{"id":4003,"date":"2011-02-07T10:43:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T15:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=4003"},"modified":"2011-02-11T17:23:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T22:23:15","slug":"rare-agrement-sb-40-is-preposterous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/07\/rare-agrement-sb-40-is-preposterous\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare agreement: SB 40 is preposterous"},"content":{"rendered":"

AJC Political Insider<\/em>
\nYour morning jolt: Rare agreement on the flaws of an illegal immigration bill<\/strong><\/p>\n

9:55 am February 7, 2011, by jgalloway<\/p>\n

D.A. King, the illegal immigration activist, and representatives of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Official get along like a house on fire.<\/p>\n

If that house is also filled with kegs of gunpowder and roofing nails.<\/p>\n

State officials have been known to insist that King and Jerry Gonzales, GALEO\u2019s executive director, sit on opposite sides of the room at hearings.<\/p>\n

So when the two sides agree on anything to do with immigration, we must pay attention. This morning\u2019s topic is SB 40, state Sen. Jack Murphy\u2019s attempt to require all businesses in Georgia to use the federal computer registry called E-Verify \u2013 or something like it \u2013 to make sure their hires are legal U.S. residents.<\/p>\n

The bill includes this exemption, presumably intended for farmers:<\/p>\n

This Code section shall not apply to any person or entity who has filed an H-1 or H-2 application, or similar type of application, with the United States Department of Labor.<\/p>\n

Last week, King labeled the loophole \u201cpreposterous.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cOn illegal employment, the bill\u2019s author has excluded so many industries from the badly needed required statewide use of the no-cost federal E-Verify system so as to make it a parody of an employment enforcement bill,\u201d King said, promising to see the bill changed or killed.<\/p>\n

King is not an immigration lawyer. But Charles Kuck, who calls himself the \u201ctoken Republican\u201d on GALEO\u2019s board of directors, does have a shingle. <\/p>\n

More than that, Kuck is also the past president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. And Kuck says King is right.<\/p>\n

On Friday, during a break in a hearing on state Rep. Matt Ramsey\u2019s immigration bill, Kuck noted several flaws in the exception carved out by SB 47. Chief among them is the fact that it is the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that handles work visas \u2013 not the Department of Labor.<\/p>\n

Kuck continued:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no such thing as an H-1 or H-2 petition\u2026.. Let\u2019s presume [Murphy is] speaking of H1Bs, which are used by the AJC to hire foreign reporters, or Georgia Pacific to hire an engineer or, really, any company, and the H2As, which are [for] temporary agricultural workers, and H2Bs, which are [for] temporary, \u2018other\u2019 workers.<\/p>\n

\u201cSay I\u2019ve got a landscape company, I just got a contract with the state to take care of the highways. I need 500 guys. I do an H2B, I bring in 500 workers. Those people \u2013 those employer who doesn\u2019t use any of those \u2013 don\u2019t have to enroll in E-Verify. That\u2019s every employer in Georgia, potentially\u2026.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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