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Insider Advantage Georgia
December 6, 2018
Jeff Jones
For those who are not yet aware, Georgia issues driver’s licenses to non-citizens who, according to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), do not have legal immigration status.
To increase the “head-scratcher” quotient on this, there is no difference – none — between the driver/ID credentials issued to these lucky illegal aliens and those issued to legal immigrants (green card holders) or foreign students and guest workers who obeyed American law and are here on legal, temporary visas.
While it is illegal for non-citizens to vote in elections in Georgia, state law considers the driver’s licenses and ID Cards we are granting to them to be “proper ID” at our polls.
That’s why I will soon introduce driver’s license/ID reform legislation to change this bizarre situation.
I do not believe – and I have not spoken to many who do believe – that rewarding illegal behavior by officially blurring the lines between legal immigrants and illegal aliens is fair or wise. And It certainly isn’t adding to the public safety of Georgia citizens, or our ballot security.
These drivers licenses and state ID credentials are used as valid ID to enter federal buildings and at our airports to board airliners. As we all see, in 21st century America, the drivers license is our de facto national ID card. Some of the illegal aliens granted these very useful credentials have been convicted of crimes and are under deportation orders. Many others have been granted a deferral on deportation proceedings, most of them by the Obama administration.
Under the Gold Dome, when the details of a subject are difficult to easily or quickly understand, too often that issue is ignored or passed over. Illegal alien driver’s license/ID credential reform should not be put off any longer.
It is important to understand that states have full control and authority over how and to whom they issue driver’s licenses and official ID Cards. It is also imperative to know that federal law (REAL ID Act of 2005) sets certain standards and requirements for states to follow if the state’s credentials are to be accepted for federal ID use. The federal compliance requirements are only related to the federal acceptance as valid ID.
The REAL ID Act says that illegal aliens who have a delay or deferral on deportation can use that temporary condition as evidence of lawful status and may be granted a REAL ID Act compliant driver’s license and/or an official ID card. It is important to understand that the law does not require any state – including Georgia– to do this.
So as to avoid confusion or alternate reality on the facts here, I quote the U.S. Department of Homeland Security:
“The REAL ID Act establishes minimum security standards for license issuance and production and prohibits Federal agencies from accepting for certain purposes driver’s licenses and identification cards from states not meeting the Act’s minimum standards.” (here)
Other states — including Michigan, South Carolina, California, and recently, Massachusetts — issue driver’s licenses that are not intended to be and are not REAL ID Act compliant along with the compliant documents. There is a visible difference in the two types of cards.
While I join the large majority of Georgians who do not want any illegal aliens to receive any kind of official state ID or drivers license,…read the rest here.
Stephen Dinan
December 6, 2018
“Illegal immigration ticked up in November, but the number of those people traveling as families shattered records, Homeland Security reported Thursday, saying it’s proof that migrants have figured out how to game the flawed U.S. immigration system.
More than 25,000 people who came as part of families were snared by Border Patrol agents sneaking across the U.S.-Mexico line, and nearly 5,000 more were encountered at official border crossings where they demanded entry.
Nearly 5,300 more children traveling without parents were also caught jumping the border, the government said.
The 25,000 family “units,” as they’re called, are by far a record, far surpassing the heights of the Obama years.” Read the rest here.
As the situation in Tijuana, Mexico continues to deteriorate as thousands of illegal aliens wait to gain access to the United States, the crisis continues along many different sectors of the border.
This week in Yuma, a number of individuals were caught dropping children over the border fence. Thousands of illegal aliens from Central America have flooded into the country since October.
“We have a challenging and still potentially volatile situation in Tijuana. We’ve got well over 7,000 migrants there. They’re well organized and brought to the border by a group and we told they would be able to cross easily into the U.S. to present an asylum claim. That is not the case,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said in an interview Tuesday morning.”We do see individuals trying to cross illegally in the San Diego sector, we are addressing that activity and then of course you saw the scenes of the family literally dropping children over the fence. That was in the Yuma Sector in Arizona, also interdicted and apprehended by Border Patrol agents.”
“Since the caravan formed in mid-October, we’ve seen 90,000 people come to our border. Eighty-five percent of those crossing illegally between ports of entry and all lured by the fact that our legal framework has huge gaps that create the opportunity to stay in the U.S. while awaiting a court hearing even if they don’t a lawful permission or protection claim,” he continued. “It’s a huge challenge that we need to work with Congress to address…We’ve got criminal organizations profiting off of vulnerable families, charging $5000-$7000 per person. That’s a $2.5 billion business of exploitation and we’ve got to stop it.”
Rates of welfare use by household type:
Any welfare: – Non-citizens=63% – Native-born= 35%
Food stamps: – Non-citizens=45% – Native-born=21%
Medicaid: – Non-citizens=50% – Native-born=23%
Somebody please send us a note if you see this in the Associated Press or the AJC? (as if).
Center for Immigration Studies
CIS.org
Download a PDF of this Backgrounder.
Steven A. Camarota is the director of research and Karen Zeigler is a demographer at the Center.
New “public charge” rules issued by the Trump administration expand the list of programs that are considered welfare, receipt of which may prevent a prospective immigrant from receiving lawful permanent residence (a green card). Analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies of the Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) shows welfare use by households headed by non-citizens is very high. The desire to reduce these rates among future immigrants is the primary justification for the rule change. Immigrant advocacy groups are right to worry that the high welfare use of non-citizens may impact the ability of some to receive green cards, though the actual impacts of the rules are unclear because they do not include all the benefits non-citizens receive on behalf of their children and many welfare programs are not included in the new rules. As welfare participation varies dramatically by education level, significantly reducing future welfare use rates would require public charge rules that take into consideration education levels and resulting income and likely welfare use.
Of non-citizens in Census Bureau data, roughly half are in the country illegally. Non-citizens also include long-term temporary visitors (e.g. guestworkers and foreign students) and permanent residents who have not naturalized (green card holders). Despite the fact that there are barriers designed to prevent welfare use for all of these non-citizen populations, the data shows that, overall, non-citizen households access the welfare system at high rates, often receiving benefits on behalf of U.S.-born children.
Among the findings:
November 30, 201
(Catch and release directly to US communities)
EDINBURG, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley continue to apprehend large groups of family units and unaccompanied children.
Thursday, a group of 57 illegal aliens turned themselves in to McAllen agents near Granjeno, Texas. The group consisted of family units from the countries of Honduras and Nicaragua.
A few hours later, agents assigned to the Weslaco station encountered a group of 34 illegal aliens comprised of family units and unaccompanied children from the countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
Later that night, McAllen agents working near Mission, Texas, arrested a group of 87 illegal aliens consisting of family units and unaccompanied children from the countries of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua.
Border Patrol is processing the subjects accordingly.
The Rio Grande Valley Sector currently has multiple campaigns focused on rescues and danger awareness, such as “Operation Big Rig” and “No Se Arriesgue” to combat smuggling and ultimately save lives. Call 911 to report suspicious activity; “They’re humans, not cargo!”
Please visit www.cbp.gov to view additional news releases and other information pertaining to Customs and Border Protection. Follow us on Twitter at @CBPRGV.
“Gender Change – A gender update requires applicants to submit a court order or physician’s letter certifying gender change. The letter or court order shall state the person’s name, date of birth, date of gender reassignment operation and other identifying information.”
Image of drivers license issued to legal immigrants, guest workers and to illegal aliens with deferred action on deportation in Georgia – DDS
In Georgia, the Department of Drivers Services accommodates eleven (11) foreign languages for the road rules written exam.
California does the same, but uses fourteen (14) foreign languages (is there really such a thing as a “foreign language” in California?).
We predict that the people who really run Georgia will soon catch up and eventually out-do California. ICYMI, Georgia has passed the fifty thousand marker on the number of drivers licenses and/or official photo ID Cards it has issued to illegal aliens who have deferred action on deportation.
Georgia gives these happy deferred action illegal aliens the exact same drivers license we give to real immigrants and Mercedes Benz executives. Even California has a notably different drivers license for the formerly “undocumented.”
Mexico does not issue drivers licenses to any illegal aliens. When the Democrats were last in power in Georgia, illegal aliens could not legally obtain a Georgia drivers license.
Atlanta Journal Constitution, November 26, 2018 which can be read in full here.
