Newsmaker: Illegal Immigration and Jobs

ATLANTA - The showdown over Arizona's controversial immigration law has played out in court and on the streets of Phoenix.

As promised, Governor Jan Brewer filed an appeal with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco Thursday and she promised to go all the way to the Supreme Court to get the key parts of the measure reinstated after a lower court judge issued an injunction blocking them.

Hundreds protested in Arizona, chanting that they refused to live in fear. Dozens were arrested.

One of the most contentious issues surrounding illegal immigration seems to be jobs.

Angelo Fuster and Inger Eberhart, with the Dustin Inman Society discussed the issue at the FOX 5 studios Thursday.

According to data collected by the Department of Homeland Security in 2009, Georgia has the sixth highest estimated illegal immigrant population in the country at 480,000 compared to Arizona's 460,000.

The DHS estimates that California has the highest population at 2.6 million.

According to the Labor Department, three out of four farm workers were born abroad and more than half are illegal immigrants.

In a way to push for immigration reform, the United Farm Workers of America launched a website called takeourjobs.org, which welcomes American citizens to apply for jobs in the field, to replace an immigrant.