Local Hispanics fear state legislation in Georgia

“She was one of the more than 100 area migrants who showed up for an informational session at a predominantly Mexican trailer park in northern Clarke County Friday evening to hear Spanish-speaking attorneys explain the new laws and help them prepare for possible U.S. citizenship.

The event was sponsored by Oasis Catolico Santa Rafaela, a Catholic mission based in the Pinewoods Estates North trailer park off U.S. Highway 29 North.

“This is a beginning; it’s education about the situation,” said Sister Margarita Martin, one of the mission’s nuns.”

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