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Georgia’s immigration law to end official use of Mexican-issued ID

July 19, 2011

D.A. King

Georgia’s Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act (HB 87) has seen several massive, angry and defiant protests staged by well-funded open borders partisans and attended by thousands of fugitives who, having escaped capture by American Border Patrol Agents, are now demanding – in a foreign language – that Governor Deal somehow negate the law.

Insightful isn’t it?

The goal for the identity-politics hucksters is to stop implementation of as much of the law as possible so as to protect their precious but now dwindling commodity: Georgia’s population of illegals, many of whom are already migrating out of the Peach State in fear of the possibility of actual enforcement.

By now, most of us have read – ad nauseum – that a federal judge has “struck down the key provisions of HB 87…” Complete, wishful nonsense.

The truth is that everyone who worked on production of the law would have traded most of the remainder of the twenty-three section bill for the language contained in Section 12 that expands the mandate for use of E-Verify from Georgia’s public employers and their contractors to all private employers with more than ten full-time workers.

A very similar E-Verify requirement has already been challenged and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. Georgia’s E-Verify mandate is untouchable to the wide variety of people who detest it.

But, there is also – mostly unpublicized – rabid opposition to another notable section of HB 87 that will serve to make life in Georgia much less profitable for illegal aliens when it goes into effect on January 1, 2012.

Section 19 makes most official acceptance of the Mexican government issued ‘matricula consular’ ID a crime punishable by a fine and jail time.

Most Georgians, including far too many legislators, don’t know a matricula consular from a crook-neck squash. A partial education: Because newly-arrived Mexican illegal aliens lack valid U.S. issued ID, the government of Mexico issues a red and green photo ID card from its consulates across the United States to anyone who claiming Mexican citizenship and holding a local utility bill or other document showing a U.S. address. Any U.S. address.

Only illegal aliens have a need for the matricula consular ID. American police report that it is not uncommon to interview suspects in possession of multiple matricula consulars – all with different names.

In 2003, the FBI Office of Intelligence testified to Congress that because of ease of forgery, lack of a central database and unreliability of information used to obtain the matricula consular ID, the document issued inside the USA – by a foreign government, in a foreign language – represents a “criminal threat…and a potential terrorist threat.”

The FBI testimony went on to explain that “…the Department of Justice and the FBI have concluded that the matricula consular is not a reliable form of identification…the matricula consular can be a perfect breeder document for establishing a false identity.”

The FBI lost the argument against accepting the Mexican ID on the national level.

Many Americans may have seen these cards presented by “undocumented workers” while in line at their local bank.

In 2004, then Atlanta mayor Mayor Shirley Franklin signed an agreement with the Mexican government that recognizes the Mexican matricula consular ID as valid for all official Atlanta business. Franklin’s quote at the time was that the ID card ” helps to promote public safety and public health by allowing Mexican nationals to access services.”

The resulting ordinance is apparently still on the books and enforced. This long-time American has lost track of the services that have been cut back for citizens since then in the city.

It should be noted that TSA still allows passengers to use the questionable matricula consular as photo ID to board an airliner. With that in mind, and to demonstrate how easy it is to get a useable phony Mexican ID, several years ago, I obtained two of them. On one, I used my own name and Georgia address. On the other, I used the name “Al Qaida Gonzalez” with “911 Forgotten St.” as an address.

Incredibly, it can be seen here in an editorial written in a Mexican newspaper by a writer lamenting the fact that the matricula was not as widely accepted there as it is here.

Example?

Last week a local immigration lawyer, Charles Kuck, was quoted in a news story in a locally published foreign language newspaper (translated using Bablefish HERE ) outlining the Georgia law and assuring the now quite worried illegals they can continue to use the matricula consular as ID to collect Georgia food stamps in the name of their children at least until January.

You read it here first.

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D.A. King is a nationally recognized authority on illegal immigration and president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society. He worked closely with legislators on HB 87, the recently enacted Georgia immigration enforcement law. On the Web: www.TheDustinInmanSociety.org