against a Syrian family that has done nothing but escaped horrors that cannot be imagined by the spoiled Bubbas who sit quaking in their homes, guns at the ready for their children to stumble upon, in fear of the terror injected into them by cable TV pundits.

Please, now, can we finally bring back Reconstruction?

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He won’t plow the streets, either.

And what law school…no high school did YOU go to where you didn’t get to read the Consttitution and Bill of Rights? It’s pretty easy to actually READ it.

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You thought wrong … or didn’t think at all … pick one.

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Deal was also said to complain someone had been sleeping in his bed and his porridge was cold.

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So much for Southern Hospitality.

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Southern Hospitality:

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I’ve never understood why Republicans insist on mistreating people as a matter of policy. I’m equally baffled as to why even a single voter would support such institutional hatred of people.

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The same state that produced Jimmy Carter now exhibits shameful, inhumane bigotry from the top down.

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sandi
Southern hospitality is dead.

got georgia on my mind. where, if they can’t keep 'em out, they starve them out.

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“The state of Georgia won’t process the application for food stamps and other state benefits filed by a newly arrived Syrian refugee family last week, the state Department of Human Services confirmed to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Thursday.”

Now, if this doesn’t radiate the Christmas spirit, what does?

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