heather: a federal judge may put a stop to a crack down. the judge saying he will rule before that date. the law would do this, police would check the immigration status of those stopped for different reasons. if they re speeding, cops can pull them over and ask for immigration status, joining us is georgia governor, nathan diele, a republican governor. tell us, why does the state of georgia want or need this law right now? morning, heather: the state of georgia, like any other states you can see are reacting to the failure of the federal government to secure our borders. when the federal government fails to do its job, the cost of that failure is being borne by local states
money we ve lost. bill: and the loss of wealth is significant. stuart, thank you. one more point? one more quick point. in that poll, 55 percent of people said they expect their children to be worse off. that s a very negative thing when you re saying that about the american economy. 55 percent. terrible. bill: excellent point. stuart, thank you. see you in a couple of minutes on fbn, all right? stuart varney, fox business network. heather: and the republican presidential candidates are hitting on that one, too, they are wasting no time hitting the president on the economy, including a brand new addition to the republican field, jon hauntsman, the former utah governor following up on the big announcement with a tv blitz, hitting the curvy couch on fox & friends, explaining why he thinks the the economy is sputtering. there s no confidence in where we re going, there s capital in the marketplace, they need a sense of confidence in where this economy is going. that means predictabili
it s supposed to take effect a few weeks from now. so what do you do about that? a lot of confusion out there. well, our law enforcement officers are already trained to deal with law enforcement violations, whether it be traffic or otherwise, and that is the initial contact they will have. the question then becomes how do they verify the status of an individual. we have four of our largest counties that are participating in the current federal 287g program. we have officers in our public safety department that have also been trained by federal immigration authorities. we believe we have resources, obviously, we would appreciate it if the federal government would provide us additional training resources. but governor, we re hearing pardon me, but we have counties that have asked sorry, sir. at least one county law enforcement official is saying this law is way too vague and way too confusing. if you re hearing that from what is essentially your troops on the ground, there
and communities, that s why you see the state of georgia s legislation. heather: the state has about 425 illegal aliens inta state, it puts it in the top ten of illegal aliens in states. i want to ask you this, though, you have 159 counties statewide. how would you make sure this law is enforced statewide? well, it s 425,000, which makes us about the seventh largest illegal immigrant population in the country. yes, we have a lot of counties in our state, but i think it will be enforced as we enforce all of our laws, whether it be traffic laws or everything else. they are enforced by local jurisdictions, we believe that the proper training and the proper individuals can be put in place to be able to do it fairly and impartially and to achieve the goals that the georgia legislature had in mind. governor, when it comes to that training, we are hearing that many of the local police departments haven t started to train their officers as to how to handle this new law.