Right now I am playing around with census data to find areas that are likely to have large numbers of illegal aliens. There are six census tracts where over 70% of the residents are Hispanic. Compared with records on voter registration, very few of these Hispanic residents are registered to vote. I got a hunch that many of these people are not in the country legally and that is why they are not registered to vote.

While the number of illegal Asian residents is much smaller than the number of Hispanic illegal residents, the phenomena exist. There are 16 census tracts were more than 70% of the residents are either Hispanic or Asian. Most of these tracts are along the HWY 85 corridor in Gwinnett, DeKalb, and 3 of these tracts are in Hall county.

After driving these around these census tracts some things become clear. First, there are a lot of warehouses in these areas. It is hard for illegal’s to get work even if it should be harder. Many do not have cars, and most of the jobs they are qualified for are manual labor jobs. With the decline of construction, one of the few jobs that still hires large number of manual workers is in warehouses.

The Labor Department, now controlled by a Conservative Republican, should make inquires into the employment records of the various warehouse, discount furniture stores, and shipping centers. The Labor Department should have the right to inspect for working conditions as well as verifying the identity of the workers. If the Labor Department does not have the authority to make proper inspections, the revenue department does. If there is a question as to the identity of a worker or there is a question of properly filled out tax forms, the state revenue department should be able to investigate.

The next obvious thing is the presence of a large number of low quality hotels, motels, and apartments. Petty crimes are ignored as well as the zoning laws. Plus, I am curious how illegal’s pay to stay at some of these weekly hotels. Require all hotels to record information from a driver’s license or other government issued id before they can accept a non-cash payment. Legal residents from other countries have passports, illegal aliens should not be able to get a US government issued ID or a foreign issued passport approved by our government. Apartments that violate zoning laws should be punished harshly.

The process to reduce the impact of Illegal residents is long, but with a more sympathetic state government, we should be able make some progress.