Photo: DDS website

Note: you can easily contact DDS HERE.

Georgia’s Department of Driver Services employee and liaison to the legislature, Michael Mitchell,  has been telling state legislators for years that illegal aliens are not getting Georgia drivers licenses. That is not true. It has been happening since mid-2012. Legislation ( SB 6) has been passed in the state senate to alter the license given to illegals so that it does not look exactly like the license given to foreign diplomat’s families, legal visa holders like Mercedes Benz executives and real, legal immigrants. Even the liberal AJC covered it.  Yesterday, an Atlanta TV station ran a correction to a story based on DDS’s Mitchell’s mis-information.

Photo: Linkedin

Here is video from a February 7, 2017 Georgia House Motor Vehicles Committee hearing on a DDS bill in which Mitchell not only allows Rep Alan Powell to move on legislation with wildly inaccurate assumptions, but then comes right out and tells the committee that “we do not issue to illegals.” START AT 36:49 on the official House video archive.

You can also see that Mitchell is going full Pinocchio on this – and because I have had a meeting with the DDS Commissioner on it, I can see that it is by directive – with info listed HERE.

Other examples of DDS Michael Mitchell employee misleading legislators can be seen HERE and HERE in official email. I have more examples of the intentional obfiscation. One of them is posted below (the attachment shows that more than 26,000 illegal aliens with deferred action on deportation now have a Georgia ID card and/or a Georgia drivers license – according to DHS, “Deferred action does not provide lawful status” :

“D.A. KING” <dking1952@comcast.net>, Josh McKoon <jrm2016@yahoo.com>

Please see Michael’s statement below to clarify.

Thank you.
Donna Nealey – Senate Legislative Assistant
Legislative Assistant to Senator Fran Millar – Chairman Senate Higher Education
Legislative Assistant to Senator Josh McKoon

Georgia State Senate
18 Capitol Square – 319 CLOB
Coverdell Legislative Office Building
Atlanta, GA 30334
404-656-7872 – direct dial
770-315-4060 – cell number
404-657-3217 – fax number
donna.nealey@senate.ga.gov<mailto:donna.nealey@senate.ga.gov>

From: Mitchell, Michael [mailto:mbmitchell@dds.ga.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 8:41 AM
To: Nealey, Donna
Subject: Re: DDS Request – State ID Card – Senator Josh McKoon

Donna,

I’ve forwarded the request to our general counsel; however, we don’t have information on “illegal aliens”. If there are specific non citizen categories that Mr King would like us to provide, we are glad to do so.

Thx

Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 25, 2017, at 8:10 AM, Nealey, Donna <Donna.Nealey@senate.ga.gov<mailto:Donna.Nealey@senate.ga.gov>> wrote:
Please see the request below:
– need latest number of illegal aliens with a Georgia drivers’ license/official state ID card from DDS

Thank you.

Donna Nealey – Senate Legislative Assistant
Legislative Assistant to Senator Fran Millar – Chairman Senate Higher Education
Legislative Assistant to Senator Josh McKoon

Georgia State Senate
18 Capitol Square – 319 CLOB
Coverdell Legislative Office Building
Atlanta, GA 30334
404-656-7872 – direct dial
770-315-4060 – cell number
404-657-3217 – fax number
donna.nealey@senate.ga.gov<mailto:donna.nealey@senate.ga.gov>

From: D.A. KING [mailto:DKing*******]
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 7:18 AM
To: Joshua McKoon
Cc: Nealey, Donna
Subject: need latest number of illegal aliens with a Georgia drivers license/official state ID card from DDS, pls. Time sensitive