AJC report on Governoe Perdue’s action on black market ID
From the AJC this morning.
The bottom line is this: We will not welcome those who break our laws,” Perdue said at a morning news conference.
The Republican governor is in the middle of a heated re-election campaign in which illegal immigration has become an issue. The governor in a political ad has touted GOP state efforts to crack down on illegals, and last week he vistited Georgia National Guardsmen patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border near Deming, N.M.
Perdue’s plan, which could cost about $1 million a year, is dubbed the “SecureID” program and is a multi-agency push involving the Georgia Department of Driver Services, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Essentially, the program will place 10 state investigators at the “highest-need” driver’s license customer service centers. The program also would dedicate three new GBI agents to conduct follow-up fraud investigations and partner with ICE to identify document and benefits fraud.
Georgia has one of the largest illegal immigrant populations in the nation.
I was wrong yesterday and I want to correct myself. I wrote that ” The sound you hear is Zamarripa, Jerry Gonzalez and the rest of the illegal alien lobby preparing their yada yada “oppression” howls…and me doing my happy dance.” concerning the reaction to the Governor’s aggressive stance on false ID in Georgia.
The below quote from Jerry Gonzalez shows that I had it wrong.
Association of Latino Elected Officials. “This is a BandAid approach to a gushing wound. This has to be solved at the federal, not the state level.”
But I am still doing my happy dance.
Advice to the near one million illegal aliens presently in Georgia: leave, we want our state, our jobs and our American wages back.