{"id":2033,"date":"2009-01-14T10:56:17","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T14:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2009-01-14T10:56:17","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T14:56:17","slug":"cherokee-county-chairman-buzz-ahrens-still-in-violation-of-gsica-legislation-coming-to-punish-local-governments-who-reward-illegal-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/14\/cherokee-county-chairman-buzz-ahrens-still-in-violation-of-gsica-legislation-coming-to-punish-local-governments-who-reward-illegal-aliens\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherokee County Chairman Buzz Ahrens still in violation of GSICA &#8211; legislation coming to punish local governments who reward illegal aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Georgia 2009 legislative session opens <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>01\/14\/2009<br \/>\nStory Photos &#8211; Click to Enlarge  State Sen. Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock) speaks to the Senate on Monday, the opening day of the 2009 session. <\/p>\n<p>By Ashley Fuller<br \/>\nafuller@cherokeetribune.com <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Legislation that could withhold state funds from local governments not in compliance with the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act is moving forward this session. <\/p>\n<p>State Rep. Calvin Hill (R-Hickory Flat) said the legislation was proposed out of a policy committee appointed by the Speaker of the House. He said the final bill has not been completed. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t pass Georgia law to be ignored,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>Cherokee County has been criticized for not collecting affidavits affirming the citizenship of applicants for public benefits, specifically business licenses. <\/p>\n<p>Commission Chairman Buzz Ahrens said the county&#8217;s interpretation is that it is not in violation. Ahrens said the county is waiting for a memorandum of understanding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security before it can access the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database to verify residency. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to have the whole bag of tools,&#8221; Ahrens said, adding the county currently only can take the affidavits. <\/p>\n<p>Rep. Sean Jerguson (R-Holly Springs) said he is proposing his own related legislation. <\/p>\n<p>The legislation would &#8220;tighten down&#8221; citizenship requirements to hold alcohol licenses, especially for package stores&#8230;       <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cherokeetribune.com\/content\/index\/showcontentitem\/area\/7\/section\/23\/item\/125947.html\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia 2009 legislative session opens 01\/14\/2009 Story Photos &#8211; Click to Enlarge State Sen. Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock) speaks to the Senate on Monday, the opening day of the 2009 session. By Ashley Fuller afuller@cherokeetribune.com Legislation that could withhold state funds from local governments not in compliance with the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act is [&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\/2033"}],"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=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}