Today’s the final day of Georgia’s legislative session, and the immigration wrangling in ongoing. The House passed a bill requiring businesses to use E-Verify, the Senate took that requirement out, the House put it back in, and they might be haggling late into the night. Meanwhile, Gov. Nathan “The Weasel” Deal is voting “present”:

It is a difficult piece of legislation, and we’re going to just simply see what they do in these last few hours before the session adjourns.

Basically, it seems like Deal would prefer to sign a bill that contains the police-related provisions like Arizona’s SB1070 without the E-Verify requirement, so he can claim to have acted vigorously against illegal immigration without incurring the wrath of the illegal-immigration profiteers. Interestingly, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is taking the exact opposite position, wanting to remove the police-related provisions of the bill moving through his state’s legislature and focusing instead on employers (though I don’t think it includes an E-Verify requirement).

Like all important questions in our time, the Supreme Court will ultimately decide how we are to be governed — it’s expected any day now to announce its ruling on the challenge to Arizona’s 2007 law mandating E-Verify, the law that demonstrably reduced the illegal population and which the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has sued to stop and which was upheld by the Ninth Circuit.