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§ 1304. Forms for registration and fingerprinting

(a) Preparation; contents
The Attorney General and the Secretary of State jointly are authorized and directed to prepare forms for the registration of aliens under section 1301 of this title, and the Attorney General is authorized and directed to prepare forms for the registration and fingerprinting of aliens under section 1302 of this title. Such forms shall contain inquiries with respect to
(1) the date and place of entry of the alien into the United States;
(2) activities in which he has been and intends to be engaged;
(3) the length of time he expects to remain in the United States;
(4) the police and criminal record, if any, of such alien; and
(5) such additional matters as may be prescribed.
(b) Confidential nature
All registration and fingerprint records made under the provisions of this subchapter shall be confidential, and shall be made available only
(1) pursuant to section 1357 (f)(2) of this title, and
(2) to such persons or agencies as may be designated by the Attorney General.
(c) Information under oath
Every person required to apply for the registration of himself or another under this subchapter shall submit under oath the information required for such registration. Any person authorized under regulations issued by the Attorney General to register aliens under this subchapter shall be authorized to administer oaths for such purpose.
(d) Certificate of alien registration or alien receipt card
Every alien in the United States who has been registered and fingerprinted under the provisions of the Alien Registration Act, 1940, or under the provisions of this chapter shall be issued a certificate of alien registration or an alien registration receipt card in such form and manner and at such time as shall be prescribed under regulations issued by the Attorney General.
(e) Personal possession of registration or receipt card; penalties
Every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or alien registration receipt card issued to him pursuant to subsection (d) of this section. Any alien who fails to comply with the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction for each offense be fined not to exceed $100 or be imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both. (f) Alien’s social security account number
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Attorney General is authorized to require any alien to provide the alien’s social security account number for purposes of inclusion in any record of the alien maintained by the Attorney General or the Service.

My guest column in today’s MDJ

Contact info for each candidate for Georgia governor:

Nathan Deal HERE

Karen Handel HERE

Roy Barnes HERE

Marietta Daily Journal

July 28, 2010

COMMENTARY

D.A. King: Candidate questions

Trio of gubernatorial hopefuls quizzed on illegal immigration

Below are six questions on illegal immigration I sent to the three remaining candidates for Georgia governor (Republicans in a runoff, Nathan Deal and Karen Handel, and Democrat Roy Barnes) Tuesday:

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Georgia ranks 50th among the states in most year-over-year job losses and has lost more jobs than any other state except California.

Georgia ranks sixth in the nation for the population of “undocumented workers” and is home to more black-market labor than the state of Arizona. Most Georgians realize that illegal immigration is not a separate issue from “jobs, jobs jobs.”

1.) Will you commit to using the power of the Governor’s office to put in place legislation that requires use of the no-cost federal E-Verify employment verification system to obtain or renew a business license/ ‘occupational tax certificate’ in Georgia?

This is a YES or No question.

One requirement (OCGA 13-10-90) in the 2006 Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act is that all public employers and their contractors use the federal E-Verify system. According to a recent list provided by the E-Verify office there is not yet 100% compliance from local governments.

The effective date of the mandate was July 1, 2007.

2.) What will you do, if anything, to improve the law to protect jobs for Georgians on Public Works contracts for legal labor?

Georgia law requires all official agencies in Georgia to use the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database to verify the eligibility of non-citizen applicants for Public Benefits, after an affidavit process.

The effective date was 1 July 2007 and then another on 1 January 2010. (OCGA 50-36-1)

There is no real penalty for ignoring the law and legislation aimed at creating sanctions has been gutted and defeated in each of the last two sessions (HB 2 in 2009, HB 1164 in 2010). According to a list provided by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, as of July 1, there are only 211 agencies in the process of gaining SAVE authority with 189 active users.

There are 159 counties and 535 municipalities in Georgia. The number of other government agencies administering Public Benefits is unknown. There is no state oversight or educational agency to monitor and measure compliance or to improve effectiveness.

3.) Given the state of the Georgia budget, what will you do, if anything, to improve existing Georgia law and procedure to gain compliance with the code that is aimed at stopping Georgia’s finite and shrinking taxpayer-funded public benefits from going to ineligible illegal aliens?

Currently, there is much debate about the actual dollar cost of illegal immigration and illegal employment to Georgians. What is not in dispute is the high cost of K-12 education for illegals and the children of illegals. These costs are followed by medical treatment, incarceration and translation services.

4.) On the premise that we cannot effectively change what we do not measure, will you commit to putting in place questionnaires and monitoring procedures to ascertain the citizenship/immigration status of individuals and families receiving federally mandated taxpayer funded benefits so as to create an official database from which to gain public knowledge of the real cost of illegal immigration to Georgians?

This is a YES or NO question.

5.) If elected, will you do whatever necessary to prohibit illegal aliens from attending any school in Georgia’s university system and our technical college system?This is a YES or NO question.

According to multiple media reports people who have been residing and taking jobs illegally in Arizona are migrating out of that state in fear of recent state legislation, the ‘Support our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act’ (SB 1070).

Nationwide, it has been proven repeatedly that illegal aliens leave areas and communities and states where immigration, benefits and employment laws are enforced. Departing illegals leave behind job openings and allow wages to go up for lawful labor.

Strain on state and local budgets is relieved due to an increased tax base and a decrease in the need for providing benefits and services to ineligible, illegal, low wage recipients.

The Arizona law mirrors long standing federal law and most agree that it is a proven deterrent and like federal law, clearly prohibits the use of race or ethnicity as reasonable cause for enforcement.

6.) Will you commit to using the power of the Georgia Governor’s office to create, pass and sign into law legislation based on Arizona’s SB 1070 – including making illegal immigration a state crime in Georgia?

I will let you know their responses next week, right here.

D.A. King is president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society, which is opposed to illegal immigration. On the Web: www.TheDustinInmanSociety.org

Read more: The Marietta Daily Journal – D A King Candidate questions

Washington Post
Letters to the editor – from one of the authors of 287(g), U.S. Congressman Lamar Smith

What Section 287(g) of immigration act really says

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Doris Meissner and James W. Ziglar’s July 22 op-ed piece, “Why the U.S. had to challenge Arizona on immigration,” misstated the facts about Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. That section of law establishes a mechanism for formal cooperation between the Department of Homeland Security and state and local law enforcement agencies. Then-Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) and I wrote the law.

Ms. Meissner and Mr. Ziglar asserted that Arizona’s immigration enforcement law “appears to go well beyond the intent of 287(g).” They also claimed that the federal government “must expressly delegate . . . authority” to states that wish to aid in the enforcement of our immigration laws.

In fact, paragraph 10 of section 287(g) specifically provides for the type of law that Arizona has enacted. It states: “Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to require an agreement . . . in order for any officer of a State . . . to communicate with the [Secretary of Homeland Security] regarding the immigration status of any individual . . . or otherwise to cooperate with the [Secretary] in the identification, apprehension, detention, or removal of aliens not lawfully present in the United States.”

The writers may be unfamiliar with Section 287(g) because they only entered into two such agreements in their nine combined years at the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Lamar Smith, Washington

The writer is the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee.

HERE

Reuters

Illegals sell up, flee Arizona ahead of crackdown

Nicaraguan mother Lorena Aguilar hawks a television set and a few clothes on the baking sidewalk outside her west Phoenix apartment block. — A few paces up the street, her [illegal alien] Mexican neighbor Wendi Villasenor touts a kitchen table, some chairs and a few dishes as her family scrambles to get out of Arizona…

HERE

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Marietta Daily Journal

Letters to the Editor

Make illegals – and officials – show IDs
July 20, 2010

DEAR EDITOR:

I am tired of hearing officials complain that asking people to show ID is “profiling.” I am an 83-year old native-born American who, most of my life, has had to provide identification for almost everything I do. Currently, it is mandatory that I show my ID when:

* pulled over by the police

* making purchases on my department store credit card

* showing up for a doctor’s appointment

* filling out a credit card or loan application

* applying for or renewing a driver’s license or passport

* applying for any kind of insurance

* filling out college applications

* donating blood

* obtaining certain prescription drugs

* making some debit purchases, especially if I’m out of state

* collecting a boarding pass for airline or train travel.

I am sure there are other examples that I cannot think of at the moment, but I think you get the idea – we citizens have to prove our identity almost every day of our lives. However, our leaders think it is unlawful to ask illegal immigrants to prove who they are. I think some of our leaders should also have to do the same thing.

Anyone who is afraid to have to prove their identity must have something to hide, so why should they be exempt from what we have to do?

Also, every other country in the world has more security along their borders than we do, so why should we not be able to protect our border with Mexico and Canada to the same level?

Jack Ferguson
Marietta

Read more: The Marietta Daily Journal – Make illegals and officials show IDs

Florida Independent

Usual suspects “skeptical” of ICE fingerprinting program used in Florida

Subhash Kateel, of the Florida Immigrant Coalition, calls Florida a “testing ground for Immigration and Customs Enforcement programs.” For evidence, he points to the state’s embrace of Section 287(g) — a provision in federal law that allows state and local law enforcement agencies to “perform immigration law enforcement functions”…

HERE

Los Angeles Times

Illegal alien ‘sanctuaries’ rouse opponents’ wrath

Critics of the Obama administration’s decision to sue Arizona over its new law to control illegal immigration accuse the government of overlooking a more obvious target: the dozens of cities that called themselves a “sanctuary” for [illegal aliens…. criminals]. — “Everyone has noticed the hypocrisy of the government going after Arizona and ignoring the sanctuary cities,” said Bob Dane…

HERE