May 23, 2017

Continuing education: The illegal alien lobby in Georgia: State Rep Brenda Lopez (Romero)

Posted by D.A. King at 12:53 pm - Email the author   Print This Post Print This Post  

A continuing educational series on Georgiaā€™s illegal alien lobby

UPDATE: I don’t know how it got by me, but until today I did not realize that Georgia state Rep. Brenda Lopez Romero was an illegal alien who somehow scored an amnesty/change of status. See below, from the AJC on Feb 26, 2020.

“Brenda Lopez Romero, D-Norcross, who said after spending 12 years as an undocumented immigrant, she wanted to support Fosque for speaking on behalf of those who were most marginalized.” Here.

Photo: Youtube

 

Brenda Lopez (Romero)Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā ** Ā @VoteBrendaLopez Ā **

  • Georgia State Rep, District 99 (Norcross, in Gwinnett County) HERE
  • Bonus insight into mass, uncontrolled immigration’s effect on Gwinnett County, GeorgiaĀ HERE.
  • Democrat
  • Immigration lawyer
  • Born in Mexico, became U.S. citizen ā€œjust before law school.ā€
  • Anti-enforcement immigration activist on the board of the tribalist, corporate-fundedĀ  GALEO Ā –Ā see HERE
  • As a state legislator, joins GALEO in opposition to English as constitutional official language of Georgia ā€“ says “it breeds distrust and prejudice against minority groups.ā€ HERE.
  • Twitter
  • *Speaker at GALEO fundraiser September, 2016

Join us & celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month! EARLY REGISTRATION CLOSES ON FRIDAY! RSVP TODAY!
Keynote speaker:
Alejandra Ceja
Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics
The 2016 Hispanic Heritage Month Luncheon is one of the principle fundraising events for GALEO & the GALEO Latino Community Development Fund.
Date: Friday, September 30, 2016.
Time: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM.
Location: Hyatt Regency Atlanta Perimeter at Villa Christina, 4000 Summit Boulevard, Atlanta, Georgia, 30319
ā†’Special remarks provided by: *Brenda Lopez, Representative-elect, Georgia House of Representatives, 1st Latina in the Georgia Legislature.
Mistress of Ceremonies: Lara-Carolina Fernandez, Telemundo Atlanta

  • On being American: Says illegal aliens with illegal Obama DACA amnesty ā€œare basically more American than some of us that may have been born in this country, right?ā€¦these are American kids for all intents and purposes.ā€
  • Rep Lopez was one of twenty-six House members who voted against HB 452, which requires that theĀ GBI share information it is already receiving from ICE on the release of violent, convicted criminal aliens. HERE
  • Ā Lopez told a local TV reporter that alerting Georgia’s county sheriffs and the public when criminal aliens – some of whom have been convicted of murder, rape, kidnapping and child molestation – are released back into our communities instead of being deported isĀ “the most “egregious” anti-immigrant bill in Georgia in nearly a decade.” The registry is “just fundamentally something that goes against our notions of privacy, also our notions of rehabilitation,” Lopez said.
  • Note: GALEO lobbied against HB 452 in the committee process and led a forty-day activist campaign attempting to have the bill vetoed – HERE.
  • HB 452 is now state law.

GALEO Power Breakfast fundraiser, May 19, 2017 GALEO