{"id":10661,"date":"2017-12-07T11:41:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T16:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=10661"},"modified":"2017-12-09T22:34:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T03:34:43","slug":"bill-torpy-liberal-ajc-writer-complains-again-about-immigration-enforcement-but-he-refuses-to-talk-to-billy-and-kathy-inman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/07\/bill-torpy-liberal-ajc-writer-complains-again-about-immigration-enforcement-but-he-refuses-to-talk-to-billy-and-kathy-inman\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Torpy: Liberal AJC writer complains (again) about immigration enforcement &#8211; but he refuses to talk to Billy and Kathy Inman *UPDATED &#8211; Billy and Kathy Inman sent a letter about the below column, the AJC did not publish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/info\/who_was_dustin_inman.html\">Who was Dustin Inman?<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"yiv0385237713MsoNormal\"><span class=\"yiv0385237713\">Letter below sent November 20, 2017 &#8211; it was not published.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"yiv0385237713MsoNormal\"><span class=\"yiv0385237713\">Dear editor,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0385237713MsoNormal\"><span class=\"yiv0385237713\">The AJC\u2019s Bill Torpy has apparently chosen the crime of illegal immigration as a pet topic and constantly describes illegal aliens as \u201cimmigrants.\u201d He also says illegals are \u2018voiceless\u2019 and is clearly against locking them up once they are captured.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0385237713MsoNormal\"><span class=\"yiv0385237713\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"yiv0385237713\">Not for the first time, I urge Mr. Torpy to come OTP to Woodstock and visit with what remains of our American family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0385237713MsoNormal\"><span class=\"yiv0385237713\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"yiv0385237713\">In 2000, on Father\u2019s Day weekend, an illegal alien killed our only child Dustin Inman and put my wife, Kathy, in a wheelchair for the rest of her life. That person had previous run-ins with Georgia police and was allowed to go free. He is hiding out in Mexico, unpunished, having escaped before local law enforcement could lock him up after killing our son.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0385237713MsoNormal\"><span class=\"yiv0385237713\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"yiv0385237713\">We can tell Mr. Torpy about being voiceless and who we think the victims really are in the illegal immigration mess.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"yiv0385237713\">Billy and Kathy Inman<\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv0385237713\">Woodstock, Ga.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"yMail_cursorElementTracker_1511206049838\" class=\"yiv0385237713\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Atlanta Journal Constitution<\/strong><br \/>\nNovember 20, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>Torpy at Large: Too bad Atlanta\u2019s immigration hypocrisy isn\u2019t illegal<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10472\" style=\"width: 202px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/new_torpy_sig.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10472\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10472\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/new_torpy_sig-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/new_torpy_sig-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/new_torpy_sig-768x1198.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/new_torpy_sig-656x1024.jpg 656w, https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/new_torpy_sig.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10472\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Torpy, photo AJC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Earlier this month, Mayor Kasim Reed boasted on his very active Twitter account that his town is immigrant friendly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAtlanta is proud to be a welcoming city,\u201d he wrote. \u201cPleased to be a part of the Safe Cities Network offering legal representation for those individuals facing deportation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fighting for the rights of immigrants is now an important battleground for Dems and progressives. Families are being torn apart through deportation. People who\u2019ve lived and worked here for years suddenly disappear one day into a murky system that affords them few rights. And it\u2019s President Donald Trump\u2019s pet issue!<\/p>\n<p>From a liberal standpoint, resistance is a noble fight. It\u2019s standing up for the powerless.<\/p>\n<p>So, it might come as a surprise that the city of Atlanta, that beacon of civil rights, that Sanctuary City Lite, is profiting greatly from Se\u00f1or Trump\u2019s roundup. (As it did from President Barack Obama\u2019s roundup, as well.)<\/p>\n<p>At any given time, the Atlanta City Detention Center in south downtown holds about 250 immigrants waiting to be booted from U.S. soil. The city receives $78 per each detained soul per night from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Multiply those numbers and that human suffering amounts to some real cash&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myajc.com\/news\/local\/torpy-large-too-bad-atlanta-immigration-hypocrisy-isn-illegal\/jlpLSZs9DJN6ZmvIUiOa1L\/\">MORE HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who was Dustin Inman? Letter below sent November 20, 2017 &#8211; it was not published. Dear editor, The AJC\u2019s Bill Torpy has apparently chosen the crime of illegal immigration as a pet topic and constantly describes illegal aliens as \u201cimmigrants.\u201d He also says illegals are \u2018voiceless\u2019 and is clearly against locking them up once they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10661"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10674,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10661\/revisions\/10674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}