Georgia has more illegals than Arizona. We rank number 6 in the nation in illegal population. Pew says about 7% of Georgia’s workforce is black market labor while official state unemployment, now at 7.7% has been 8-9% for years. Gov Deal has used the estimate that illegal immigration costs the Georgia taxpayers somewhere around $2.4 billion annually. Another amnesty isn’t going to fix it.
We are hearing that there are some confusing answers coming from some Georgia officials and/or staffers concerning the eligibility of DACA illegal aliens for a Georgia drivers license and whether or not these illegal aliens are really being issued a Georgia DL. They are.
Please see my Sunday column in the Marietta Daily JournalHERE for more details.
Make no mistake, DACA illegal aliens are illegal aliens. The deferred action on deportation is exactly that. You can see the White House blog explaining that fact HERE
“While this process does not provide lawful status or a pathway to permanent residence or citizenship, individuals whose cases are deferred will not be removed from the United States for a two year period, subject to renewal, and may also receive employment authorization.”
You can see the same on the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services official website HERE .
“Deferred action does not provide an individual with lawful status.”
See “10 Things to Do After DACA Approval”HERE . Note the papers/ documents issued to the illegals after receiving DACA amnesty. Info on the feds issuing illegal aliens an SSN HERE too.
Now take a look at the list of documents required by the Department of Drivers Services (DDS) to obtain a Georgia drivers license ( see “non-citizens”) HERE
There is an opinion letter from the AG to Governor Deal dated August 22, 2012 regarding the governor’s question about DL eligibility for deferred action recipients and existing Georgia law. I don’t have time to post it. Ask me. —– *Added 14 February, 2014 – I found the time and thanks to Mr. David Hancock of the Gwinnett Tea Party, now have a link to the AG response…HERE
A reader/supporter who happened to be renewing his DL today emailed me this afternoon about a conversation with a staffer in his local DL office: ”
D.A. -I went to Gainesville to get my drivers license renewed. The lady helping us told me it would be a couple of weeks before I got the real license because it had to go to Homeland Security for clearance. I asked what if it was an illegal alien. She told me they would not get a license…”
Today, at last two people relayed to me that when they called, they were told, apparently quite emphatically, by “somebody in the governor’s office” that illegal aliens were not being issued DLs in Georgia and one person told me he had been challenged to find paper work that “proved it.”
It looks like many in the state government don’t know about this. Huh. Odd, it is a huge story to the illegal alien lobby. And you can see HERE and on page eight HERE and HERE for just a few readily available examples. Google works!
“Even in some states that have passed strong anti-illegal immigration laws, such as Georgia, driver’s licenses may be available to undocumented immigrants who qualify under the new policy.Under current Georgia law, people with deferred status can get a license, and that’s what the state will do unless it gets different orders, said Susan Sports, spokeswoman for the state’s Department of Driver Services.”We’re waiting for direction,”
Speaking of the illegal alien lobby, HERE is immigration lawyer Charles Kuck, the vice-Chair of Georgia’s most well-funded (Jane Fonda, Ga Power, State Farm, Coca Cola…) anti-enforcement corporation GALEO howling about 2013’s bill in the Georgia General Assembly HB 125 aimed at improving the protections for jobs, benefits and services from illegal immigration and illegal employment. HB 125 passed as SB 160 and was signed into law.
Kuch: Why is this important?…For example, under current law DACA students are allowed to obtain driver’s licenses. This revision may enable to state to DENY drivers licenses to legally resident DACA grantees!
Lawyer Kuck is also suing the state Board of Regents to obtain instate tuition and access to all USG schools for DACA illegal aliens. A young American student from Florida for example could easily pay four times as much tuition ( out of state) as an illegal alien. HERE
One more: HERE is just one example of what the Democrats in Washington are demanding fro Obama on expanding delayed action on deportation amnesty to all illegal aliens.
Word for the day: Incrementalism.
Hispanics flood Capitol to protest immigration bill
By Carlos Campos
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 03/08/06
Dozens of Hispanic immigrants flooded the halls of the state Capitol today to voice their concerns over a bill under debate in the Senate that seeks to crack down on undocumented workers in Georgia.
Organizers of a morning rally on the Capitol steps urged the crowd of about 100 mostly Hispanic men to go inside to urge legislators to vote against Senate Bill 529, known as the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act.
About half of the crowd lingered outside, in part because a photo identification is required to enter the Capitol building.
Inside, many of the immigrants, some of them whom acknowledged they are undocumented crowded hallways outside of the Senate chamber. Many of them wore blue jeans, t-shirts, stained painter’s pants, cowboy hats and ball caps, standing out from the suit-and-tie Capitol crowd that usually gathers in the halls.
Jerry Gonzalez of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials guided several men through a legislative phone-and-photo directory, helping them pick out certain legislators with whom to speak. Many busily filled out message forms for legislators in hopes of getting them to come out of the Senate to hear them out.
Gonzalez said some of the men in the crowd who speak English were helping the Spanish-speakers to communicate with legislators.
“We want to put a face with immigrants” Gonzalez said. “Many of these immigrants live in their districts. Legislators should consider them their constituents.”
About 1 p.m., when debate over Sen. Chip Rogers’ (R-Woodstock) bill began, the majority of the immigrants moved up to the public gallery overlooking the floor of the Senate to watch the debate. Pablo Lopez, 28, of Gwinnett County, took a day off from his landscaping job to watch the debate in person.
Lopez, who acknowledged that he is an undocumented worker from Mexico, said he thought it was important to let legislators know immigrants are disturbed by the bill. Lopez noted that federal and state taxes are taken out of his paycheck every week. He wants to start his own landscaping business, but cannot do so because of his lack of legal status in the country.
“We work hard and I think it’s time they recognize the work we do, Lopez said.
Video from live Atlanta TV yesterday – your education on just one of the slimy, ethnic hustlers in the illegal alien lobby – Atlanta’s Gerardo E. (Jerry) Gonzalez.
Jerry Gonzalez of GALEO loses a live TV debate -again – on Arizona law and amnesty again then goes into smear mode. Again.
Angry Jerry talks about the ‘rule of law’, the constitution and the fact that we had an amnesty more than twenty years ago… and brings a smile to D.A. King. Jerry astounded the entire crew in the Fox Five studio. The studio crew apologized to me for his very unprofessional smear attacks and will be reluctant to invite him in again. I explained that Jerry was not too bright, lacks a real argument and is trained to ridicule his opponents and to never let truth or conscience get in the way.
The good thing here is that so many new people get a better understanding of who and what Jerry Gonzalez is. It doesn’t seem to be Jerry’s week. National Review Online has gotten wind of Jerry’s constant fabrications and written about him and the SPLC. Others have written about his offensive antics. An example HERE
VIDEO –
In Fox Five Atlanta studio, (7 minutes) Angry Jerry Gonzalez loses debate – kicks into smear mode at end. HERE
Second hit VIDEO (3 minutes)-
Edited re-cap and in which TV anchor finds out Jerry is a liar and confronts him with truth and Jerry is forced to admit his lies at end. HERE We also did a debate on the 7PM 11 Alive NBC Atlanta TV station – I cannot locate that on their Website yet. There, Jerry had apparently been told by his bossman to stick to the issue and just keep saying we cannot secure the border unless we grant another amnesty…I mean “comprehensive immigration reform.”
If you have thoughts and remarks on this, send them in to me and I will consider posting them on the DIS blog page.
For the record, I have written about my 1977 guilty plea to illegal gambling many times and include it in my bio that is sent out before each speaking engagement. It is not exactly news as the AJC ran a profile on me in 2006. Jerry Gonzalez is dim enough to believe that his endless attacks will somehow make people not recognize the truth about illegal immigration. My bio below:
BIO 1/2010
A nationally recognized authority on illegal immigration, D.A. King, is a former Marine, and a 27 -year resident of Marietta, Georgia.
He writes on border security and illegal immigration in the Marietta Daily Journal and other Georgia and nationally read newspapers including the Washington Times and the Atlanta Journal Constitution as well as the subscription Websites, Insider Advantage Georgia, and the Southern Political Report.
He is founder and president of the Dustin Inman Society. www.TheDustinInmanSociety.org .
With a focus on Georgia, The Dustin Inman Society is a coalition dedicated to educating the American public, the media and elected officials on the consequences of illegal immigration, illegal employment, illegal administration of Public Benefits, our un-secured borders and the breakdown of the rule of law in our republic.
The organization was named in memory of Dustin Inman, a sixteen-year-old youth from Woodstock, Georgia, killed by an illegal alien on Father’s Day week-end, 2000. Dustin was but one of the thousands of Americans who have lost their lives as a result of our intentionally unsecured borders and illegal immigration.
Dustin Inman’s killer remains at large. American law enforcement authorities report they believe he is successfully hiding in Mexico.
D.A. has been a tireless advocate for use of the 287 (g) enforcement program in Georgia and is proud that it has proven to be a successful tool in removing and deterring criminal aliens and saving lives.
D.A. has been studying our illegal immigration crisis for more than eight years and set aside his twenty five year insurance business in 2003 to devote full time to educating people on the crisis created by the acts of organized crime of illegal immigration and illegal employment.
He has made four trips to the Southwest border, the most recent of which being in December 2006 as a guide for four Georgia legislators.
He has appeared on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 Live, PBS, Fox News, CNN ESPANOL, CNN Lou Dobbs Tonight, CBS EVENING NEWS, MSNBC, Univision and in a 2004 CNN Presents one hour documentary on illegal immigration in Georgia.
He was an invited witness and testified on the effects of illegal immigration in the American workplace to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and The American Workforce at Congressional Field Hearings in Georgia in August 2006.
He has lectured to a UGA 2007 graduate class in the School of Social Work, a Kennesaw University debate class and a 2006 class of Emory University Journalism students as well as many high-school student organizations.
He has been featured in news stories on illegal immigration in Business Week magazine, Governing magazine, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the Rocky Mountain News, the National Journal, the Christian Science Monitor and other nationally read publications.
D.A. has been a guest host on nationwide radio broadcasts and is a frequent guest on numerous radio shows and networks addressing illegal immigration including NPR, Public Radio International, Air America and CNN.
In April, 2009 he spoke to Georgia Tax Commissioners as an invited authority on use of the federal SAVE system at the annual conference of the Technology Development Council of Georgia (TCTECH).
D.A. lobbies at the local level, at the Georgia Capitol and in Washington D.C. and does public speaking to educate the public. He lobbied in favor of the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act (SB 529), signed into law in April 2006 . He lobbied in favor of HB 2, a 2009 Georgia law aimed at gaining compliance with the 2006 GSICA.
His present projects include working to convince local governments in Georgia to comply with this law.
D.A. works at his own expense and donations. He has spent his savings doing so.
He has organized more than a dozen protest rallies against illegal immigration and a repeat of the failed amnesty of 1986, both in Georgia and Washington, including a 2005 rally at the White House and another in April of 2007, also at the White House.
In May 2007, he organized a rally to oppose a repeat of the 1986 amnesty legislation outside Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss’ Atlanta office and near Senator Johnny Isakson’s office.
In 1977, King pleaded guilty to a charge of illegal gambling and was punished with a fine and probation.
In 2006 he filed a complaint with the Secretary of the Georgia Senate against Georgia state Senator Sam Zamarripa who is founder and Chair of the tax – exempt corporation “Georgia Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials” (GALEO) and a former board member of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) for conflict of interest in opposing a bill (SB 529) that would require local governments in that state to obey long-standing federal immigration, employment and Public Benefits laws.
D.A. and Sue have been married for 27 years. He is not a member of any political party. dak 770 427 2857 DA@TheDustinInmanSociety.org
Republican Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan has endorsed a candidate for state senate who is a former board member of a leftist organization that lobbies against immigration enforcement, voter ID, ICE holds and official English for government.
State Senate District 31 hopeful Jason Anavitarte served on the board of directors of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO) from 2006 to 2009. During that time, GALEO lobbied against passage of the nationally noted SB529, the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act which established a requirement that public employers and their contractors sort out newly hired blackmarket labor with use of the federal employment verification system now known as E-Verify.
The legislation also required state use of the federal 287(g) program that allows local law enforcement to screen jail inmates for immigration status and report illegal alien prisoners to ICE for deportation proceedings. The bill, now law, that GALEO vehemently opposed also requires that local and county governments verify the legal status of people applying for local, state and federal public benefits.
GALEO Executive Director and former Democrat fundraiser, Jerry Gonzalez, drew much attention during the lobbying frenzy against the 2006 state immigration enforcement measure when he escorted self-described illegal aliens into the gold-domed state Capitol telling legislators they should regard the illegal aliens as “constituents.” Gonzalez described the illegals as merely “immigrants.” The staged and pre-announced GALEO transporting and encouragement of the illegals made a memorable note for pro-enforcement groups and news in the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
A February Twitter post from Lt. Governor Duncan describes Anavitarte as a “proven conservative…”
Photo: @GeoffDuncanGA Twitter feed
The endorsement from Duncan has raised eyebrows in conservative quarters of the state’s Republican Party not only because GALEO is well known for its corporate-funded opposition to immigration enforcement, but because candidate Anavitarte, now running as a Republican,filed to run for state House in 2006 as a Democrat.
The Lt. Governor also serves as president of the state senate.
Jason Anavitarte. Photo: Rome-News Tribune
Perhaps the most jarring surprise for pro-enforcement voters in Duncan’s endorsement is the fact that in 2016, U.S. Senator David Perdue terminated the Judiciary Committee’s confirmation process of another former GALEO board member and State Court Judge, Dax Lopez, who was nominated for a federal judgeship by former President Barack Obama. Perdue made it clear that his office investigated the nominee’s ties to the controversial GALEO and ended the chances of confirmation because of that relationship.
“After a thorough review of the professional and judicial record of DeKalb County Judge Dax Lopez, I have become uncomfortable with his longstanding participation in a controversial organization including his service on its board of directors” Perdue wrote in his statement on the matter.
The obvious – and many say troubling – difference in judgment between Georgia’s Republican Lt. Governor and its senior U.S. Senator is not going un-noticed by grassroots GOP voters.
According to the left-leaning Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, Georgia is home to more illegal aliens than green card holders.
Georgia’s governor, Brian Kemp, snared a primary endorsement from President Donald Trump in 2018 due in large part to Kemp’s tough talk and campaign promises on illegal immigration. Kemp has not mentioned immigration since the November, 2018 election.
Ballotpedia lists four Republican candidates for Georgia’s senate District 31.
Lt. Governor’s PAC reportedly kicks in $250,000 for narrow victory
Jason Anavitarte, controversial candidate for the Republican ballot in Georgia’s state senate District 31 primary contest has apparently squeaked past opponent Boyd Austin, a former mayor.
Austin has criticized Anavitarte as representing “outside interests” rather than the district; “…a breakdown of Anavitarte’s contributions from both his April 30th report as well as his latest one bear this out. In the April document 94 percent of Anavitarte’s contributions come from outside the district (with many from lobbyists). In the latest report, outside-the-district donations make up 97 percent of Anavitarte’s total. Only six individuals in the district gave a monetary contribution” according to a July note at Insider Advantage Georgia.
As of August 22, the Secretary of State website still shows results of the August 11TH primary contest as “Unofficial Results – Totals may not include all Absentee or Provisional Ballots” but watchers agree that Anavitarte will likely prevail in the final vote tally.
UPDATE: Final and official results show that Anavitarte won 10,574 to 10,348, a margin of 226 votes.
Anavitarte has drawn considerable attention since it was revealed that from 2006 -2009 he served on the board of the radical GALEO Inc. GALEO is well known as a corporate-fundedforce against immigration enforcement, ICE holds, 287(g), voter ID and official English. In 2006, the same year Anavitarte joined the board of directors, GALEO teamed with the ACLU, MALDEF, and the ADL in a protest rally against state immigration enforcement.
GALEO Director Jerry Gonzalez has illustrated the group’s mission with antics such as escorting admitted illegal aliens into the Georgia senate Chamber in an effort to stop passage of a 2006 bill, the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act (SB529) – aimed at reducing Georgia’s attractiveness as a destination for illegal immigration. Gonzalez has also been criticized for badgering a diminutive female state Rep, Katie Dempsey, for her pro-enforcement position on E-Verify in a Rome, Ga. public forum.
GALEO’s Jerry Gonzalez. Photo: Dustin Inman Society
In early 2016, another former GALEO board member and state court judge, Dax Lopez, was passed over for confirmation after an Obama nomination for a lifetime seat on the federal bench due to his ties to GALEO. This writer was proudly credited with leading the opposition to the Lopez nomination with the research series ‘A Beginner’s Guide to GALEO’ posted on the Dustin Inman Society website in 2015 and 2016.
On its political blog, the Atlanta Journal Constitution has reported that a PAC, ‘Advance Georgia,’ founded by Georgia’s Republican Lt. Governor and president of the senate Geoff Duncan helped Anavitarte’s slim victory with a $250,000 infusion:
“Jason Anavitarte might owe Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan a thank-you note for his apparent narrow GOP runoff victory over Boyd Austin in the contest to replace state Sen. Bill Heath, R-Bremen. The lieutenant governor’s PAC pumped about $250,000 into Anavitarte’s bid. He’s currently up by about 200 votes – a 1% margin says the liberal AJC Political Insider blog.
Georgia’s Lt. Governor and President of the Senate, Geoff Duncan. Photo: AJC.
“Jason Anavitarte is a former member of the Paulding County School Board and candidate for Senate District 31 in the Georgia Legislature. Most recently, Jason served as Senior Adviser of Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan’s campaign and served on the state finance committee for Governor Brian Kemp during the 2018 election. Jason has been named one of the 50 Most Influential Latinos in Georgia” according to Anavitarte’s campaign website, Campaign website (August 19, 2020).
Anavitarte, who has described himself as an admirer and supporter of Senator Marco Rubio, is a former Doraville City Council member and in 2005 filed to run for the state House as a Democrat. In the recent primary he was endorsed by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and originally did not mention illegal immigration on his campaign site as an issue.
That changed after he drew the attention of pro-enforcement conservatives and the media. He now has stated policy positions on immigration that are curiously tailored to a candidate for federal office as opposed to a state senate seat, but has assured voters he is supports legal immigration without offering limits. From JasonAnavitarte.com:
“I support legal immigration and I want to see our current immigration laws upheld. I support the following reforms:
End chain migration. Stop the original immigrant from petitioning to bring their extended families into the USA.
Move to a merit-based skill categories system. This system would put an emphasis on education and skill as a basis for acceptance into the country.
Reform welfare. Deny welfare to anyone with a green card or visa.
NO AMNESTY! Enforcement of deportation will stop people from coming to our borders.
I support the use of e-verify by our businesses. We need to hire people that are legal to work here in Georgia.
No in-state tuition for illegal immigrants.”
Lt Governor Duncan’s PAC was the topic of AJC coverage in October, which included the observation: “the financial haul could also help Duncan exert more influence over a fractious Republican caucus that sporadically sparred during his first legislative session. Duncan said he preferred to view it as a “partnership” to support Republicans.”
According to the most recent estimates from DHS, Georgia is home to more illegal aliens than Arizona and enforcement of laws designed to deny jobs, benefits and services to illegals is routinely ignored by the Republicans who have run the state for *more than a decade nearly two decades.
Anavitarte and his committee and floor votes on illegal immigration-related matters will be the focus of much attention from conservative writers and voters when he becomes a state senator.
“Before the Lopez ordeal, GALEO had routinely attracted high-profile Republican officials to its gatherings, including Gov. Nathan Deal and Attorney General Sam Olens. Some of those visits dried up after the judicial tussle.
But (John) King’s appointment could mean the end of the Georgia GOP’s ostracization of the group – a necessary first step if Republicans intend to court Hispanic votes in the future.”
damage the reputation of (someone) by false accusations; slander.
“someone was trying to smear her by faking letters”
synonyms:
sully, tarnish, besmirch, blacken, drag through the mud/mire, stain, taint, damage, defame, discredit, defile, vilify, malign, slander, libel, stigmatize, calumniate.
There is a difference between immigrants and illegal aliens. Opposition to illegal immigration is not “anti-immigrant” (for the 1000098888th time).
Many anti-enforcement race-hustlers, including the SPLC, George Chidi and GALEO’s Jerry Gonzalez are again spreading various versions of the lie that in 2007 I went to Covington, Ga. and told a room full of curious people that immigrants are here to “blow up your buildings and kill your children, and you, and me.”
This is an intentional lie and uses the common practice of the left of redefining the English language, and taking a few words out of context to wield as a smear weapon to silence pro-enforcement advocates.
At a 2007 GOP meeting where I was invited to speak on illegal immigration I was in a segment of my presentation that mentioned what the MSM or the illegal alien lobby will never allow the public to know: Individuals from countries with known ties to terrorism are coming over our borders illegally. It was true then and it is true now. Here is a quick link from 2016.
To be clear for the slow: I am saying that some illegal aliens – both illegal border crossers and visa violation or overstays – come from terrorist countries and they are not all here to work on the cheap. I am not talking about legal immigrants. The leftist media and the corporate-funded illegal alien lobby constantly try to blur the line between the two.
I had recently returned from one of my many trips to the Arizona/Mexico border where Border Patrol Agents confirmed that fact for us.
A reporter from the local newspaper was present for my speech and wrote the meeting up. Here is a part of his story in which he quotes me:
“The porous border with Mexico is especially dangerous, he added, saying that it has been an entrance point for people from countries with known ties to terrorism.
“They’re not here to mow your lawn — they’re here to blow up your buildings and kill your children, and you, and me,” he said.
To prove his point, he flaunted two authentic Mexican government-issued photo ID cards — called matriculas consulares — that he said he was able to get using fake Mexican birth certificates. One of them lists his name; the other is under the name “Al Qada Gonzalez.” ( Note from D.A. – no, mine, like many, are fake)Current enforcement is so lax, he said, that the cards can be used in some states to obtain valid drivers licenses and board airplanes.
Georgia, which has seen a large influx of illegal immigration in recent years, should also be prepared to become a new front for problems with employment and crime that have been seen in border states, he said.”
This is not the first time this fabrication has come up. Several months after the Covington speech, GALEO’s Jerry Gonzalez began his campaign to convince people I made the statement about “immigrants.” That lie was passed on by the AJC’s Jim Galloway in his Political Insider blog – using the term “reportedly.” When I saw it, I called Galloway and explained GALEO’s intent to create fake news, sent him the Covington news report reflecting what I actually said and asked him to run a correction and explanation of the out-of-context smear he had helped perpetuate.
I never heard another word about it from Jim Galloway and it was never corrected to my knowledge.
This is just one example of how the media helps pass on lies about honest Americans who fight for immigration enforcement and secure borders. I have to spend time correcting lies and defending my reputation because the “watchdog media” is anything but.
Below Democrat politician explains the “wrap up smear.”
GALEO Inc. lobbyist Maria Palasios testifies against illegal alien drivers license reform legislation – March, 2018. Photo: Georgia state senate
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Readers write, May 29, 2018
Loopholes in immigration process warrant elaboration
The AJC report on a former illegal alien, Maria Palacios, suing the state for the right to run for legislative office raises important questions. We are told Palacios, now a lobbyist against immigration enforcement, “was brought by her parents to the United States from Mexico as an infant without authorization, and she became a U.S. citizen in 2017.”
There is much room for expansion here. Apparently, Palacios benefited from the executive DACA amnesty decree from former President Obama who told the nation “Now, let’s be clear — this is not amnesty, this is not immunity. This is not a path to citizenship.”
More than a thousand illegal aliens with DACA have quietly obtained U.S. citizenship through exploiting a process of “advance parole” in which the victim of borders obtains permission to leave the U.S. for a “humanitarian” reason and is then allowed to re-enter lawfully, which can put them on a path to U.S. citizenship as if they were real immigrants.
We think readers deserve the whole story here.
D.A. KING, MARIETTA, THE DUSTIN INMAN SOCIETY Here.
Below is a photo of Georgia Governor Nathan Deal from earlier this month. He is helping out the anti-enforcement lobbyists at the ‘Asian Americans Advancing Justice’ who were lobbying hard against SB 452 (see the image below the photo), until it passed in the senate today. Now they will lobby the Republican controlled House to stop passage.
We need phone calls to your state House members “Yes, to SB452!”Contact info here.
–> SB452 is a bill that will require police and courts to help with immigration enforcement in Georgia. You can read the caption description of the bill here. It will save lives and reduce the number of illegal aliens in Georgia, where we have more illegals than Arizona. AAAJ is working with the anti-borders GALEO on this lobbying effort to kill immigration enforcement in Georgia.
The photo and the info here was taken from the GALEO Facebook page. Whether we elect a Republican or Democrat, it seems we always end up with a governor who snuggles up to the anti-enforcement mob.
Thanks to EVERYONE who turned out to make this event a success. We truly appreciate the support!
Special thanks to our elected officials, featured speakers, sponsors, volunteers, organizations, and individuals who came out to support!
Professional photos are coming soon!”
Graphic as seen on the anti-borders GALEO facebook page
I have added some links to the letters below to educate the reader. I post them here in case the AJC forgets to publish any of them.
Readers Write: Oct. 31
Our Readers
1:00 p.m Monday, Oct. 30, 2017
Story paints inaccurate portrayal of King
The recent story (“Georgia’s immigration enforcement panel draws scrutiny,” News, Oct. 23) about D.A. King of the Dustin Inman Society was an obvious hit piece against King. The article implies that since that virtually all of the complaints filed with Georgia’s Immigration Enforcement Review Board were filed by him, King was some sort of misguided “gadfly” out there on his own. The AJC did not consider that King has been on point because of his obvious knowledge of this board and that many of us, rather that contacting the board on our own, would simply channel our findings to King.
*Added October 30, 2017 8:45 PM: The letters below were sent to the AJC and copied to me. The one above was posted tonight in the AJC for the Oct. 31 edition. The author did not copy me.
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To the editor,
As an immigrant and an advisory board member of the Dustin Inman Society, I find your articles that repeatedly characterize the Dustin Inman Society as anti-immigrant, and now via slanders of the Southern Poverty Law Center, as a “nativist extremist group,” to be extremely offensive.
My parents and aunts and uncles fled a communist regime and spent years in refugee camps, and only emigrated after finding sponsors. They went through the proper steps.
One of the most important civics lessons I learned as a schoolgirl in Rochester, New York, in the 1960s was that the United States system was based on fairness.
To blur the lines between legal and illegal, as your newspaper has repeatedly done, is a violation of the underlying principles of American justice and an insult to all immigrants.
Sincerely,
Mary Grabar
Clinton, NY 13323
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Dear editor,
My family recently returned to Texas where I grew up in a border town after 16 years in the Atlanta area. We still monitor Georgia politics, especially immigration issues. I am a proud Latina donor and board member of The Dustin Inman Society; we follow our friend D.A. King’s efforts to help people understand the truth on immigration and the law.
I was stunned and outraged when I read the AJC piece on King and the Immigration Board that curiously featured the SPLC and remarks from Jerry Gonzalez of GALEO. Gonzalez is widely known for opposition to any immigration enforcement efforts – state or federal. The Anti Defamation League has criticized SPLC for faking a “hate-group” crisis.
Georgia corporations, including the AJC’s parent company, Cox Enterprises, largely fund GALEO. It is insulting that this wasn’t noted in the AJC piece about D.A. King and The Dustin Inman Society’s citizen donors.
Maria Silvia Montoya
Sherman, TX 75092
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Dear editor,
As a Black American conservative and proud member of the Board of Advisors of the Dustin Inman Society, I was saddened to see the AJC report on the Immigration Enforcement Review Board that seemed to stray into smear politics.
I have been a friend of D.A. King for more than a decade and have worked alongside him as a volunteer at the Gold Dome to educate legislators on our illegal immigration crisis. I have also watched the SPLC smear conservative political opponents as “hate groups” in an effort to discredit our work. Referring to D.A. King as anything but an honest, hard working patriot who believes in immigration sanity is shameful.
I have had first hand experience with the SPLC when, along with many Black, Asian and Hispanic Americans, I attended an informative 2015 immigration seminar in Washington, DC that the SPLC later falsely described as a “white nationalist” meeting.
The AJC has damaged its reputation by using the race-baiting and discredited SPLC as an authority on immigration and integrity.
Inger Eberhart
Kennesaw
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To the editor:
Your article entitled “Georgia’s immigration enforcement panel draws scrutiny” came across as over the top biased against the Dustin Inman Society and its founder D.A. King. The credibility really went down the tubes when you used The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a supposed reliable source. By their definition I would be considered a hate group because of a Christian organization I belong to that believes in traditional values. You can do better than this.
Leslie McPherson
Villa Rica, GA
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Dear editor,
Re; the AJC on D.A. King: The Dustin Inman Society is named after a 16 year-old Woodstock boy who was killed by an illegal alien who escaped capture and is now hiding out in Mexico. D.A. King has been fighting illegal immigration since he quit his own business in 2003. In your report we find out the SPLC wants to label The Dustin Inman Society a “hate group.”
King should be thanked for the complaints against the officials in Georgia who are evidently violating state laws.
The SPLC is a fake civil rights group that has a poor record. In 1994 Alabama, the Montgomery Advertiser newspaper reported African-Americans had never “held top management positions in the center’s [then] 23-year history, and some former employees say blacks are treated like second-class citizens.”
That the AJC reporter used the discredited SPLC to attack King and the Dustin Inman Society says a lot about the AJC reporter.
Bill Buckler
Kennesaw
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Editor,
The article this week about the Dustin Inman Society and complaints about violations of state laws on illegal immigration filed by D.A. King seemed to us like the AJC had other things on their mind.
Inserting the SPLC into the news article was rather obvious.
My wife is an immigrant, which means she is here lawfully. We resent the AJC headlines that read “immigrant” when the topic of the story is clearly illegal aliens who are usually portrayed as victims. We want our borders secured and our laws enforced. Even for immigrants. The SPLC attacks virtually everyone who thinks like this. Your reporter also told us that Jerry Gonzalez doesn’t like King or the immigration enforcement board, but we saw no reference to where Gonzalez gets the money to operate GALEO while he protests against immigration enforcement.
We need more D.A. Kings and far fewer people like Gonzalez and the SPLC staff. And we need fair reporting.
