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    Ga. immigration review panel gets 1st complaint

    Mar 9, 2012 3:08pm

    ATLANTA (AP) — A panel charged with ensuring that public employees and agencies comply with state laws on immigration on Friday discussed its process for handling complaints.

    The first complaint with the Immigration Enforcement Review Board was filed last month by anti-illegal immigration activist D.A. King against Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and city council members, saying a city ordinance violates state law by allowing applicants for public benefits to present an unacceptable Mexican government ID card.

    The panel was created by Georgia's new law targeting illegal immigration. Two members of the seven-person panel were present in a law firm conference room in Atlanta and the other five members participated in Friday's meeting by conference call.

    The board also voted unanimously to name former Fulton County GOP chairman Shawn Hanley vice chairman.

    When the board receives a complaint, it will generally use a conference call for preliminary handling, to make sure the complaint fulfills all necessary requirements and get the process started, said board chairman Ben Vinson, an Atlanta lawyer. Vinson will then send a letter to the person or agency that is the subject of the complaint with a deadline to submit a written response.

    Once a response is received, the board will ask for more information or set a date to hold a full hearing with its members present to hear from both parties and to collect evidence, and then the board will vote whether to launch a formal investigation, Vinson said.

    It is entirely possible the process will end with the written response if the person or agency demonstrates that the complaint is not true or that remedial action has been taken, Vinson said

    The new law adopted last year gives the board power to investigate complaints, hold hearings, subpoena documents and witnesses and take disciplinary action. If the board finds a "knowing and willful violation or failure to enforce an eligibility status provision," a public employee or agency could be removed from the list of qualified local governments, lose state funds, and/or be ordered to pay a fine between $1,000 and $5,000.

    King is founder of the Dustin Inman Society, which advocates for stricter enforcement of immigration laws. His complaint said an Atlanta city ordinance adopted in 2004 violates the new state law targeting illegal immigration by recognizing a Mexican ID card, known as a matricula consular, for city government transactions.

    The matricula consular is an identification card issued by Mexican consulates to Mexican citizens in other countries. The Georgia law says agencies that administer public benefits must require applicants to submit a secure and verifiable form of identification proving eligibility, and it specifically says a matricula consular is not acceptable.

    Reese McCranie, a spokesman for the mayor, said the city has no comment on the complaint but indicated it complies with the law.

    "City of Atlanta employees who handle public benefits have been trained on what is an acceptable form of ID and the matricula consular is not one of them," he wrote in an email.

    Vinson said during the meeting that he hoped to send a letter to the city later Friday to ask for a written response to King's complaint within 15 days.

    The law that established the board did not provide for its funding, but a state budget proposal that has yet to be finalized gives the board a modest budget of $7,500, which is based on the board receiving 10 complaints by the end of the 2012 fiscal year, Vinson said. The board has asked for about double that amount and estimated 25 complaints for the next fiscal year, he said.

    Because the board is a regulatory body with sanction power, it is allowed to withhold all documents related to an investigation from the public or media until it the investigation is complete and a decision has been reached, Vinson said. But he added that the board would release initial complaints to anyone who files a request under the state's open records law.

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    Mexican matricula consular ID documenting illegal aliens

    By D.A. King, Marietta Daily Journal, September 23, 2005

    Mexican matricula consular ID documenting illegal aliens


    By D.A. King, Marietta Daily Journal, September 23, 2005

    What is green and red, includes a photograph, is needed only by illegal aliens and is issued here in the United States - by a foreign government?

    No idea? A hint - it's a photo ID card.

    More clues.

    What is printed in Spanish is deemed to be a "criminal threat" and a "potential terror threat" to this country by the FBI Office of Intelligence - but is accepted by many American banks, hospitals and local and state governments?

    More?

    What has been labeled as an "un-reliable form of identification" by the Department of Justice, but can be used to board an airplane in America - during a war on terror?

    Give up?

    Answer: A Mexican matricula consular photo identification card. Don't feel bad if you didn't know the answer - most Americans haven't a clue what a matricula consular is either. That is not an accident.

    A brief history and some insight into the little-known matricula consular:

    On Aug. 29, 2001, in a speech to both Houses of the U.S. Congress, President Vicente Fox of Mexico said the Mexicans who were here illegally at the time were "entitled to legalized status" and later demanded that President Bush "solve the problem before the year ends."

    Even before the horror of 9/11, public opinion worked against the impending amnesty - er - "guest-worker" proposal for the millions of illegal aliens already here.

    Following 9/11 and because of the resulting now obvious Homeland Security issues, the plan to repeat the "one-time amnesty" of 1986 and "legalize" the millions of illegal aliens in the U.S. was taken off the table. Several other things however, did not change.

    Here, the unrelenting demand from "willing employers" for taxpayer-subsidized labor continued - as did the craving of American banks for the highly profitable business of the enormous illegal alien market.

    In Mexico, the demand for the billions of U. S. dollars sent home by the "migrants" - "remittances" (more than $16 billion last year, an estimated $20 billion this year) - also remained unchanged.

    Remittances are now the single largest source of revenue for Mexico - larger than Pemex, the state-owned oil company, and foreign investment and tourism. Real, legal immigrants who have entered the United States according to American law have a valid visa, a passport - and access to a little detail called "Lawful Permanent Residency" (a "Green Card".) All serve as valid identification.

    Illegal aliens have none of these.

    Shortly after 9/11, Mexico began what Marti Dinerstein of The Center for Immigration Studies describes as an "aggressive grassroots lobbying campaign to win acceptance for the matricula consular at the local and state level, especially in areas where large numbers of Mexicans resided."

    Like Georgia. The city of Atlanta began official acceptance last year.

    The Mexican government, American business and the powerful open borders - illegal alien lobby (sorry, I repeat myself) is quick to point out that possession of the matricula consular does not reflect immigration status.

    Indeed.

    Make no mistake, issuing - and accepting - the matricula consular encourages and accommodates illegal immigration. Illegal immigration has actually increased since 9/11/2001.

    Feel safer?

    The campaign has been wildly successful - and profitable. According to the Mexico City newspaper El Universal, as of January of this year, 4.5 million Mexicans had these ID cards and they are accepted in 386 cities, 164 counties and 338 financial institutions in our republic.

    What should logically represent probable cause instead becomes instant documentation and "stealth amnesty" for the previously "undocumented migrants."

    Mexico's stated goal is to have issued 6 million matriculas by the end of this year.

    Because of its ease of forgery and the lack of security - not to mention fingerprinting - involved in issuing the Mexican ID, it is not accepted by most banks in Mexico and may not be used to obtain the federally issued Mexican voter ID - or state issued Mexican driver's licenses.

    American police report that it is not uncommon to come across people in possession of multiple matricula consulars - all with different names.

    Blockbuster Video does not accept the matricula consular to open an account to rent a DVD.

    Ten states in the U.S. accept the matricula as valid ID to issue an American driver's license, thereby eliminating the need for the matricula.

    Handy, si?

    How hard to get is the Mexican matricula consular? Ask to see one of mine.

    Why is it accepted in the United States?

    Follow the money.

    Mexican matricula consular ID documenting illegal aliens - Column by D.A. King published in the Marietta Daily Journal - The Dustin Inman Society - Secure American Borders - Enforce American laws
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    Consular ID Cards in a Post-9/11 World

    Testimony of Steve McCraw, Assistant Director of The Office of Intelligence, FBI Before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims on Consular ID Cards

    June 26, 2003
    http://www.fbi.gov/congress/congress03/mccraw062603.htm

    http://thedustininmansociety.org/iss...2003jun26.html


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