Georgia has more illegals than Arizona. We rank number 6 in the nation in illegal population. Pew says about 7% of Georgia’s workforce is black market labor while official state unemployment, now at 7.7% has been 8-9% for years. Gov Deal has used the estimate that illegal immigration costs the Georgia taxpayers somewhere around $2.4 billion annually. Another amnesty isn’t going to fix it.

We are hearing that there are some confusing answers coming from some Georgia officials and/or staffers concerning the eligibility of DACA illegal aliens for a Georgia drivers license and whether or not these illegal aliens are really being issued a Georgia DL. They are.

Please see my Sunday column in the Marietta Daily Journal HERE for more details.

Make no mistake, DACA illegal aliens are illegal aliens. The deferred action on deportation is exactly that. You can see the White House blog explaining that fact HERE

“While this process does not provide lawful status or a pathway to permanent residence or citizenship, individuals whose cases are deferred will not be removed from the United States for a two year period, subject to renewal, and may also receive employment authorization.”

You can see the same on the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services official website HERE .

“Deferred action does not provide an individual with lawful status.”

See “10 Things to Do After DACA Approval” HERE . Note the papers/ documents issued to the illegals after receiving DACA amnesty. Info on the feds issuing illegal aliens an SSN HERE too.

Now take a look at the list of documents required by the Department of Drivers Services (DDS) to obtain a Georgia drivers license ( see “non-citizens”) HERE

There is an opinion letter from the AG to Governor Deal dated August 22, 2012 regarding the governor’s question about DL eligibility for deferred action recipients and existing Georgia law. I don’t have time to post it. Ask me. —– *Added 14 February, 2014 – I found the time and thanks to Mr. David Hancock of the Gwinnett Tea Party, now have a link to the AG response…HERE

A reader/supporter who happened to be renewing his DL today emailed me this afternoon about a conversation with a staffer in his local DL office: ”

D.A. -I went to Gainesville to get my drivers license renewed. The lady helping us told me it would be a couple of weeks before I got the real license because it had to go to Homeland Security for clearance. I asked what if it was an illegal alien. She told me they would not get a license…”

Today, at last two people relayed to me that when they called, they were told, apparently quite emphatically, by “somebody in the governor’s office” that illegal aliens were not being issued DLs in Georgia and one person told me he had been challenged to find paper work that “proved it.”

It looks like many in the state government don’t know about this. Huh. Odd, it is a huge story to the illegal alien lobby. And you can see HERE and on page eight HERE and HERE for just a few readily available examples. Google works!

Even this neutral law site gets it HERE

A quote from the spox at DDS from CNN (!) HERE

“Even in some states that have passed strong anti-illegal immigration laws, such as Georgia, driver’s licenses may be available to undocumented immigrants who qualify under the new policy.Under current Georgia law, people with deferred status can get a license, and that’s what the state will do unless it gets different orders, said Susan Sports, spokeswoman for the state’s Department of Driver Services.”We’re waiting for direction,”

Speaking of the illegal alien lobby, HERE is immigration lawyer Charles Kuck, the vice-Chair of Georgia’s most well-funded (Jane Fonda, Ga Power, State Farm, Coca Cola…) anti-enforcement corporation GALEO howling about 2013’s bill in the Georgia General Assembly HB 125 aimed at improving the protections for jobs, benefits and services from illegal immigration and illegal employment. HB 125 passed as SB 160 and was signed into law.

Kuch: Why is this important?…For example, under current law DACA students are allowed to obtain driver’s licenses. This revision may enable to state to DENY drivers licenses to legally resident DACA grantees!

Lawyer Kuck is also suing the state Board of Regents to obtain instate tuition and access to all USG schools for DACA illegal aliens. A young American student from Florida for example could easily pay four times as much tuition ( out of state) as an illegal alien. HERE

One more: HERE is just one example of what the Democrats in Washington are demanding fro Obama on expanding delayed action on deportation amnesty to all illegal aliens.

Word for the day: Incrementalism.