$100 million a year revenue bill shunned while internet sales taxes and casino gambling debated
D.A. King
From the Gold Dome suspect priorities file: A common sense bill that is projected to produce $100 million in annual state revenue if passed has so far been refused even a committee hearing.
House Bill 66, from state Rep. Jeff Jones of Brunswick, consists of a simple and proven concept involving a, small, fully refundable fee on wire transfers sent out of the state by individuals. Corporate transfers are specifically exempted and Jones makes it clear that his revenue bill is aimed at the vast underground economy.
Under the language of Jonesâ bill, wire transfer senders who pay the small and standardized fee can easily obtain a full refund when they file their state income tax return.
Implemented in Oklahoma in 2010, the revenue system does not cost honest tax filers of any description a penny. Official reports from Oklahoma show that not only is the refundable fee system producing a reliable stream of revenue, but that it is increasing by about 10 percent each year. In 2015, the system added $11 million to the state coffers there.
The reluctance to allow a hearing on HB 66 seems to be related to the fact that in part, it will assuredly harvest revenue from the huge amount of money sent out of Georgia every year by black-market labor. This, despite Jonesâ assurance that he has been told by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce that it has taken a âsupportâ position on his measure.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, Georgia has a larger illegal population than Arizona and dwarfs that of Oklahoma. Solid 2006 figures from the Inter-American Development Bank show that more than $1.7 billion was sent from Georgia in the form of âremittancesâ to the home nations of immigrants living in Georgia, many of them illegally.
While the Georgia Legislature may be willing to ignore the huge revenue windfall readily available involved in remittances, Mexico grins all the way to the bank. That nation took in about $25 billion last year in money sent back by its citizens living outside the country. An amount higher than its oil revenue. Most of that money left the United States. This is in addition to the fact that Atlanta is a hub for the illegal drug trade and the estimated billions of dollars that vile industry creates and which Georgia cannot levy.
Add to all this the push to reinstate the fuel tax credit for Delta from establishment Republican Rep. John Carson, R-Marietta, and the unabashed willingness of Republican leadership to openly debate casino gambling â I mean âdestination resortsâ â while boasting of the potential revenue to the state from that controversial topic.
We think the refusal to jump on the $100 million-a-year revenue from the no-brainer system involved in Jonesâ bill says a lot about the Republican-run House.
It is up to the Georgia taxpayers to decide exactly what the message really is.
Update Thursday PM:
After this was written and posted here, during a lunch-time visit to the state Capitol, this writer learned that earlier in the day the Georgia House had passed a bill to give âbig boatâ owners a tax break. And that one of the co-signers â a Democrat – of the legislation described above had scratched his name off the bill, HB 66.
We also learned that the email sent to Rep. Jones from the Georgia Chamber of Commerce was a mistake. The Chamber had this bill confused with another one. The unsurprising reality is that the Georgia Chamber of Commerce wants HB 66 to die along with the estimated $100 million annual boost to the state budget it would harvest from the underground economy.
Before you begin reading please note: You can easily contact DDS here.
Georgiaâs Department of Driver Services employee and liaison to the Legislature, Michael Mitchell, has been telling state legislators for years that illegal aliens are not getting Georgia drivers licenses.
That is not true. It has been happening since mid-2012. More than 26,000 illegals now have an official photo ID card or a drivers license in the Peach State.
The proposed new driving card could only be used for driving purposes. Not to board an airliner or to purchase explosives.
Even the liberal AJC covered it. Yesterday, an Atlanta TV station aired a correction to a story based on DDSâs Mitchell misinformation published in the AJC.
Now you can see video from a Feb. 7, 2017 Georgia House Motor Vehicles Committee hearing on a DDS bill in which Mitchell not only allows Rep. Alan Powell, R- Hartwell to move on legislation with wildly inaccurate assumptions, but then comes right out and tells the committee that âwe do not issue to illegals.â START AT 36:49 on the official House video archive.
You can also see that Mitchell is going full Pinocchio on this â and because of a recent meeting with the DDS commissioner on it, I can see that it is likely by directive â with info listed here.
Other examples of DDS employee misleading legislators can be seen here and here in official email.
FYI: The DDS commissioner is appointed by and works at the pleasure of Gov. Nathan Deal. No matter what anyone thinks about victims of borders getting a Georgia drivers license, is there anyone out there who approves of this example of the Gold Dome swamp?
As a public service, we also post the phone number in Gov. Dealâs Capitol office ( 404-656-1776 ) to use in case you want to leave a polite message about this caper with one of the governorâs hard working young staffers. They will forward your thoughts on to him.
2015 polling (Â question 4Â ) shows that most Georgians oppose giving any illegal aliens any drivers license.
To whom it may concern in the office of Georgia Attorney General,
Please regard this as my official request for open/public records.
Background: In mid-2010 I filed a complaint against each of the then-Georgia Board of Regents with the allegation that they were in violation of state and federal law regarding admission of illegal aliens into the University System of Georgia.
Because state law does not allow a common citizen to lodge such a complaint through the GBI, I was told to file the complaint with a local law enforcement officer, which I did in the office of Cobb County Sheriff Neil Warren. News reports and dialogue with the sherrif indicate that the complaint went from Sheriff Warrenâs office, to the GBI and then to the Attorney Generalâs office.
(c)âState or local public benefitâ defined
(1)Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), for purposes of this subchapter the term âState or local public benefitâ meansâ
(A)any grant, contract, loan, professional license, or commercial license provided by an agency of a State or local government or by appropriated funds of a State or local government; and
(B)any retirement, welfare, health, disability, public or assisted housing, postsecondary education, food assistance, unemployment benefit, or any other similar benefit for which payments or assistance are provided to an individual, household, or family eligibility unit by an agency of a State or local government or by appropriated funds of a State or local government.
It has now been more than five years since I lodged my complaint. I have never heard from the AG office on this matter and have never received any notice of hearing, review, investigation or resolution, either official or otherwise.
Please note that I am aware of the fact that your office was under a different administration at the time. Also, please note that this is an important official matter and I am confident that documents and records exist to demonstrate any action or lack there of on my 2010 complaint.
I am also aware that it was the stated position of then-candidate for Attorney General, Sam Olens (indeed, it was the stated position of all 2010 candidates for AG – and for governor), that illegal aliens were prohibited by law from any admission to USG schools, regardless of tuition rate.
Please see: âCandidates to Regents: ‘Follow lawâ â Marietta Daily Journal, June 23, 2010.
“Republican Sam Olens said Georgia law bars illegal immigrants from attending public universities. “Absent a student visa, they should not be attending such institutions,” he said.
Olens called on the Georgia Board of Regents, the body that governs Georgia’s colleges and universities, to “immediately follow the law. Illegal immigrants have no right to attend the universities.”
To aid in recall and to insure accuracy of my recollection, I also paste a 2010 news report from the Atlanta Journal Constitution on the bottom of this request, as part of the official request for open records.
REQUEST:
Please forward to me copies of any and all records, both hard copy and electronic, including emails regarding your office receiving, acting on and/or resolving my complaint that the Regents were and are in violation of state and federal law regarding state and local public benefits in allowing illegal aliens to attend any taxpayer-funded Georgia postsecondary education institution.
I am happy to pay any lawfully applied fees for copies. I would be grateful if these documents were sent to me via electronic mail.
Please contact me with any question and accept my sincere thanks for your excellent work and for your time. I would also regretful for a reply to know your office has received this request.
Respectfully,
D.A. King
Marietta, Ga.
Twitter @DAKDIS
Cc: as noted
Georgia’s immigration controversy reaches attorney general
By Ty Tagami
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
7:27 p.m. Thursday, June 10, 2010
The battle over illegal immigration touched off by Kennesaw State University student Jessica Colotl has reached Georgia’s top legal adviser.
The office of Attorney General Thurbert Baker will review a request to determine whether Georgia’s public university system violated the law by admitting illegal immigrants such as Colotl.
The request originated with Cobb County immigration activist D.A. King. He asked the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to look into the matter, but was told that the GBI could initiate an inquiry only if a public official or law enforcement agency asked for one.
So King talked to Cobb County Sheriff Neil Warren, who agreed to make a formal request. The GBI then passed it along to the attorney general.
King said the University System of Georgia is breaking state and federal laws by admitting illegal immigrants.
“The law is very clear,” King said. “Illegal aliens are not eligible for post-secondary education, and the Board of Regents are bound by that law.”
A university system spokesman says King is wrong.
“The law does not preclude an undocumented alien from being admitted to a public institution,” spokesman John Millsaps said.
The dispute is driven by Colotl’s enrollment at KSU. She entered this country illegally when she was 10 and went on to graduate from a Georgia high school.
Immigration authorities began deportation proceedings after her immigration status came to light due to a March traffic violation on campus. She got a one-year reprieve so she could complete her degree.
Prior to her arrest, Colotl paid in-state tuition because college officials were not aware of her status. She will now be charged out-of-state tuition.
After the traffic stop, the Cobb sheriff’s office obtained a warrant for Colotl’s arrest, accusing her of lying to police about her address. Colotl turned herself in and was released on bond.
A spokesperson for Warren declined to comment Thursday, citing an ongoing investigation.
But Warren told the Marietta Daily Journal that he asked for the GBI’s involvement because “I think someone is in violation of the law and I think someone independently should look into it,” according to an article published on the newspaper’s Web site Wednesday.
GBI spokesman John Bankhead said his agency forwarded the sheriff’s request to the attorney general “and will not proceed with any investigation without a request from his office.”
A spokesman for Baker said the GBI’s letter arrived Thursday and that the issue was under review. The spokesman, Russ Willard, could not say when a determination would be made.
The legal dispute seems to turn on federal statues that dictate who is ineligible for the “public benefit” of a college education.
The Marietta newspaper said Warren’s letter cites Section 1621 of Title 8. That federal statute says “an alien who is not … a qualified alien … is not eligible for any state or local public benefit,” including “postsecondary education … for which payments or assistance are proved to an individual … .”
King interprets that to mean a prohibition on admission to any college or university funded with government money.
“There should be nobody in our educational system taking up a classroom seat who is not lawfully present,” King said. “It’s not only illegal. It’s immoral.”
But Millsaps, the university system spokesman, said the Board of Regents is following the law according to “generally accepted interpretations from the federal level on down.”
Georgia’s university system asked U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement for a legal interpretation and was given a copy of one previously generated for North Carolina’s community college system.
It said states could create laws either prohibiting or allowing attendance by illegal immigrants, Millsaps said. Georgia has done neither, so, he said, “if a student enrolls and attends, that is not a violation of federal law.”
Millsaps said that ultimately a federal court may have to decide who is right.
King said it may come to that. He said he is considering filing a civil lawsuit over the issue.
Find this article at:
http://www.ajc.com/news/cobb/georgias-immigration-controversy-reaches-546475.html
Maconâs Republican state Rep. Allen Peake is one of the most intelligent, sincere and genuine thinkers in state government. As a long-time but reluctant denizen of the Gold Dome, I hope he has a long and bright future in public service ahead of him.
In publicly expressing his reasonable concerns about supporting Donald Trump, Peake has made it clear that he worries about the âextinctionâ of his political party. It seems he is concerned that Trumpâs stated position on immigration enforcement has driven Hispanic voters away from the Republican Party.
Addressing the deceitful immigration fairytale endlessly offered up to decent politicians like Peake from the anything-for-a-buck, globalist propagandists, a respectful dose of reality to all concerned: Lawlessness and a repeat of the âone timeâ immigration amnesty of 1986 would not create a great wave of Republican Hispanic voters.
Proof? Two short years after Ronald Reagan was persuaded by the Chamber of Commerce wing of the GOP to sign the â86 amnesty bill, Republican presidential candidate George H.W. Bush received just 30 percent of the Hispanic vote â putting him in the John McCain (31 percent) and Mitt Romney (27 percent) range. McCain had promised legalization âon day oneâ in the White House. Romney took the pro-American âenforce the lawâ position.
Neither does advocating for an increase in legal immigration result in a Republican advantage. About 80 percent of all new immigrants want even more services and bigger government â and they vote Democrat to that end. So would legalized illegals. We are importing about a million legal immigrants every year, most of whom are poor and low-skilled. That fact should be discussed.
It is important to acknowledge that Hispanics are not a monolithic voting bloc. The proud Hispanic board members of our America-first, pro-enforcement effort here support Donald Trump and sanity on immigration.
Peakeâs common-sense plea to fellow Republicans for a platform of smaller government and more personal responsibility should be matched with a well-informed position on immigration and recognition that Georgia has more illegal aliens than Arizona.
The Democratic-media complex will stop at nothing to inspire Trumpâs defeat. We hope Rep. Peake will ignore them and stick with Donald Trump. We are.
D.A. King
Marietta
President, the Dustin Inman Society, for the board of advisers HERE
Our friend John Litland got this letter published in the (paywall) MDJ today. He nailed it. The original letter to which he replies is posted below. Letters to the editor make a difference and serve to counter the liberal, open borders media.
NOTE: We encourage everyone to take advantage of this no-cost way of going around the press ( especially the biased and agenda-driven AJC and Associated Press) to make your voice heard.
Marietta Daily Journal
Letters
August 17, 2016
DEAR EDITOR:
In his plea for âimmigration reform,â MDJ letter writer and self-described âbusiness leaderâ Don Aldridge of Roswell informs us that we have âan immigration problem,â a âlabor shortageâ and missed opportunities on business and more tax revenues. âImmigrants are good for our economyâ he writes, as if the U.S. somehow has a shortage of immigrants. We donât. Even after many years of D.A. Kingâs educational writing here, maybe there are still folks out there who donât know the USA imports more immigrants than any nation in the world. We take in a million legal immigrants each year. My wife is one of them.
We also import almost that many guest workers every year and from what I can see, once they are here, we donât make them leave as agreed. I learned from D.A. King and confirmed on my own that almost half the illegal aliens here now came as guest workers and fearlessly stayed past their visa expiration dates. Some of the 9/11 terrorists did exactly that.
Aldridge also says we should âreform to an expanded immigration system that âgrants those who want to contribute to the economic success of America the ability to do so.â
It looks like Aldridge is spouting the same worn business demand for another immigration amnesty and for an unlimited supply of cheaper-than-now labor â open borders.
I disagree. The assimilation process of the often-cited great wave of immigration from the beginning of the last century came about due to a sharp reduction in immigration from about 1924 to the mid-sixties. This break not only allowed American wages to rise â thereby creating the now vanishing middle class â but also created an atmosphere of common culture, language and patriotic unity in our country.
Ignoring howls from business leaders whose biggest expense is wages, most of us understand the laws of supply and demand. The concept that we have a worker shortage is ridiculous and we resent the fact that all such âimmigration reformâ demands ignore the American â including immigrant â workers who are desperate for better jobs and higher wages.
We should reduce immigration, enforce our laws and protect our own workers.
Our country has an immigration problem. Over the last year, weâve heard this rhetoric time and again. As a business leader, I have witnessed the collateral damage of our fractured immigration system, which in Georgia manifests as labor shortages, missed growth opportunities for businesses and lost tax revenues.
So what, then, is the solution? Immigration reform.
The political infighting on todayâs campaign trail is missing a critical point: Immigrants are good for our economy. In fact, the strength of the U.S. economy and Americaâs ability to remain the global leader in innovation may even depend on an updated, streamlined and rationalized immigration system â one that grants those who want to contribute to the economic success of America the ability to do so.
Today, Georgia is home to nearly a million foreign-born individuals who came in pursuit of the American Dream and now contribute to some of our largest industries like agriculture and manufacturing. They often possess an entrepreneurial spirit and boost state and federal coffers through spending power and tax revenues.
Though they account for about 10 percent of the stateâs population, Georgiaâs immigrant workers make up nearly 14 percent of our workforce. Immigrant-led households in Georgia earned $26.1 billion in income in 2014, giving them purchasing power they could turn around and spend at community businesses. Those who founded their own companies saw their businesses earn more than $1.5 billion in annual income.
What immigrants donât spend at local businesses or invest in their own ventures, contribute to taxes and federal programs. In 2014, immigrants paid almost $7 billion in taxes, over $2 billion of which went directly to state and local collections. This money is used to fund important municipal projects, like education and infrastructure, proving that foreign-born Georgians contribute to our community in tangible ways.
A strong immigrant workforce is partly the answer: Today, foreign-born workers contribute nearly $3 billion to Social Security annually, and this trend is likely to continue for years to come. Immigrants in Georgia are far more likely to be working-age than the native-born population: More than 75 percent of the foreign-born population falls into this category, compared to just 50 percent of the stateâs native population. Streamlining our visa process would allow more foreign-born workers to fill labor gaps that are hurting key industries like farming and tech.
Ultimately, the effects of meaningful reform could be even more far-reaching.
Senate Bill 6 was a bill pre-filed by Republican Georgia state Senator Josh McKoon in 2014 and among other components, originally designed to end Republican Georgia Governor Nathan Deal’s current practice of issuing drivers licenses to illegal aliens who have hit the jackpot with Obama’s deferred action on deportation amnesty. Not allowed a hearing by Republican senate committee chairman Senator Tyler Harper in the 2015 session, SB 6 was altered to allow the illegal aliens to drive legally with a “Driving Safety Card” that was designed to note the illegal aliens illegal status (see here.). SB 6 then passed the Republican super-majority state senate with all GOP votes except restaurant-owner Senator Tommie Williams ( video ) who made it clear he wanted to safeguard his illegal alien sous chef. Opposed by big-business and the identity politics anti-borders lobby, SB 6 died at the end of the 2016 legislative session when it was not allowed a hearing by Republican Speaker of the House, David Ralston. Ralston has made clear his hostility for Senator McKoon.
Had it been allowed to go to the floor, SB 6 had many more votes than needed to pass the House and go to Governor Deal’s desk.
To our knowledge, no American MSM reporter – print or radio/TV did a story on Governor Deal’s position on SB6. Below is the video of a Telemundo reporter doing exactly that while a WSB radio reporter and a WABE News (NPR) reporter watch.
Deferred action on deportation does not provide lawful status. For Obama voters and GOP luncheon-bots: That means the illegal aliens with deferred action on deportation are still illegal aliens . Mexico does not issue any type of drivers license to any illegal alien. Currently, Georgia has given about 22,000 illegal aliens a drivers license and or an official state photo ID card. That document is identical ( Obama voters: the same ) as the drivers license the Nathan Deal administration issues to foreign diplomats, Mercedes Benz executives and foreigners here with legal status on a temporary visa.
YouTube – Luis Estrada
Telemundo report on SB 6
Luis Estrada, reporter
March 16, 2016
Translation from Spanish
Luis Estrada Published on Mar 16, 2016
“EL GOBERNADOR DE GEORGIA NATHAN DEAL DIJO A TELEMUNDO ATLANTA QUE APOYA LA SB6 QUE PRETENDE QUE LAS LICENCIAS DE CONDUCIR DE LOS BENEFICIADOS CON DACA CONTANGAN LA PALABRA “INMIGRANTE ILEGAL”   Translation to English from ParaLink2.com:
“THE GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA NATHAN DEAL SAID TO TELEMUNDO ATLANTA THAT HE SUPPORTS THE SB6 THAT SAYS THAT THE LICENSES OF THE BENEFICIARIES OF DACA CONTAIN THE WORD ‘ ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT (ALIEN).”) See translation of entire Telemundo report below – scroll down for 2:28 minute video.
Luis Estrada:Â “Today Governor Nathan Deal in the press conference answered this question from Telemundo Atlanta: Are you supporting the measure SB 6 which intends to give DACA beneficiaries driver’s licenses which identifies them with the word “illegal”? And he said that he agrees with this measure. Nevertheless, he did not say to what extent.
Senator Josh McKoon [English Clip]: It would look very much like this, and could never be confused with an American’s driver’s license.
Narrator: In early February, Senator Josh McKoon presented the proposal SB6 that essentially aims to identify DACA beneficiaries with the word[s] illegal alien. Today Governor Nathan Deal responded to Telemundo Atlanta’s question on whether he was supporting the proposed SB 6 . He said it is necessary to implement safety measures for driver’s licenses.
Georgia Governor Deal (Republican)[Spanish Dubbed Clip]: There are certain privileges associated with driver’s licenses of Georgia which are the real ID guidelines. Obviously someone that comes from DACA is not within the Real ID guidelines and it’s because of the nature of their status.
Narrator: And to ensure that the proposal of Senator Josh McKoon remains in place, the anti-undocumented immigration activist D.A. King came to the state capitol to lobby legislators involved.
D.A. King [Spanish Dubbed Clip]: We are here to ensure that illegal aliens don’t obtain the same license a diplomat or an executive from Mercedes Benz can obtain.
Narrator: King believes SB6 could also be approved in the House of Representatives prior to Thursday the 24th. The prior month, the Senate approved it with three fourths (2/3rds- dak) of the votes.
D.A. King [Spanish Dubbed Clip]: We hope the House passes it before Thursday.
Representative Pedro Marin: We see history⊠in 2011 that the HB87 came about half past 11 pm, half an hour for us to go home, and we passed it. So anything can happen before midnight of March 24th.
Governor Deal [Spanish Dubbed Clip]: We have done a lot practically in this state. We are one of only 23 states that are following the guidelines of the Real ID law. This means that we have reviewed the history; we verified the legal status, because it’s associated with the Georgia driver’s license. And that’s following the guidelines of Real ID, which can be used to get on a plane. And we know that that was a problem on September 11.
Luis Estrada: Luis Estrada reporting for Noticerio Telemundo Atlanta.”
SR 675, the official English-In-Government constitutional amendment, passed the full state Senate in February with all Republicans voting âyes.â However, pro-English Georgians have been cheated out of the choice to vote on this constitutional amendment on the November ballot. We have been betrayed by state House Judiciary Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Johnnie Caldwell and his boss, House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Wendell Willardâ both Republicans.
Last week, Sen. Josh McKoon presented SR 675 to the Republican-controlled Judiciary subcommitteeâand they killed it. The House Judiciary subcommittee meeting that day was comprised of four anti-English Democrats and only two Republicans, one of whom was the chairman â Caldwell. Four Republican committee members failed to show up. The legislation was quietly defeated by a 4-2 vote. (Editorâs note: GOP Rep. Barry Fleming voted yes and tells InsiderAdvantage he wants a new vote to reconsider.)
GOP Rep Johnnie Caldwell, from Thomaston
A recent poll that shows 76% of Georgians are in favor of English as the official language of government in our state. If we cannot turn this around, we will be denied the right to vote on amending the state constitution to make English Georgiaâs official language of government when we vote in the general election. The Republican-controlled House Judiciary subcommittee let the anti-English Democrats do the Chamber of Commerce-directed dirty work and intentionally stopped SR 675.
GOP Rep. Wendell Willard of Sandy Springs
Anyone familiar with the basic workings of the Gold Dome committee process can see that Republican Chairman Caldwell would only call a vote with that ratio of Democrats to Republicans if the intention was to kill the bill.
If enough pro-English Georgians call and write the members of the subcommittee, asking for a reconsideration vote, we may be able to save it; otherwise, it will remain dead.
On Monday, Jan. 18, Georgiaâs first-term U.S. senator, David Perdue, issued a brief statement honoring Martin Luther King Jr., whose âactions to advance justice continue to inspire us all to do better.â Two days later, Perdue stood in the way of justice and betrayed Kingâs ideals.
Perdue scuttled the U.S. District Court nomination of a fellow Republican, Dax Lopez, because of concerns about âhis longstanding participation in a controversial organization.â That controversial organization isnât the Communist Party or domestic terrorists ready to seize Fort McPherson, nor is Lopez tied to neo-Nazis or the Klan, neither of which would likely welcome the Jewish Latino from DeKalb County.
No, the dread organization is the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials. For Lopez, a Latino elected official as a state judge, being part of GALEO is about as radical as Congressman John Lewis being a member of the NAACP.
Standing up for fellow Latinos puts GALEO on the wrong side of an increasingly rabid group of activists for whom absolutism on immigration â no illegals, no amnesty, no reform, no exceptions â is the political litmus test of our time.
That group has the ear of Perdue, who gave far less time to Lopez than to people such as D.A. King, a rhetorical warrior against âthe vast, corporate-funded illegal alien lobby.â To put King in perspective, he wants to oust Rep. Tom Price, one of the most conservative members of the House Republican leadership, for being too soft on immigration enforcement.
King threatened the political futures of Perdue and Sen. Johnny Isakson, who is running for re-election, if Lopez even got a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
By custom, the Senate does not consider judicial nominations without the go-ahead of the senators from the nomineeâs state. Isakson told King in a public forum that Lopez deserved a hearing. Perdue, whose cousin Sonny Perdue as governor first put Lopez on the bench in 2010, disagreed.
Weâre not sure which possibility is worse: that Perdue is scared of King or that he agrees with him… READ THE REST HERE
This latest mindless attempt to eliminate the inconvenient words from the English language only serve to remind the rest of us that California is the illegal immigration capital of the world and is going bust because of its ridiculous and deadly liberal laws and policies.
– D.A. King
In another of a seemingly endless shake-your-head series of jump-the-shark politically correct attempts at distraction from the stateâs massive wall of debt crisis, Governor âMoonbeamâ Jerry Brown and the Democrat legislature have decided to strike the English word âalienâ from California labor laws.
Not the legal and accurate term for non-citizens here in violation of American immigration laws â which is âillegal alienâ â just ⊠âalien.â
Democrat state Senator Tony Mendoza (D-Artesia), author of the bill, says âalienâ is now commonly considered a derogatory term for a foreign-born person and has very negative connotations. Note to Mendoza from mainstream America: No, it isnât.
The executive director of the San Francisco Labor Council, Tim Paulson, reportedly told the San Francisco Chronicle that âthe word âalienâ has incredibly racist and un-American connotations.â Got that?
Merriam-Webster contains several definitions for the English word âalien.â Among them: âa person who was born in a different country and is not a citizen of the country in which he or she now lives; âa foreign-born resident who has not been naturalized and is still a subject or citizen of a foreign country; and âa creature that comes from somewhere other than the planet Earth.â
It seems that even with English as the official language of California, there are exceptions for full usage.
We anxiously await the headline announcing the official scrubbing of the word âalienâ in any discussions or studies at Caltechâs center of astronomical research, Mt. Palomar Observatory, as âracist.â
A quick look at several online translator sites and queries to my native Spanish-speaking friends informs me that âalienâ en Espanol is âextranjero.â So, a question for the language police in Sacramento: Is alien âracist, derogatory and un-Americanâ in any language ⊠or only English?
Maybe the entire California legal code can be soon re-written in Emojis?
Meanwhile, back here on planet Earth, curious readers should know that âalienâ is still really a word. As a matter of fact, it is usefully combined with the English word âillegalâ quite often.
âThe concern is that the use of the word âalienâ would dehumanize the people affectedâ and lead to âlack of protections under the law,â claims Kevin R. Johnson, dean of Public Interest Law and professor of Chicana/Chicano Studies at UC Davis.
The quotes from Californiaâs sensitive elite bring up yet another question. Is it âdehumanizingâ or âderogatoryâ to use the word âalienâ when noting the murder of Kate Steinle by an illegal alien who was a convicted criminal and who had been deported multiple times? We wouldnât want to hurt anybodyâs feelings.
Is it âun-Americanâ or hurtful when Americans Billy and Kathy Inman of Woodstock, Georgia tell the story of an illegal alien killing their only child, Dustin â age sixteen, fifteen years ago in his own country because he was welcomed into the USA by mindless politicians and rewarded with an officially-issued drivers license, a job, and various public benefits?
Is it âdehumanizingâ when Kathy Inman explains from her wheelchair that she has been there ever since the illegal alien looking for a better life put here there for the rest of her life when he killed her son?
This latest mindless attempt to eliminate the inconvenient words from the English language only serve to remind the rest of us that California is the illegal immigration capital of the world and is going bust because of its ridiculous and deadly liberal laws and policies.
One more definition from Merriam-Webster: âFool: a person who lacks good sense or judgment: a stupid or silly person.â
D.A. King is president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society and is an independent voter. He describes himself a âpro-enforcementâ on immigration and borders. Twitter:@DAKDIS
Do you trust Barack Hussein Obama? Many GOP U.S. Senators do!
We donât. But, we do trust Senator Jeff Sessions.
ACTION NEEDED! — ONE MINUTE OF YOUR TIME Senator Johnny Isakson needs to hear from you today!
Please call his D.C. office at (202) 224-3643.
Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) delivered last weekend’s GOP Weekly Address with the sole purpose of pushing for passage of a Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) bill that would grant Pres. Obama fast-track authority on trade agreements, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and prevent Congress from altering any deals through the amendment process.
Message to Senator Isaksonâs staffer to deliver to the Senator: âOppose TPA unless the bill specifically prevents the administration from negotiating any changes to immigration!â
Please tell the nice young staffer we encouraged your call?
Senator Isakson is pushing hard to give Barack Obama more power. I am not kidding. There is a secret trade deal called TPP pending and many Republicans, with Georgiaâs Isakson leading the charge, are trying hard to hand Obama the power to make the deal that could easily include altering existing immigration policies to further degrade American wages and bring in even more foreign labor.
They are doing it in the name of âjobs.â
It has happened before. As pointed out in the 5-page memo drafted by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala), past administrations have used fast-track trade authority to increase the number of foreign guest workers, extend the length of guest-worker visas, and reduce worker protections that cost American workers their jobs. But Sen. Isakson claims that it won’t happen. CRITICAL ALERT: TOP FIVE CONCERNS WITH TRADE PROMOTION AUTHORITY (TPA)Â
The GOP is under tremendous pressure from Big Business to get this done without too much information being allowed to escape from Washington.
We are asking is that Senator Isakson vows to oppose TPA unless the bill specifically prevents the administration from negotiating any changes to immigration!
As pointed out in the 5-page memo drafted by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala), past administrations have used fast-track trade authority to increase the number of foreign guest workers, extend the length of guest-worker visas, and reduce worker protections that cost American workers their jobs. But Sen. Isakson claims that it won’t happen.
