re: Condolences to UGA community

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You don’t know what you are talking about as usual. Athens is and has been controlled by liberal politicians for the better part of the last 20 years. Joe Biden won the county with nearly 70% of the vote in 2020. The people there who voted for this should be questioning their intelligence this very moment

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You sound like the average sidewalk stupid.

Presidential voting results breakdowns have nothing to do with a) state laws, b) local police jurisdiction commitments to enforce said laws (and overwhelmingly support ICE’s operating abilities, while we’re at it).

And since I’m having to give you this extremely remedial lesson, let’s also look at cultural attitudes of the citizenry in Athens you cite that would have voted for Biden, to cover-off the insinuation that those people would even support sanctuary city measures in the first place

Black people: Pew Research on Blacks’ Immigration attitudes

Raleigh-Durham is probably fairly similar to Athens, no?

“In comparison, African Americans in the Raleigh-Durham area are more supportive of restricting immigration – both legal and illegal – than are blacks nationally or those in Chicago or Washington D.C. A solid majority (57%) favors cutting back on legal immigration and 58% support requiring illegal immigrants to return home. And on an issue of local importance, a large majority of blacks in Raleigh-Durham (84%) believe that police should be required to check the immigration status of people they encounter during routine activities such as traffic stops; two-thirds of whites (67%) agree.

While Raleigh-Durham’s economy has been growing rapidly, most blacks feel the boom has bypassed them. Only about a quarter (28%) say there are plenty of jobs available in the community, compared with 58% of the area’s white population. Roughly three-in-ten blacks in Raleigh-Durham (29%) say they or a family member have lost a job to an immigrant worker.

Blacks in Raleigh-Durham are concerned about the cultural impact of immigration, as well as its economic consequences.Nearly six-in-ten (58%) say the growing number of newcomers in the U.S. threatens traditional customs and values, significantly more than the percentage of white Raleigh-Durham residents saying this (43%).”

White people: their are 214k citizens in Athens ( link). Deduct, let’s say, 90% of UGA’s 40k students that would be included in that figure ( Census.gov) = 178k remaining people. 65.2% of the population is White, so 116k.

Now. UGA employs 2,310 faculty and another ~6,700 service personnel/administrators. If we (incorrectly) assume 100% of them are White, we can refer to the earlier Pew Research Center article to get a best guess on their lack of support for supportive illegal immigration policies. And, it certainly stands to reason, that amongst White people in a mid-size town in the South, University-affiliated White people are likely to be the most socially progressive.

Of course, it would be illogical for them to be supportive of illegal immigration: they’re all employed by an institution that, you know, requires its students to submit out an application, register, pay money in most cases, and in cases where they don’t pay money, be approved for support by the U.S. and/or State of GA governments (Pell grants, Hope scholarships).

Thus, even an aggressive guess gives you something less than 10k White people affiliated with higher education supporting illegal immigration (8.6% of Athens’ non-student, White, population).

So you’re talking about less than 1 in 10 White people throughout the city that would be on board with liberal immigration policies to support sanctuary city status.

GTFO