Immigration Politics Georgia

looking for a better life • news and pro-enforcement opinion

D.A. King

GA senator explains penalty for talking back to Gov. Brian Kemp for his betrayal on illegal immigration to Cobb GOP

By

State Sen. Ed Setzler, R-Acworth, and Cobb GOP Chair Salleigh Grubbs discussed a previous Cobb GOP resolution which censured Gov. Brian Kemp at the GOP’s monthly breakfast on Saturday at Kore Steakhouse in Marietta. Jon Gillooly

The below is taken from Newsbreak.com, Nov. 7, 2023

State Sen. Ed Setzler, R-Acworth, came to the Cobb County Republican Party’s monthly breakfast meeting to deliver a speech on the national debt and how the U.S. should act on the world stage.

But when he opened it up for questions, the animated audience had other topics on their minds.

One questioner asked why Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who’s prosecuting a case against former President Donald Trump, is still in power.

“We have a Republican governor, a Republican legislature, and they’re not doing anything to help Trump,” the questioner said, noting the exception was state Sen. Colton Moore who advocated impeaching Willis.

“I don’t know what’s wrong with (Gov.) Brian Kemp,” the questioner continued. “Frankly I don’t know what’s wrong. He says he’s a Christian. When is he going to act like a Christian?”

Cobb GOP Chair Salleigh Grubbs told Setzler that they feel abandoned in Cobb County.

Ga.Gov. Brain Kemp at Davos, 2023.

“We feel abandoned because when it came to the home rule provision with the attorney general’s office, Cobb County’s on its own,” Grubbs said. “The governor is not getting involved. There’s so many things that we feel like we’re on an island in Cobb County, and we run up the flag, and it’s the distress signal, and trust me Ed, I love you. You’re one of my favorite people, not only as a legislator, but as a friend, but we feel like we’re alone, and we feel like there’s nobody fighting for us.”

A similar theme came from audience member John McLean, who was there with his wife, Kathy. McLean said he lost count of how many times he’s come to such events and been told Republicans must come together.

“But while I’m being told we got to come together, I see the Republican caucus remove somebody they disagree with — in secret,” McClean said. “ … The other thing is we’ve got the governor of the state of Georgia that obviously can’t accept any criticism, and so he’s kicked the (state) GOP to the curb. We’ve got a supposed Republican secretary of state that’s AWOL and won’t commit to upgrading the voting machines. And whether we want to agree that there’s enough fraud in the election — there’s fraud — whether there was enough fraud in the election to overturn the election, there’s a certain percentage of Republicans and people in this room, I’m assuming like me, that are suspect of those voting machines he won’t upgrade.”

McLean said he wants to stay on the team and be committed, but he said he doesn’t see Georgia’s Republican leadership doing the same.

“We’ve got home rule being challenged in Cobb County and our attorney general is AWOL. He’s filed an amicus brief, but that’s not enough. We’ve got the Board of Education, the county Board of Education that’s decided not to defend their map. I just don’t get it, and I don’t see Republicans doing enough,” he said.

Setzler asked the audience if he had permission to tell the truth. Yes, the crowd answered. He then referenced the infamous September 2021 resolution in which the Cobb GOP censured Kemp. Ever since that censure took place, neither Kemp nor other statewide elected officials such as Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr have appeared at a Cobb GOP breakfast. (They do attend the meetings of Cobb County Republican Women’s Club, which is a separate organization run by club president Nancy Couch.)

  • Note from D.A.: I was happy to write the Cobb resolution in question and praise the Cobb GOP members who passed it.

“When a party organization, you may think you’re justified, when a party organization formally and in writing censures a sitting governor from their own party in a rebuke, I can guarantee you what that means. Your party organization’s voice vanishes,” Seltzer told the crowd. “That was, in my opinion, one of the most strategically ill-informed decisions I’ve ever seen since I’ve been associated with the Cobb County Republican Party. And (you) might have even been right. That doesn’t even mean whether you’re right or wrong on the issue. Set that aside. But when parties rebuke in writing and resolution their own sitting governor — you have every right to do that, but when you feel like your voice isn’t there anymore, you have only yourself to blame.”

Setzler said on top of that, it makes it difficult for him, state Sen. Kay Kirkpatrick, R-east Cobb, and others to advocate for Cobb County when the county party makes such a move.

Grubbs replied that there is “a culture of distrust” that exists in Georgia, which she said is bigger than the governor or legislature. As a member of the Georgia Republican Party’s executive committee, Grubbs said there is infighting on that board.

“Because it’s like, ‘Well you’re on (Georgia GOP head Josh McKoon’s) side. Or you’re a mole or you’re this or you’re that.’ And what that tells me is that an effective leader addresses the issue, and says, ‘It was a censure. I understand. I heard you. Let me tell you why that’s a problem, and let’s move past it.’ But here we are almost three years later, and we’re still having that conversation. And if you’re in a marriage … and you have a problem in your marriage, ‘Well, three years ago, you did not load the dish washer properly, and I’ve told you how to do it, and so now I’m divorcing you.’ You know, it’s insane, it’s immature, and it’s childish to not deal with issues and move on past it for the sake of America. This is not just Georgia we’re talking about. It’s the sake of America,” she said to applause.

Setzler responded by observing how they were certainly addressing the issue out in the open.

“It’s being aired out. We’re airing it out today. We all have roles. I think Salleigh’s role is extremely important, prominent. The work you put in is just stunning to me, I so, so appreciate that. I mean that not to be trite,” Setzler said.

However, he continued, “The Cobb County Republican Party as an organization is going to need to address that with our governor and his folks. When you have both collectively addressed that to all sides’ adequate satisfaction it will then be addressed.”

Read the entire write-up here.

U.S. Citizen and Eligible Non-Citizen Information for Georgia’s Hope Scholarship

By

 

 

U.S. Citizen and Eligible Non-Citizen Information from Chattahoochee Tech 

U.S. Citizen and Eligible Non-Citizens:

A student must be a U.S. citizen or eligible non-citizen to be eligible for federal Title IV or State of Georgia student aid. State of Georgia aid programs (including the HOPE and Zell Miller Scholarships) also require the eligible non-citizen status to have been granted from 12 to 24 months prior to the first day of classes of the term for which the student wishes to receive the state aid.

The general requirement for eligible non-citizens is they are in the U.S. for other than a temporary purpose with the intention of becoming a citizen or lawful permanent resident as evidenced by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). To be considered for financial assistance, you must have one of the following citizenship or eligible resident classifications:

• U.S. Citizen. If the Social Security Administration is unable to confirm a student’s U.S. Citizenship during FAFSA processing, the student must provide documents to the Financial Aid Office proving citizenship. Examples of acceptable documentation of U.S. Citizenship are:

1. A copy of the student’s birth certificate reflecting he or she was born in the United States, which includes Puerto Rico (on or after January 13, 1941), Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Swain’s Island, or the Northern Mariana Islands, unless the person was born to foreign diplomats residing in the U.S.

2. A U.S Passport, current or expired, (except limited passports which are typically issued for short periods such as a year). In the case of nationals who are not citizens, the passport will be stamped “Noncitizen National”. In 2008 the State Department began issuing wallet-sized passport cards that can be used for land and sea travel between the United States and Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Bermuda. This document also confirms U.S. citizenship.

3. A copy of Form FS-240 (Consular Report of Birth Abroad), FS-545 (Certificate of birth issued by a foreign service post), or DS-1350 (Certification of Report of Birth). These are State Department documents.

4. A Certificate of Citizenship (N-560 or N-561), issued by the USCIS to individuals who derive U.S. Citizenship through a parent.

5. A Certificate of Naturalization (N-550 or N-570), issued by USCIS through a federal or state court, or through administrative naturalization after December 1990 to those who are individually naturalized.

  • U.S. National (includes natives of American Samoa and Swain’s Island)
  • U.S. Permanent Resident who has:
    1. A Permanent Resident Card (Form I-551 since 1997), or
    2. A Resident Alien Card (Form I-551 before 1997), or
    3. An Alien Registration Receipt Card (Form I-151, issued prior to June

    1978), or

4. An Arrival/Departure Record (CBP Form I-94) or the new Departure Record (Form I-94A with the endorsement “Processed for I-551. Temporary Evidence of Lawful Admission for Permanent Residence. Valid until (Date Cannot Have Passed). Employment Authorized.”, or

5. A machine readable immigrant visa (MRIV) in the holder’s passport. The MRIV will have an admission stamp, and the statement “UPON ENDORSEMENT SERVES AS TEMPORARY I-551 EVIDENCING PERMANENT RESIDENCE FOR 1 YEAR” which appears directly above the machine readable section. An MRIV with this statement, contained in an unexpired foreign passport and endorsed with the admission stamp, constitutes a temporary I-551, valid for one year from the date of endorsement on the stamp.

6. A United States Travel Document (mint green cover), which replaces the Reentry Permit (Form I-327) and the Refugee Travel Document (Form I-571). It is used by lawful permanent residents (as well as refugees and asylees) and is annotated with “Permit to Reenter Form I-327 (Rev. 9-2-03).”

• Citizens of the Federated States of Micronesia and the republics of Palau and Marshall Islands.
Note: Citizens of Palau are eligible only for the Federal Pell Grant, Federal Supplemental Opportunity Grant or Federal Work-Study (FWS). Citizens of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands are only eligible for the Federal Pell Grant. None of these students are eligible for Federal Direct Student Loans.

• For eligible noncitizens other than permanent residents:

1. Refugees with a Form I-94 or I-94A annotated with a stamp showing admission under Section 207 of the Immigration Nationality Act (INA). Also acceptable is the old Refugee Travel Document (Form I-571) or the new U.S. Travel Document cited in paragraph 3.f. above annotated with “Refugee Travel Document Form I-571 (Rev. 9-2-03).”

2. Asylees with a Form I-94 or I-94A and a stamp reflecting admission under Section 208 of the INA, or the same travel documents cited in 5.a. above.
Note: A refugee or an asylee may apply for permanent resident status and may have an I-94 that includes the endorsement “209a (or 209b) pending. Employment Authorized.” These students are eligible for federal student aid funds if the I-94 has not expired.

3. Parolees with a Form I-94 or I-94A with a stamp indicating they have been paroled into the United States for at least one year, with a date that has not expired.

4. Cuban-Haitian entrants with a Form I-94 indicating they have been classified as a “Cuban-Haitian Entrant (Status Pending). Reviewable January 15, 1981. Employment authorized until January 15, 1981.” This document is valid even if the expiration date has passed. However, if the I-94 is stamped “applicant for permanent residence”, the Cuban-Haitian entrant is not eligible for federal student aid and must request documentation of permanent residency status from the USCIS.

page2image2988153280 page2image2988153584

5. Victims of Human Trafficking are entitled to the same benefits as refugees under the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act (VTVPA). Because this status is certified by the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and not the DHS, these students must submit their certification or eligibility letter from the HHS to us for review and subsequent contact with the Office of Refugee Resettlement. The spouse , child or parent of a trafficking victim might be eligible for aid, but will have a T-visa (e.g., T-2 or T-3) which must be submitted to us along with the certification letter.

6. “Battered Immigrants-Qualified Aliens”. The student must submit a copy of DHS-USCIS I-797, Notice of Action form to OSFA for review. OSFA will then inform the applicant of any additional steps or additional documents needed to confirm his or her federal student aid eligibility. Students applying for federal Title IV aid as eligible non-citizens whose citizenship status is not electronically confirmed by the FAFSA process must provide OSFA with documentation. OSFA will then initiate a secondary confirmation process with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The confirmation of an eligible citizenship status must be received before students can be awarded any aid.

Ineligible Non-Citizens:

Persons with non-immigrant visas (includes those with work visas, students, visitors and foreign government officials) are not eligible for federal or state of Georgia aid. Following are examples of these Visas, but the list is not all inclusive: F-1, F-2, or M-1 Student Visas, B-1 or B-2 Visitor Visa; J-1 or J-2 Exchange Visitor Visa; H or L series Visas (which allow temporary employment in the U.S.), or a G series Visa (pertaining to international organizations), or a Notice of Approval to Apply for Permanent Residence (I-171 or I- 464), an I-94 stamped “Temporary Protected Status” or an approved Form I-817 “Application for Family Unity Benefits” ARE NOT ELIGIBLE for any financial assistance administered by this office.

Here.

 

What’s better than instate tuition for illegal aliens? Georgia’s Dual Enrollment program (repost)

By

 

 

 

 

 

–> UPDATE, July 29, 2024: At least one public university apparently excludes illegal aliens from Dual Enrollment – HOORAY! Info here.

_____________________________________________________

High school students attend Georgia’s public colleges while paying no tuition – residency, citizenship verification not required.

  • Pro-enforcement Georgians of all descriptions should be asking Gov. Kemp and lawmakers why we are paying for college classes for illegal aliens in an effort to “expand the workforce” when “the undocumented” are not generally eligible to be employed.

“While conservative Republicans wage an annual battle under the Gold Dome to stop other Republicans from changing state law so as to award in-state college tuition to Georgia’s “undocumented” foreign high school grads, it looks like we are paying for zero-cost college tuition as well as fees and books for the illegal aliens who haven’t yet graduated our tax-funded high schools.” So went part of a letter to the editor published in the Brunswick News last week from retired Border Patrol agent and INS agent, Robert Trent.

Trent, a St. Mary’s resident and active member of the Camden County Republican Party, was writing about Georgia’s Dual Enrollment program which, for taxpayers who are funding the program but who may not be aware, is best described by the Georgia Student Finance Commission: “Georgia’s Dual Enrollment Program provides students enrolled at an eligible public or private high school or home study program in Georgia the opportunity to earn high school and college credit at a participating eligible postsecondary institution in Georgia.”

Now capped at thirty semester hours, prior to changes pushed by Kemp in 2020 designed to lower costs, some students were reportedly taking 60 to 70 hours — which was making the program financially unsustainable.

About 45,000 Georgia students participated in dual enrollment last year according to reliable news reports.

  • Related reading: Dual Enrollment as explained by the Georgia Dept. of Education 

This writer has been asking a variety of politicos since 2020 to point to a provision in the law or Georgia Student Finance Commission eligibility policy governing the DE program that excludes illegal aliens. A result was that the then-pending DE House bill saw a surprise, unscheduled vote.

Earlier this month I sent an open records request to the Georgia Student Finance Commission asking for a copy of any record or document that illustrated an exclusion for illegal aliens in the DE program or a verification system to check immigration status. I received a reply essentially telling me to see the laws and eligibility guidelines for myself.

Lynn Riley, President, Georgia Student Finance Commission

I also sent a request for comment for this column to the media department at GSFC. There was no response.

We direct readers to the GSFC Dual Enrollment FAQ page, #7: “Is there a residency requirement to participate in Dual Enrollment? A: “There is no residence or citizenship requirement to participate in the Dual Enrollment program.” An online GSFC tutorial is careful to explain that a Social Security Number is not required for DE participation.

The DE program was the object of legislation in 2020 (HB 444) when it was renamed and in 2023 with SB 86 and a sixteen-member Joint Study Committee created in SR 175 – which was sponsored by twenty-two of the thirty-three Senate Republicans. At the outset of the latter endeavor, Co-Chair Rep. Matt Dubnik (R-Gainesville) explained that “We’re not trying to fix something that’s broken, We’re simply trying to take a good program and make it even better.” Georgia taxpayers may disagree when educated on the DE program. Sen. Matt Brass (R-Newnan) was lead sponsor of the above Dual Enrollment Senate legislation in 2023.

Sen. Matt Brass
Rep.Matt Dubnik

None of this legislation dealt with the fact that according to federal estimates only six states host more illegal aliens than Georgia. Or that the far-left Georgia Budget and Policy Institute says about 3000 illegals graduate from Georgia high schools each year (Update, June 1, 2024 – The Guardian says it’s 4000) . Using that number, it is logical to assume that the combined number of the now DE eligible 11th and 12 grade students in the U.S. illegally is around 6000 – 8000 in any one school year. Ensuring that they are not draining the state education budget by benefitting from the tax-funded, discretionary DE free-college program seems like a no-brainer.

For more information on the current state of the Dual Enrollment program see the Oct. 13, 2023 James Magazine Online report.

Pro-enforcement Georgians of all descriptions should be asking Gov. Kemp and lawmakers why we are apparently paying for college classes for illegal aliens in an effort to “expand the workforce” when the “undocumented” are not generally eligible to be employed.

Ga Gov. Brian Kemp

Democrat mayors and governors around the nation are openly wailing against the cost of caring for the literal millions of illegals being waived into the remains of the republic and dispersed into the nation’s interior by the Biden administration. Georgia is rewarding them. Including Kemp, Republican leaders in the Peach State need to explain the apparent absence of tools to insure only work-eligible high school students can access the Dual Enrollment benefits. It’s liable to be “an issue” in the 2024 elections.

A version of this essay ran on the subscription website James Magazine Online on Dec. 29, 2023, in the Glynn County (GA) The Islander newspaper on January 8, 2024 and in the (Carroll Co. GA) Star News in the Sept 14, 2024 edition.

D.A. King is president of the Dustin Inman Society and proprietor of ImmigrationPolitcsGA.com

X: @DAKDIS

Letter to the editor from retired immigration enforcement agent Bob Trent: Stop no-cost college courses for the undocumented

By

 

 

 

 

 

 

Opinion

Peters to the editor

It looks like pro-enforcement immigration activists may be out in front of the “watchdog media” on crucial matters relevant to illegal immigration in Georgia and our tax dollars. Georgia activist D.A. King has been asking a question on his ImmigrationPoliticsGA.com blog for at least three years about the dual enrollment program pushed by Kemp and Republican legislators.

It’s an easy enough question: Where in the law regulating the program is the provision that says illegal aliens are not eligible for the no-cost college course seats awarded to high school students? And where is the language that spells out a verification program for this important exclusion? I find neither.

The U.S. Supreme Court decision Plyer v. Doe requires U.S. public schools to educate the illegals K-12. It does not make them eligible for no-cost post secondary education. The tutorials on various state websites make it clear that a Social Security number is not necessary to enter the dual enrollment program.

While conservative Republicans wage an annual battle under the Gold Dome to stop other Republicans from changing state law so as to award in-state college tuition to Georgia’s “undocumented” foreign high school grads, it looks like we are paying for zero-cost college tuition as well as fees and books for the illegal aliens who haven’t yet graduated our tax-funded high schools. King has a valid question.

As a retired Border Patrol agent and a special agent, to me, this seems like a topic ripe for in-depth investigative journalism.

Robert M. Trent

St. Marys

Here.

 

The AJC and Bill Nigut do some history revision on DACA

By

 

The former  enforcer for the anti-enforcement ADL in the Southeast, Bill Nigut, now works for the leftist Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper here. Nigut is base progressive and a true hack. He is also an arrogant coward.

Today’s emailed afternoon AJC political blog newsletter (“Politically Georgia P.M. Update”) brought a column by Nigut titled “Opinion: The thorny history of immigration reform” in which he tells readers all about the need for another amnesty. Along the way he allows that

“In 2012 President Obama created DACA through an executive order. But its promise of giving permanent status to millions of young immigrants has faced endless legal challenges and partisan attacks ever since.”

Bill Nigut, foreground.

Oy.

It is not difficult to highlight the hard left’s daily misinformation – particularly on immigration matters – and Nigut’s attempt here is no exception. Obama, after repeatedly noting that as president he had no authority go around congress or to impose the now proven illegal DACA scheme was at least repeatedly clear that is was never intended to create a permanent status  for the illegal aliens who benefitted: Here is part of what Zero said:

“Effective immediately, the Department of Homeland Security is taking steps to lift the shadow of deportation from these young people.  Over the next few months, eligible individuals who do not present a risk to national security or public safety will be able to request temporary relief from deportation proceedings and apply for work authorization.

Now, let’s be clear — this is not amnesty, this is not immunity.  This is not a path to citizenship.  It’s not a permanent fix.  This is a temporary stopgap measure that lets us focus our resources wisely while giving a degree of relief and hope to talented, driven, patriotic young people…”

You can read the entire Obama 2012 DACA roll out speech  here.

And will somebody tell Nigut and his AJC editors that DACA was not created by Executive Order? EOs are all numbered. Maybe get Nigut to reveal the number of that elusive DACA Executive Order?

Nigut’s afternoon missive on immigration, DACA and amnesty can be seen here.  We predict there will be no correction or history of a re-write. This is all common practice for the AJC.

 

Majority of Immigrant Households Use Welfare — 59% of Illegal-Headed Households, 52% of Legal

By

 

From the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C.

Welfare Use by Immigrants and the U.S.-Born

Comparing program use by foreign- and U.S.-born-headed households

By Steven A. Camarota and Karen Zeigler on December 19, 2023

This report is based on newly released data from the 2022 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). Analysis of this data shows both immigrants and the U.S.-born make extensive use of means-tested anti-poverty programs, with immigrant households significantly more likely to receive benefits. This is primarily because the American welfare system is designed in large part to help low-income families with children, which describes a large share of immigrants. The ability of immigrants, including illegal immigrants, to receive welfare benefits on behalf of U.S.-born citizen children is a key reason why restrictions on welfare use for new legal immigrants, and illegal immigrants, are relatively ineffective.

Among the findings:

  • The 2022 SIPP indicates that 54 percent of households headed by immigrants — naturalized citizens, legal residents, and illegal immigrants — used one or more major welfare program. This compares to 39 percent for U.S.-born households.
  • The rate is 59 percent for non-citizen households (e.g. green card holders and illegal immigrants).
  • Compared to households headed by the U.S.-born, immigrant-headed households have especially high use of food programs (36 percent vs. 25 percent for the U.S.-born), Medicaid (37 percent vs. 25 percent for the U.S.-born), and the Earned Income Tax Credit (16 percent vs. 12 percent for the U.S.-born).
  • Our best estimate is that 59 percent of households headed by illegal immigrants, also called the undocumented, use at least one major program. We have no evidence this is due to fraud. Among legal immigrants we estimate the rate is 52 percent.
  • Illegal immigrants can receive welfare on behalf of U.S.-born children, and illegal immigrant children can receive school lunch/breakfast and WIC directly. A number of states provide Medicaid to some illegal adults and children, and a few provide SNAP. Several million illegal immigrants also have work authorization (e.g. DACA, TPS, and some asylum applicants) allowing receipt of the EITC.
  • No one program explains the higher overall use of welfare by immigrants. For example, excluding the extensively used but less budgetary costly school lunch/breakfast program, along with the WIC nutrition program, still shows 46 percent of all immigrant households and 33 percent of U.S.-born households use at least one of the remaining programs.
  • The presence of extended family or unrelated individuals does not explain immigrants’ higher welfare use, as the vast majority of immigrant households are nuclear families. Further, of immigrant households comprised of only a nuclear family, 49 percent use the welfare system compared to 35 percent of nuclear family U.S.-born households.
  • The high welfare use of immigrant households is not explained by an unwillingness to work. In fact, 83 percent of all immigrant households and 94 percent of illegal-headed households have at least one worker, compared to 73 percent of U.S.-born households.
  • Immigrants’ higher welfare use relative to the U.S.-born is partly, but only partly, explained by the larger share with modest education levels, their resulting lower incomes, and the greater percentage of immigrant households with children.
  • Immigrant households without children, as well as those with high incomes and those headed by immigrants with at least a bachelor’s degree, tend to be more likely to use welfare than their U.S.-born counterparts.
  • Most new legal immigrants are barred from most programs, as are illegal immigrants, but this has a modest impact primarily because: 1) Immigrants can receive benefits on behalf of U.S.-born children; 2) the bar does not apply to all programs, nor does it apply to non-citizen children in some cases; 3) most legal immigrants have lived here long enough to qualify for welfare; 4) some states provide welfare to otherwise ineligible immigrants on their own; 5) by naturalizing, immigrants gain full welfare eligibility.

Introduction…

Please see the rest of the report here.

 

How to create fake (“pseudo”) SSNs to find more workers, brought to us by an official State of Ohio Website – and the Feds #SB379 (2022)

By

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am using this as part of a soon-to come write up of a similar but larger state-sponsored workers operation here in Georgia. This is merely a partial preview. Believe it or not.

____

From the jfs.ohio.gov website

“An official State of Ohio site”

“Updated Guidance on the Use of Social Security Numbers (SSN) Memo

Customers of the OhioMeansJobs center sometimes do not have an SSN or do not wish to provide their SSN to be put into a computer system. Please note Workforce Investment and Opportunities Act (WIOA) program staff are not allowed to make a person disclose the SSN to be a part of the program.

Suppose a customer is self-registering through the County Finance Information System-OhioMeansJobs App (CFIS Kiosk) or is being entered into Ohio’s case management system and has no SSN or chooses not to give one. In that case, OhioMeansJobs center staff must create a pseudo-nine-digit SSN, a temporary number to register the person. The pseudo number will remain in the case management system until the person provides a social security number.

The formula for a pseudo number is as follows.

  • 99 for the first two digits
  • Use two digits for the month of the job seeker’s birth
  • Two digits for the job seeker’s day of birth
  • Use the last two digits of the job seeker’s year of birth
  • Use a “0” for the last digit

If the system finds a duplicate with the pseudo number, move on to the next number until no duplicates are found. For example, a job seeker with a birth date of July 1, 1968, would have a temporary SSN of 990-70-1680. If this is a duplicate, you would then try 990-70-1681.

The pseudo-SSN formula may also be used when signing up a person for WIOA-funded (participating) services.

While a person is not required to provide an SSN to get into the program, WIOA does not allow exclusions from reporting on performance due to a lack of an SSN. If a participant is enrolled in WIOA services and will not or cannot provide an SSN, wage data must be collected during a person’s first four full quarters after exit.

Please get in touch with OWDPOLICY@jfs.ohio.gov if you have any questions about this guidance.”

–>See for yourself.

Dalton Rep. Kasey Carpenter did not vote on the recent House Resolution condemning Hamas terror in Israel

By

 

Dalton area readers may remember hearing in “the news” that many Democrat state House members walked out of the House Chamber instead of casting a vote on a recent Resolution condemning Hamas terrorism.

Here is a bit of that Dec. 4, 2023 story taken from the liberal AJC:

“The Georgia House adopted a Resolution that condemned the deadly Hamas attack against Israel as a “disgusting display of hatred and evil” in a vote Monday that exposed a sharp Democratic divide over the growing conflict in the Middle East.

It passed 129-2 after an hourlong debate, with dozens of Democrats abstaining from the vote. Others were marked absent after several Democratic lawmakers said they wouldn’t back the measure.

The vote was engineered by Republicans to demonstrate GOP unity behind Israel — and highlight political divisions among Democrats…”

(read the entire AJC report here).

What the AJC did not report was that Dalton Republican Kasey Carpenter did not vote on the same Resolution. If you want to ask him why, his Capitol contact info is here.

Dalton Rep Kasey Carpenter.

Vote record:

To see the vote record on the House resolution (HR 4EX) click here then find “12/04/2023 House vote #10” on the bottom, left  right side.

The House Resolution is pasted below from the General Assembly website.

 

House Resolution 4EX
By: Representatives Cox of the 28th, Panitch of the 51st, Carson of the 46th, Efstration of the 104th, McDonald of the 26th, and others

A RESOLUTION

  1.   Condemning Hamas terrorism, expressing our support for the Jewish people; and for other
  2.   purposes.
  3.  WHEREAS, the heinous murders committed by Hamas are a disgusting display of hatred and
  4.   evil and are offensive to every decent human being; and
  5.   WHEREAS, the unprovoked attacks included shooting the elderly at point-blank range,
  6.  murdering babies, raping young women, and torturing families in front of loved ones; and
  7.   WHEREAS, the terrorists further took hundreds of innocent hostages, including Americans,
  8.   back into Gaza for continued torture and abuse; and
  9.   WHEREAS, these vicious acts have been condoned by some individuals and groups within
  10.   the United States, including within the State of Georgia, through social media posts, public
  11.   rallies, and calls for a “National Day of Resistance”; and
  12.   WHEREAS, as legislative leaders, it is our duty to call out hatred when we see it, both from
  13.   Hamas and those who misguidedly support them; andH. R. 4EX -1-

23 LC 112 1708

  1.   WHEREAS, we must stand united with our Jewish friends, neighbors, and colleagues to
  2.   reject Hamas and the terror they seek to perpetuate; and
  3.   WHEREAS, our prayers go out to the families who have lost loved ones in these attacks and
  4.   to the brave Israeli soldiers who are exercising their nation’s right to self-defense by fighting
  5.   back against the Hamas terrorists who seek the eradication of the Jewish people; we stand
  6.   with Israel.
  7.   NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that
  8.   the members of this body condemn Hamas and those who support their violent and hateful
  9.   acts both in the United States and the State of Georgia, and express our support for the
  10.   Jewish people.
  11.   BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized
  12.   and directed to make appropriate copies of this resolution available for distribution to the
  13.   public and the press.

New state flag in Minnesota – updated

By

 

—>Please see my update below. Many thanks to GA State Rep Jesse Petrea for the eagle eye!

I saw this post on Twitter/ X about Minnesota (USA) getting a new state flag. I thought it was likely a joke. So I Googled it. It’s not a joke.

See here. Puntland (in Somalia) flag here.

  • Bonus educati0n: Is Minnesota home to the largest number of Somali Americans in the country?

Update, August 6, 2024:

This original post escaped an update when the Georgia legislature started up in January and I got too busy. My fault. My apologies.

For accuracy and clarity, the Democrats in Minnesota did in fact change their state flag. The final design is much more similar to the Puntland Somali flag than the old state flag, but it is not the same as any of the designs pictured in the End Wokeness sample examples pictured at left. My apologies for the late update. I sent this post out this AM when I heard that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has been chosen as the Democrat VP candidate.

Compared to the old flag that was discarded because it was too American, I’ll be happy to hear from anyone who thinks the new flag isn’t a bow to the Somali population in Minnesota and was put in place to erase more of the history of the state. The far left hated the state seal (here) that was the center of the old flag.

This is the new and current state flag in Minnesota.

The new Minnesota flag is pictured above. Here is a link to the Minnesota Secretary of  State’s office website with the (new) current flag.

dak

 

Democrat Congressman Henry Cuellar says the answer to the border chaos is to…”enforce the law.”

By

 

 

Some thousands of migrants take shelter as they await to be processed near the Del Rio International Bridge after crossing the Rio Grande river into the U.S. from Ciudad Acuna in Del Rio, Texas, U.S. September 18, 2021. Picture taken with a drone. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

 

The below transcript and this link to video is from MSNBC on Dec. 13, 3023. 

 

MSNBC host:

“Want to bring in Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar, who represents a border district. He’s also the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Subcommittee, uh, for Homeland Security. Congressman, thanks for joining us on this. Um, appreciate it.

So you just heard our report, um, from Julia on the ground there at a key town, um, in Arizona, very remote as well. Um, we’re hearing more detentions, uh, more deportations. That is the plan, it seemed, that’s coming from negotiators. Um, by critics it’s being called, um, Title 42 on steroids. Where do you stand on this?

Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX)

Congressman Henry Cuellar:

Well, you know, certainly, I, I’m one of those that I believe that we should have detentions and we should deport people that don’t have a legal right to be here.

Look, you know, the asylum law is very clear. You gotta have state persecution based on five things: race, nationality, political belief, religion, uh, part of a social, uh, uh, class. Uh, and if you don’t fit that, you know, you can come here for a job, you can come here for economic reasons, you can come in for so many other reasons. They don’t quality. So why are we allowing everybody to come in? Uh, most people that have come in stay here for five years and then have an immigration judge, uh, deport them.

Uh, I live at the border, and, and we been talking about this since 2013. Uh, and if you look at some of the past experiences that we’ve had with different administrations, I think President, um, Obama, uh, along with Secretary Jay Johnson, I think they had it right. They gave people their, uh, you know, their, their claim to asylum. But at the end of the day, they deported people, they detained people, and they just did one thing. They enforced Title 8.

MSNBC host:

So then, Congressman, wha- what is to be done, if I’m hearing you right? H-, because as Julia said, um, folks are critical of more detentions, more deportations. You’re looking at detentions in perpetuity. There’s really no end in sight. You have folks that are trekking for days upon days with young children, um, then being turned around, um, a- and deported, mistreated. What is the solution then?

Congressman Henry Cuellar:

Well, just what I said. You gotta enforce the law. Look, the, the, the asylum law is very clear.

MSNBC host:

But they’re gonna keep coming.

Congressman Henry Cuellar:

It-

MSNBC host:

They’re gonna keep coming.

Congressman Henry Cuellar:

Yeah, uh, um, I … No, no, no. Let me tell you something. If you, if, if you had repercussions at the border, uh, like we did under President Obama, then the numbers would certainly go down. It won’t eliminate them to a hu-, uh, you know, to zero, but it will bring them down where it’s a lots more manageable do it. If you don’t have repercussions at the border … If you and I were down there and then we said, “Hey look, uh, they gotta … We can get to the US border and then they gonna let us in,” of course, we’re gonna pay the $8,000 to our coyote, uh, to the bad people to come in. But if I had a … If you and I saw that we would probably be held and then deported because we don’t qualify, I would think about that and you would think about that. It’s simple repercussions that you gotta have at the border following what the law is right now.

MSNBC host:

Um, Congressman, your c-, your fellow Congressional Hispanic Caucus members say it’s not right that’s there no Latino representation, um, in any of, of these talks. And along with that, they think it’s setting a dangerous precedent and giving in to Republicans when it comes to immigration, um, reform and getting aid for Ukraine. Where do you stand on this?

Congressman Henry Cuellar:

Well, look, I, I, I respect my colleagues. They certainly have a different opinion. But some of us have been talking about this since 2013. You know, you talk to some of us on the border, we think a little differently. Uh, I don’t have any sanctuary cities. I don’t have any, uh, uh, public officials that say, “Let them in, let them in.” We’ve been dealing with this migrant situation for so many years. Now that New York, now that Chicago, Washington DC, Colorado, Massachusetts, and other places are feeling what we felt, this is what we’ve been talking about this. I don’t call this a Republican idea, because some of us pushed this idea before some of those Republicans were even in office. Uh, we just wanna see one thing at the border. We want to see law and order. We wanna s-, don’t wanna see chaos at the border.

But at the same time, we wanna respect the migrants’, uh, rights and their claim to asylum. But again, the law is very clear. Persecution by a state, by a state based on five things. And those … Uh, most of those folks do not qualify. They do not qualify.

MSNBC host:

Do you think it’s important, sir, to have Latino representation in these talks?

Congressman Henry Cuellar:

Well, you know, uh, Secretary Mayorkas is certainly involved, uh, in, in the talks. Uh, I have talked to some of the folks, uh, about it. Uh, uh, y-, in fact some of the ideas that they’re looking at are ideas that I’ve talked about it. Uh, certainly, uh, you know, the Senate should have, uh, Latinos. But it’s not only Latinos that should be involved. I mean, it’s, it’s one of those things that, you know, we wanna make sure that the migrant rights … because right now, migrants are not coming only from-

MSNBC host:

Right.

Congressman Henry Cuellar:

… Latin America. They’re coming in from 50-plus countries across the world. End.