Atlanta officials are asking the state’s new Immigration Enforcement Review Board to dismiss a complaint targeting the city now that City Council has repealed an ordinance at the heart of the dispute.
The complaint says the Atlanta ordinance violated a state law by allowing people to use Mexican matricula consular ID cards in city government transactions. Georgia law says city officials may not accept such ID cards when people apply for public benefits.
Anti-illegal immigration activist D.A. King filed the complaint in February. City Council voted to repeal the ordinance on April 16.
Ben Vinson, chairman of the Immigration Enforcement Review Board, said in an email Tuesday the council’s action “would appear to moot the complaint as filed with the board.” He said the board would take up the matter at its next meeting, which has not yet been set.
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