{"id":4419,"date":"2012-07-11T12:23:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T17:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=4419"},"modified":"2012-07-11T12:31:39","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T17:31:39","slug":"media-advisory-from-our-friend-bill-byrne-on-protecting-jobs-jobs-jobs-with-the-image-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/11\/media-advisory-from-our-friend-bill-byrne-on-protecting-jobs-jobs-jobs-with-the-image-program\/","title":{"rendered":"MEDIA ADVISORY from our friend Bill Byrne on protecting JOBS! JOBS! JOBS! with the IMAGE program"},"content":{"rendered":"

MEDIA ADVISORY July 11, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bill Byrne for Cobb County Chairman 2012
\n30 Fairground St. SE
\nMarietta, GA 30060
\n (404) 272-0564
\nFax: (770) 684-4236
\nE-mail: bill @ byrneforchairman.com <\/p>\n

Bill Byrne announces his intent to protect American and legal immigrant workers on public-funded jobs in Cobb County: will expand federal IMAGE certification to include all public contractors at all levels as county Chairman. Questions Tim Lee\u2019s wisdom on illegal immigration<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today, Bill Byrne announces his support for requiring that all workers on taxpayer funded jobs in Cobb County be proven as eligible to work in the United States through certification of all public contractors by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Mutual Agreement between Government and Employers (IMAGE) program.<\/p>\n

\u201cInsuring that the workers we hire on projects funded by the Cobb taxpayers are in the U.S. legally is not only basic, common-sense, sound fiscal policy, but the right thing to do to help ease unemployment here in Cobb and Georgia. Official unemployment in Cobb is above 8% and nearly 9% statewide\u201d notes Byrne. \u201cWhen I am Chairman, I will do everything possible to guard against any hiring of black-market labor on public jobs, including the construction of courthouses and schools\u201d says Byrne.<\/p>\n

Illegal workers secure jobs through fraudulent means such as presenting false documents, completing fraudulent benefit applications and stealing people\u2019s identity. To combat unlawful employment and reduce vulnerabilities that help illegal aliens gain such employment, ICE announced the Mutual Agreement between Government and Employers (IMAGE<\/a>) program in July 2006. This program assists employers in targeted sectors develop a more secure and stable workforce. It also enhances fraudulent document awareness through education and training.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn May, Tim Lee publicly signed an agreement with federal ICE officials on IMAGE certification for Cobb County. It is mind-boggling to me that he is now refusing to take the next logical step and allow a public vote on a planned ordinance that would require that all Cobb contractors and subcontractors working on public-funded projects be certified by ICE with the IMAGE program\u201d Byrne said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I am Chairman, all contractors will be IMAGE certified after January 2014\u201d promised candidate Byrne. <\/p>\n

\u201cMost of us can clearly see that our budget problems, our taxes, our children\u2019s education, our health care and our quality of life are not somehow separate issues from Georgia\u2019s illegal immigration crisis\u201d remarks Byrne. \u201cWe also see that illegal employment is the root cause of illegal immigration. More can be done at the local level to deter both crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHonest business owners welcome the level playing field created when we do everything possible to get illegal labor out of the workplace and to that end, we must use all the tools available to us\u201d ended Byrne.
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MEDIA ADVISORY July 11, 2012 Bill Byrne for Cobb County Chairman 2012 30 Fairground St. SE Marietta, GA 30060 (404) 272-0564 Fax: (770) 684-4236 E-mail: bill @ byrneforchairman.com Bill Byrne announces his intent to protect American and legal immigrant workers on public-funded jobs in Cobb County: will expand federal IMAGE certification to include all public […]<\/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\/4419"}],"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=4419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}