February 15, 2018

Repost – Re; Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson and now Georgia AG Chris Carr: blacklisted in one of my U.S. Senator’s office

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From #DHS: Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson has his name on this -Schumer-Rounds-Collins Destroys Ability of DHS to Enforce Immigration Laws, Creating a Mass Amnesty For Over 10 Million Illegal Aliens, Including Criminals

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Schumer-Rounds-Collins Destroys Ability of DHS to Enforce Immigration Laws, Creating a Mass Amnesty For Over 10 Million Illegal Aliens, Including Criminals

Release Date:  February 15, 2018   (here)

The Schumer-Rounds-Collins proposal destroys the ability of the men and women from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to remove millions of illegal aliens. It would be the end of immigration enforcement in America and only serve to draw millions more illegal aliens with no way to remove them.  By halting immigration enforcement for all aliens who will arrive before June 2018, it ignores the lessons of 9/11 and significantly increases the risk of crime and terrorism.

It is an egregious violation of the four compromise pillars laid out by the President’s immigration reform framework. Instead of helping to secure the border as the President has repeatedly asked Congress to do, it would do the exact opposite and make our border far more open and porous. It would ensure a massive wave of new illegal immigration by exacerbating the pull factors caused by legal loopholes.  By keeping chain migration intact, the amendment would expand the total legalized population to potentially ten million new legal aliens – simultaneously leading to undercutting the wages of American workers, threatening public safety and undermining national security.

The changes proposed by Senators Schumer-Rounds-Collins would effectively make the United States a Sanctuary Nation where ignoring the rule of law is encouraged.

#1—Provides a Safe Enforcement-Free Haven for Over 10 Million Illegal Aliens

  • It eviscerates the authority of DHS to arrest, detain, and remove the vast majority of aliens illegally in the country by attempting to limit DHS enforcement by codifying a “priorities” scheme that ensures that DHS can only remove criminal aliens, national security threats and those who arrive AFTER June 30, 2018 creating a massive surge at the border for the next four months.
  • This immigration enforcement “holiday” until June 30, 2018 will show to the world we are not serious about enforcing our immigration laws as those who arrive here can just stay here consequence free, at a minimum until the next amnesty.
  • The amendment fails to address serious loopholes in immigration law on detention and removal authorities, including Zadvydas v. Davis.  The most egregious loopholes have required DHS to release aliens with final orders of removal – including dangerous convicted criminal aliens – into American communities if, because their country of origin refuses to accept them, we are unable to remove them in 180 days.
    • In Fiscal Year 2017, more than 2,300 aliens were released because of that court decision, and more than 1,700 of those were criminal aliens.
  • It does nothing to combat sanctuary jurisdictions, and does not enhance ICE’s detainer authority—the tool it uses to pick up and process aliens from the secure and controlled environments of jails and prisons – or indemnify local jurisdictions that seek to comply with detainers.  This forces ensures that local jurisdictions release criminals back into communities to re-offend.
    • According to a recent Harvard-Harris poll,[1] 80 percent of American voters share the common-sense view that cities that arrest illegal aliens for crimes should be required to turn them over to immigration authorities.
    • While noncitizens made up approximately 7.2 percent of the U.S. population in 2016,[2] they accounted for 41.7 percent of all federal offenders sentenced for felonies or Class A misdemeanors in that fiscal year. Even excluding all types of immigration offenses, noncitizens accounted for more than 20 percent of all federal offenders sentenced for felonies or Class A misdemeanors—nearly three times their share of the general population.
  • It does not fix any current removal loopholes that it make it difficult for DHS to remove criminal aliens and does not subject gang members to removability – a serious concern where many gang members enter the country as Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) and are unable to be removed.
    • Last year, “Operation Raging Bull”, a law enforcement operation targeting MS-13 gang members, resulted in the arrest of 214 individuals in the United States—nearly one third of whom (64 individuals) had entered the country as UACs.

#2—Fails to Secure the Border

  • The amendment ties the hands of all the men and women of DHS who stand at the border attempting to make our nation more secure.
  • Leaves longstanding loopholes wide open, undermining DHS’s ability to remove aliens and perpetuating the catastrophic “catch and release” policy.  These loopholes create a dramatic pull factor for illegal immigration.
    • Fails to terminate the Flores Settlement Agreement, effectively ensuring continued surges in unaccompanied alien minors and family units.
      • Only 3.5 percent of unaccompanied minors apprehended are eventually removed from the United States.
    • Fails to address The William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, which limits the DHS ability to promptly return UACs who have been apprehended at the border and creates additional loopholes.
      • Failing to close these loopholes creates untold risks for children who are routinely smuggled and trafficked as they seek to arrive in the United States.
  • Fails to ensure that drugs like fentanyl do not enter the U.S.
  • Fails to address much needed hiring and pay reforms that allow DHS to support the men and women on the frontlines.
  • Prevents DHS from building a Border Wall where it is needed through the imposition of unnecessarily onerous environmental and reporting burdens.
  • It does not provide any provisions to deter visa overstays (criminal designation, prompt removal, or bars to immigration benefits), enabling mass illegal immigration through temporary visa programs.
    • Visa overstays account for roughly 40 percent of all illegal immigration in the United States.

#3—Not a DREAMer Bill, But a Mass Amnesty Bill for Illegal Aliens of All Ages

  • Gives initial citizenship to a massive population of three million illegal aliens – and potentially many more as extended-family chain migrants.
  • In addition to the 3 million DACAs, it ensures a path to citizenship for their 6 million parents through the use of a faux-prohibition provision that is likely unconstitutional as well as administratively and judicially impossible to administer.
  • There are no real eligibility requirements. Much of the eligibility criteria can be waived.
  • Gives citizenship to criminal aliens: Many criminals can benefit from the DACA provision as the bars for criminals are overly narrow and the eligibility to waive criminal conduct for applicants is overbroad.
  • Expands maximum age of entry into the United States for DACAs to age 18— ensuring it applies to illegal aliens who have spent most of their lives in their home countries and who came to the United States recently and who are decidedly not children.
  • Grants immigration benefits to individuals who are not “DREAMers”: expands conditional permanent resident status to certain aliens in Temporary Protected Status who otherwise meet the eligibility requirements designed to address the DACA population.
  • Persons who are under the age of 43 years old TODAY are eligible to apply for DACA now – these are not children, and haven’t been for some time.
  • Additionally there is no maximum age limit: meaning that, a “DREAMer” who is eligible today could wait years before applying, thus we could have DACA “children” benefiting receiving citizenship when they are in their 60s and 70s.
  • Contains unworkable and dangerous confidentiality provisions, which hamstrings DHS’s ability to remove illegal aliens who do not meet eligibility requirements or commit fraud.
  • The bill creates a new definition of expunged records that contradicts current law and ensures that criminal aliens with expunged convictions can benefit from legalization.
  • Allows illegal aliens’ own statements – not verifiable documentation – to satisfy the DACA eligibility requirements creating an obvious enforcement loophole. This is the exact type of non-auditable visa program that the GAO continues to cite as irredeemable on its face.
  • Prevents the Secretary from denying applications for DACA applicants who appear to be a threat to public safety or national security concerns.
  • Anyone who claims to be eligible for relief is barred from removal, essentially a get out of jail free card.
  • The Schumer-Rounds-Collins proposal explicitly prevents DHS from removing anyone who is “enrolled in” school over the age of five. This would include teenage human smugglers, gang members, or criminal aliens.

#4—Expands Chain Migration

  • Fails to protect the economic security of millions of American workers and taxpayers by doing nothing to address unchecked extended family chain migration.
  • Under current law, illegal aliens are unable to legally bring over their foreign relatives through chain migration. By providing a pathway to citizenship for millions of illegal aliens while leaving chain migration intact across the entire U.S. immigration system, these individuals would then be able to bring over all of extended families through chain migration, who in turn could bring in their foreign relatives, potentially increasing the legalized population of aliens to 10 million.
  • A Princeton study found that every two new migrants sponsor, on average, seven additional relatives to come to the United States.

#5 Keeps the Visa Lottery

  • The bill does nothing to address the outdated and dangerous Visa Lottery program, let alone fulfill the Administration’s goal of ending it.
  • A report published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) in 2007 found that the visa lottery system was vulnerable to fraud committed by and against lottery applicants.
    • The GAO report found difficulties in verifying applicant identities, which raised serious security concerns.
    • At some of the consular posts they reviewed the majority of visa lottery applicants had hired “visa agents” to enter the lottery.
  • In 2003, the State Department Office of Inspector General (OIG) authored a report that found the program was subject to widespread abuse.
    • The OIG found that despite restrictions against duplicate visa lottery submissions, thousands of duplicate submissions were detected each year.

The report asserted that identity fraud was endemic in the system and that it was commonplace for applicants to use fraudulent documents.

Topics:
Border Security,
Immigration and Citizenship Services,
Immigration Enforcement
Keywords:
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February 3, 2018

D.A. King in Insider Advantage Georgia: Georgians Should Oppose President’s Amnesty Proposal

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Insider Advantage Georgia
February 2, 2018

D.A. King

Georgians Should Oppose President’s Amnesty Proposal

The Dustin Inman Society has been fighting immigration amnesty since 2005. We oppose President Donald Trump’s DACA amnesty that would surely lead to U.S. citizenship for at least 1.8 million illegal aliens, which is already far in excess of the 690,000 illegal aliens registered for Obama’s illegal DACA decree.

Further, we reject any plan that rewards any illegal aliens with a path to U.S. citizenship.

We note that the pending offer is a direct contradiction of candidate Trump’s campaign pledge of “there will be no more amnesty.”

Despite the promised— but long-delayed — possible benefits to the American immigration system, there are other multiple and obvious reasons for opposition to President Trump’s framework. As pro-enforcement conservatives, we are disappointed that some trusted elected Republican leaders are supporting the amnesty that would lead to an eventual surge in hostile Democrat voters.

Because most of illegal immigration is a direct result of illegal employment, we cannot support a compromise that does not include an E-Verify requirement.

It was proved in 1986 that amnesty does not stop illegal immigration. In fact even the discussion of another amnesty always, including today, results in increased illegal border crossings. In addition to what has sadly become “normal” illegal immigration, reports are that so many father-led families are crossing the U.S. border that immigration agents don’t have room to hold them.

Over 100,000 “unaccompanied alien minors” have rushed the border and been quietly released inside the U.S. since FY 2016. It doesn’t take much imagination to understand that the anti-borders mob will be howling for future repeated amnesties “for the children” at regular intervals. Think, “a DACA a decade.”

Visa overstays are being ignored in the debate

As we have been continuously reminding all concerned, about half of the illegal aliens in the U.S. do not come over our borders illegally. They come on legal, temporary visas and refuse to go home. The president could put up a wall across the entire southern border tomorrow and it would not end the visa overstay crisis or illegal immigration.

The Department of Homeland Security reported that in 2016 alone, 629,000 visa holders overstayed their visas as students, workers or tourists.

Readers need to know that for proponents of open borders, the DACA approach is merely an admitted first step to full blanket amnesty for all illegal aliens.

We agree with the President that Americans are dreamers too and support the pending comprehensive legislation called “Securing America’s Future Act (H.R. 4760)” introduced in the U.S. House by Rep. Bob Goodlatte, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. You can read an outline of that compromise here. You can see if your own Georgia representative supports the bill here.

D.A. King is a nationally recognized authority on illegal immigration and president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society.

Original article here.

Note, IAG is a subscription website. The above is reprinted here with permission.

November 7, 2017

Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson is a nice guy, but a moderate – and his office is telling people DACA was created by “executive order” …ARRUGHHH!!

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One of Georgia’s U.S. Senators just informed me that DACA was created by executive order. It wasn’t.

Note: The below just arrived via email. I inserted an educational link. All Executive Orders are numbered. I link HERE Obama’s Executive Orders. Please let us know if you find DACA? For the 10000000000th time, it wasn’t an EO.

A response from Johnny Isakson

Thank you for contacting me regarding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. I appreciate hearing from you and am glad to have the opportunity to respond.

In June 2012, the Obama administration created the “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” (DACA) program by executive order. The program allowed those who came to the United States before the age of 16 to obtain a temporary stay of deportation and a work permit for two years on a renewable basis as long as they met specific criteria. Recipients were required to have arrived before June 2007; be attending school, have graduated or earned a GED, or have served in the military; and have not committed a serious crime or posed a threat to national security.

On September 5, 2017, the Trump administration announced that the Department of Homeland Security will no longer accept new applications for relief under DACA but will honor existing work permits until they expire. If an existing work permit expires before March 5, 2018, the holder can apply for a new two-year extension by October 5, 2017. Applications that are currently pending will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

I believe Congress should protect the young people who received status under DACA while working towards stronger measures to secure our borders and enforce our immigration laws going forward. Those who come to our country legally should be welcomed to share in the pursuit of the American dream. However, securing our borders and ending the opportunity for illegal entry is critical to the defense of our nation. It is crucial to our state and to our nation that we secure our borders, reject amnesty, and restore credibility to our immigration system.

Thank you again for contacting me. If I can be of any further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me again.

Sincerely,
Johnny Isakson
United States Senator

For future correspondence with my office, please visit my web site at http://www.isakson.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/email-me. You can also click here to sign up for the eNewsletter

November 4, 2017

D.A. King in the AJC – Opinion: Separate DACA from DREAM Act – and put immigration enforcement first

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Below is my response to AJC editor Maureen Downey’s recent blog focused on another immigration amnesty. I am very grateful to Ms. Downey for the space.

Karen Reyes shares her story of living as an undocumented teacher and DACA recipient during a protest in support of the DREAM Act at the office of Texas Rep. Michael McCaul in Austin, Texas, on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. NICK WAGNER / AMERICAN-STATESMAN

 

Opinion: Separate DACA from DREAM Act – and put immigration enforcement first

Atlanta Journal Constitution ‘Get Schooled’ education blog
October 29, 2017

D.A. King is president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society, which advocates for enforcement of immigration laws.

In this piece, King responds to a blog last week about a letter to Congress from national educational leaders beseeching Congress to provide permanent stability for young people with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA status.

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By D.A. King

In her education blog a few days ago, Maureen Downey wrote about a letter to Congress from school leaders including Georgia charter school leader and former Cobb state Rep. Alisha Morgan asking that illegal aliens with executive amnesty through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals be given a path to U.S. citizenship.

She cites passage of the proposed DREAM Act as a solution to making Americans of people brought here illegally as children by their parents. This argument creates an “apples and oranges” conversation. It is important to note the difference between DACA, an executive action under President Obama, and the amnesty outlined in the language of any possible federal DREAM Act — the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act.

According to a September United States Citizenship and Immigration Services report, there are 689,800 illegal aliens with DACA status, with 21,600 of them living in Georgia. Congressional amnesty for those 689,800 DACA recipients is far different from passage of current versions of the DREAM Act, which, according to the Migration Policy Institute, could provide legalization for more than three million illegal aliens, far more than the “one-time” Republican amnesty of 1986. (Approved under President Ronald Reagan, the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act gave a pathway to citizenship to 2.7 million undocumented people.)

The DREAM Act has failed in Congress several times since it was cooked up in 2001 because of the duplicity of its authors in hiding its true intent and the fact it was a rerun of 1986. It will be much more difficult to trick the American public on immigration amnesty again.

That said, it would make a lot of people happy to see a bargain on real enforcement for a limited, conditional, truly one-time legislative event that would grant legalization to a portion of “the children” (some of whom are now 36-years-old) who have already registered for Obama’s DACA program — and that limited group only.

One of the lessons of the 1986 amnesty is that nobody here illegally – of any age and no matter how they got here – should ever again be rewarded with U.S. citizenship. Neither should they ever be allowed to sponsor their parents or other family members for naturalization or admittance into the United States.

The obvious but mostly unpublicized danger of allowing a Congressional DACA amnesty “for the children” is that even now, illegal aliens are flowing over the border with children in tow. Are we to have an amnesty “for the children” every decade or so?

To deter the sure-to-come illegal rush of additional of victims of borders seeking the next “dreamer” amnesty, any consideration of legalization for DACA recipients should be well after legislation has been passed, funding appropriated and significant progress has been made on implementation of badly needed nationwide work-place verification (E-Verify), true border security – including President Trump’s promised border barrier – increased interior immigration enforcement and the biometric system to monitor the departure of temporary visa holder’s departure from the U.S. which is already law, but not practice.

About half of the illegal aliens now present in our nation did not come here illegally. They came on temporary visas and never intended to leave as promised. The Department of Homeland Security reports that last year alone, 629,000 visa holders overstayed their visas as students, workers or tourists.

All weeping and howling that we must grant amnesty and citizenship to “the children” – and that we must never “break up families” — should be met with educated and obvious reality. In addition to the children being brought over our borders illegally right now, last week, next week and next year, parents of the potential 2027 push “for the children” amnesty are flouting the fact their tourist visa to visit Disney World expired while they enroll their now illegal alien anchors in the American school system.

More reality is that many DACA recipients are protesting in American streets demanding an end to any immigration enforcement. Waving signs that read “ICE OUT OF GEORGIA –NOT ONE MORE DEPORTATION!” does little for their amnesty cause among mainstream Americans.

Reality should matter on immigration and amnesty. HERE

September 6, 2017

DACA amnesty every decade? Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson says congress should sort out a system for future illegal alien “children”

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Maybe we can look forward to an amnesty for ‘the children‘ every ten years or so?

 

From the AJC today:

“Children who received status under President Obama’s deferred action executive order should not be punished for their parents’ choices. Congress should protect these young people while also working toward stronger measures to secure our borders and enforce our immigration laws going forward.”

Missing from that statement, you may notice, is any mention of the president. When we caught up with Isakson later on Tuesday afternoon, he offered no criticism of the president.

“DACA was in place because of an executive order (note from D.A.King – no, it wasn’t. It was created with a memo). The new executive has decided to rescind the application of DACA for the future and left it to Congress,” he said.

–> As for Congress, Isakson said, “It’s time we start doing something.” That includes grandfathering the current DACA kids into the system and sorting out a system for future children in similar situations, he said.

 

August 15, 2017

Sen. Johnny Isakson and the RAISE Act – (he wants to tie immigration numbers with the unemployment rate)

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From today’s Marietta Daily Journal on Sen. Johnny Isakson and the RAISE Act:

“When asked about an immigration bill co-sponsored by his junior colleague, Sen. David Perdue, R-Georgia, to place new limits on legal immigration by favoring those with technical or English skills rather than those with family connections, Isakson said he supported legal immigration, adding that his forefathers came to this country without speaking any English.

“We are very fortunate that America opens its shores to the tired, the poor, yearning to be free,” he said.

Isakson said he wants the country to enforce its immigration laws and ensure that people coming in are doing so legally. He also said .”

Bonus Fast Facts on U.S. immigration levels and the Atlanta region’s population growth (80K) in the last year HERE.

July 13, 2017

Mexican, Guatemalan citizens charged with trafficking guns and drugs in Gainesville – CBS Atlanta

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Mexican, Guatemalan citizens charged with trafficking guns and drugs in Gainesville

July 11, 2017
GAINESVILLE, GA (CBS46) –

Miguel Angel Rosas-Ramirez and Eduardo Estrada Medina have been arraigned on federal firearm and drug charges. A federal indictment charges that Rosas-Ramirez, a citizen of Mexico, used an unlawfully obtained concealed carry permit to purchase multiple firearms, which his alien status prohibits under federal law, and that he then sold the guns to others, including Estrada. The indictment further charges that Estrada, a citizen of Guatemala, illegally reentered the United States after being deported, purchased several weapons from Rosas-Ramirez, and trafficked in methamphetamine.

“Guns are an all-too-frequent part of the illegal drug business, and the majority of these guns arrive in drug dealers’ hands from illegal firearm trafficking as alleged in this case,” said U. S. Attorney John Horn. “This case is even more troubling because one of the alleged gun purchasers already had been deported once as a result of illegal drug trafficking, and yet found his way back to the United States and to the dangerous combination of methamphetamine and guns.

“ATF’s involvement in securing this indictment is a prime example of the successful use of federal laws to confront, engage and eliminate criminal activity. Criminals must understand that there are serious repercussions for illegal trafficking of narcotics and illegal possession of firearms and that ATF will contribute all necessary time and effort to ensure that the individuals responsible are brought to justice,” said Assistant Special Agent in Charge John Schmidt.

According to U.S. Attorney Horn, the charges, and other information presented in court, Rosas-Ramirez falsely claimed to be a U.S. citizen in order to obtain a Georgia Weapons Carry Permit. He then allegedly used the permit to illegally purchase over 100 firearms in the past year, several of which have been recovered in the hands of illegal aliens who were themselves trafficking drugs. The indictment charges that Eduardo Estrada Medina, who was also known as Miguel Angel Donis-Gonzalez, not only possessed firearms that Rosas-Ramirez purchased, but also had 8.8 kilograms of suspected methamphetamine, over $140,000 cash, and other drug paraphernalia in his home. Medina was deported in January 2013 after he was convicted of drug trafficking. He then illegally re-entered the United States.

Medina faces charges of unlawful possession of firearms by an alien, possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking activity, possession of an unregistered silencer, and unlawful possession of firearms by a felon. Rosas-Ramirez has been charged with unlawful possession of firearms by an alien, unlawful dealing in firearms, unlawful claim to U.S. citizenship, and 18 counts of fraudulent statements to licensed gun dealers in connection with firearms purchases…Read the rest HERE.

June 9, 2017

D.A. King in Insider Advantage Georgia today: (only) Three Ga. U.S. House members co-sponsor official English bill

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Three Ga. U.S. House members co-sponsor official English bill

D.A.King

There are still a large number of Americans who are not aware that the United States has no official language. We don’t.

That can be changed– and logic says it should be an easy task with a Republican-controlled Congress and White House. We’ll see.

Introduced by U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, HR 997, the English Unity Act of 2017 establishes English as the official language of the United States. It requires that naturalization ceremonies and official functions of the U.S. government, subject to exceptions, to be conducted in English. And the bill declares that all citizens should be able to read and understand generally the English language text of U.S. laws.

The official English bill currently has 43 House co-sponsors, but only three from Georgia: Reps. Barry Loudermilk, Jody Hice and Doug Collins. (Sen. Johnny Isakson is a co-sponsor of companion legislation S. 678 in the Senate.)

One can’t help but wonder what reasons any lawmaker would have for not supporting English as our official language. More than 50 other countries make English their own official language. Also, an August 2014 Rasmussen poll found that 83% of Americans support making English the official language of the United States.

Here is the contact info for the Georgia delegation. In fact, InsiderAdvantage encourages readers of this column to provide feedback after checking with their own congressman and letting us hear the reasoning behind not signing on to help passage of this official English bill.

Also, a warning: Critics of the concept of a nationally unifying language – and there are many – will try to redefine official English as “English only” which is an intentional falsehood and misrepresentation of the legislation. These radical anti-English activists regard official English as “anti-immigrant.”

The goal of King’s legislation is to have a federal government that operates in English whenever possible, with clear exceptions to aid non-English speakers when necessary.

Georgians who want more information on official English, the many negatives of bi-lingual education and tips on how to take action on convincing their congressman to help should see the website of the highly respected ProEnglish group in Washington, D.C.

There is also an interesting comparison of priorities and interests on the part of House lawmakers. More than 200 representatives have quietly signed on to an immigration amnesty bill that sees nearly zero exposure in the media.

“Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Calif., introduced the ENLIST Act, H.R. 60, that would give illegal aliens who meet certain requirements Legal Permanent Residence (LPR) status if they join the U.S. military. Denham first introduced the ENLIST Act in 2013” says NumbersUSA on its website.

Check out the co-sponsors. Two of the co-signers on this amnesty bill are Georgia congressmen.

The writer is president of the Dustin Inman Society. thedustininmansociety.org

March 27, 2017

D.A. King on Insider Advantage Georgia today – Update on HB 452: Petrea’s criminal alien information sharing bill hijacked

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Insider Advantage Georgia

March 27, 2017

D.A. King

Petrea’s criminal alien information sharing bill hijacked

Despite at least one inaccurate and breathless headline from the AJC and slanted coverage in other media reports, Rep Jesse Petrea’s House Bill 452 should have been a quick and easy pass for the state Senate. But with only two days of the current session remaining, final passage is up in the air.

This reluctant denizen of the Gold Dome has battled the corporate-funded anti-borders lobbyists for years and knew there would be resistance to Petrea’s bill. But it came as somewhat of a surprise when some Senate Republicans moved to weaken the language.

A review and some educated observations:

As it breezed through the House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee with a bipartisan, unanimous “do pass” recommendation from the 14 members present, Petrea’s one-pager said the Georgia Bureau of Investigation must share with Georgia sheriffs’ and the general public information it has been receiving for at least 18 months on criminal aliens released by the feds onto Georgia streets.

According to the latest figures given to congress by Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), in 2015 ICE freed 19,723 criminal aliens, with a total of 64,197 convictions among them. These included 8,234 violent convictions and 208 homicide convictions.

The bill language was constructed so that GBI would share all of the information offered by ICE under the EID/LENS system.

Cobb County Sheriff Neil Warren personally testified in the House sub-committee process in hearty support of the bill. He also expressed some surprise that his office was not made aware of the existence of the information before the legislative process began. Gwinnett County Sheriff, Butch Conway sent a deputy to convey his support. The GBI made it clear that there were no problems or prohibitive added expenses to the data sharing.

HB 452 then passed the House with a 144-26 vote on March 3rd.

But when it reached the Senate Public Safety Committee, the bill ran into problems with language added by legislators who did not appear to understand the bill and who clearly lack any basic knowledge of the illegal immigration crisis.

The amendment restricts the information shared by GBI. It was formally offered by Vice-Chairman Senator John Albers, but anyone who watched the committee process – or views the citizen-captured video (45:48) – can see that it was Chairman Tyler Harper who initiated the change that weakened the bill.

The Harper-Albers amendment says that GBI should only pass on data to sheriffs and the public concerning the release of criminal aliens released by the feds in Georgia who have “committed violent or serious crimes.” The language was added with no definition of “serious.”

The Center for Immigration Studies reported on the information given to Congress by ICE on the criminal aliens released in 2015. We invite readers – including state senators – to peruse the list of crimes associated with the released aliens in the CIS report and to decide which of them are, or are not, “serious.”

With (accurate) coverage at National Review and Breitbart and here at IAG, HB 452 has gained statewide and national attention and the outcome of the bill will reflect the power of the anti-enforcement, far-left in the Republican senate.

On Friday, Senate Majority Leader Bill Cowsert hijacked Petrea’s amended bill on the Senate floor with the addition of modified language from leadership’s SB 1 that foundered in the House committee process. To get to Gov. Nathan Deal’s desk, the now voluminous floor substitute must go back to the Senate Rules Committee, the Senate floor and then to the House for a vote on “agree or disagree.” And all of this must happen before Thursday at midnight.

Somewhere along the line the Harper-Albers language that watered down a well-written and wise piece of public safety legislation should be removed.

We have at least one conclusion and recommendation of our own. In a state with more illegal aliens than Arizona, candidates for election to Georgia’s legislature should be carefully vetted for basic knowledge on illegal immigration— and on re-writing legislation.

D.A. King is president of the Dustin Inman Society.

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