Jerry Gonzalez operates Sam Zamarripa’s illegal alien lobby here in Georgia…

Wanna see what Jerry thinks about enforcing the law?

Read this from New American Media. Please know that Jerry knows the difference between “immigrants” and illegal aliens…but it is hard for him to make a living if he admits that fact.

Mapping the [illegal alien] Movement: Georgia

New America Media, Sep 27, 2006

JERRY GONZALEZ, Galeo Latino Community Development Fund, Atlanta, GA

There’s been a backlash. Our governor Sonny Perdue is running an anti-immigrant campaign. Exactly one week after 70,000 people marched for immigrant rights (on April 10) he signed into law SB 529, the most restrictive anti-immigrant legislation that is based on the Colorado law. [ Note from D.A. – Jerry is hoping that nobody knows the Georgia law was passed in April 2006 and the Colorado law[s] in July 2006. Jerry and the truth are very distant strangers.]

We were the most vocal opposition of the legislation. They were intent on passing something, so we worked with them to make sure the law included three non-negotiable things: that it protect children, pregnant women and access to higher education. Now there are rumblings of taking away access to higher education, and there’s talk of a statewide ban on renting to undocumented immigrants.

Spanish media was critical for mobilizing the big march, particularly Spanish radio. We also went on the Korean radio station WPBC-AM 1310 in Duluth to let the Korean community know what we did. Our interview on the local talk show with Kevin Kim was simultaneously translated into Korean.

Read the rest…yawn.

“The U.S. World News & Report cover story this week is about the fact, in just a month, that the U.S. population will hit 300 million people. The Census Bureau says it will happen October 27th, depending on whether they are caught by the Border Patrol.”
— Jay Leno

From last week’s AJC

Medicaid rolls decline as new state rules begin
By ANDY MILLER
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Published on: 09/30/06

Georgia’s Medicaid program lost almost 70,000 in membership in the first four months of 2006, after Georgia launched new rules to control fraud.

Beginning Jan. 1, the state began demanding proof of income and citizenship for people to join or stay on Medicaid. Through April, the government insurance program for about 1.3 million of Georgia’s poor and disabled had an enrollment decline of 69,635.

State Medicaid officials said the membership changes throughout the year as people are added and dropped from the rolls. They say the actual number of patients leaving Medicaid during the first four months of the year could be much higher than 69,635.

The officials say they don’t know how many dropped out because of the state’s tighter checks on income and citizenship, but said the new rules were a key factor in the decrease.

At an August hearing on illegal immigration, held by a U.S. House committee, Abel Ortiz, health policy adviser for Gov. Sonny Perdue, said the decline in Medicaid membership showed ”strong evidence of fraud and abuse.”

“Illegal immigrants are getting onto our social system, and it is busting the bank now,” Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-Ga.) said at the hearing. Norwood earlier took his anti-fraud fight national, helping push Congress to pass a law requiring proof of citizenship in all states’ Medicaid programs.

Read the rest here. Try to be an illegal alien in Mexico.

FAST FACT: Our national population is barreling toward 300 million and is expected to reach this number by fall of 2006. One must wonder if the person who puts us over 300 million will come across our borders illegally, or be born to someone who already has done so.