D. A. King — Athens (Georgia) Banner-Herald

Local governments slow to comply with immigration law

In December 2005, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Zogby poll showed about 80 percent of Georgians were fed up with the illegal immigration and illegal employment crisis here and wanted the state government to address the issue…

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Mr. King:

Please accept this letter as verification of receipt of your request for copies of public records under the Georgia Open Records Act. I received your written Open Records request on July 3, 2008 for copies of all documents relating to Whitfield’s compliance with sections 2 and 9 of the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act law, including copies of the Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with the United States Department of Homeland Security for both E-Verify and the SAVE system from 1 July, 2007 to 1 July, 2008.

In regards to Section 9 of the law and based on our interpretation of such, Whitfield County does not provide professional licenses, commercial licenses or any other “Public Benefit” as defined under the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act law.

E-Verify (Section 2) usage requirements were recently completed (May – July) and we are now ready to start using it with our next new hire. An electronic version of the MOU is attached.

Please let me know if you have any further questions.

Sincerely,

Jackie Palacios

Human Resources Director

MY OPEN RECORDS REQUEST

From: “D.A. King”
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 09:22:44 -0400
To: Jean GarlandHERE)

Section 9 of the law requires that all government agencies in Georgia use the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) (HERE) data base to verify the eligibility of all applicants for public benefits. Further, that all applicants – under penalty of false swearing – sign an affidavit attesting to either U.S. citizenship or lawful immigration status/lawful presence in the United States.

For any applicant who has executed an affidavit that he or she is an alien lawfully present in the United States, eligibility for benefits must be made using the (SAVE) program.

Additionally, the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act requires each state agency or department which administers any program of state or local public benefits to provide an annual report with respect to its compliance with this Code section.

Public benefits include all “professional licenses, or commercial licenses provided by an agency of a State or local government or by appropriated funds of a State or local government” (8USC1621 HERE).

Please consider this my formal open records request for copies of all documents relating to Whitfield’s compliance with sections 2 and 9 of the law, including copies of the Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with the United States Department of Homeland Security for both E-Verify and the SAVE system from 1 July, 2007 to 1 July, 2008, inclusive.

I ask that copies of all affidavits from all contractors allowed to bid on public jobs attesting to use of the E-Verify system, copies of all affidavits from all applicants for public benefits including new issue or renewal of commercial (business) licenses from the same time period be included as well as a copy of the annual report required by law on compliance with section 9the SAVE program.

Thank you,

D.A. King

President, the Dustin Inman Society

www.TheDustinInmanSociety.org

2984 Lowe Trail

Marietta, Ga. 770 427 2857

“The U.S., all the time, has more benefits,” he said.

Sanchez said he doesn’t regret coming without documents because it was too expensive to pay a lawyer and then wait for permission to enter legally

The usual HERE

Houston Chronicle

Illegal aliens’ last stop

“Eighty percent of the detainees are convicted criminals being removed from federal and state prisons, as well as local jails.”

Tucked away in a landscaped corporate park in north Houston, a sprawling complex is barely noticeable to the public. But it’s a well-known stop, a sort of symbolic exit door out of America, for about 1,500 illegal [aliens] who come through this busy detention facility every month…

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Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Two supervisors arrested at Iowa kosher plant

Two supervisors at a kosher meatpacking plant in Iowa where hundreds of illegal [aliens] were rounded up in May were arrested Thursday on criminal immigration charges. — Federal prosecutors said they had also issued an arrest warrant for a third man described by workers as one of the plant’s managers

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Or does SAM OLENS mean “occupational tax certificate”? HERE

KHTS — Santa Clarita, Calif.

L. A. County spends $36 million on illegals in May

New statistics from the Department of Public Social Services reveal that illegal aliens and their families in Los AngelesCounty collected over $36 million in welfare and food stamp allocations in May 2008. These findings were announced by Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich…

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Chambliss adds $800,000 to campaign
Thursday, July 3, 2008, 01:53 PM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

While Democrats are still trying to select their party’s nominee to run against U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss of Moultrie, Chambliss keeps adding to his campaign war chest.

Chambliss on Thursday announced that he raised over $800,000 during the pre-primary fundraising period covering April 1 through June 25.

Going in to the general election, Chambliss has over $4 million in cash-on-hand. Since 2002, Chambliss has raised $9.9 million for his re-election campaign, dwarfing the amounts raised by the five Democrats vying to run against him.

Chambliss in November will face the Democratic winner of the July 15 primary and Libertarian Allen Buckley.

“I am humbled and honored by the strong support we continue to see as we travel all over Georgia,” Chambliss said in a statement. “Everyone I talk to is excited about this race and our supporters are really gearing up for a high-energy general election. I look forward to even more opportunities to talk with Georgians during my re-election campaign.”

From April 1 through June 25, Chambliss raised $808,117.15 for his re-election campaign and closed the pre-primary reporting period with a total of $4,005,173.68 cash-on-hand.

Chambliss’ campaign said, “95 percent of the money raised was from individual donors,” of which eighty-five percent are Georgians representing 128 counties in Georgia.

Chambliss is the ranking Republican Member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Senate Rules Committee. Chambliss previously represented Georgia’s 8th congressional district for four terms in the U.S.

— Jim Tharpe

ABC News

Jeb Bush to Join McCain in Mexico City

ABC News’ Bret Hovell Reports: Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will join presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain in Mexico City Thursday morning on the last day of McCain’s three-day visit to Latin America. — Gov. Bush’s name has been floated in Republican veepstakes chatter.

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Reuters

Four men found decapitated as Mexico drug war rages

The severed heads of four men were found dumped on a Mexican street on Wednesday with a message accusing a drug gang kingpin of treachery, police said. — Neighbors in the northern city of Culiacan found the men’s bodies wrapped in plastic sheets and a blanket, with their heads stuffed into white plastic bags.

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