Georgia law has banned cities and counties from adopting a sanctuary policy for about 15 years but that’s not stopping the Small Business Administration (SBA), now run by a Georgian, from moving its Atlanta office to another as yet unspecified location.
“While Atlanta remains a welcoming city, it is well known that Georgia state law has prohibited ‘sanctuary cities’ since 2009,” Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens’ office said in response to the SBA announcement. “Moving the offices out of Atlanta is even more odd given Black Enterprise and LinkedIn named our city the best place to start a business, and Money Magazine said we were the best place to live. It would seem the SBA would want to remain where the action is.”
Other cities on the SBA closing list are Boston, Chicago, Denver, New York and Seattle.
Kelly Loefller, the new SBA director is a former U.S. Senator from Georgia.
Sanctuary Cities are defined a those that, on a whole, do not cooperate with federal immigration law enforcement.