Activists and students in Georgia rallied here to urge legislators to reject SB 458, which if approved would prohibit access by undocumented immigrants to all of the state’s public universities.

“Activists, educators and students from all over Georgia have come to the Capitol to show their opposition to a measure that is fundamentally unfair, that lacks economic vision and is unnecessary, that is attacking students who came here when they were small children with this country being the only one they know,” Azadeh Shahshahani, director of the National Security/Immigrants’ Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia, told Efe.