Immigration Protesters Arrested At Capitol

Police arrested six demonstrators outside the Georgia state Capitol Tuesday afternoon after they took over an intersection and blocked traffic.

About 200 protesters rallied inside the Capitol to protest the state's new immigration reform law scheduled to go into effect on Friday. Many of the demonstrators said they were undocumented students at metro Atlanta high schools.

"I felt hopeless," Pebblebrook High School graduate Lute Guerrero told the crowd. She said her parents brought her to the United States when she was only 2 years old. She doesn't feel like she will be able to go to college because she is undocumented.

"It is not OK for all these students to sit at home with all this talent and not be able to go to college," Guerrero said. "I'm not OK with knowing there are 74,000 undocumented students in the state of Georgia."

Just a day ago, a federal court judge issued a temporary injunction stopping Georgia from implementing two key provisions of the new law. The judge did, however, allow the state to implement 21 of the 23 provisions of that law.

Gov. Nathan Deal's office said Monday that Georgia will appeal that judge's ruling.

Police said those arrested at the protest are charged with disorderly conduct, obstructing law enforcement and obstructing a street.

They included Felipe Baeza, 24, of New York, Dulce Guerrero, 18, of Atlanta and Jessica Vasquez, 18, of Atlanta. Police also arrested three juveniles from the Atlanta area.

Capitol police estimated the crowd at the rally at 200 people.