{"id":1621,"date":"2008-06-17T15:20:22","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T19:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2008-06-17T21:40:07","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T01:40:07","slug":"talk-gwinnett-gwinnett-cities-county-ignore-state-immigration-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/17\/talk-gwinnett-gwinnett-cities-county-ignore-state-immigration-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Gwinnett Gazette -Talk Gwinnett: Gwinnett Cities, County Ignore State Immigration Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Talk Gwinnett<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gwinnett Cities, County Ignore State Immigration Law        <\/strong><br \/>\nBy Bob Griggs, Publisher  06-17-2008  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Almost 18 months after Georgia enacted one of the toughest illegal immigration laws in the nation, neither the county nor a single Gwinnett city has fully complied with the new requirements regarding eligibility for public benefits. <\/p>\n<p>S.B. 529, enacted as the &#8220;Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act,&#8221; went into effect on July 1, 2007. The law requires any employer doing business with a state or local government to verify the eligibility of their new employees through the federal E-Verify system. It also defines several new crimes including trafficking a person for labor servitude, as well as requires jails and prisons to determine the legal status of all arrestees. <\/p>\n<p>But it is the provision regarding eligibility for public benefits that Gwinnett&#8217;s cities and county government continue to ignore. <\/p>\n<p>A Political Football Fumbled <\/p>\n<p>In District 1, where the arguably largest illegal immigrant population is found, former Duluth Mayor Shirley Lasseter&#8217;s solution is to court the Feds to build a new prison in Gwinnett while challenger Carol Hassell accuses her of having practically presided over a &#8220;sanctuary city&#8221; in Duluth. <\/p>\n<p>The candidates for County Commission Chairman have alternately claimed credit for the county&#8217;s immigration efforts to date and accused each other of stealing campaign promises. As the D-1 Commissioner, Lorraine Green led the push for tougher restrictions on employers holding county contracts while incumbent Charles Bannister has promised to &#8220;enact an ordinance blocking illegal immigrants from obtaining business licenses,&#8221; should he be reelected. <\/p>\n<p>Bannister&#8217;s promise rings a little hollow, however, since SB-529 required the county to verify the citizenship status of business license applicants&#8211; a year-and-a-half ago&#8230;   <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkgwinnett.net\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=434&#038;Itemid=4\">the rest here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk Gwinnett Gwinnett Cities, County Ignore State Immigration Law By Bob Griggs, Publisher 06-17-2008 Almost 18 months after Georgia enacted one of the toughest illegal immigration laws in the nation, neither the county nor a single Gwinnett city has fully complied with the new requirements regarding eligibility for public benefits. S.B. 529, enacted as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}