In Georgia, Immigration Is No Peach

“The state is at the forefront of the national controversy due to a proposed law that would slam the door on undocumented workers

This week, Enrique Lopez watched his own city become ground zero in the battle over immigration in the United States. The 39-year-old owns a small grocery store in Atlanta, called Carniceria Durango. As debates over immigration policy raged in his state and in Washington, he saw students protesting in the streets of Atlanta and Hispanics staying home from work to demonstrate their importance to the local economy. Lopez, who grew up in Mexico and was once an illegal immigrant himself, closed his store and gave his employees a paid day off. “It was hard, you lose revenue,” he says.”

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