The 94-page final report of the Engage Gwinnett committee is now online. It details the findings and recommendations of the citizen committee (of which I was a member) that examined Gwinnett County’s finances for over six months. Despite our herculean efforts, I believe that our work product has serious deficiencies. In a nutshell, we nitpicked [...]
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Stuck Inside the Box: My Dissent to the Engage Gwinnett Report
Posted by BobG on April 28th, 2010
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287(g) Program Nets 79,000 Illegal Aliens Since 2006
Posted by BobG on March 25th, 2009
Read this. The program – Agreements of Cooperation in Communities to Enhance Safety and Security, or ACCESS – trains law enforcement personnel as "jail enforcement officers" to identify people serving time in prisons who are in the country illegally, and as Task Force Officers, who enforce immigration law outside of the penal system, according to [...]
287(g) a Victim of Its Own Effectiveness?
Posted by BobG on March 15th, 2009
I read the GAO report cited in this AJC article, and so can you (PDF). The report did not criticize the program’s effectiveness, as alleged by AJC reporter Rhonda Cook. The report did criticize the program’s administration and, maybe, rightfully so. If the 287(g) program was intended to focus law enforcement resources on only the [...]
Gwinnett’s Immigration Enforcement Leaves Much to be Desired
Posted by BobG on October 13th, 2008
Gwinnett County recently announced that it would comply with a 15-month-old state law that requires it to verify the citizenship status of applicants for a new business license or renewal. But the county’s strict interpretation of the law creates a loophole large enough for an illegal alien to crawl through. Commission Chairman Charles Bannister knows [...]
