NEW: UPDATE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2014. THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO DIDN’T GIVE UP!
We won one last night! Here is the added info I promised. I hope you will take your time and try to “get it.” And make it a point to extract some promises from your own state legislator for the future: “THOU SHALT NOT CAVE IN TO THE ANTI-ENFORCEMENT LOBBY OR VOTE FOR BILLS YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND.”
As a direct result of the pressure we created with our calls and emails, HB 1051 [1] was defeated late last night in the Georgia Senate. If you want to see how your own state Senator voted on this deceptive legislation, see HERE. [1]
· VIDEO If you want to see the Senate vote on official archived video see HERE, [2] go to “Senate PM 5” and slide the timer to 33:11-52:24
Read more: The Marietta Daily Journal – House legislation designed to make life easier for illegal aliens to access public benefits in Georgia defeated in the state Senate
Note: Republican Senator Tommie Williams, a true bleeeding heart liberal on immigration and enforcement tried very hard to convince others to pass the bill.
Not much of the discussion in the Senate Chamber had a basis in fact. An amendment that would have made the bill less horrible was defeated before HB 1051 itself was put to death. This bill was an effort from ACCG/GMA the Chamber of Commerce and other well-funded anti-enforcement interests to undo the progress we have made on protecting public benefits from illegal immigration multiple times since 2006. If you don’t know about them or who funds ACCG/GMA see HERE. [3]
More from WSB-TV on ACCG/GMA HERE [4] (3 minutes, very educational). Note nearly everyone at these groups are trained, well-paid and professional fabricators)
Reminder: The DACA illegal aliens are still illegal aliens and do NOT have legal status [5] in what remains of the United States of America. Obama is right now, as I type, scheming to try to expand this illegal massive deferred action on deportation. The same people who voted “YES” to this scam bill would vote “YES” to help out the next potential Obama-amnestied wave of “victims of borders.”
I am waiting for the video of last night’s Senate session to be posted. You can see the Dustin Inman Society blog page [6] and Facebook page later to see how the Republican-controlled state Senate acted on this mess.
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So far this year the Republican-controlled state Senate has:
1) Voted to allow DACA illegal aliens [7]to obtain and keep Georgia drivers licenses.
2) Refused to allow Georgia voters to decide on a ballot question [8]in November regarding making English our official state language of government, which would also have stopped offering the written DL test in 11 foreign languages.
3) Voted to confirm Governor Deal’s appointment of the radical Democrat anti-enforcement leftist Rocio Del Milagro Woody [9] to the state Board of Corrections.
! Welcome to Georgiafornia !
Contact info for the Republican-controlled (Super-majority! Obtained with the hard work of trusting conservative voters!) Georgia state Senate HERE [10].
Now we have HB 1051 to fight.
HB 1051 (Dickson- R, Dalton) would virtually assure that existing public benefits laws – designed to stop access by illegal aliens – would never be obeyed. Not that they are now. It is designed to allow the Georgia drivers licenses now issued to illegal aliens to be used to access professional licenses and taxpayer funded public benefits.
Georgia’s HB 1051 – a solution looking for a problem? Or a clear atempt to further enable illegal aliens in Georgia?
***How did this thing get out of the House? Here is how [11].***
I have spoken to the author, Rep Tom Dickson (R-Dalton) twice about HB 1051. He says his intent was to make it easier for US citizens to renew their teaching licenses. Teacher’s licenses are public benefits under 50-36-1. He doesn’t want renewal applicants to be required to gather and present the documents they used the first time, on issue, when they renew their licenses. He will not accept my word that we already solved this problem in 2013 with what started out to be SB 225 (Hightower) and ended up as SB 160 [12](Ginn).
• The code already provides for U.S. citizens who have proved that citizen status once, when applying, to the same issuing agency, to not have to prove it again. The non-citizens (aliens), whose status can change from day to day are required to prove eligibility (with legal status) each time.
50-36-1 (4) “The requirements of this subsection shall not apply to any applicant applying for or renewing an application for a public benefit within the same agency or political subdivision if the applicant has previously complied with the requirements of this subsection by submission of a secure and verifiable document, as defined in Code Section 50-36-2, and a signed and sworn affidavit affirming that such applicant is a United States citizen.”
If we go by the author’s stated intent, the bill is completely unnecessary.
• HB 1051 originally applied to professional licensing boards within the SoS office [13]. Which was bad enough. We have enough problems getting department heads to understand and obey the current single system. But the current version of HB 1051 [14] has been expanded to include “any department, agency authority or commission.” The intent is no longer as presented above.
• The author is apparently under the wildly mistaken impression that the July 2012 start of DDS becoming compliant with the 2005 federal REAL ID Act [15]has somehow changed the paragraph above from 50-36-1. It did not.
• With the insertion of the language that excludes the “Limited Term” drivers licenses issued to the DACA illegal aliens since 2012, that Senate Reg Ind committee made a bad bill less bad, but still a sure tool to insure spotty compliance.
• When the bill was sent back to same Senate committee for the sole purpose of having Limited Term language intentionally removed, the motivation became very clear: HB 1051 is now a bill that is intended to allow these illegal aliens to use the DLs to obtain and renew professional licenses and pother public benefits. NOTE: I think DDS is also issuing state ID cards to the DACA illegal aliens too. They will not answer me on this question. This would be counter to the AG office opinion/advice of July, 2012. I have a copy of that letter. [16]• 2013 SB 122 [17] (Hunter Hill) further complicates this mess because it allows temp drivers licenses to be valid (120 days) beyond that date on which a visa expires if the holder says he has applied to fix or renew visa.
This bill should be allowed to perish in the Senate or be withdrawn. It poses a great deal of future political troubles (we promise), even if the “Limited Term” language is re-inserted.
Any/all HB 1051 votes on the Senate floor should be recorded.