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Open records request Carroll County, E-Verify MOU – Re: OCGA 13-10-91
Sent Saturday, AM, Oct. 22, 2022.
Ms. Hyde,.
Please send me a copy of the E-Verify user agreement (MOU) between Carroll County and the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security. Please include copies of all pages of that document.
Thank you,
D.A. King
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“13-10-91. Verification of new employee eligibility; applicability; rules and regulations.
(a) Every public employer, including, but not limited to, every municipality and county, shall register and participate in the federal work authorization program to verify employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. Upon federal authorization, a public employer shall permanently post the employer’s federally issued user identification number and date of authorization, as established by the agreement for authorization, on the employer’s website; provided, however, that if a local public employer does not maintain a website, then the local government shall submit such information to the Carl Vinson Institute of Government of the University of Georgia to be posted by the institute on the website created for local government audit and budget reporting. The Carl Vinson Institute of Government of the University of Georgia shall maintain the information submitted and provide instructions and submission guidelines for local governments. State departments, agencies, or instrumentalities may satisfy the requirement of this Code section by posting information required by this Code section on one website maintained and operated by the state.”
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Welcoming Illegal immigration to Georgia with special treatment on college tuition
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.” Attributed to George Orwell.
According to the federal government, only seven states host more illegal aliens than Georgia. The leftist Georgia Budget and Policy Institute says we are home to more illegals than Lawful Permanent Residents (“green card” holders). Pre-Biden/Harris/Mayorkas, the estimates on how many “undocumented workers” live in our state varied, but after nearly four years of illegal open borders, use of about 500,000-600,000 is a conservative ‘guesstimate.’
This is no way to run a state.
Absent the promised federal protections of defended and secure borders, it does not require an advanced political degree to recognize that our state and local governments should be doing everything possible to drive illegal aliens out of Georgia.
This writer has spent the last nineteen legislative sessions under the Gold Dome in Atlanta to that end. Working together with lawmakers, we have put a long list of statutes in place designed to make Georgia inhospitable to the federal offense of illegal immigration.
But many of them are not enforced. Enforcement is the task of the executive branch of government.
To noodle out what is really going on with illegal immigration in Georgia, it helps to realize that there are essentially two sides to our current immigration crisis: Pro-enforcement and anti-enforcement.
This writer is pro-enforcement. I have been researching and actively fighting illegal immigration for more than two decades. I am not well-liked at the Gold Dome. I am not a member of any political party.
I am grateful to publisher Will Davis who has kindly consented to allowing me to send educational commentary columns for readers of this newspaper. My goal is to provide a better understanding of illegal immigration in Georgia.
To that end, we recently published a column that highlighted Georgia’s Dual Enrollment (DE) program.
To recap, DE is a taxpayer-funded arrangement in which high school students – mostly 11th and 12th graders – can attend taxpayer-funded public college classes and get both high school and college credit. They do not pay a dime in tuition or for books and fees. The budget for 2025 is north of $91 million. It is intended as a head start on an employment career for the students. There is nothing in the Dual Enrollment program that excludes illegal aliens from taking the zero cost classes provided Georgia taxpayers.
Maybe Republican lawmakers have forgotten that federal law says illegal aliens are not eligible for employment anywhere in the nation.
Suggestion: Ask your state lawmakers why they are using our tax dollars to fund a college education for illegal aliens in the name of “workforce expansion.”
Dual Enrollment vs Instate Tuition for illegal aliens
The DE program is separate and quite different than the “shall we provide instate tuition to the annual illegal aliens who have already graduated our highs schools?” question.
Instate tuition is significantly lower (but not free, like DE) than the out-of-state tuition rate. How much lower? A look at the Middle Georgia State University website shows that total instate tuition and fees for a fifteen-hour class load is $3641. The out-of-state rate is $10,316. That is a difference of $6675.00. That is per semester.
Instate tuition is intended to benefit Georgians in Georgia. An American student living in Michigan (for example) who wants to attend Middle Georgia State College must pay the much higher out-of-state tuition rate.
Believe it or not, prodded by the extremely powerful Georgia Chamber of Commerce lobbyists in Atlanta, some GOP state lawmakers annually push for instate tuition for illegal aliens for whom then-President Barack Obama illegally invented the “DACA” program in 2012.
In March of 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit found that illegal aliens with Obama’s DACA are not eligible to enter the United States, are removable (deportable) and do not have “lawful presence.” The decision was unanimous.
“We have continuously and clearly taken the position in ongoing legal cases that DACA does not confer legal status…” says Georgia Attorney General Chis Carr.
Shorter: Illegal aliens with DACA are illegal aliens – but Obama gave them a work permit anyway.
Suggestion: Ask your state legislators if they support allowing any illegal aliens to pay $6675.00 less in tuition per semester at Middle Georgia State than Americans and legal immigrants who live in other U.S. states.
I respectfully advise that you start with Rep. Dale Washburn (R-Macon), as he is the number two signer on the most recent legislation (HB 131) aimed at rewarding and welcoming illegal aliens with the much lower tuition rate. Is that pro-enforcement?
D.A. King is president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society. X/Twitter: @DAKDIS
A version of the above essay was published in the Monroe County/ Macon Reporter on October 23, 2024.
COBB COUNTY SHERIFF CRAIG OWENS IS A DANGEROUS MAN
“It may be historic in that it’s likely the first time a Cobb County sheriff has moved to protect drunk driving child rapists in our country illegally.”
So says Jon Ferre of Cobb’s Democrat Sheriff, Craig Owens. Ferre was Senior Advisor to the Director and later Chief of Staff at ICE under the Trump administration. Owens is well-known for inviting a mariachi band to play at a gala event in which he proudly announced he had ended the Cobb jail’s lifesaving 287(g) agreement with ICE shortly after taking office in 2021.
Signed into law by then President Bill Clinton, 287 (g) authorizes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to delegate to state and local law enforcement officers the authority to perform limited, specified immigration officer functions under the agency’s direction and oversight. It is primarily used in jails and deals with illegal aliens already arrested for additional crimes.
As this writer observed when he was elected, Sheriff Craig Owens is a dangerous man. He is also defiantly arrogant. He has announced that he will not obey new state law on immigration enforcement.
Owens has pledged to ignore a clear mandate in HB 1105 (“The Georgia Criminal Alien Track and Report Act”) passed in the 2024 General Assembly. In part, it requires all sheriffs to apply for 287 (g) authority if they are not already authorized.
From the AJC: (“Whiplash in Gwinnett, Cobb as new law on immigration enforcement takes effect) “Owens says he was not going to apply for 287(g) again because he can’t spare the deputies to investigate immigration cases or do the administrative work.” Sheriff Owens is depending on public ignorance on the reality of the ICE program. But even the AJC quotes Lena Gerber, a leftist activist at the “Immigrant Legal Resource Center” when she correctly points out that “…the agreements on their own don’t require deputies to go out of their way to investigate immigration cases.”
Ferre, the former ICE official agreed. “Asking a jailed individual a few questions about citizenship and alienage obviously doesn’t amount to an investigation.” Now at the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington D.C., Ferre produced required reading on Cobb’s Sheriff (Georgia Sheriff Misleads on 287(g) Program) in June.
I asked various pro-enforcement Georgians about Owens announcement.
“I believe that would be called a “protection racket” for illegals…” former Border Patrol Agent Robert Trent told me upon hearing of Owen’s latest illegal policy. Trent retired as Assistant Director, Enforcement Training, US Immigration Officer Academy at GLYNCO in Brunswick.
HB 1105 sponsor Rep Jesse Petrea (R-Savannah) weighed in on Owens defiance: “It was not surprising to see Sheriff Owens of Cobb County boldly state he would not follow state law. He has refused to follow the law before. This is why penalties for Sheriffs who refuse to follow the law were placed in the bill”
* Related reading: Georgia law requires all jailers to report incarcerated illegal aliens to DHS – but it’s not enforced
Petrea told this writer he is determined to see compliance this time. We hope to hear the same from Gov. Brian Kemp and Attorney General Chris Carr.
Passage of HB 1105 was a direct response to preventable crimes committed by criminal aliens and sheriffs who were ignoring 2006 and 2009 laws passed to require them to report illegal aliens to federal authorities. It is literally a law that says Georgia Sheriffs must obey the law.
Owens’ pro-enforcement opponent
We asked Owens Republican opponent David Cavender about Owens objection to the 287 (g) program. “He can’t spare the deputies for immigration cases or the 287(g) administration paper work? He sure doesn’t mind sparing his deputies for bike units, horse units, traffic units, his and his executive staff’s personal drivers and his own Executive Protection team for his own safety. It seems Craig has plenty of resources to spare as long as it’s for his own agenda…” said Cavender.
A member of the SWAT team, Cavender is currently a Sergeant with the Cobb County Police Department and a 287(g) proponent. He has a long list of endorsements, including from former Cobb Sheriff Neil Warren and the Cobb Fraternal Order of Police. Warren instituted 287 (g) in 2007.
Pro-enforcement voters of all descriptions are flocking to Cavender. The Marietta Daily Journal noted that a large group of supporters turned out at the Marietta Country Club last week again to support Cavender. “There’s a lot of momentum behind the campaign and everything really seems to be going really well,” says Cavender. “It was quite humbling, really, to see that kind of crowd.”
Guests were also treated to an appearance from Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who gave a few words before leading the group in prayer” according to news reports.
Pro-enforcement Cobb County voters have a chance to greatly improve public safety by voting Owens out of office. Both of the votes from our house will be to that end.
- A version of this essay was posted on the subscription website James Magazine Online on Sept. 9, 2024.
D.A. King is president of the Marietta-based Dustin Inman Society and proprietor of ImmigrationPoliticsGA.com
From the way back file: Why do we lag behind Alabama and Arizona on law enforcement? 287 (g)
The below column was originally published in the Marietta Daily Journal back when I had a semi-regular space there. There opinion editor was an angel of a man named Joe Kirby. I miss Joe a lot. The MDJ decided to run me off after Joe died suddenly. The replacement editor is not an angel of a man.
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“I bring all off this up because as part of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1996, section 287 g, state and local governments have the ability – and right – to send law enforcement personnel to be trained by the federal government and authorized to enforce federal immigration laws.”
Last week, I returned from my third trip to Cochise County on the Mexican border in southeast Arizona.
Fully one-half of the illegal immigration into our nation comes through Arizona, a very large part of that through Cochise County. Few illegals linger in that area.
Border Patrol headquarters in Washington reports that in the first six months of this year, it apprehended more than 696,000 illegal aliens on our southwest borders. The official line is that for each one caught, two or three make it into our nation. Do the math.
Maybe you have seen some of them around Georgia.
In my most recent trip, I spent four days driving around, speaking to local ranchers and property owners and visiting with business owners in restaurants, hotels and shops.
It is quite an education.
If you travel there from Georgia, the first thing you will notice is the absence of the flag of Mexico. I saw only one the entire time I was there. It was flying in Mexico.
I saw no “day-labor” sites.
I ate in several restaurants and stayed in two hotels, one in Bisbee – not eight miles from the Mexican border- the other in Sierra Vista and attended a meeting in a third.
Another glaring difference between Cochise County and Georgia is that the workers seem to be those pesky “gringos” that we are told will not do the construction work, or be cooks, busboys, landscapers or grounds-keepers.
I spent more than a few hours talking with many of these folks, and it turns out that they were indeed …Americans!
How can this be?
Strolling down the main street in Bisbee, I chatted with a man named Tom who was – get this – painting a storefront. In broad daylight! Kind of like what I saw here in Georgia ten years ago.
Maybe an illegal alien from Holland or Ireland I thought, so I stopped and asked where he was from. “Originally, St. Louis” he said, “but I have lived here for twenty years”.
Hmmm.
It is unusual to drive more than a few miles around Cochise County Arizona without seeing a Border Patrol vehicle, most often, a pick-up truck emblazoned with the emblem of that law enforcement agency, driven by an armed Patrol Agent and mounted with paddy wagon- like enclosure used to hold and transport illegals after they are apprehended.
What a concept.
I have wondered before about the distance from the border at which illegal aliens stopped being apprehended and removed from the U.S. – and began to be regarded as oppressed victims “living in the shadows” while they are “looking for a better life”.
I have a good grasp on the answer now.
Illegal aliens do not stay long where they know American immigration laws are enforced.
Retired Border Patrol agent and Cochise county citizen Dave Stoddard confirmed my conclusions. “Operation area for Border Patrol goes as far as Tucson, but in Phoenix, two hundred miles north of the border, there is little presence”. “There, you will see day-labor sites and fearless illegal aliens, mostly from Mexico.” he said.
In Georgia as well Dave – gangs and meth dealers too.
I bring all off this up because as part of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1996, section 287 g, state and local governments have the ability – and right – to send law enforcement personnel to be trained by the federal government and authorized to enforce federal immigration laws.
That includes apprehending and detaining illegal aliens for both civil and criminal federal violations.
- Related reading: Georgia Sheriff Misleads on 287(g) Program
What a concept.
The state of Alabama has chosen to take advantage of this law. [Alabama!]
It suffers about ten percent of the number of illegal aliens as does Georgia. Florida has trained some of its state troopers to enforce federal immigration law. Arkansas and Tennessee are right behind.
All are far ahead of Georgia. We should all be asking why.
The recently signed Homeland Security Appropriations act of 2005 provides federal money to pay for the training.
Unsecured borders and immigration laws that go un-enforced is national suicide and any elected official who is not actively striving to do all they can to remedy the situation is complicit.
As much as the criminal employers of taxpayer subsidized illegal labor will resist, as voters and citizens, we must demand that all available solutions be used to put a stop to the madness.
If we cannot change our elected official’s minds on this concept, we have a duty to change our elected officials.
When is the next election again?
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