{"id":228,"date":"2006-09-07T11:13:01","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T15:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=228"},"modified":"2006-09-07T22:02:33","modified_gmt":"2006-09-08T02:02:33","slug":"ajc-report-on-governoe-perdues-action-on-black-market-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2006\/09\/07\/ajc-report-on-governoe-perdues-action-on-black-market-id\/","title":{"rendered":"AJC report on Governoe Perdue&#8217;s action on black market ID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/search\/content\/metro\/stories\/2006\/09\/06\/0906metperdue.html\">the AJC this morning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The bottom line is this: We will not welcome those who break our laws,&#8221; Perdue said at a morning news conference.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican governor is in the middle of a heated re-election campaign in which illegal immigration has become an issue. The governor in a political ad has touted GOP state efforts to crack down on illegals, and last week he vistited Georgia National Guardsmen patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border near Deming, N.M.<\/p>\n<p>Perdue&#8217;s plan, which could cost about $1 million a year, is dubbed the &#8220;SecureID&#8221; program and is a multi-agency push involving the Georgia Department of Driver Services, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, the program will place 10 state investigators at the &#8220;highest-need&#8221; driver&#8217;s license customer service centers. The program also would dedicate three new GBI agents to conduct follow-up fraud investigations and partner with ICE to identify document and benefits fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia has one of the largest illegal immigrant populations in the nation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was wrong yesterday and I want to correct myself. I wrote that &#8221; <strong>The sound you hear is Zamarripa, Jerry Gonzalez and the rest of the illegal alien lobby preparing their yada yada \u201coppression\u201d howls\u2026and me doing my happy dance.&#8221;<\/strong> concerning the reaction to the Governor&#8217;s aggressive stance on false ID in Georgia.  <\/p>\n<p>The below quote from Jerry Gonzalez shows that I had it wrong.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Association of Latino Elected Officials. &#8220;This is a BandAid approach to a gushing wound. This has to be solved at the federal, not the state level.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But I am still doing my happy dance.<\/p>\n<p>Advice to the near one million illegal aliens presently in Georgia: leave, we want our state, our jobs and our American wages back. <\/p>\n<p>Advice to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galeo.org\/executive_director.php\">Jerry <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/thousand_words\/public_education_2005jul23.html\">Sam<\/a>: Find another money-making scam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the AJC this morning. The bottom line is this: We will not welcome those who break our laws,&#8221; Perdue said at a morning news conference. The Republican governor is in the middle of a heated re-election campaign in which illegal immigration has become an issue. The governor in a political ad has touted GOP [&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\/228"}],"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=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}