House vote # 82 March 30, 2022. See also here (bottom right).
Senate vote record, 2022’s SB 379 – Registered Apprenticeship Program
Senate vote #596, March 8, 2022 SB 379. See also here (bottom right).
“Undocumented immigrants can participate in the Registered Apprenticeship Program” – reply to our question from Kimberly Burgess at Coastal Pines Tech SB 379
“Undocumented immigrants can participate in the Registered Apprenticeship Program. They will need to have the ability to pay out of pocket for tuition/fees/books associated with their academic program. The rate of tuition and fees are more for foreign students (non-us citizens).”
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On Nov 20, 2023, at 8:48 AM, Kimberly Burgess <kburgess@coastalpines.edu> wrote:
Good morning **** **,
Thank you so much for reaching out to me regarding the Registered Apprenticeship Program offered at Coastal Pines Technical College. The apprenticeship program is an on-the-job training program that is offered to current students at Coastal Pines. You must be enrolled in an academic program at the college to participate.
There are two pathways to participation in the program:
Pathway 1 – Current Coastal Pines Student Placement
- This pathway allows current students to be placed in an apprenticeship employment position with one of 31 apprenticeship partners.
If you are not enrolled at the college, you would need to apply for admissions and be accepted to the college.
- Link to the Admissions Application: https://coastalpines.edu/admissions/apply-now
- It is FREE Application Month for the month of November. You can apply for free using the code MATCH23
- You would work with the Office of Admissions to get admitted and then an academic advisor would work with you to select classes.
Pathway 2 – Apprenticeship Partner Employees Can Enroll in Classes
- If you are an employee at a participating Apprenticeship Partner and you need to gain an additional skill or trade, the company can choose to send you to the college to enroll in an academic program that aligns with the job you have at the company.
Undocumented immigrants can participate in the Registered Apprenticeship Program. They will need to have the ability to pay out of pocket for tuition/fees/books associated with their academic program. The rate of tuition and fees are more for foreign students (non-us citizens).
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Take Care,
Kimberly
| Kimberly Burgess, M.S.
Coastal Pines Technical College Golden Isles Campus Apprenticeship Coordinator |
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Original email with our question
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Sent: Friday, November 17, 2023 6:37 AM
To: Kimberly Burgess <kburgess@coastalpines.edu>
Subject: I want to learn more!Please tell us how undocumented immigrants can participate in the apprenticeship program?Thank you,**** **
It’s not 1859 – Let’s raise the pay for farmworkers who are here legally
Friday’s news brought a story about Georgia’s Agriculture Commissioner, Tyler Harper, urging the state’s congressional delegation to push for stopping a scheduled pay increase for the farmworkers who are working here on completely legal, temporary visas. He says a pay increase will hurt both farmers and consumers. It won’t.
Yes, it’s true that agriculture is Georgia’s biggest industry. Yes, it’s true that growers produce billions in revenue in the state. It is also true that agriculture is the only industry in the U.S. that has its own visa system that does not have a ceiling on how many workers can be brought in to the country – it’s known as the H-2A visa. Repeat, no limit, no ceiling no maximum.
The scheduled federal pay raise is for these H-2A workers.
While most Americans rightly howl about the illegal immigration crisis and say we are opposed to the use of black-market labor, are we also going to deny the workers here legally a pay raise? We at the Dustin Inman Society say “no.” Let’s allow the raise to go into effect.
How much? For 2024, the federal government raised the hourly wage for H-2A workers in Georgia by about a dollar, from $13.67 to $14.68.
How badly would that increase hurt the typical American family when it comes to the retail cost of fresh fruits and vegetables? According to 2020 stats from the Economic Policy Institute not that much. About the price of a couple of 12-packs of beer, a large pizza, or a nice bottle of wine.”
A 40% increase in pay would cost a typical family just $25 per household annually for fresh produce.
We have posted an easy-to-read article expanding on this data on the front page of ImmigrationPoliticsGA.com website. Please give it a read. Not for the first time, Commissioner Tyler Harper is wrong, and this is not 1859. Let’s pay the legal workers a fair wage.
- Most politicians enjoy hearing from constituents. Here is contact info for Commissioner Tyler Harper.
Tyler Harper Agriculture Commissioner tyler.harper@agr.georgia.gov Tel: (404) 656-3602
A version of this column was published in the January 22, 2024 edition of The Islander newspaper in Glynn Co, GA.
How many illegal aliens? Attention Republican Georgia legislators: We are quantifying what most of you are ignoring on illegal immigration
- We note that a congressional district is about 760,000 people (illegal aliens included in the count).
On illegal aliens released into the U.S. since January, 2021 – testimony to the House Committee on the Judiciary, Jan 11, 2024. (“The Cost of Illegal Immigration to Taxpayers” – Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee hearing entitled “The Impact of Illegal Immigration on Social Services”)
“The current surge of illegal immigration is unprecedented. Some 2.7 million inadmissible aliens have been released into the country by the administration since January 2021. There have also been 1.5 million “got-aways” — individuals observed entering illegally but not stopped. Visa overstays also seem to have hit a record in FY 2022.”
2.7 released + 1.5 million got away = 4.2 million. Please add the below.
Data on visa overstays from DHS:
“The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has quietly published an overdue overstay report showing that more than 850,000 foreign visitors overstayed their authorized stay in FY2022, which is probably a record high.”
Georgia: Here is a 2016 estimate on the number of illegal aliens living in Georgia from Pew Research – 400,000.
By now it is likely over 500,000.
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