{"id":2950,"date":"2010-01-29T11:37:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T15:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=2950"},"modified":"2010-01-29T11:56:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T15:56:49","slug":"conyers-georgia-officials-whine-about-keeping-illegal-aliens-from-getting-a-business-licenseand-get-a-response-da-king-in-the-rockdale-citizen-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/29\/conyers-georgia-officials-whine-about-keeping-illegal-aliens-from-getting-a-business-licenseand-get-a-response-da-king-in-the-rockdale-citizen-newspaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Conyers Georgia officials whine about keeping illegal aliens from getting a business license…and get a response D.A. King in the Rockdale Citizen newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"

You will likely see news reports similar to the one below around the state for a while. To no one’s surprise, a few lazy and shortsighted officials and some connected, big shot citizens are whining about having to go through an extra step to obtain and renew a business license as the result of 2009’s House Bill 2.<\/a><\/p>\n

All HB 2 did was clarify the 2006 Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act (GSICA<\/a>) of 2006 -SB 529. The goal of each is to cut off taxpayer funded employment and benefits to people who escaped capture at our borders when they crossed illegally . Illegal aliens.<\/p>\n

If you see a news article like the one below in your local paper, please send in a letter to the editor with similar sentiment to what I have included in mine here on the bottom. It was published in today’s Rockdale Citizen in Conyers.<\/p>\n

To the constant question I get at least ten times a week: “D.A. – what can I do to help fight the crime of illegal immigration…? ” WRITE AND SEND LETTERS TO THE EDITOR! <\/strong><\/p>\n

LTEs are very important and make a difference.<\/p>\n

News report from Tuesday on top my letter in response published today below it.<\/p>\n

Rockdale Citizen <\/em><\/p>\n

Jan 26, 2010<\/p>\n

City business owners must prove citizenship <\/strong><\/p>\n

Filling out an application is not enough anymore. Business owners within the city of Conyers must now confirm they are in the country legally before they can run a business.<\/strong>
\nReporter: By Alena Parker, Staff Reporter<\/p>\n

CONYERS \u2014 Filling out an application is not enough anymore. Business owners within the city of Conyers must now confirm they are in the country legally before they can run a business.<\/p>\n

Local government agencies were recently called to verify citizenship and immigration status of business owners through the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, program of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.<\/p>\n

The Conyers City Council voted Jan. 20 to enter into an agreement with the federal agencies though Conyers city attorney Michael Waldrop noted they did not have much choice. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Georgia Legislature has required that cities and counties participate in the SAVE program to verify the legality of those who do business and receive benefits from the city,\u201d Waldrop told the council members.<\/p>\n

Councilman Marty Jones voiced concerns that paying for notary services every year, in addition to getting a business license, would be inconvenient \u201con the operations side.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople who write the regulations don\u2019t have to live by them,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n

The new requirement will affect the roughly 1,800 businesses in Conyers.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnless you have a notary in your office, the proprietor is going to have to go somewhere \u2014 whether it\u2019s the city, the bank, the post office, somewhere \u2014 to get someone to notarize this document (affidavit), swearing that he is, in fact, a legal citizen or here legally, whatever the status may be,\u201d Waldrop said.<\/p>\n

The new requirement will affect those applying for retirement benefits, health benefits, contracts, alcoholic beverage licenses, occupation tax certificates, taxi cab licenses, insurance company licenses, pawn brokers licenses, massage therapists licenses, billiard room operations licenses, precious metals and gems dealers licenses, conducting flea market licenses and peddlers and itinerant trades licenses, according to the city documents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nRockdale Citizen<\/em><\/p>\n

Friday January 29, 2010<\/p>\n

LETTERS: Common sense to enforce the law <\/strong> <\/p>\n

As a politically aware and active Georgian, I read with great amazement of the apparent resentment from Conyers officials and their concerns about compliance with a state law regulating the issuance of business licenses and required proof of eligibility. <\/p>\n

Councilman Marty Jones is quoted as lamenting that “paying for notary services every year, in addition to getting a business license, would be inconvenient on the operations side.\u201d City Attorney Michael Waldrop complained, \u201cUnless you have a notary in your office, the proprietor is going to have to go somewhere \u2014 whether it\u2019s the city, the bank, the post office, somewhere \u2014 to get someone to notarize this document (affidavit), swearing that he is, in fact, a legal citizen or here legally, whatever the status may be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boo hoo, and FYI, there is no such thing as a \u201clegal citizen.\u201d You are either a U.S. citizen or you aren\u2019t. Another legal term for non-citizen is \u201calien.\u201d<\/p>\n

As I type, brave Border Patrol agents are risking their lives to stop illegal, uninspected entries into our nation. The Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act originally mandated that Georgia\u2019s \u201cPublic Benefits\u201d \u2014 including commercial licenses \u2014 go only to people who are eligible. It was passed in 2006. Conyers is only now moving toward compliance and apparently will help ensure that the city is not rewarding illegals who escape capture at the border with a license to do business.<\/p>\n

Like many other public benefits, illegal aliens are not eligible for business licenses, a.k.a. occupational tax certificates, under 1996 federal law. One must wonder why it required a state law saying that federal law must be obeyed to encourage Conyers and other Georgia cities and counties to do everything possible to discourage the crime of illegal immigration. For most Georgians, it is a \u201cno brainer.\u201d <\/p>\n

Jones and any other disgruntled and put-out officials may want to explain to a young Border Patrol agent enduring freezing desert nights on the line how \u201cinconvenient\u201d processing an application and a notarized affidavit for a business license is for \u201cthe operations side.\u201d<\/p>\n

We desperately need a return to common sense.<\/p>\n

\u2014 D.A. King
\nMarietta<\/p>\n

King is president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society which advocates for compliance with immigration laws. He lobbied in favor of the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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