People in the immigration community reacted positively to a federal judge’s ruling on Wednesday permanently blocking Georgia from enforcing the statewide criminalization of harboring and transporting of illegal immigrants. U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Thrash issued an order to scrap that section of the law, saying that a federal appeals court has already found it to be pre-empted by federal law. He also ordered the state to inform several state agencies that would have been involved in enforcing that provision of his decision.