What is an I-94 form anyway? HERE

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OMG! How can anyone have access to an I-94 form if they come from a country that has a visa waiver program/agreement with the United States? HERE

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What does existing federal law (since 1940) say about the requirement that non-citizens in the USA always carry proof of lawful presence on their person?

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.

8 USC 1304 Alien registration Act of 1940 HERE

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How does an alien obtain a Georgia drivers license using a foreign passport as ID? With a documented foreign passport. That’s how. We think that having the same ID security safeguards statewide as the DDS already has is great public policy!

Checklist of all Accepted Documents (pasted from the Georgia DDS website – HERE)

Effective July 1, 2012, the following documentation requirements are in place at DDS resulting from the Federal requirements of the Real ID Act. Please be sure to bring the required documents in each section with you when you visit a DDS Customer Service Center to obtain your DL or ID.
Non-Citizen

NOTE: DDS will only issue a driver’s license in a name that exactly matches the original immigration documents.

Visa Waiver; also requires Unexpired Foreign Passport

Unexpired Foreign Passport with a valid US Visa and valid I-94 or I-797; also requires I-766, I-20, or DS -2019

I-766 (TPS – Temporary Protected Status)

I-766 (non TPS); also requi res Unexpired Foreign Passport

I-551 or I-551 Stamp with photo on I-94 form

I-551 Stamp; also requires Unexpired Foreign Passport

I-94 (Asylee status)

I-94 (Refugee status)

Certificate of Citizenship

Certificate of Naturalization

Unexpired Foreign Passport with Immigration Status of A, B, E, H, I, L, O, P, Q, R, or S

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But wait! Didn’t the USCIS just change the rules on I-94 forms to automate the form?

Yes, they did. You can see that change HERE. It does not eliminate the existence of or access to the I-94 form or the requirement that it be presented when needed for benefits or licenses. But nice try Jerry.

CBP Announces Automation of Form I-94 Arrival/Departure Record

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) today published an interim final rule in the Federal Register to automate Form I-94, Arrival/Departure Record. Form I-94 provides nonimmigrants evidence that they have been lawfully admitted to the United States. The interim final rule, effective on April 26, 2013, streamlines the admissions process for nonimmigrants arriving to the United States. Affected nonimmigrants traveling to the United States by air or sea will no longer need to fill out a paper Form I-94. However, individuals who go through secondary inspection, such as asylees, refugees, and parolees, will be provided a paper copy of Form I-94 by a CBP officer.

USCIS will continue to require applicants to submit a paper copy of Form I-94 when requesting certain benefits. Other government agencies, such as State Departments of Motor Vehicles (DMVs), also require a paper copy of Form I-94. Moreover, nonimmigrants who are authorized to work may present a paper copy of Form I-94 to their employers during the employment eligibility verification (Form I-9) process.

For more information regarding CBP’s Form I-94 automation, please visit CBP’s website at www.cbp.gov and review their News Release regarding Form I-94 Automation.

For more information on USCIS forms and procedures, please visit www.uscis.gov or call our toll-free National Customer Service Center at 1-800-375-5283.

Last updated:03/27/2013

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The illegal alien lobby is sending out wild claims about the “unintended consequences” of SB 160. Some of the real gems are listed below and followed by the truth in bold. They have a deep and constant hatred for the truth.

From the illegal alien lobby:

“Because of the invalidation of foreign passports as an acceptable form of identification, SB160 could potentially”:
• deny many immigrants access to water and sewage services provided by local governments (similar to the mess created by the Alabama law),
Too funny. We direct any interested party ot lines 414 & 415 of SB 160 AS PASSED.
• deny many immigrants access to state and local buildings,
While that would be a bonus if were true, the illegal alien lobby should be pressed to present an example. Here is one of ours: Even when anyone enters the Georgia Capitol building, persons who cannot produce any ID are allowed entry by simply giving their name. Somebody may want to mention that. Exactly what “”state and local buildings” are these hustlers talking about?
• deny many immigrant parents the ability to enroll their children in schools to the extent that the schools require a proof of identification,
Plyler v Doe says that all children present in the USA must be admitted to K-12 public education regardless of immigration status. There is no provision that anyone offer secure and verifiable ID. Next?
• deny many U.S. citizen children with immigrant parents access to many public benefits,
Umm, how? First, immigrants are people who are here legally. But even when an illegal alien accesses welfare, food stamps and other benefits for an anchor baby, it is not the parent who must produce ID, but the child for whom the benefits are intended. HERE is a link to the DFACS page on which the application for food stamps and TANF is linked. Researchers may want to note that the law applies only to people 18 and over.
• deny many immigrants the ability to obtain a marriage license.
Hooray! They got one partially correct! Laws vary from county to county in Georgia, but If an illegal alien wants to use an undocumented passport as ID when obtaining a marriage license, they may want to go to another state. (we hope they decide to stay there) And we urge someone to try to get married in Mexico using an undocumented passport as ID.

These are not unintentional consequences, but targeted and intentional consequences to make Georgia an inhospitable place for foreign visitors.
All Georgians we know welcome visitors from other nations if they come legally. The truth is that this law is intended to make Georgia even less attractive and hospitable to illegal aliens. The goal is to protect our jobs, benefits and services from plunder by the illegal aliens and their shameless handlers.

Slime, slimed by the slime – Angry Jerry gets a new and well-deserved name: “Angry Jerry-with-ties-to- a- hate- group Gonzalez”

According to the SPLC, Jerry Gonzalez, Executive Director of the anti-enforcement Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials and well-known, far- left smear artist has ties to a designated hate group. Namely, the Marietta branch of the Nation of Islam.

It is my great pleasure to write about recent news concerning GALEO’s Gerado E. (Jerry) Gonzalez from the discredited Southern Poverty Law Center and their latest release of their annual fund-raising “hate map” (I am not making this up, they really publish a national map of what they say are “groups” that “hate” – they even have them divided up into categories). Not many rational people pay much attention this nonsense.

But for the illegal alien lobby, it is a large part of their tool box. “Ties to hate groups” is the constant, baseless and shrill howl made in endless hope that pro-enforcement Americans’ message of demanding an equal application of Americvan immigration laws. Even for illegal aliens. Even for Hispanics.

You can read more HERE until I get time to write more. What a hoot!

The below statement is sent from the office of Georgia’s GOP Chair, and our friend, Sue Everhart regarding Angry Jerry Gonzalez over at the illegal alien lobby group, GALEO.

“This month, I was invited to attend an event hosted by the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials. While I am steadfast in my support for our conservative Latino Elected Officials, I also have fundamental philosophical differences with Mr. Jerry Gonzalez, the Executive Director of GALEO. It is a shame that Mr. Gonzalez uses his position of influence in a non-partisan organization to advance a radically partisan agenda, and for that reason I will not be attending the event. Moving forward, I look forward to continuing my work with our honest, hard working Latino leaders across Georgia. “

We congratulate Ms. Everhart on her clear command of understatement and her constant demonstration of common sense and integrity. Sue is always the epitome of the perfect southern lady.

Unlike Jerry.

Repost from the Marietta Daily Journal blog

GALEO’s Jerry Gonzalez named one of “100 Most Influential Georgians” and other amazing tidbits

by D.A. King

Blogging While D.A. King

January 04, 2012 Jerry Gonzalez, Executive Director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO) has been named one of “100 Most Influential Georgians” by Georgia Trend magazine in its January edition. Again.

No, really.

To get a handle on Gonzalez’s “influence” and style, it should be pointed out that pro-enforcement denizens of the Georgia Capitol are forever grateful to “Angry Jerry” for his relentless race-baiting on the crime of illegal immigration, his well-known fuming, disrespectful rants during testimony in Gold Dome committees against Georgia’s illegal immigration enforcement bills over the years and his willingness to personify the radical left on the issue in general.

He served as an ideal educational example for legislators unfamiliar with the illegal alien lobby.

And there is this little gem: “Influential” Gonzalez was recently removed from a Rome, Georgia panel discussion on the subject of Georgia’s recent illegal immigration law, HB 87, hiring legal labor and use of E-Verify because the organization he heads and members of the GALEO Board of Directors are part of a pending ACLU lawsuit seeking to halt enforcement of parts of the law. Apparently the organizers saw a conflict.

Determined to get the anti-enforcement side injected into the event, Gonzalez drove from Atlanta to the Rome event anyway and was soon ejected and removed by local police from the property for screaming at a member of the panel, Georgia state Representative Katie Dempsey. The diminutive and well-liked Dempsey was a co-sponsor of HB 87 and a staunch supporter of E-Verify.

The Rome News Tribune covered the event and reported on Gonzalez’s antics HERE.

Part of the explanation from glossy Georgia Trend on how “influence” is defined:

“..Individuals on the list – some who are very much in the public eye and some who choose to work behind the scenes – are selected for the power and influence they wield. These are the people who affect the lives and livelihood of all Georgians in one way or another…”

Indeed.

You can read the GALEO press release on the Georgia Trend award HERE.

Also notable in the same issue of the magazine: An essay from author and periodic MDJ guest columnist Phil Kent correcting some slips on HB 87 by GT editors in a previous edition (HERE) .

Just so you’ll know.

Read more: The Marietta Daily Journal – GALEO’s Jerry Gonzalez named one of “100 Most Influential Georgians” and other amazing tidbits

From the MDJ blog page

Attention KSU security: Jerry Gonzalez of GALEO to speak at KSU today
by D.A. King

Attention KSU security: Jerry Gonzalez of GALEO to speak on campus today

November 16, 2011

Readers who have never seen or heard Jerry Gonzalez, Executive Director of former Georgia state Senator Sam Zamarripa’s anti-immigration-enforcement Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials Inc. ( GALEO) will apparently have that always eye-opening opportunity this evening at KSU.

I am told the lecture – and I do mean lecture – is sponsored by the Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority Inc.

According to a post on the GALEO Facebook page (a valuable source of insight on how the far left-wing thinks) Gonzalez is speaking today – for three hours – on the what he sees as the difficulties with American immigration laws, the horrors of Georgia’s recently enacted HB 87 and the concept of federal “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” – what most people refer to as amnesty-again.

This long-time American strongly recommends attending if you can spare the time.

According to GALEO the no-cost entertainment begins at 6:30 in Kennesaw State University’s Clendenin Building, room 1008.

Attendees should be ready for the very possible exposure to one of Gonzalez’s well-known, but seldom reported hissy-fits if things don’t go the way he demands at the KSU event.

A recent Rome News-Tribune news report ( Immigration discussion gets heated during panel”“ – November 9) recounts Gonzalez’s antics at a similar event in that lovely Georgia city. Apparently, Gonzalez was “uninvited” as a panel member on a scheduled meeting there focused on needed adjustments by business and Human Resource managers in Georgia due to the E-Verify requirement in Georgia’s new law.

According to the Rome news report, Gonzalez showed up anyway, angrily shouted at Rome’s diminutive and well-liked state Repesentitive, Katie Dempsey, from the audience during and after the event and ended up being escorted out of the event, the building and off the property by local police. Dempsey was a cosigner on HB 87.

Word around Rome is that the meeting organizers learned of GALEO’s involvement in a pending lawsuit against the governor and the state to stop enforcement/HB 87 and concluded that Gonzalez wasn’t the best choice for a rational, unbiased discussion. (Duh).

One poster on the Rome newspaper’s comments section offers more on the possibilities for Gonzalez being removed from the panel there: “Jerry is a threatening, angry wanna-be “tough guy” who says English as the official language of the USA “would be an insult” to his culture. Maybe they learned that Gonzalez had the Socialist Workers Party come to his 2003 group to help with trying to get Ga drivers licenses for illegals. He has hysterically screamed at women legislators before, most recently before this, in the last legislative session, in the Capitol, at a state Senator from Gwinnett County who made the remark that Georgians should not have to pay for illegals on the floor of the Senate.” I couldn’t have said it better myself.

I can personally confirm that last observation. I was in the Georgia Capitol last session when Capitol Police warned Gonzalez that he would be removed if he continued his screaming at state Senator Renee Unterman after her complaint to them.

Anyway, if you have time tonight to see the illegal alien lobby and listen to the amazing arguments used against enforcement of American immigration laws, today is your chance.

Take a camera and an American flag. They love that.

Read more: The Marietta Daily Journal – Attention KSU security: Jerry Gonzalez of GALEO to speak at KSU today

“There’s nobody I’d like to thank more than Jerry Gonzalez, his organization, GALEO, the ACLU and the rest of the open-borders race baiters for their rallies with thousands of screaming illegals chanting in a foreign language in front of the Georgia Capitol, which served to propel our legislation through the process,” King said.

Cobb Republicans helped pass illegal immigration bill

by Jon Gillooly

The Marietta Daily Journal

April 19, 2011 12:00

SMYRNA – State Rep. Rich Golick (R-Smyrna), a co-sponsor of the controversial new immigration bill awaiting Gov. Nathan Deal’s signature, said the measure represents a giant step forward in enforcing the laws against illegal immigrants.

The most significant provision in the bill is the requirement that private business use the federal E-Verify system to confirm the legal status of employees, he said.

Specifically, businesses with 10 or more employees must sign an affidavit swearing to use E-Verify to obtain or renew a business license/occupational tax certificate. Until now, only public employers such as the City of Marietta and their contractors were required to use E-Verify on newly hired employees.

The bill also clarifies the authority of local law enforcement by allowing them to inquire into a suspect’s immigration status when that suspect is under investigation for another crime.

Golick said under no circumstance would police be able to simply inquire about someone’s immigration status at the officer’s discretion. Rather, only when an officer has probable cause to believe the individual has committed another crime, and the individual is unable to produce proper identification can the officer attempt to establish the immigration status of the individual. Golick said that provision is a significant and strengthening distinction from the Arizona law.

“Georgia has more illegal aliens than the state of Arizona, and my understanding is that recently released Census figures indicate that the state with the fastest rate of growth of illegal aliens over the past decade was Georgia,” Golick said. “This has had a draining effect on our dwindling resources, especially given the economic recession.”

State Rep. David Wilkerson (D-Austell) said his primary reason for voting against the bill is that immigration is a federal issue. Then there is the point that similar legislation in Arizona is caught up in the court system.

“Until the Arizona case makes its way through the court, I think we’re just opening ourselves up to some huge legal bills,” Wilkerson said.

To Wilkerson’s first point, Golick said the federal government has consistently failed on the issue of immigration reform, making it inevitable that states would step in.

Like Wilkerson, Golick expects there to be lawsuits.

“To be sure, there will be litigation, but we have worked with our friend, Attorney General Sam Olens, on this issue every step of the way, and we are confident of our position,” Golick said.

Wilkerson said another concern is that Georgia’s economy relies on agriculture, which will be hit by the law when police begin demanding to see immigration papers of workers in that field.

“Police officers are expected to basically question anyone they think might be here illegally,” Wilkerson said.

Wilkerson said that’s not only going to chill the migrant worker population, but he expects it will impact the hospitality industry as various groups boycott the state.

“We might have moved down a few notches as far as attraction. Too many groups feel like it’s not something that should be done,” Wilkerson said.

But anti-illegal immigration activist D.A. King said there’s no excuse for allowing illegal immigration.

“Taxpayer-subsidized, black market labor is only cheap for employers. It’s a huge expense for the nation,” King said. Moreover, to threaten a state boycott for simply enforcing the law is extortion, he said.

Golick said the radical left sought to demonize him and the bill’s supporters at every turn as they worked to pass the bill.

“They continue to be oblivious to the fact that law-abiding citizens bitterly resent those who break our laws to get here, and then have the nerve to demand public benefits as if they’re entitled to them – and then call us racists and everything else under the sun when we choose to live under the rule of law,” Golick said.

Both Golick and King said the tactics of the opposition only reinforced the resolve to pass the bill.

“There’s nobody I’d like to thank more than Jerry Gonzalez, his organization, GALEO, the ACLU and the rest of the open-borders race baiters for their rallies with thousands of screaming illegals chanting in a foreign language in front of the Georgia Capitol, which served to propel our legislation through the process,” King said.

Of Cobb’s 19-member delegation, all of the Republicans except Bobby Franklin, of east Cobb, voted for House Bill 87, known as the Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act of 2011. All of the Democrats except Terry Johnson, of Marietta, voted against the bill.

Read more: The Marietta Daily Journal – Cobb Republicans helped pass illegal immigration bill

Jerry Gonzalez of GALEO Inc.:

Yes, we should recognize that English is the language of success and we should work to ensure many of the immigrants who come here also learn and apply their English skills. However, there is no need for “English-only” or “English” as an official language of the United States. What we will see in the 2010 Census results once they are all finally released is that the Latino community is a growing and vibrant part of this nation’s future that must be respected. These types of “English-only” provisions are an insult to our culture.

HERE

Welcome to the Balkanized nation these anti-enforcement America hating crazies would create if we let them win.

http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/sharedblogs/ajc/georgia/entries/stories/0306/hispanics_flood.html

Hispanics flood Capitol to protest immigration bill
By Carlos Campos

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Published on: 03/08/06

Dozens of Hispanic immigrants flooded the halls of the state Capitol today to voice their concerns over a bill under debate in the Senate that seeks to crack down on undocumented workers in Georgia.
Organizers of a morning rally on the Capitol steps urged the crowd of about 100 mostly Hispanic men to go inside to urge legislators to vote against Senate Bill 529, known as the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act.

About half of the crowd lingered outside, in part because a photo identification is required to enter the Capitol building.

Inside, many of the immigrants, some of them whom acknowledged they are undocumented crowded hallways outside of the Senate chamber. Many of them wore blue jeans, t-shirts, stained painter’s pants, cowboy hats and ball caps, standing out from the suit-and-tie Capitol crowd that usually gathers in the halls.

Jerry Gonzalez of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials guided several men through a legislative phone-and-photo directory, helping them pick out certain legislators with whom to speak. Many busily filled out message forms for legislators in hopes of getting them to come out of the Senate to hear them out.

Gonzalez said some of the men in the crowd who speak English were helping the Spanish-speakers to communicate with legislators.
“We want to put a face with immigrants” Gonzalez said. “Many of these immigrants live in their districts. Legislators should consider them their constituents.”

About 1 p.m., when debate over Sen. Chip Rogers’ (R-Woodstock) bill began, the majority of the immigrants moved up to the public gallery overlooking the floor of the Senate to watch the debate. Pablo Lopez, 28, of Gwinnett County, took a day off from his landscaping job to watch the debate in person.

Lopez, who acknowledged that he is an undocumented worker from Mexico, said he thought it was important to let legislators know immigrants are disturbed by the bill. Lopez noted that federal and state taxes are taken out of his paycheck every week. He wants to start his own landscaping business, but cannot do so because of his lack of legal status in the country.

“We work hard and I think it’s time they recognize the work we do, Lopez said.