There are 535 municipalities and 159 counties in Georgia. The number of other government agencies that administer Public Benefits is apparently unknown at present.

See HERE for information on the mandates in the 2006 Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act (GSICA)and the follow up bill, HB 2 from 2009.

Below list according to:

SAVE Program, Verification Division

U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services/Department of Homeland Security

ACTIVE SAVE user governments and agencies in Georgia as of November 20, 2009

Organization Name Active Agency

Bulloch County Board of Commissioners 11/19/2009
Cherokee County Board of Commissioners 5/27/2009
City of Acworth 10/1/2008
City of Avondale Estates 10/23/2009
City of Blairsville 11/4/2009
City of Chamblee 10/29/2009
City of Dalton 9/10/2009
City of Duluth 11/19/2009
City of Glennville 11/20/2009
City of Marietta, Georgia 9/11/2008
City of Pooler 11/4/2009
City of Roswell 4/13/2009
City of Smyrna 1/6/2009
City of Thomasville 10/14/2009
City of Union City, Georgia 9/12/2007
City of Union Point 11/9/2009
Cobb County and Douglas County Community Services Board 8/19/2008
Cobb County Government 7/13/2007
Coweta County 10/29/2009
Douglas County Board of Commissioners 11/19/2009
Douglas County, Georgia 11/10/2009
Forsyth County Georgia 5/4/2009
Georgia Composite State Board of Medical Examiners 2/6/2009
Georgia Department of Labor 4/1/2004
Georgia Department of Human Services 4/21/2004
Georgia Department of Drivers Services 5/22/2006
Georgia Secretary of State/PLB Division 7/7/2008
Gilmer County Planning and Zoning 11/19/2009
Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners, Financial Services 7/7/2008
Hall County Board of Commissioners 10/15/2008
Henry County Government 9/11/2009
Lawrenceville Police Department 4/15/2009
South Georgia Community Service Board 8/17/2009
Unified Government of Athens-Clarke County, Georgia 2/6/2009

Governments and agencies with PENDING applications to use SAVE as of

Organization Name

Ben Hill County Commissioners Office
Bibb County Government
Brooks County Board of Commissioners
Carroll County Board of Commissioners
City of Albany
City of Alma
City of Americus
City of Arabi
City of Attapulgus
City of Auburn
City of Bainbridge
City of Baxley
City of Berkeley Lake
City of Blackshear
City of Bowdon
City of Buford
City of Byron
City of Cairo
City of Calhoun
City of Camilla
City of Canton
City of Carrollton
City of Cartersville
City of Cave Spring
City of Cedartown
City of Clarkson
City of College Park
City of Commerce
City of Coolidge
City of Cornelia
City of Covington
City of Crawfordville
City of Cumming
City of Dahlonega
City of Davisboro
City of Dillard
City of Dunwoody
City of Eastman
City of Eatonton
City of Elberton
City of Eton
City of Fairburn
City of Fairmount
City of Fayetteville
City of Flowery Branch
City of Gainesville
City of Glennville
City of Gray
City of Grayson
City of Griffin
City of Guyton
City of Hagan
City of Hapeville
City of Helen
City of Hephzieah
City of Hiawassee
City of Hinesville
City of Holly Springs
City of Jackson
City of John’s Creek
City of Kennesaw
City of Kingsland
City of LaGrange Community Development
City of Leslie
City of Lilburn
City of Lincolnton
City of Loganville
City of Lula
City of Luthersville
City of Lyons
City of Manchester
City of Metter
City of Monroe
City of Morrow
City of Moultrie
City of Newnan
City of Norcross
City of Oakwood
City of Offerman
City of Oxford
City of Perry
City of Pinehurst
City of Powder Springs
City of Riverdale
City of Rome
City of Royston
City of Rutledge
City of Sandersville
City of Sandy Springs
City of Sardis
City of Savannah
City of Sky Valley
City of Snellville
City of Sparta
City of Springfield
City of St Marys
City of Stockbridge
City of Sugar Hill
City of Suwanee
City of Talmo
City of Tifton
City of Toccoa
City of Tybee Island
City of Varnell
City of Vidalia
City of Villa Rica
City of Walnut Grove
City of Warner Robins
City of Waynesboro
City of West Point
City of Winder
City of Woodstock
City of Wrens
City of Zebulon
Clarke County Tax Commissioner
Clinch County Board of Commissioners
Cobb County Tax Commissioner
Coffee County Board of Commissioners
Colquitt County Board of Commissioners
Columbus Consolidated Government
Cook County Commissioners
Crisp County Board of Commissioners
Dalton Utilities
Dekalb County
Dodge County Board of Commissioners
Dougherty County Board of Commission
Evans County Board of Commissioners
Floyd County
Fulton County DFACS
Georgia Department of Insurance
Georgia Mountains RC
Georgia Municipal Employees Benefits System
Glynn County Board of Commissioners
Greene County Board of Commissioners
Gwinnett County Tax Commissioner
Haralson County
Harris County Commissioners
Heard County Board of Commissioners Government
Houston County Board of Commissioners
Jenkins County Board of Commissioners
Johnson County Board of Commissioners Office
Lumpkin County
Madison County Government
Morgan County Board of Commissioners
Newton County
Newton County Board of Commissioners
Oconee County Board of Commissioners
Ogeechee Behavioral Health Services
Oglethorpe County Board of Commissioners
Paulding County
Pike County Board of Commissioners
Serenity Behavioral Health Systems
Supreme Court of Georgia Office of Bar Admissions
Talbot County Board Of Commisssioners
Technical College System of Georgia
Terrell County Board of Commissioners
Thomas County Board of Commissioners
Tift County Board of Commissioners
Town of Alto
Town of Braselton
Town of Mount Airy
Town of Pine Mountain
Town of Rebecca
Town of Riverside
Town of Sumner
Town of Talking
Town of Tallulah Falls
Town of Thunderbolt
Town of Tyrone
Town of Woolsey
Unified Government of Cusseta-Chattahoochee County, Georgia
Unified Government of Webster County
Washington County Bd of Commissioners
White County
Whitfield County Board of Commissioners

A Bailout for Illegal Immigrants? Lessons from the Implementation of the 1986 IRCA Amnesty
By David North

January 2010

David S. North is a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies.

By now most of us realize that the government handled the $700 billion bailout of the big banks badly. The money went out in a whoosh to the Wall Street outfits that had created the crisis, but without the needed regulatory changes to prevent its repetition.

Is Congress about to make a parallel mistake about the illegal alien population and give that group a blanket amnesty like the one it lavished on the (much smaller group of) bankers, without giving a thought to the inevitable impacts of such an action?

With that dubious prospect on the horizon, it is a good time to take a careful look at the dysfunctional inner workings of the last major bailout of America’s illegal alien population, the alien legalization program that Congress created with the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA).

It is well known that some 2.7 million aliens secured legal status — many of them fraudulently — in that program, but there has been little discussion of the strange inner machinations that caused so much of the problem.

It so happened that, at that time, both a major foundation (Ford) and a minor federal agency (no longer surviving)1 asked me to evaluate the on-going operations of IRCA’s amnesty. A colleague and I spent nearly two years examining the program, visiting amnesty facilities across the nation and talking with hundreds of people involved in the program, from the Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner to the shakiest of applicants.2

It is now clear that:

The agency running the program, the old Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), far from being the tough law-enforcement agency the immigrants’ advocates feared, turned out to be a typical governmental agency with a strong case of client-itis, one that usually said “yes” to its applicants.

Operating without many useful precedents, INS created a new and questionable decision-making process that severely hampered the detection of fraud.

A great deal of money intended for the legalization program was diverted to other government programs.

As a result, there was a tremendous amount of fraud, largely ignored by INS. A subsequent Center for Immigration Studies estimate, based on population estimates, found that fully one quarter of those granted legal status had secured that status through fraud.3
The Setting for IRCA Decision-Making

The Political Background. IRCA was an omnibus immigration law, an attempt to form a grand bargain that would take care of many immigration policy disputes. Part of it was the introduction of “employer sanctions,” saying that it would be illegal, in the future, for employers to hire illegal aliens; the other part was the legalization package. The promise was that sanctions would eliminate the lure of jobs in the U.S. economy and the legalization package would put several important groups of illegal aliens on the path to citizenship, thus shrinking the size of both the current and future illegal populations. There were extensive hearings and much public discussion of the various issues.

The grand bargain was supported by President Reagan and his Attorney General, Ed Meese, as well as by the leaders of the GOP-controlled Senate and the leaders of the Democrat-controlled House. The chairman and ranking member of the Senate immigration subcommittee, Sens. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) and Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), had devoted considerable time and energy to its drafting, as had the House subcommittee chairman, Rep. Romano Mazzoli (D-Ky.). House Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino (D-N.J.) was similarly supportive.

Meanwhile in separate, off-stage negotiations, three key young Democratic members of the House put together a compromise that satisfied representatives of both the (largely Hispanic) farm workers and the California growers. Working around a kitchen table in one of their bachelor apartments on Capital Hill, then-Rep. Leon Panetta (D-Calif.), who spoke for the growers, Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), who spoke for the illegal farm workers, and the broker, then-Rep., now Sen., Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) created a compromise provision for Special Agricultural Workers, or SAWs. The trio then convinced other members of Congress to accept their provisions for farm workers.4

In short, legalization came into being with a considerable head of steam. It was only later that it became apparent that no serious effort would be made to either enforce employer sanctions or to create a national ID card that would make it easy for employers to identify legal, as opposed to illegal, immigrants.

IRCA’s Terms. The new statute (Public Law 99-603) was very complicated and was fully 100 pages long. It provided for four separate alien legalization programs, two of them quite narrow and never subject to much controversy,5 and two much broader programs.

Section 245A of the newly-amended Immigration and Naturalization Act gave legal status to applying aliens who: a) applied between May 5, 1987, and May 4, 1988; b) had been in the country more or less continuously since January 1, 1982; c) who did not have serious criminal records; and d) who met some other stipulations. A total of 1,763,434 aliens applied under this provision.6

The other major activity, the SAW program, gave legal status to those aliens who had done seasonal farm work in the United States for at least 90 days in 1984, 1985, or 1986 and who applied between June 1, 1987, and November 30, 1988. This provision drew 1,277,041 applicants.7……

READ THE REST HERE.

Augusta Chronicle

Georgia immigration checks got tougher with new year

By Dick Pettys | For Morris News Service Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2010 ( Note: a similar news report was posted on the subscription Website Insider Advantage Georgia today as well – HERE )

ATLANTA — The well-publicized “Super Speeder” law passed in the 2009 session wasn’t the only Georgia law that took effect with the New Year last week. A tougher immigration law also kicked in Friday.

Supporters say House Bill 2, sponsored by Rep. Tom Rice, R-Norcross, clarifies and adds enforcement teeth to the state’s 2006 immigration reform act – officially called the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act (GSICA). Among other things, the measure requires all governments and official agencies in the state � and their contractors – to use a no-cost, internet-based federal database called “E-Verify” to verify that newly hired employees are citizens or lawfully present aliens.

GSICA also requires all local governments and agencies that administer public benefits to collect a sworn affidavit and use a federal database – the “SAVE” program – to verify the eligibility of all applicants for those benefits.

GSICA went into effect July 1, 2007. Compliance with the law has been described as “partial,” with many local governments either unaware of the law or confused about its requirements.

D.A. King, president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society, which favors greater restrictions on illegal immigrants, has been monitoring compliance since 2007.

“In 2006, the Georgia Legislature passed a law that essentially says local governments must obey federal immigration, employment and benefits laws,” he said. “It was treated as an option. Last year House Bill 2 was passed and basically says we must actually obey the first law that says we must obey the federal law. ”

King said he was certain the Super Speeder law would be enthusiastically enforced to add a $200 fine on top of other penalties for drivers who are caught exceeding 75 mph on two-lane highways or 85 mph on Interstates. “We’ll be watching for the same on HB 2,” he said.

According to King, federal records show that most local governments and state agencies are using the employment verification tool. Few are using the SAVE database to check immigration status of noncitizen applicants for public benefits, he said.

From the Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2010 online edition of The Augusta Chronicle HERE

Irish Central — New York

Schumer heading up new amnesty push (RINO Lindsey Graham involved)

A major effort to swing at least five key Republican senators behind immigration reform [read: amnesty] will be the key task of Senator Charles Schumer of New York, who is leading the effort in the senate to create new legislation. — Tens of thousands of Irish [illegal aliens] are among those anxiously awaiting new efforts this year to bring about reform….

HERE

Star Parker — Sacramento Bee

Time to replace Napolitano

Last March, our newly installed Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano explained, in an interview with German magazine Der Spiegel, her vision for fighting what was formerly known as terrorism. — By calling these now “man-caused disasters,” she explained, we would “move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur.”

HERE

Dallas Morning News

Dallas case underscores gaps in illegal re-entry prosecutions

When Drug Enforcement Administration agents sat Jesus Anguiano Robles down for a debriefing after his arrest, they got something unexpected. — He admitted that the 269 grams of methamphetamine found in his house on Enchanted Lane in Buckner Terrace was his. As was the $12,780 cash in his bedroom…

HERE

Houston Chronicle

Teen’s birthday party takes tragic turn
It’s the scene of Houston’s first homicide of the year

Houston’s first homicide victim of 2010 was an illegal [alien] celebrating his 18th birthday before being shot by another illegal [alien] at an apartment complex early Friday. The suspect is on the run. — The teen, who was from Mexico, was celebrating with two of his older brothers and friends at an apartment…

HERE

For those of you who keep asking:

The comical race-baiting, open borders nuts at ABLE are funded by the open borders nuts at GAMALIEL

Below from Discover the Networks

The Gamaliel Foundation takes a strong stand against current homeland security measures and immigration restrictions. In September of 2003, for example, Ana Garcia-Ashley, GF’s Director of Civil Rights for Immigrants, described the Patriot Act as an “attack on immigrants.” Moreover, GF seeks to persuade the U.S. government to “legalize and provide rights to tax-paying [illegal] immigrants in this country.” “We support any immigration legislation,” adds GF, “that secures the civil rights of all immigrants; leads to the legalization of undocumented persons; provides for full labor protection and labor rights of immigrants; ends the inhumane detention and warehousing of asylum seekers; ends deportation for minor offenses; encourages family unity; provides security of our borders; includes humane border enforcement policies; [and] protects the civil liberties of all people.”

The Gamaliel Foundation is a sponsoring organization of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Coalition, which seeks to secure ever-expanding rights and civil liberties protections for illegal immigrants, and policy reforms that diminish or eliminate restrictions on immigration.

HERE

You can see one of the ABLE race-baiters in action HERE (VIDEO)

Gwinnett releases info on immigration enforcement

Augusta Chronicle

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. – The Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Department says a program that allows specially trained sheriff’s deputies to enforce federal immigration law is working well.

The program began on Nov. 16 when 18 deputies returned from training by federal authorities. The sheriff’s department says 62 percent of the foreign-born population in the county jail has been found to be in the country illegally.

Deputies have placed immigration detainers on 286 inmates. The charges against them include aggravated assault, rape, child molestation, DUI, robbery, sex crimes and trafficking.

The program is called 287(g) after the section of immigration law that governs it. It has been championed by illegal immigration foes and decried by immigrant rights and civil liberties groups.

HERE

D.A. King — Macon Telegraph

Obama to American workers: Drop dead

Last month, U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill, introduced legislation in the House to reward the hordes of illegal aliens who made it past our Border Patrol agents with legalization, jobs, public benefits and eventually the right to vote as citizens…

HERE