Democrats send the Legislature a first: A Muslim immigrant from Bangladesh

The conversations that Republicans and Democrats are engaged in this summer have never been so disconnected in Georgia, on topics ranging from guns to health care. But differences are most glaring when it comes to immigration.

On the Republican side, candidates for governor have become echoes of Donald Trump. Casey Cagle has declared war on the city of Decatur, for failing to cooperate as thoroughly as the lieutenant governor would like with federal immigration authorities.

Secretary of State Brian Kemp has bragged on his massive pick-up – “Just in case I need to round up criminal illegals and take ‘em home myself.” And never mind that former GOP candidate and his “deportation bus,” who was dispatched in the May 22 primary.

So far, the most pronounced Democratic reaction has come from state Senate District 5 in Gwinnett County, a thin strip of territory with a spine formed by I-85 and a piece of Ga. 316.

Democratic voters there have decided to send the state Legislature its first Muslim member, a 57-year-old Bangladeshi immigrant and businessman named Sheikh Rahman.

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