From “Running Africa” Website. [ Don’t ask me…I just post what I come across]

I do make the observation…again, that enforcement – even the promise of future enforcement – works.

New Georgia immigration law to trigger mass exodus of illegal immigrants

As the year 2006 slowly moves towards oblivion, there are increasing signs that thousands of illegal immigrants residing in Georgia will have to relocate from the state to avoid encountering what most described as the toughest immigration law due to go into effect in June of 2007.

For the past two months, this website has been conducting its own independent survey to determine the reaction of illegal immigrants to sweeping new immigration laws signed by the governor of Georgia, Sunny Perdue. It turns out that 3 out of every 5 illegal immigrants have expressed outraged over the new law called the Security and Immigration Compliance Act. Most of them told our pollster of their plans to leave the state for a much easier life in states where the immigration law is more flexible.

The new law, passed a few months ago by the Georgia state legislature, will make it harder for illegal immigrants to get access to social services and will punish companies that hire undocumented workers. It requires anyone applying for state aid to first be verified that they are in the state legally and employers with state contracts are being held accountable as well. Those who do not verify immigration status before hiring anyone will be sanctioned, according to the new law. Police are also required to check the immigration status of anyone arrested in Georgia. In the past, they were not required to verify that a detained individual was in the state of Georgia legally.

More here.

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Immigrant Nation: CNN goes to the frontlines of the new battle over immigration. Why rapidly growing [illegal – dak]immigrant communities are sparking a backlash from some of their new American neighbors.

See here for more info.

Amnesty would follow Democratic win

D.A. King
Columnist
Marietta Daily Journal
October 26, 2006

“During 2005, the Border Patrol apprehended approximately 1.2 million illegal aliens. Federal law enforcement estimates that 10 percent to 30 percent of illegal aliens are actually apprehended – therefore, in 2005, as many as 4 to 10 million illegal aliens crossed into the United States.” – from: “A Line in the Sand: Confronting the Threat at the Southwest Border,” a report released by the House Committee on Homeland Security last week.

If we all try very, very hard on our way to the mall or soccer practice, some of us may be able to convince ourselves that “they” will soon – and voluntarily – solve the nationally suicidal crisis caused by America’s intentionally unsecured borders and the resulting invasion and colonization of our children’s nation.

Some may even be able to accept the ridiculous estimate bandied about that there are only 11 or 12 million illegal aliens in the United States. Or that about half a million illegals enter our nation annually.

Others may stretch some more and go along with the theory constantly promoted by the American president that “there are jobs Americans will not do.” Or that anyone who is “just looking for a better life” has some universal civil right to live and work in the U.S. – regardless of the laws broken to get here and do so.

The numbers of Americans who can make that irrational leap are rapidly shrinking, except in Washington and corporate boardrooms.

A 38 page report released by the U. S. House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Investigations last week may put some doubt in even the most ardent “we lasted this long as a nation, everything will be OK eventually” crowd.

For those of us rooted in reality, some news from the congressional report on the Southwest border:

* “Members of Hezbollah have already entered the United States across the Southwest border.”

* Of the 1.2 million illegal border crossers apprehended in 2005, only 165,000 were not from Mexico – and 650 of those were from countries with known terrorist activity.

Let’s see, it can’t be too bad having unsecured borders in a war on terror if we are catching 10 – 30 percent of the potential terrorists illegally entering our homeland. At the worst, only about 1,500 of them made it over our borders last year. Right? Try hard, dear readers.

There can be no harm to American sovereignty if more than 10 percent of Mexico now lives in the U.S., right? And polls in that Third World narco-oligarchy show that more than 40 percent of the remaining population of 106 million would “migrate” here if they could.

The House report estimates that as much as 11 million pounds of cocaine made it into our nation from Mexico last year and states that Mexican drug cartels are the most dangerous criminal enterprise facing American law enforcement.

I told you – we must try hard.

That 1,950-mile border with Mexico that the strongest nation in the world cannot control?

The House report points out that “the Mexican drug cartels wield substantial control over the U.S. – Mexican border.” And that they operate with military grade weapons, technology and intelligence. Our own Border Patrol Agents and law enforcement are out-gunned and out-manned.

We are past the five-year mark from the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, wages are going down for low-skilled Americans – if they can get a job without knowledge of the Spanish language – and 90 percent of the drug dealing MS-13 gangs here in Ben Franklin’s republic are described by the FBI as being made up of illegal aliens.

Try hard folks, everything will be all right if we can just grant another amnesty. And illegal immigration is only a federal problem.

Knee-jerk radio talk-show hosts will mindlessly wail that for a variety of reasons, it is time for the Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives to go. Nonsense.

As someone who is proudly and firmly not a member of any political party, I must point out that it is the House Republicans, and not enough of the Senate Republicans, who have some apparently “hard-line” idea that we need to enforce our laws and secure our borders.

If we must continually describe ourselves in “hyphenated-American” terms, this “Fed Up-American” views the House GOP as the badly needed third party that represents the majority of Americans.

Let’s try hard to realize that if the Democrats take the U.S. House, the McCain-Kennedy-Bush amnesty will be a reality faster than you can say “borderless continent” – in Espanol.

D.A. King lives in northeast Cobb and is president of The Dustin Inman Society, a coalition dedicated to educating the public on the consequences of illegal immigration.

Many thanks to all of you who came out on a school night to help with our rally. WE WIN!

I will post some photos and a short write up of the rally and what went on inside the Cobb Board of Commissioners meeting last night when I get time later or tomorrow.

We worked together and Cobb County is now the first county in Georgia to begin to use 287 g. More county governments must take advantage of the available federal tools to help stop illegal immigration and employment. Ask your own county why they are behind Cobb on this.

Cobb takes steps to enforce immigration laws

By Amanda Casciaro
Marietta Daily Journal Staff Writer

MARIETTA –

For nine days this year, John Litland volunteered at his own expense as a minuteman patrolling the U.S.-Mexican border in Hachita, N.M.

Along with U.S. citizens from Wisconsin, Washington, California and a handful of other states, Litland reported instances of suspicious activity to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who line the border.

“We were there to fill the gap where our federal government has failed,” Litland said.

The Marietta native, along with east Cobb activist D.A. King and about 50 supporters, gathered Tuesday before the Cobb Board of Commissioners meeting to urge implementation of a federal law that has been on the books for 10 years.

Cobb Sheriff Neil Warren addressed commissioners during the meeting, asking for a Memorandum of Understanding with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to speed implementation of 287G, a program to check the legal status of any inmate who enters the county jail.

Along with a boom in Cobb’s Hispanic population in the past 10 years have come millions of illegal aliens, King said, and federal and local governments have turned a blind eye to it – until now.

Cobb County is the first in Georgia to sign the agreement with the federal government, despite it already being law.

“Here’s my agenda,” King said. “I want our borders secured as it’s required by the U.S. Constitution. I want American law equally applied. I want English to be the common language that binds our very diverse nation together, and I don’t care who knows it.”

Because of what has been described as a “failure” by the federal government, King has spent five years researching how county commissions and city councils can take control of the issue.

Warren has done the same by working with immigration and customs agents since 1998.

The solution for both, of course, is baby steps, and King said the first action should be to implement a basic pilot program provided by the federal government for employers to check the status of those who seek work in the United States.

As of Monday, the program took effect in Cobb, Cobb Commission Chairman Sam Olens said.

“I see us complying with state and federal law. We’re proactively following the law,” Olens said. “It makes no difference if it’s a county in Maine, where the perception is they have virtually no illegal immigrants, or Cobb County. We need to follow the law.”

Enforcement long overdue

Implementation of 287G, a section of the 1996 Immigration and National Act the U.S. Senate passed, has been under review by Warren for several years.

The 10-year-old law provides four- to six-week training periods for law enforcement agents by the federal government so officers will know how to handle illegal immigrants they encounter during day-to-day duties.

“In August of this year, the sheriff’s office officially petitioned ICE for authorization to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding to enforce federal immigration statutes pursuant to Section 287G,” Warren told commissioners Tuesday. “Once this petition is approved, deputies at the jail will be trained to interview inmates who are foreign nationals to determine whether they are in the country illegally.

“If they are determined to be here illegally, deputies will initiate deportation proceedings. Once removal is authorized by a federal court and any local sentence completed, the inmates will be deported by ICE.”

Implementation is the first step, King said, but why has it taken Cobb so long?

“Mecklenburg, N.C., has had the 287G program in place since April,” King said. “Since April, they’ve made 657 cases for deportation. That does two things: It gets about 650 illegal aliens off the streets and sends a message that this is not a welcome county for illegal immigrants.”

The pilot program provides a database to search employment status of any potential county employee and those used by contract companies that work for the county.

“You have to start somewhere, and the fact that we’re not presently using these federal tools is very counterproductive,” King said.

The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements program also is necessary to ensure illegal aliens cannot take advantage of taxpayer-funded services, King said, such as government housing and Medicaid.

After public comment from King at last month’s Cobb commission meeting, Olens said Cobb would explore federal Community Development Block Grants to implement the program.

As of Monday, county officials have alerted Cobb organizations that distribute federal money that the alien verification program must be used.

At the same time, Olens said, Cobb has to work with the Hispanic community to get credible, legal citizens involved with the government process.

Earlier this month, the Atlanta Regional Commission honored Cobb with a Community Building and Involvement Award for its Hispanic-Latino Initiative aimed at getting the Hispanic and Latino population involved.

Just ‘a beginning’

Others who attended Tuesday’s evening rally, such as Church Road resident Mary Kirkendoll, agree there’s nothing wrong with legal immigration. The illegal aliens, she said, have “destroyed” her neighborhood and the quality of life that once existed there.

Ms. Kirkendoll said Cobb’s “laissez-faire” attitude has led to a detriment of the county as a whole.

“All the enforcement issues, the basic pilot program, all that is great, but it’s a very small step in the right direction,” Ms. Kirkendoll said. “No matter if they do that and sign all that into effect, it doesn’t change anything about who’s living in the communities. I want to see code enforcement start addressing the real issues, that these houses are being used improperly.”

In February 2005, a methamphetamine super lab was discovered at the home “next door” to Ms. Kirkendoll, which was the final straw of years filled with overcrowded rental housing, poorly maintained homes and even a drug cartel accused of distributing about 500 pounds of marijuana in another nearby home.

“As far as I can see, I think it’s a beginning,” Ms. Kirkendoll said. “I do believe (Cobb commissioners) are waking up. Nobody ever really wants to deal with stuff when life has been really good to them. They didn’t want to deal with this stuff, but they’re going to have to.”

According to Olens, county governments have to do something.

But with federal constraints, there is only so much that county and municipal governments can do.

“The truth of the matter is the federal government needs to step up to the plate and do its job, and it’s a result of the federal government not doing its job that has caused local government to deal with these issues,” Olens said. “I support (Warren on 287G), but it shouldn’t be necessary to take this action. The feds should already be doing it.”

An ‘educational issue’

Despite cold weather, King and other illegal immigration opponents gathered on the Marietta Square, carrying signs emblazoned with messages such as “No more amnesty! Remember 1986!” in reference to the Reagan administration’s blanket amnesty action.

Once man carried a sign displaying the identification card of Mohammad Atta, the famed lead hijacker in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Others waved American flags, and signs discouraging “Georgiafornia,” in reference to California’s high number of illegal immigrants.

As cars passing by honked in support of protesters, King said it’s important to note that regardless of how many people showed up for the rally, their message is not one of hate.

“If somebody who insists that illegal immigration is a problem or that our borders should be enforced, are they racist?” King said. “Is the entire government of Mexico racist? In Mexico, it’s a felony to be in the country illegally.

“Mexico enforces its laws; is Mexico, as a nation, racist? It’s not that difficult an argument to overcome. This is an educational issue.”

There are no jobs in Mexico…right? Illegal aliens come into the U.S. because there is no work at home…right?

Wrong.

Pew Hispanic Center Report: Unemployment Plays Small Role in Spurring Mexican Migration to U.S.
Washington, DC –

The vast majority of undocumented migrants from Mexico were gainfully employed before they left for the United States, according to a Pew Hispanic Center report released today. The report suggests that failure to find work at home does not seem to be the primary reason that the estimated 6.3 million undocumented migrants from Mexico have come to the U.S.

Once they arrive and pass through a relatively brief period of transition and adjustment, migrants have little trouble finding work, according to the study. Family and social networks play a significant role in this; large shares of migrants report talking to people they know in the U.S. about job opportunities and living with relatives after arrival. They easily make transitions into new jobs, even though most find themselves working in industries that are new to them. Also, many are paid at minimum-wage levels or below, and it is not uncommon for these workers to experience relatively long spells of unemployment.

Illegals come here because, for now wages are considerably higher here than in Mexico.

That is changing, but it is clear that the illegals are scoming for the same reasons that the elected officials are ignoring their sworn duty and that they are coming for the same reasons that profiterring bankers and employers illegally open acounts, make mortgage loans and hire illegals. For the money.

Follow the money every time.

Read the rest here.

Hit the links in here folks, lots of information here.

The National Council of La Raza [ NCLR] “How-To” manual on stopping local enforcement of American immigration laws. They are also against securing American borders, but that puts them in a large group.

Georgia Congressman Charlie Norwood on La Raza here.

That all American non-profit group that is funded with tax dollars and corporate donations, La Raza has a field manual explianing that local enforement of American immigration law is [ the horror!] legal…and then goes on for 53 pages teaching people who support and profit from open borders and illegal immigration how to stop that local enforement.

They call the book ” State and Local Police Enforcement of Fedral laws: A Tool Kit for Advocates”.

Click here to read for yourself. I can’t make stuff like this up.

EXTRA added bonus! How not to get arrested if you are an illegal alien in America…from La Raza! Click here!

CIVIL RIGHTS defined by Merriam Webster

civil rights
One entry found for civil rights.

Main Entry: civil rights
Function: noun plural

the nonpolitical rights of a citizen; especially : the rights of personal liberty guaranteed to United States citizens by the 13th and 14th amendments to the Constitution and by acts of Congress

More…from ANSWERS.com

civil rights
pl.n.

The rights belonging to an individual by virtue of citizenship, especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and by subsequent acts of Congress, including civil liberties, due process, equal protection of the laws, and freedom from discrimination

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adj. or civ·il-rights (sĭv’əl-rīts’)

Does anybody else note the word citizen here?

Here…for when the illegal alien lobby howls that state and local police do not have authority to enforce American laws on illegal immigration.

Arrest of Illegal Aliens by State and Local Officers

Subsection 1324(c) of Title 8 specifically authorizes state and local officers “whose duty it is to enforce criminal laws” to make arrests for violations of 8 U.S.C. § 1324. There is also a general federal statute which authorizes certain local officials to make arrests for violations of federal statutes, 18 U.S.C. § 3041. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that 18 U.S.C. § 3041 authorizes those local officials to issue process for the arrest, to be executed by law enforcement officers. See United States v. Bowdach, 561 F.2d 1160, 1168 (5th Cir. 1977).

Rule 4(a)(1) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure provides that an arrest warrant “shall be executed by a marshal or by some other officer authorized by law.” The phrase, “some other officer,” includes state and local officers. Bowdach, supra.

Section 439 of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 added a new 8 U.S.C. § 1252c which provides that notwithstanding any other provision of law, to the extent permitted by relevant State and local law, State and local law enforcement officials are authorized to arrest and detain an individual who (1) is an alien illegally present in the United States; and (2) has previously been convicted of a felony in the United States and deported and left the United States after such conviction, but only after the State or local law enforcement officials obtain appropriate confirmation from the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the status of such individual and only for such period of time as may be required for the Service to take the individual into federal custody for purposes of deporting or removing the alien from the United States.

In the absence of a specific federal statute, the validity of an arrest without a warrant for violation of federal law by local peace officers is to be determined by reference to local law. See Miller v. United States, 357 U.S. 301, 305 (1958); United States v. Di Re, 332 U.S. 581, 589 (1948).

In approving a state trooper’s arrest of persons who appeared to be illegal aliens, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit held, simply, as follows: “A state trooper has general investigative authority to inquire into possible immigration violations.” See United States v. Salinas-Calderon, 728 F.2d 1298, 1301, n. 3 (10th Cir. 1984).

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held, in Gonzales v. City of Peoria, 722 F.2d 468 (9th Cir. 1983), that the structure of the Immigration and Nationality Act does not evidence an intent to preclude local enforcement of the act’s criminal provisions. Id. at 474. Based on the pertinent legislative history, the court of appeals rejected the argument that since 8 U.S.C. § 1324(c) specifically authorizes local officers to make arrests for violations of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a), and 8 U.S.C. §§ 1325(a) and 1326 contain no comparable provision, Congress must have intended that local officers be precluded from making arrests for violations of 8 U.S.C. §§ 1325(a) and 1326. Id. at 475. The decision warns, however, that the first violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1325(a) is a misdemeanor, and that if applicable state law authorizes law enforcement officers to arrest for misdemeanors only if committed in their presence, they would not be authorized to arrest aliens for illegal entry (unless the officers should happen to know that the alien had previously been convicted of illegal entry) unless they saw him/her cross the border.

The disappointing aspect of Gonzales is the statement that an alien’s “inability to produce documentation does not in itself provide probable cause (to arrest).” See Gonzales v. City of Peoria, supra, at 16. Pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1304(e), aliens are issued registration cards and must carry such cards with them at all times. Aliens who gain entry without the requisite inspection, and who therefore are not issued such cards, violate 8 U.S.C. § 1325. Consequently, a law enforcement officer confronting an alien who is unable to produce documentation arguably has probable cause to believe that a violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1304(e) (failure to possess documents or 8 U.S.C. § 1325(a) (entry without inspection) has occurred. (If the alien is undocumented and has been in the United States for longer than 30 days, he or she has also violated 8 U.S.C. § 1306(a)).

Read it again here… and here.
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From the Federal government Deparment of Homeland Security [ Don’t get me started]

Fact Sheet
SECTION 287(G) IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT

Section 287(g) originated in the 1996 amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act passed by Congress. The initiative is designed to effectively multiply the forces of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) through enhanced cooperation and communication with state and local law enforcement. Under 287(g), ICE provides state and local law enforcement with the training and subsequent authorization to identify, process, and when appropriate, detain immigration offenders they encounter during their regular, daily law-enforcement activity.

Section 287(g) is a voluntary program. Individual local or state law enforcement agencies or government departments are free to contact ICE if they are interested in participating. Once accepted into the program, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is created to outline the specific responsibilities and procedures appropriate to a specific law enforcement group’s needs and capabilities. ICE develops a specialized training course (typically five weeks) for that group focusing on immigration law, civil rights, intercultural relations, and the issues and illegalities surrounding racial profiling. When they successfully complete the course and pass all related examinations, the officers receive an official certification from ICE that allows them special authorities regarding immigration violators called 287(g) authority. After certification, ICE continues to provide supervision and support, helping officers to determine the appropriate response once they determine a suspect to be an immigration violator.

Specific MOUs may authorize slightly different procedures for different law enforcement entities. Generally speaking, under 287(g) authority, when a trained and certified officer encounters, during his regular activities, an individual who is an immigration violator, he or she may question and detain the individual for potential removal from the United States by ICE. Particularly in cases where the individual is deemed to be a flight risk, a repeat immigration offender, or a particular threat to local or national security, 287(g) provides a valuable extra tool to local and state authorities.

Already 287(g) has achieved numerous successes in cooperative law enforcement. There are 62 trained and certified officers in the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and 21 in the Alabama State Police, with 25 more slated to earn certification in ’06. Within the next few months, ICE will also be training six L.A. County Jail Custody Assistants to process criminal aliens for removal from the U.S. while they are in jail custody. This training is expected to take four weeks, and as with all 287(g) participants, all actions taken by the L.A. County personnel will be supervised and reviewed by ICE officers.

While enforcing immigration law is primarily a federal responsibility, Section 287(g) provides a mechanism for enlisting the help of state and local law enforcement entities in this effort with minimal impact on their normal daily routines and responsibilities.

More here and here.

The SAVE Program, as outlined by the federal government…the same federal government charged with securing our borders and enforcing our laws.
Welcome to the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) Program page. The SAVE Program is responsible for administering programs involving customer access to information contained in the Verification Information System (VIS) database. This database is a nationally accessible database of selected immigration status information on over 60 million records.

The SAVE Program enables Federal, state, and local government agencies and licensing bureaus to obtain immigration status information they need in order to determine a non-citizen applicant’s eligibility for many public benefits. The SAVE Program also administers employment verification pilot programs that enable employers to quickly and easily verify the work authorization of their newly hired employees.

Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) Program

Immigration Status Verification for Benefit Issuing Agencies

The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) Program is an intergovernmental information-sharing initiative designed to aid eligibility workers in determining a non-citizen applicant’s immigration status, and thereby ensure that only entitled non-citizen applicants receive Federal, state, or local public benefits and licenses. The SAVE Program is an information service for benefit issuing agencies, institutions, licensing bureaus, and other entities. The SAVE Program does not make determinations on any non-citizen applicant’s eligibility for a specific benefit or license.

LEGAL BASIS

Congress passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), P.L. 99-603, which required the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (now Department of Homeland Security (DHS), effective March 1, 2003) to establish a system for verifying the immigration status of non-citizen applicants for, and recipients of, certain types of federally funded benefits, and to make the system available to Federal, state, and local benefit issuing agencies and institutions that administer such benefits. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is the DHS agency responsible for administering the SAVE Program. The IRCA, as amended, mandates the following programs and overseeing agencies to participate in the verification of an applicant’s immigration status: the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) Program, the Medicaid Program, and certain Territorial Assistance Programs (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services); the Unemployment Compensation Program (U.S. Department of Labor); Title IV Educational Assistance Programs (U.S. Department of Education); and certain Housing Assistance Programs (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development).

More here.