{"id":4648,"date":"2015-01-25T13:16:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T18:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=4648"},"modified":"2015-12-06T14:14:18","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T19:14:18","slug":"gold-dome-bill-would-block-licenses-for-all-illegal-aliens-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/25\/gold-dome-bill-would-block-licenses-for-all-illegal-aliens-in-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Dome bill would block licenses for all illegal aliens in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marietta Daily Journal<\/em><\/p>\n

Gold Dome bill would block licenses for illegals<\/strong>
\nby Joe Kirby, Otis A. Brumby III and Lee B. Garrett, – Around Town Columnists<\/p>\n

November 18, 2014 04:00 AM<\/p>\n

REPUBLICAN leaders in Washington are mulling how best to respond to President Obama\u2019s bare-knuckle threat to grant legal status to millions of illegal aliens in coming days. But in Georgia, a bill was pre-filed in the state Legislature on Monday that would prevent any of those newly amnestied from obtaining drivers\u2019 licenses from the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Georgia Road Safety and Driver\u2019s License Integrity Act,\u201d now known as SB 6, was sponsored by state Sen. Josh McKoon (R-Columbus), with substantial input from MDJ immigration columnist D.A. King of east Cobb.<\/p>\n

Back in June 2012, the Obama administration announced that illegals who were brought here before their 16th birthday and were under the age of 31 could request that their cases be deferred for two years, subject to renewal. He now is threatening to defer action on their cases and those of many others, which could result in millions (including several hundred thousand illegal aliens in Georgia) being rewarded with federal work permits and Social Security numbers. Under current law, that would make the \u201cdeferred action illegals\u201d eligible for Georgia drivers\u2019 licenses and other public benefits, even though they are still illegal aliens and would not have legal status.<\/p>\n

\u201cPreviously, Georgia law restricted illegal aliens from getting a driver\u2019s license,\u201d said McKoon. \u201cWhen the president created the \u2018deferred action status\u2019 class, he deliberately created a loophole to make millions of illegal aliens eligible for Georgia driver\u2019s licenses and other public benefits. Senate Bill 6 will eliminate that loophole in Georgia.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition, the bill would:<\/p>\n

Require aliens applying for a temporary driver\u2019s license to submit their fingerprints with the application;<\/p>\n

Require aliens swear an affidavit that they are not the recipient of deferred deportation status, with a penalty of up to $1,000 for false swearing;<\/p>\n

Would allow the impoundment for 60 days of any vehicle driven by an unlicensed driver (with exclusions for cases of expired licenses and drivers 15 years old or younger); and<\/p>\n

Would require the state to take part in the federal E-Verify \u201cRide\u201d Program, an enhancement to the E-Verify program that verifies the validity of driver\u2019s license info by matching the data entered by employers against participating state motor vehicle department records.<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, considering he helped write it, King is upbeat on the bill.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will save a lot of lives if it is put into law and then actually enforced,\u201d he said. \u201cWe should be more like Mexico, where illegal aliens cannot get a driver\u2019s license.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) declined to comment on the particulars of the bill, but said he supports its goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll you have to look at is what happened in Oregon last week in the election,\u201d he said after his Gold Dome press conference Monday, at which he announced his candidacy for a third term. \u201cOregon voted 2-to-1 not to give driver\u2019s licenses to illegal aliens. I think that\u2019s the sentiment of the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oregonians voted 66-34 against the proposal (roughly the same margin by which Cobb voters rejected the TSPLOST in 2012, for what it\u2019s worth), even though pro-illegals groups outspent opponents by a 10-to-1 margin. The measure failed in every county there but one.<\/p>\n

Echoing Isakson on the question was Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhenever the public gets that sort of clear-cut, black-and-white issue for tougher controls \u2014 even in Oregon, when they\u2019re legalizing dope \u2014 they support them,\u201d Krikorian said. \u201cIt really highlights how this issue is not a Republican-liberal issue like, say, taxes and abortion, but an up-down issue, elites versus the public.\u201d<\/p>\n

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HONORING VETERANS:<\/p>\n

Retired Lt. Col. and Marietta Rotary Club former president Joe DeSantis hosted a private \u201cSalute to Veterans\u201d dinner for nearly 100 military academy graduates, and military service veterans at the Marietta Conference Center on Veterans\u2019 Day evening. Guest speaker was Gen. Steve Richie, the only Air Force fighter pilot to earn \u201cace\u201d status during the Vietnam war by shooting down five enemy aircraft.<\/p>\n

Among the crowd were former Cobb School Superintendent Lt. Gen. Joe Redden and retired Maj. Stuart Fleming, who serves on the Marietta City Council. DeSantis, Richie, Redden and Fleming are U. S. Air Force Academy graduates.<\/p>\n

Others seen at the dinner included West Point grad and Blackhawk pilot Col. Bob Shaw (now of Lockheed Martin), West Point grad and former F-15 pilot Col. William Fletcher, Dr. (and retired Col.) Harlan Crimm, retired president of Chattahoochee Tech, and Dr. Jim Fleming, former president of the Georgia Air Force Academy Parents Club and of the Kennesaw State University Foundation. …<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s recipient of the USO Award at the annual Atlanta Regional Military Affairs Council luncheon at the Galleria on Monday was Home Depot CEO Frank Blake of Cobb.<\/p>\n

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MORE POLITICS: Isakson\u2019s decision to go ahead and announce his plans Monday to seek a third term in the Senate was a smart one. Waiting would have fueled speculation that the east Cobb Republican, who turns 70 next month, might be considering retirement. A delay also might have fueled speculation that a tea party challenger running to his right could be successful.<\/p>\n

Rumors had been circulating tea party favorite Allen West, the former one-term congressman from Florida who spoke recently at Roswell Street Baptist Church, was considering a move to his native Georgia to run against Isakson. Seasoned politicos here say that would have amounted to a kamikaze mission for West \u2014 and he apparently got the message, announcing last week he was moving to Texas instead to head a little-known conservative think tank.<\/p>\n

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U.S. Rep. Tom Price (R-east Cobb) could be on the inside track to chair the powerful House Budget Committee. Price has been serving as vice chair under Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who is the favorite to become chair of the even more powerful House Ways and Means Committee. \u2026 U.S. Sen.-elect Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) is a former east Cobb resident and with his wife hosted the first neighborhood coffee for Mitchell Kaye\u2019s successful race for state Legislature in 1992, Kaye reminds AT.<\/p>\n

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