"Another push to give illegals a driver's license"

From this:

There's another effort underway under the gold dome to allow illegal immigrants to get a Georgia driver's license. A similar bill died last year.

State Representative Barbara Mobley of Decatur authored the current bill which she said would just allow people who contribute to the state's economy to get to work...

"For homeland security we have to have the community accounted for. What better than having the driver's license with your name address, photo and finger print," Representative Pedro Marin of Lawrenceville said.

State Senator Sam Zamarippa supports the bill.

"We're only saying three things. We want to make the roads safer. We want to improve security, and we want to keep our economy strong," Zamarippa said.

In presenting its legislative wish list to lawmakers last week, Georgians For Immigration Reduction said it does not want illegal aliens to be issued a drivers license.

The group is also urging banks and other businesses to stop excepting Mexican-issued identification cards as legal U.S. ID's and pushing for more co-operation between local law enforcement and immigration agents...

For the scoop on Sam Zamarippa, see this:

A quote from closer to home from Georgia state Sen. Sam Zamarippa in 2000: "Your song may be, "We Shall Overcome.' Our song is "We shall overwhelm.'"... Zamarippa was explaining how the Hispanic lobby would handle resistance to Hispanic "influence" in our region.

Barbara Mobley is an immigration lawyer by profession. You can contact her here.

For an extremely shocking accusation about Pedro Marin, see this:

State Representative Pedro Marin (D-Duluth) has failed to disclose his position as Executive Director of Centro Mexicano De Atlanta/The Mexican Center Of Atlanta, Inc., a non-profit corporation with a legal domicile at the Atlanta Mexican Consulate Office...

Supposedly he's drawing a $50,000 per year salary from them. In other words (in the immigration debate it's frequently necessary to repeat things over and over) a foreign government is paying a State senator money.

Doesn't that make him an agent of the Mexican government?

You can contact GA's State Senators from this page and the reps from here.

A similar effort is underway in California and Kansas.

UPDATE: I called the Georgia State Ethics Commission at 404 463 1985 and was told that the complaint against Pedro Marin will not be investigated until early May. I'll call back and check on the status.

Immigration_dls · Sun, 02/08/2004 - 22:33 · Importance: 1