All employers in the U.S. can check employment eligibility of its newly hired employees.

THE BASIC PILOT PROGRAM is the best available tool at present and all employers who want to obey existing federal law can access the information.

NOTE: The Dustin Inman Society is enrolled in the Basic Pilot Program. I have run my name through the prgram’s data base. I recieved confirmation that I am elegible to work in the United States in less than FIVE SECONDS.

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The Basic Pilot Employment Verification Program (Basic Pilot)

The Basic Pilot involves verification checks of the SSA and DHS databases, using an automated system to verify the employment authorization of all newly hired employees. Participation in the Basic Pilot Program is voluntary, and is free to participating employers.

The Basic Pilot:

removes guesswork from document review during the Form I-9 process
allows participating employers to confirm employment eligibility of all newly hired employees
improves the accuracy of wage and tax reporting, and
protects jobs for authorized United States workers
The Basic Pilot program has been available to all employers in the States of California, Florida, Illinois, New York and Texas since November 1997 and to employers in Nebraska since March 1999. The Basic Pilot Program began operation in November 1997 and originally ended in November 2001; however, the Basic Pilot Program Extension and Expansion Act of 2003 (Pub. Law 108-156) extends the Basic Pilot to November 2008.

The new law also requires for the expansion of the Basic Pilot Program to all 50 states. A Notice was published in the Federal Register on December 20, 2004, announcing the expansion of the Basic Pilot to all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and a new Web-Based Access method for the Basic Pilot. If significantly more employers than anticipated choose to participate in the Basic Pilot Program, USCIS may have to limit the number of participants.

The Basic Employment Verification Pilot Program is now available on the Internet using a Web-Based Access method. This will allow employers to use the Basic Pilot system from any personal computer with access to an Internet Service Provider (ISP).

The Web-Based Access method eliminates the need for a modem and the connectivity problems associated with using a modem. It also does away with the requirement for an employer to have an analog phone line to access the Basic Pilot.

Once you are registered and have completed the Web-Based Tutorial (WBT) you can immediately begin using the Web-Based Access method of the Basic Pilot Program. To register now for the Basic Pilot Web-Based Access method, go to
https://www.vis-dhs.com/EmployerRegistration and follow the instructions.

Following are some enhancements the Basic Pilot Program Web-Based Access method offers:

Participants Register on the Internet
Persons interested in using the Web-Based Access Method will need to register on the Internet and sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with USCIS and the SSA. Employers are provided instructions for completing, signing and submitting the MOU to USCIS’ SAVE Program. Individuals will receive confirmation of their company’s participation in the Basic Pilot via Email and will also receive a new User ID and temporary password. Prior to gaining access to the Web Basic Pilot Program, employers are required to complete the Web-Based Tutorial to become familiar with the policies and procedures of the Basic Pilot Program.

Internet Training
While the Basic Pilot Program’s policies and procedures remain the same, there have been changes made to the screens used to perform the verification process on the Web. The system is extremely user-friendly and has mouse-over text helpers to provide hints while entering your queries, e.g., entering complex surnames. These and other changes require current users switching to the Web to complete the new Web-Based Tutorial (WBT). Once the WBT is completed, the system is immediately available, and you can begin performing verification queries.

New User Types
Three new user types have been created for the Basic Pilot Web-Based Access method. You determine your user type after registering for the pilot. Depending on the user type you select, you will be able to perform different functions, e.g., perform queries, manage your account and view reports. You will only be able to access information relating to your company site. Following is a description of each user type:

Program Administrator – The person registering his or her company is automatically defaulted as the Program Administrator. A Program Administrator can perform queries, add or delete other Program Administrators or General Users, unlock user accounts, update site information and view reports.

General User – A general user can perform verification queries, view user reports, and update his or her personal user profile information, e.g., name change, new phone or fax number.

Corporate Administrator – A Corporate Administrator can create and manage multiple company accounts, view reports for multiple company sites, as well as create and administer new and existing user accounts.

View and Print Reports
All users will have the capability to view and print their own reports. These reports provide statistics on the queries performed by the user(s) within your company.

Internet Resources
The Web-Based Access method Resources section includes a variety of resources available to assist your company in the verification process and other immigration related matters. Some of the resources available include:

The Web-Based Tutorial
The Basic Pilot User Manual
A Guide to Selected Travel and Identity Documents
Basic Pilot Notices to be posted in your company’s hiring area
Spanish and English versions of the Basic Pilot Notice of Tentative Nonconfirmation and Basic Pilot Referral Notices
In an effort to provide employers with helpful and up-to-date information concerning immigration law and issues pertaining to the Form I-9 policy and procedures, we have included a link to the Public Affairs Office, where daily press releases can be viewed and printed. A link has also been provided to the Office of Business Liaison, the office responsible for publishing “Employer Bulletins” which provide valuable information to employers. These and other Web-Based resources are only a click away and are available at all times for your use.

For more information on the Basic Pilot Program, please call the SAVE Program at 1-888-464-4218.

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D.A. King on Atlanta’s WGST radio – Denny Schaffer show – Monday 10:00 AM

Click here to listen on the internet. Call in number is: 404 367 WGST

Contact

The following person contacted us October 21, 2006:
Name:
Jack Meoff
Address:
Norcross, GA
Phone number:
Email address:
yomama@home.com
“Jack Meoff”

Comments:

White men are the illegal immigrants, red men are the original natives. “Illegals” make this county great. People like you destroy it.

This column on the priorities in the U.S regarding veterans and illegal aliens is from the Washington Times earlier this year. I have added some hyperlinks to further educate the reader.

A second look at veteran priorities

By D.A. King, Washington Times, February 26, 2006

In 1966 my friend Fred was sent to Vietnam and survived a year as a door gunner on a U. S. Army “Huey” helicopter gunship. You won’t hear it from him, so I will tell you that Fred had one of the most dangerous jobs possible in that long ago and divisive war. While Fred’s ship went down more than ten times in action, he came home without a scratch.

Welcome home Fred Dague – and thank you.

Unlike Fred, in 1970, after observing my 18th birthday in Marine Corps boot camp, I was fortunate enough to draw duty in sunny southern California.

We both kept our promises to our nation.

Like our fathers, as young recruits, both Fred and I were promised lifetime free medical care by our government as a benefit of our service.

We are learning that this is not our father’s America.

As “50 somethings,” Fred and I have both applied to the Veteran’s Administration for those promised medical benefits.

In 2004, both of our applications for that promised free health care were denied.

The response from the VA reads in part: “Each year, the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs determines which priority groups will be enrolled in the VA health system, you are not eligible for enrollment or VA health care for most conditions.”

Fred and I have been placed in the “Priority Group 8g” which means that we applied after January 2003, earned over $31,000 last year, and have no service related ailments — thereby disqualifying us for the free medical care we were promised as young men.

Priority Groups are the result of the federal government’s budgetary shortages. Veterans without service-connected health problems are now held up to a means test to determine eligibility for VA medical benefits. For now, we can both make do without the promised care, but many of the approximately 200,000 other category 8g veterans cannot.

So much for the promise. So much for priorities.

For Fred, myself and the other vets who are denied or offered limited medical care from our government, these priorities are difficult to accept while we watch millions of illegal aliens not only demanding, but receiving taxpayer funded free medical care at American emergency rooms and clinics.

There is no “means test” for the free health care provided for anyone – from anywhere in the world – who can illegally cross our intentionally unsecured borders and get within 250 yards of an American emergency room. It’s the law.

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1985 (EMTALA) is a law that is vigorously enforced.

We are taxpayers, Fred and I, so to us, it is a little more than ironic that as veterans, we are paying for health care for millions of illegal aliens while we are not eligible for that same promised free care from our own Veterans Administration.

The Medicare Prescription Drug Modernization Act of 2003 included one billion dollars to help reimburse American hospitals for the federally mandated health care that they must provide to illegal aliens. It included nothing to help Priority Group 8g veterans.

Priorities indeed.

Because illegals and their criminal employers seem to have a better lobby than American vets in Washington, our nation is keeping the promise to the illegal aliens.

This definitely is not our father’s America. We are no longer certain it is our America.

With millions of illegal aliens pouring into our republic each year and tens of thousands of brave young American troops defending borders all over the world, we cannot help but question which of the promises being made to our future vets will be kept.

We can’t help but wonder how giving illegal aliens and their employers amnesty — no matter the label used — will discourage more illegal immigration. It clearly didn’t twenty years ago.

The same people who have decided which promises to keep have also made a decision on which of our laws are enforced. Not that anyone asked, but if it is a matter of priorities, in our search for a better life, Fred and I would much rather see the laws that apply to border security and illegal immigration enforced and the VA Priority Groups ignored.

If it is a matter of priorities

Mr. King is president of the Dustin Inman Society, a Georgia-based coalition of citizens dedicated to educating the public on the consequences of illegal immigration.

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2004 CNN PRESENTS ONE-HOUR DOCUMENTARY TO RE-AIR THIS WEEK END.Subject: illegal immigration – focused on Georgia – USA

Saturday and Sunday nights [ NOTE : Sunday October 22 – CNN did not run tonight..no clue why]…. 8:00 PM Eastern. [Please click on hyperlinks below for more information.]

Shortly after I quit my business in 2003 [see here ] to devote my time to fighting illegal immigration and our virtually open borders, CNN PRESENTS approached me – and others [Thank you Jimmy Hercheck!] – about participating in a one-hour documentary on the crisis. While I had some serious, and vocal, concerns about the network’s choice of correspondents , I chose to be interviewed and taped for CNN’s production.

So did Mr. John Dillard who operates the Dillard House restaurant in Dillard, Georgia. Dillard admits, actually boasts, in the CNN show that he hires illegals. He has not been punished yet for being in violation of federal law.

The phone number for Atlanta ICE is 404 331- 2762 Ext. 5346.

Taping began in May, 2004, and was completed in the fall of 2004.

The tile was “Immigrant Nation, Divided Country”. The original airing was in October of 2004, and it has re-aired many times since then. It has not been updated to my knowledge.

Much has changed in America since 2004. A recent [this week] report from the U.S. House Committee for Homeland Secuity/Subcommittee on Investigations focused on our Southwest borders shows that American law enforcement reports that in 2005, U.S. Border Patrol apprehended 1.2 million illegal aliens attempting to cross our intentionally un-secured borders. Further, the estimate is that about 10-30% of the illegal crossers are arrested.

To save you some time on the math, the report from the U.S. House subcommittee says that “as many as 4-10 million illegal aliens crossed into the U.S. in 2005”.

This spring, we watched as millions of illegals marched fearlessly in the streets of our nation in a demand for “legalization and the right to vote”…led by more than a few American elected officials.

650 of the apprehended illegal border crossers are what are known as “Special Interest Aliens” [ SIAs]…or those from countries with known terrorist ties.

Remember that 10-30% figure on apprehensions. War on terror indeed.

The report states clearly that “Members of Hezbollah have already entered the United States across the Southwest border”.

As much as 11.2 million pounds of cocaine entered the U.S. Mexican drug cartels have assumed control of much of our borders and have enlisted gangs in the interior of the Founders republic as “enforcers”.

I hope that you will read the report for yourselves.

The CNN PRESENTS documentary will re air this week-end on two nights Saturday, October 21 and Sunday October 22, at 8:00 PM with repeats early AM…I am told it will also re-air next Saturday, October 28, 2006.

I hope that you can find time to watch. I have already heard the “you have a face for radio” comment several times.

Here is a link to the CNN PRESENTS site for further info.

Here is a way to contact CNN PRESENTS with your comments. I hope that you have some and will share them with CNN.

There is a reason our government refuses to secure our borders. Follow the money.

We hope that a future documentary, by any network, will examine the unavoidable facts that clearly illustrate that reason.

Thanks.
dak

We look at no enforcement as being as bad as announced sanctuary.

Here is an example of what is going on in other parts of the U.S. and what you can expect here soon, if a great deal of elected officials – at all levels of government – don’t soon pick a side.

Immigration advocates want Miami-Dade to be immigrant sanctuary

BY CASEY WOODS
cwoods@MiamiHerald.com
With the debate on immigration reform stalled in Congress, Miami immigrant advocates looked elsewhere Wednesday for inspiration: to such cities as San Francisco that have declared themselves ”sanctuaries” where local police are barred from participating in certain kinds of immigration enforcement.

Flanked by rows of restless children wearing shirts that read ”Don’t make me an orphan,” Nora Sandigo was clear on what she wanted.

”Local politicians need to stand up and take care of the children in their own house,” said Sandigo, executive director of the immigrant advocacy group American Fraternity.

The group wants the Miami-Dade County Commission to declare the county a sanctuary. The designation means county police would be prohibited from asking suspects about their immigration status during a traffic stop or arrest, and county officers would only participate in immigration raids targeting immigrants with criminal records and those who entered the country illegally.

The ”sanctuary” designation proposal is part of a larger push by American Fraternity to protect undocumented immigrants. Earlier this month, the group filed a class-action lawsuit in Miami federal court on behalf of the U.S.-born children of those immigrants, arguing that their constitutional rights are being violated by the constant threat that their parents will be deported.

With legislation on comprehensive immigration law reform stalled in Washington, such action is necessary, Fraternity president Alfonso Oviedo said.

”For all practical purposes, I believe Dade County already is a sanctuary, but we want them to make it official so . . . that there will not be abuses,” he said.

There is more here from Florida. Read it if you want to learn, and don’t worry…it can never happen here.

True Cost of ‘Cheap Labor’

By D.A. King, Marietta Daily Journal, January 28, 2005

In the Jan. 20 MDJ, we read that the illegal alien charged in the stabbing death of Acworth resident Lisa Ann Bourquardez, 27, was already wanted in his home country of Mexico for a previous murder. He had been here for four years.

In these strange times, it seems important to point out that Lisa Ann was an American citizen.

The suspect, like many illegal aliens here, uses several names. He is known as Jose Bautista. His real name, police say, may be Guillermo Paralata Casteneda.

Whatever his name, he is one of the estimated 20 million people in our nation who recognize that many of our laws do not apply to them and realize that they can easily live and work here illegally without fear of consequences.

As I write, Bautista/Casteneda remains free and may be on his way back to Mexico.

Ms. Bourquardez is dead because we have a barbed-wire border with Mexico that is intentionally less secure than any cattle pasture in Cobb County. Her death is a direct result of three to four million illegals a year flooding into the America that should have protected her from Mexico’s overflow.

While it is politically incorrect to mention, over the years, more Americans have been killed as the result of our unsecured border with Mexico than lost their lives in the Twin Towers on 9/11.

Ms. Bourquardez will not see her two young daughters grow up because our elected officials, from the White House to county commissions all over America, openly encourage and assist what President Bush and others refer to as “good-hearted” folks “just looking for a better life.”

We are told we must continue to illegally import the poverty from other nations because there are “jobs Americans will not do.”

Apparently, we are expected to forget that we Americans cleaned our own floors, built the Hoover Dam and put a man on the moon long before it was usual to see 100 illegal “willing workers” wrestle for three landscaping jobs offered by one shameless contractor in a parking lot on Powder Springs Road for $10 an hour – in cash.

“Labor shortage” anyone?

We are expected to forget that we paid Americans a living wage in America not so long ago – before we had Spanish-language voting ballots in Georgia.

“A better life” indeed.

Lets not forget this: There are no jobs that Americans will not do – only intentionally depressed wages on which they cannot live with dignity in their own country.

Lisa Ann Bourquardez is gone because the illegals and the many who profit from their taxpayer-subsidized labor are allowed to violate our employment and tax laws.

Imagine openly using a known fraudulent Social Security number in your own business. See what happens if you try to get away with paying or accepting unreported cash as payment in a business that does not involve illegal labor.

Try not paying your income taxes and note the effects of law enforcement for Americans in America.

Somebody in our community employed Lisa Ann’s murderer.

I wonder how much money he was able to pocket by paying Bautista less than he would a legal Cobb County worker?

I wonder how many more illegals that same employer has on his payroll right now?

Ask yourself why the federal authorities are not allowed to stop this very organized crime.

Ask yourself if “legalizing” the current 20 million illegals will discourage 20 million more from coming. (We tried that in the amnesty of 1986. They were 3 million then.)

Nearly two years later, I have a great deal of difficulty understanding any delay in using all available federal tools – by any level of government – to discourage illegal immigration into our nation or community.

You?

BREAKING NEWS:
County OKs plan to enforce immigration laws
Training is one Costa Mesa leaders have said they eventually will follow.By Alicia Robinson
Daily Pilot

Orange County Supervisors today voted to have between one and two dozen Sheriff’s deputies trained to check the immigration status of people booked into the Orange County jail.

The cooperative program with Immigration and Customs Enforcement is one Costa Mesa council members have said they would copy with the city’s police department, but Costa Mesa has not drafted an agreement with federal authorities.

The supervisors approved the immigration agreement in a 3-1 vote, with Supervisor Lou Correa dissenting. Supervisor Tom Wilson was not at the meeting.

Under the program, between 12 and 24 deputies working in the jail will receive federal training to check the immigration status of foreign nationals who are charged with crimes.

Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona said the program will make the community safer by taking criminals off the streets and ensuring they get deported after serving their jail time.

Opponents of the program, including the American Civil Liberties Union and Orange County Congregation Community Organization, argued that the immigrant community, and particularly crime victims or witnesses, will be afraid to cooperate with police for fear of deportation.

Costa Mesa Mayor Allan Mansoor has said he wants to move forward with the city’s plan, but it may hinge on the November council elections. It took the county several years to work out the federal agreement approved today, and Costa Mesa will have at least one new council member after the election.

Note from D.A. King: Yikes! The next thing you know, these elected officials in California will be using Basic Pilot to verify employment elegibility of county empoloyees and the SAVE program to be sure that tax payer dollars go only to legally elegible residents who are in the U.S. legally!

What a concept!

We are Mexicans that live in our territories and we are Mexicans that live in other territories. In reality, we are 120 million people that live together and are working together to construct a nation.”

–2004, Vicente Fox, President of Mexico, in Chicago.

States, Counties Begin to Enforce Immigration Law

WHAT A CONCEPT!

By Peter Whoriskey
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 27, 2006; A01

CHARLOTTE — Police here operated for years under what amounts to a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy toward illegal immigrants.

As elsewhere in the United States, law enforcement officers did not check the immigration status of people they came into contact with, and in the vast majority of cases, a run-in with the law carried little threat of deportation.

But that accommodation for the burgeoning illegal population ended abruptly in April, when the Mecklenburg County sheriff’s office began to enforce immigration law, placing more than 100 people a month into deportation proceedings. Some of them had been charged with violent crimes, others with traffic infractions.

The program takes one of the most aggressive stances in the United States toward illegal immigrants, and officials in scores of communities, including Herndon and Loudoun County, are considering adopting their own version. The House earlier this month was weighing a measure “reaffirming” the authority of local law enforcement agencies to arrest people on suspicion of violating immigration laws.

Some Latino leaders say the program here is contributing to a discriminatory climate in which Hispanic drivers feel as if they are being “hunted” by police. And some law enforcement agencies elsewhere have rejected that enforcement function, saying such programs would rupture any trust that agencies have developed in Latino neighborhoods.

But advocates see it as a way to catch illegal immigrants who slip through the porous federal enforcement measures but run afoul of state or local police.

Mecklenburg County Sheriff Jim Pendergraph says there should be little sympathy for illegal immigrants caught by his program: They have already broken the law once by being here illegally, and then been arrested on suspicion of another crime.

“When any of them cross that border without proper documentation, they’ve violated the law — however insignificant it may seem to some people,” he said. “I’ve heard sad stories about folks wanting to come up here and have a better life and earn money for their family. I’ve arrested bank robbers who’ve had the same excuse.”

Why not Georgia?

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