From today’s Marietta Daily Journal:

D.A. King: DREAM vote coming in lame duck Congress

by D.A. King
Guest Columnist

The Marietta Daily Journal

November 23, 2010

The majority of Americans who breathed an exhausted sigh of relief when the elections were over have a nasty surprise coming from Washington. With the help of those in the liberal, semi-honest national media and some Republicans, the Obama – Reid – Pelosi cabal is planning an after-Thanksgiving amnesty for about two-million illegal aliens.

The nearly decade-old DREAM Act amnesty legislation that was last defeated in September will get yet another chance in the lame-duck Congressional session. A vote on the amnesty bill that most of the media refuses to accurately explain and report on could come as early as Monday.

While it comes in multiple versions, the DREAM Act amnesty is constantly described as being “for teenaged students.” Complete bunk. The amnesty applies mostly to adults up to age 35 and would be the largest addition to Democrat voting rolls since … well, since the “one-time” amnesty of 1986.

Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), who is one of this American’s favorite U.S. Senators, offers some insight on the amnesty legislation that you won’t hear from the same media outlets that also carefully fail to mention the ’86 legalization scheme that actually increased illegal immigration and is responsible for encouraging the invasion we see all around us every day.

“The scope of this proposal is enormous, extending amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants including a number who have committed serious crimes, incentivizing further illegality and making it more difficult to develop a just and responsible immigration policy,” said Session’s spokesman. “In less than a decade, this reality could easily double or triple the more than 2.1 million green cards that will be immediately distributed as a result of the DREAM Act.”

Senator Sessions goes on: “Not only would the legislation put an estimated 2.1 million illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship, it would also give them access to in-state tuition rates at public universities, federal student loans and federal work-study programs. Illegals who gain citizenship under this legislation will have the legal right to petition for the entry of their family members, including their adult brothers and sisters and the parents who illegally brought or sent them to the U.S.”

A very effective way for readers to combat the DREAM Act amnesty is to take advantage of the completely free “fax Congress from-your-home-computer” service provided by the pro-enforcement, non-profit immigration-control group NumbersUSA on its easily accessed website. Washington-based NumbersUSA was founded to educate Americans of all descriptions on immigration sanity and protecting American workers. It offers additional facts on the DREAM Act scam that cannot be noted too many times.

From NumbersUSA:

* “There are no numerical limits on how many illegal aliens may be granted amnesty, and they cannot be counted against any existing immigration cap.”

* “There is no end date on the application period, so there is nothing to stop illegal aliens who enter the country in the future from applying if they are willing to lie about when they entered.”

* “No alien who files an amnesty application may be removed from the United States before the application is adjudicated completely. There are no exceptions to this, so as long as an alien files an amnesty application before he flies a plane into the World Trade Center or goes on a killing spree in the local mall, he cannot be removed from the country until his application is (hopefully) denied and he has exhausted all appeals.”

* “Every illegal alien who applies for amnesty would move to the front of the line, ahead of the millions of people who are in line to come to the United States the right way.”

Know this: If the DREAM Act were approved, the chances of resentful, newly legalized former illegal aliens and their families who have been raised on vicious identity politics becoming immigration enforcement stalwarts when they gain the ability to vote are slim and none. These are the folks who are even now – as illegals – marching with the ACLU demanding an end to enforcement of our immigration laws.

I mentioned above that there may be some help from Republicans in bolstering the Democrat voting rolls by voting for this nightmare.

Keep your eyes on these U.S. Senators: Murkowski (Alaska), Lugar (Indiana), Brownback (Kansas), Voinovich (Ohio), LeMeiux (Florida) ,Collins (Maine) , Snowe (Maine) ,Brown of (Massachusetts) ,Johanns (Nebraska) ,Gregg of (New Hampshire) ,Hutchison (Texas), and McCain (Arizona).

There is still work for the sane American majority to do. Outraged, vocal, citizen opposition can stop the DREAM Act amnesty.

D.A. King is president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society and a nationally recognized authority on illegal immigration. On the Web: www.TheDustinInmanSociety.org

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Homeland security now means jobs

Sunday, December 14, 2008

by Cynthia Tucker

If Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano becomes secretary of homeland security next year, she’ll need to scramble to secure the nation’s southern border. Not from terrorists, but from illegal immigrants.

Since the construction industry began hemorrhaging jobs last year, many undocumented workers who helped to build houses, condominiums and office complexes have returned to their native countries. Since they could no longer find work, they left. That’s among the reasons that illegal immigration was barely mentioned in the general election campaign.

But President-elect Barack Obama has promised a vast jobs program that will prove tempting to laborers in neighboring countries. And the surest way to wreck Obama’s economic recovery plans would be to allow illegal immigrants to take the government-funded jobs intended for Americans.

Even without that added controversy, the civic fabric will become increasingly frayed as the economy grows worse. Whenever people feel threatened or insecure, they retreat to tribal alliances — each ethnic group looking with suspicion on others. That’s a primal instinct likely to produce friction in a country as diverse as this. If that instinct is fueled by the presence of illegal workers, scapegoating will explode into savagery.

As Napolitano works to tighten the borders, she will be swimming against a current that has swept Mexicans, Hondurans, Guatemalans and other immigrants into this country’s labor pool — a current supercharged by lax border security, cheating employers and, yes, choosy Americans who don’t like manual labor.

Back when the economy was better, many skilled workers — painters, bricklayers, plumbers — complained that their jobs were being taken by cheaper laborers. There was undoubtedly some truth to that. Many construction bosses and highway paving contractors were eager to use low-cost laborers who wouldn’t complain about substandard working conditions. That’s why so many of the construction accidents that were frequent during the boom years involved workers with names such as Ramirez and Valdez, men who wouldn’t be likely to complain to federal safety regulators (if they survived).

However, it’s also true that native-born workers have grown accustomed to indoor jobs that don’t require backbreaking labor in frigid cold, pouring rain or hellish heat. While our grandparents and parents accepted whatever jobs they could find — digging ditches, planting and harvesting crops, painting houses, pushing wheelbarrows — my generation has believed in an upward mobility that left that sort of work to immigrants.

In December 2006, when construction was still a go-go industry, NBC’s Tom Brokaw interviewed Mark Gould, owner of a small Colorado construction company, for a special report on illegal immigration. Gould told Brokaw that he wanted to hire legally, but he struggled to find enough workers for his growing business.

“We are turning down proposals, requests for proposals, every week because we don’t have the employees,” Gould said.

He also insisted his employees were fairly compensated.

“If you’re giving the guy 14 or 15 bucks an hour, (if) you’re paying him overtime, you’re paying him 50 hours a week, and he’s bringing home 7-800 bucks. He is not one of those abused guys,” Gould said. But not many Americans wanted those jobs, he told Brokaw.

Perhaps an economy in free fall will spur Americans to take dirty and difficult jobs they wouldn’t have considered before. Perhaps the jobs market has grown so dire and the bills piled up so high that unemployed Americans will take whatever work they can get.

But loose borders could leave those legal workers in stiff competition with illegal labor. Private contractors (who will probably be awarded government contracts for infrastructure development) would likely choose cheaper and more docile workers, putting illegal immigrants at the front of the employment line.

Napolitano should issue a warning to employers about illegal hiring, making it clear that those who hire undocumented workers will face prison. The Bush administration didn’t do much of that, given its reluctance to alienate business interests. But there are only three ways to control illegal workers: keep them out, which we haven’t done; have a lousy economy, which we don’t want; or prosecute employers who hire them.

• Cynthia Tucker was the AJC editorial page editor. She was removed last year. HERE

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Georgia low on list for ID check

In September, Hawaii’s Big Island and Maui joined Oahu in a federal fingerprint-sharing program aimed at deporting violent illegal [aliens]. The rest of Hawaii is expected to get hooked up to the “Secure Communities” system before October…

HERE

Michelle Malkin

DREAM Act Nightmare: 2.1 million future Democrat voter recruitment drive

Let’s be clear. — The open-borders progressives’ “DREAM Act” is an electoral nightmare. It’s not just an illegal alien student bailout. It’s a 2.1 million future Democrat voter recruitment drive. The “path to citizenship” dangled by Obama is a superhighway to generations of big government-birthed, identity politics-nursed dependents…

HERE

Stop the illegal alien student bailout: DREAM Act target list; Plus: Sen. Sessions’ critical alert
By Michelle Malkin • November 17, 2010 12:44 PM

As I told you yesterday and as I’ve been telling you for, oh, years, the shamnesty crowd is counting on open-borders Republicans to drag the DREAM Act illegal alien student bailout across the legislative finish line.

Here’s a handy phone list of target Senate Republicans. Use and share:

Sen. Murkowski of Alaska 202-224-6665
907-271-3735

Sen. Lugar of Indiana 202-224-4814
317-226-5555

Sen. Brownback of Kansas 202-224-6521
785-233-2503

Sen. Voinovich of Ohio 202-224-3353
614-469-6697

Sen. LeMeiux of Florida 202-224-3041
904-398-8586

Sen. Collins of Maine 202-224-2523
207-945-0417

Sen. Snowe of Maine 202-224-5344
207-874-0883

Sen. Brown of Massachusetts 202-224-4543
617-565-3170

Sen. Johanns of Nebraska 202-224-4224
402-758-8981

Sen. Gregg of New Hampshire 202-224-3324
603-225-7115

Sen. Hutchison of Texas 202-224-5922
214-361-3500

Sen. McCain of Arizona 202-224-2235
480-897-6289

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Stalwart immigration enforcement supporter Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) will be circulating an alert about the Dems’ DREAM Act nightmare emphasizing some of the following critical points:

1) The illegal alien student bailout will NOT be limited to “children” — but, in fact, would put illegal aliens in their 30s and 40s on a “path to citizenship.” Taxpayers “would also be on the hook for all federal benefits the DREAM Act seeks to offer illegal aliens, including student loans and grants.

2) The DREAM Act provides safe harbor for any alien, including criminals, from being removed or deported if they simply submit an application.

3) Certain criminal aliens, including gang members, deportation fugitives, and those who have committed voter fraud or marriage fraud, would be eligible for DREAM Act amnesty.

4) An estimated 2.1 million illegal aliens will be eligible for DREAM Act amnesty.

5) Illegal aliens would be eligible for in-state tuition benefits under Section 3.

6) The DREAM Act does not require that amnesty beneficiaries actually finish any type of degree as a condition for “path to citizenship” benefits.

Where do your Senators stand on the illegal alien student bailout — which President Obama is openly pushing as a “down payment” on a larger shamnesty? Ask them. Get them on record. And spread the word… HERE

HERE

607 pages! There are more than 16,000 Georgia users by my count and the list is growing daily!

The easiest way to search that is to click on Edit, then Find and a block will open up for you to type the name of the company to see if it is in there. Try it on ” the Dustin Inman Society” (listed on page 222)

HERE

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Georgia legislators consider Arizona-style crackdown on illegal aliens

A state legislative panel studying whether Georgia should adopt an Arizona-style crackdown on illegal immigration has received a long list of proposals to consider, including authorizing all local and state law enforcement officers to enforce federal immigration laws…

HERE

HEAR AUDIO HERE

WABE– NPR in Atlanta

Lawmakers Hear Testimony on Arizona-style Immigration Law
Michelle Wirth (2010-11-18)

ATLANTA, GA (WABE) – A committee of Republican lawmakers that’s charged with immigration reform heard testimony this week on an Arizona-style immigration law for the state.

Jerry Gonzalez with the Georgia Association of Latino Elected officials told the committee that passage of an Arizona-style immigration law would devastate the state’s agricultural industry.

“We cannot afford to enforce the rule of law, because are agriculture industry, along with other industries, desperately need immigrant labor in order to be successful. Without that labor, even more jobs would be lost.”

Georgia labor officials say there are more than 20,000 agricultural workers in the state, but the department is not sure how many are illegal immigrants.

Experts estimate that nationally between 50% to 70% of all agricultural workers are undocumented.

Gonzalez says if lawmakers truly wanted to crack down on illegal immigrants, they should focus on the businesses who employ them.

“Yet despite all of the chest thumping, nothing has been to target employers. Why?”

But Gonzalez says that’s not something he is in favor of because it would wreak havoc on the state’s economy. However, D.A. King with the Dustin Inman Society says that fears expressed by Gonzalez about the agricultural industry are unfounded. He says a worker visa program called H-2A is a legal solution to the problem.

“In a nutshell, H-2A allows any foreign worker to come into this country to do agricultural work for which an American citizen cannot be found. It is unlimited. We can bring in as many workers lawfully as we need to.”

King encourages state lawmakers to hold all employers feet to the fire about the legality of their workforce.

“I urge the legislature, and will be very active in creating legislation that requires every employer in Georgia to use the E-verify system as a condition of obtaining or retaining a business license.”

E-verify is an Internet-based system that is supposed to help employers verify the immigration status of workers. Currently, public employers and contractors with the state are required to use the system. Committee members plan to use testimony gathered in a series of meetings to draft legislation for the upcoming legislative session.
© Copyright 2010, WABE

This was HB 1259 last session, it never saw even a subcommittee hearing. That will not be the case ths year. Incoming Governor Deal has voiced his support for the concept. HERE.

MAP of states with E-Verify laws HERE.

Added 5:22: LIST of E-Verify users in Georgia from the U.S Department of Homeland Security as of 3 September, 2010HERE ( large file)

There are more than 16,000 Georgia users by my count and the list is growing daily!

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT D.A. King

To enact the “Georgia Employer and Worker Protection Act of 2011”; to provide for a short title; to amend Chapter 60 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions applicable to counties and municipal corporations, so as to require participation in the federal employment eligibility verification system as a condition of obtaining a business license or occupational tax certificate; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

SECTION 1.This Act shall be known and may be cited as the “Georgia Employer and Worker Protection Act of 2010.”

SECTION 2.Chapter 60 of Title 36 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions applicable to counties and municipal corporations, is amended by revising Code Section 36-60-6, relating to the issuance of local business licenses and evidence of state licensure, as follows:”36-60-6.(a) Before any county or municipal corporation issues a business license or occupational tax certificate to any person engaged in a profession or business required to be licensed by the state under Title 43, the person must provide evidence of such licensure to the appropriate agency of the county or municipal corporation that issues business licenses. No business license shall be issued to any person subject to licensure under Title 43 without evidence of such licensure being presented.(b) Any person presenting false or misleading evidence of such state licensure shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.(b) In addition to the requirements of subsection (a) of this Code section, before any county or municipal corporation issues or renews a business license or occupational tax certificate to any business, the business shall obtain authorization to use and agree to use, as a condition of being issued a business license or occupational tax certificate, the federal employment eligibility verification system known as E-Verify or any future replacement employment eligibility verification system. In order to ensure compliance with this subsection, any county or municipal corporation issuing a business license or occupational tax certificate shall require, as a part of the application process, a notarized sworn affidavit from each applicant attesting that he or she will utilize the employment eligibility verification system. The affidavit shall include the federally assigned user number and date of authority and shall express an intent to continually use the system in accordance with federal regulations.(c) Any county or municipal corporation issuing a business license or occupational tax certificate shall annually provide to the Department of Audits and Reports, not later than December 31 of each year, a report demonstrating compliance with the provisions of this Code section. Each year, the Department of Audits and Reports shall conduct an annual audit of no fewer than 25 percent of such reporting agencies. The Department of Audits and Reports shall publish not later than February 1 of each year a report of the department’s audit findings.”

SECTION 3.This Act shall become effective on July 1, 2010, and shall apply to business licenses or occupational tax certificates issued on or after such date.

SECTION 4.All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed