(WSB Radio) The Cherokee County Commission is trying, again, to crack down on illegal immigrants.

A proposal, that will go before the public today, would make renters prove their citizenship and threatens to suspend the business license of companies that hire undocumented workers.

An ordinance from 2006 actually required landlords to collect documentation from tenants.  That measure is now before the courts and was never enforced.  Officials say this one is different.

"Instead of focusing on landlord/community almost exclusively, this focuses on renters having to obtain a license in order to rent a location," says commission chairman Buzz Ahrens. "And, in order to do so, they have to verify and prove a certain legal identity."

Ahrens says there is a big difference between the old ordinance and the one being introduced today.

"The key point is this new ordinance has a second part which focuses on employers," Ahrens says,  "basically stating that you're making an affidavit that you're not, knowingly, hiring illegal aliens."