I’m a globalist” – Former Georgia state Senator Sam Zamarripa , also MALDEF board member and Chairman and co-founder of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO) and who works closely with the Georgia China Alliance (GCA), a nonprofit group he helped create in 2003.

GALEO proudly lists Jane Fonda as one of its “founding friends” and benefactors.

Zamarippa is also co-founder and Marketing Director of United Americas Bank in Georgia, one of the pioneers in making mortgage loans to illegal aliens …with bi-lingual services. United Americas Bank is one of many nation wide that accepts the federally issued Individual Tax Identification Number (ITIN) as valid ID in lieu of a Social Security Number, in direct violation of IRS regulations and intent regarding the ITIN.

However, as quoted in the Atlanta Progressive News ( May 2006), Zamarripa’s Executive Director of GALEO, Jerry Gonzalez, blames globalization and free trade for illegal immigration into the United States: “Gonzalez agreed that globalization, free-trade agreements, and bad economies created by bad governments were the root causes. The U.S. government, ultimately, has to address the economic prosperity of the entire hemisphere in order to curtail immigration.”

On its Website, GALEO promoted an Emory University Goizueta Business School October 2006 seminar titled “Beyond NAFTA: Prosperity and Security in an Integrated North America” outlining the “benefits” of expanding NAFTA and the deep integration of the three nations of North America.

Follow the money. Try hard to forget about the sovereignty of the United States of America.

Coming soon: Americans for Sovereignty.

MEDIA RELEASE 17 August, 2007

Americans for Sovereignty Contact: D.A. King
3595 Canton Rd.
A-9/337
Marietta, Ga. 30066

www.AmericanSov.org ( under construction)

In an effort to draw media attention and public and Congressional scrutiny to the little known ‘Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America’ (SPP), border security activist D.A. King will be available to the media to outline the potential threats to American sovereignty involved in the virtually unpublicized executive branch initiative.

When: Monday, August 20, 2007 NOON
Where: The Rotunda, the Georgia Capitol Building

The press conference is timed to coincide with the August 20 -21 “North American Leaders Summit” in Montebello, Canada involving President George W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican president Felipe Calderon which will focus on advancing the SPP.

King expects several elected officials to speak at the press conference.

“The true intent and lack of transparency and accountability concerning the SPP should be a matter of great concern to all Americans and those in the media” notes King. “The SPP seems to closely follow the 2005 Council on Foreign Relations report titled “Building a North American Community” which makes recommendations that include combining the Social Security systems of the U.S. and Mexico, and creating a common security perimeter around North America within which people would flow freely between the three nations….essentially integrated nations and open borders” King said.

King will also officially announce the formation of ‘Americans for Sovereignty’ (AFS), a recently incorporated Georgia – based national organization aimed at educating the public on the consequences of the SPP and any attempt to create an arrangement in North America similar to the European Union. King is co-founder and CEO of Americans for Sovereignty Inc. (501 c 3 status from the IRS for AFS will be applied for soon)

Americans for Sovereignty shares the deep concern regarding the SPP indicated in an August 6, 2007 letter to the President of the United States signed by more than twenty U.S. Congressional Representatives including Georgia’s Dr. Tom Price and Dr. Phil Gingrey.

King will provide copies of that letter and other background information to any members of the media who have an interest at the press conference.
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Repost from February:

The column below ran in today’s Marietta Daily Journal in February.

North American Union would be terrible mistake

D.A. King
Columnist
February 15, 2007

“There shall be open borders”
– A recurring 1984 proposal promoted by the Wall Street Journal for a five-word amendment to the Constitution.

“By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America”.
– Presidential candidate George W. Bush in a 2000 campaign speech on Latin America in Miami.

As someone who studies our intentional lack of border security and the resulting terror threat and illegal immigration crisis in the new America of the Bush administration, the most common question I hear after people begin to suspect that the president of the United States has no intention of securing American borders – Sept. 11, 2001, be damned – is natural enough: “Why?”

Why would the president – and a large part of Congress – refuse do everything possible to stop what a 2006 House Committee on Homeland Security report estimated to be somewhere between four and ten million illegal and uninspected border crossings in 2005 alone?….

Please read the rest/original here and see the video.

I cannot make stuff like this up… CONTACT INFO FOR THIS GUY BELOW. Call him, I am.

Border Patrol agents dont have the responsibility of apprehending illegal immigrants, Carlos X. Carrillo, chief patrol agent for the Laredo sector, said at a town hall meeting Wednesday.”The Border Patrol is not equipped to stop illegal immigrants,”

Read it here from the Laredo Morning Times.

FYI:
Laredo Sector (Texas)
The Sector encompasses 116 counties and covers 101,439 square miles of southwest and northeast Texas. The Rio Grande River is both the southwest and international boundary. The Laredo Sector is situated between the Del Rio and Marfa Sectors on the west and the Rio Grande Valley Sector on the southeast. The northern boundary extends to the Oklahoma border

Contact Information: Phone Number – (956) 764-3200; Sector Headquarters Mailing Address – 207 W. Del Mar Blvd., Laredo, TX 78041

Community Feedback: We strive to provide quality service to our customers. If we have not lived up to this commitment, we would like to know. If we have met or exceeded your expectations, please let us know that as well. To comment on the services provided by this office, please write to the Sector Chief Patrol Agent. If you feel you were mistreated by a Border Patrol employee or wish to make a complaint of misconduct by a Border Patrol employee, you may write to the Chief Patrol Agent

Lots of talk lately about regulating immigration and employment being solely a federal issue.

Sometimes, people should actually read the law before they write. Below is from that pesky existing federal law. The entire section can be read here.

TITLE 8 – ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
CHAPTER 12 – IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
SUBCHAPTER II – IMMIGRATION
PART VIII – GENERAL PENALTY PROVISIONS

Section 1324a. Unlawful employment of aliens

(h) Miscellaneous provisions

(2) Preemption

The provisions of this section preempt any State or local law
imposing civil or criminal sanctions (other than through
licensing and similar laws) upon those who employ, or recruit or
refer for a fee for employment, unauthorized aliens.

I have added a few hyperlinks to educate the reader.

Marietta Daily Journal
D.A. King
Columnist

Locals have duty to do jobs feds won’ t

“Economic freedom demands the unrestricted movement of human as well as financial capital across national borders.” – from the official Website of the Libertarian National Committee.

In the most recent example of liberal judicial activism, Federal Judge James Munley of Pennsylvania, a Bill Clinton appointee, ruled last month that the city of Hazleton, Pa., does not have the authority to enforce federal immigration law.

Good luck with that one on appeal, judge.

According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the head of Hazleton’s Hispanic Business Association, Rudy Espinal, hopes that the decision will “restore a sense of normalcy to his community.”

Normalcy indeed.

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) had this to say about the Hazleton case: “The ordinance usurped the federal government’s exclusive power to regulate immigration, deprived residents of their constitutional right to due process, and violated federal and state law.”

Quite a significant contradiction from the corporately funded MALDEF. The well-paid officials of that non-profit “civil rights” group, along with the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the National Council of La Raza, the National Immigration Forum and the National Immigration Law Center, put out a handbook for the rest of the illegal alien/open borders lobby last year titled “State and Local Police Enforcement of Federal Immigration Laws: A Tool Kit for Advocates.”

The second sentence of the introduction of the 53 page document clearly acknowledges the fact that the U.S. Department of Justice has found that local police have the “inherent authority to enforce all federal immigration laws.”

Maybe these advocates forgot about their own publication?

The “Toolkit” goes on to explain to other advocates for illegal aliens on how to persuade local authorities that they do not have the recognized and obvious enforcement authority.

This contradiction represents “normalcy” for MALDEF, widely recognized as one of the most aggressive proponents of illegal immigration and bilingualism in the United States.

On another remarkable note, former Republican Congressman Bob Barr of Cobb County – now a confirmed Libertarian – wrote a recent guest column in the Atlanta newspaper headlined “Immigration belongs at the federal level” enthusiastically endorsing Munley’s decision. “Immigration policy is a power reserved for the federal government,” he wrote.

Pehaps the former congressman and former U.S. Attorney has overlooked the 1996 amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act, passed while he was in Congress, in which the existing and inherent local enforcement authority is expanded with federal training in section 287(g).

Federal immigration law ( 8 USC 1324 a ((h)) ) clearly allows state and local governments to regulate “those who employ, or recruit or refer for a fee for employment, unauthorized aliens” by imposing civil or criminal sanctions through “licensing and other laws.”

Cobb Sheriff Neil Warren’s success in getting illegals out of our community is but one brilliant example of the results of taking advantage of the tools provided to local governments to enforce immigration laws. By using 287(g) authority his office has in just one month begun deportation cases on more than 50 illegal aliens.

Americans paying attention in Cobb can only hope that the Cobb police have plans to soon apply for the federal training.

State Sen. Chip Rogers’ Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act also uses available tools to enforce compliance with federal immigration laws. Georgia State Patrol officers will soon graduate from federal training and begin to enforce federal immigration laws.

Cobb was the first county in the state to begin using the no-cost federal program now called “E-Verify” – available to all employers – to determine the eligibility and immigration status and of newly hired employees, thereby helping to enforce the federal law making it a crime to knowingly employ an illegal alien.

Given their absurd argument that illegal immigration is solely a federal issue, one can only wonder when MALDEF and the ACLU will attempt to stop this very welcome enforcement.

We look forward to their argument that using these tools somehow usurps the federal government’s exclusive power to regulate immigration.

Regardless of judicial activism in Pennsylvania, Sheriff Warren and state and local officials all over the nation not only have the authority, but the duty to do the job the federal government will not do.

Doing so may return American citizens to “normalcy” in their own country.

King is president of the Dustin Inman Society, a Marietta based coalition actively opposed to illegal immigration.

Link to column in the MDJ here.

Sovereignty

Merriam Webster

Main Entry: sov·er·eign·ty

Function: noun

1 obsolete : supreme excellence or an example of it

2 a : supreme power especially over a body politic b : freedom from external control : AUTONOMY c : controlling influence

3 : one that is sovereign; especially : an autonomous state

Georgia Security and Immigration and Compliance Act
New Rules and Regulations from the Georgia Department of Transportation

HERE

Comments:

How does one report a possible illegal alien? It seems law enforcement can do nothing unless investigating a “crime”. I called the Immigration number in phone book…long recording, got referred to ICE….longer recording and I was kept on hold for 10 minutes…never got to speak to anyone (I had to get back to work). I also left message for my county commissioner and have not had my call returned.

My story: I was summoned for jury selection. I’m called to the box, front row and center. I see that the trial is between 2 mexican women. We were told that there was an interpreter because “although the spanish speaking clients spoke some English, it was to ensure they fully understood what was said in the courtroom”. Well, right away my impression is that they are probably illegal.

The defense attorney asked us if any of us had strong feelings or opinions about people in our country illegally….wow, hands went up. There was a few minutes of lively discussion…he and the judge tried to impress upon us that the issue was not citizenship status, but to try to case according to the facts…we were asked if we could be impartial and give a fair trial, about 6 of us said NO WAY. A few more questions came our way. When I answered that my son-in-law was a U.S. Border Patrol Agent, the defense attorney hung his head and said “I was afraid you were going to say that”…chuckles were heard across the courtroom. Six of us were excused. They called 6 more….6 more excused…it looked like there may be a problem finding jurors, but to my disgust, they finally found people who said they could disregard the illegal status. Oh my.

I want to know WHY, if people like lawyers and judges and other law enforcement in that courtroom do not have to call on Immigration authorities to verify someone who has evidently let the defense attorney know they are illegal. And if they won’t do it, I feel compelled as a legal citizen to now report this….but no one seems to be accessible.

Do you have instructions….”steps”….for reporting someone to have their status verified?

Thank you for your time.

S.L.
Georgia

Hearing sought on Islamic, Mexican ties
Washington Times
By Sara A. Carter
August 9, 2007

A ranking House Republican yesterday demanded a hearing based on recent reports that Islamic terrorists embedded in the United States are teaming with Mexican drug cartels to fund terrorism networks overseas.

Rep. Ed Royce, ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs terrorism and nonproliferation subcommittee, said the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) document — first reported yesterday by The Washington Times — highlights how vulnerable the nation is when fighting the war on terrorism.

“I’ll be asking the terrorism subcommittee to hold a hearing on the DEA report’s disturbing findings,” said Mr. Royce of California. “A flood of name changes from Arabic to Hispanic and the reported linking of drug cartels on the Texas border with Middle East terrorism needs to be thoroughly investigated.”

Likewise, Rep. John Culberson, Texas Republican, said the DEA document revealed startling evidence that Islamic radicals are camouflaging themselves as Hispanics while conducting business with violent drug-trafficking organizations.

“I have been ringing the bell about this serious threat of Islamic individuals changing their surnames to Hispanic surnames for three to four years,” Mr. Culberson said. “Unfortunately, Homeland Security’s highest priority is to hide the truth from Congress and the public. I just hope we’re not closing the barn door after terrorists have already made their way in.”

Mr. Culberson, a member of the House Appropriations homeland security subcommittee, yesterday wrote a letter to the subcommittee’s chairman, Rep. David E. Price, North Carolina Democrat, requesting a full investigation and hearing into the matter. A spokesman for Mr. Price said the committee is contacting the law-enforcement agencies and will work closely with Mr. Culberson’s office on the matter.

“We certainly want to learn more about the matter from the agencies involved,” said Paul Cox, press secretary to Mr. Price.

The 2005 DEA report outlines several incidents in which multiple Middle Eastern drug-trafficking and terrorist cells in the U.S. are funding terrorism networks overseas with the aid of Mexican cartels. These sleeper cells use established Mexican cartels with highly sophisticated trafficking routes to move narcotics — and other contraband — in and out of the United States, the report said.

This is not even close to the whole story…read it here.

Press Release from the National Council of The Race ( La Raza )

( BONUS INFO – HERE for the dearly departed Charlie Norwood on La Raza)

Contact
Michele Waslin
Jacqueline Pacheco
(202) 785-1670

Aug 10, 2007

NCLR CALLS ON BUSH ADMINISTRATION TO RECONSIDER DISCRIMINATORY MEASURES IN IMMIGRATION PACKAGE

Murguía Urges President Bush to Meet with Hispanic Leadership on Reversal of Position

Washington, DC – The National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the U.S., expressed deep concerns over the Bush Administration’s recently unveiled immigration plan. The measures include increasing the use of state and local law enforcement in enforcing federal immigration laws, expanding raids at workplace sites, and implementing new Social Security “no match” regulations that could put millions of Americans at risk of losing their jobs.

“Today the Bush administration put forth a set of measures disguised as immigration enforcement which amounts to an assault on the civil rights of all Hispanic Americans,” stated Janet Murguía, NCLR President and CEO.

“The package of measures announced today will result in the racial profiling of all working Latinos. In effect, what these measures will do is impose a substantial burden on a subset of our citizens which is based entirely on the color of their skin, their accent, or their name,” continued Murguía.

“Frankly,” Murguía added, “this plan is such a dramatic shift from President Bush’s previous strong support of the need for comprehensive immigration reform that it seems to be a complete reversal of his position. I call on President Bush to meet with leaders of the Hispanic community to explain how this package of discriminatory measures squares with his stated desire for immigration reform that is consistent with American values.”

“Finally, Congress should not escape accountability. Congressional opponents of real immigration reform have been targeting legal immigrants and even U.S. citizens in recent debates. The distinction between undocumented and legal immigration and between immigrants and Latinos has been deliberately blurred. It is the responsibility of congressional leaders to halt the scapegoating, do their job, and fix our nation’s broken immigration system,” concluded Murguía.

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