{"id":12800,"date":"2018-09-07T06:48:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T11:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=12800"},"modified":"2018-09-09T13:59:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T18:59:55","slug":"the-atlanta-mayor-is-a-dangerous-anti-enforcement-airhead-and-the-associated-press-is-willing-to-prove-it-in-a-one-sided-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/07\/the-atlanta-mayor-is-a-dangerous-anti-enforcement-airhead-and-the-associated-press-is-willing-to-prove-it-in-a-one-sided-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindless virtue signaling: The Atlanta mayor is a dangerous, anti-enforcement collaborator and the Associated Press is willing to prove it in a one-sided report   #KeishaBottoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12807\" style=\"width: 309px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ShowImage-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12807\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12807\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ShowImage-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ShowImage-2.jpeg 299w, https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ShowImage-2-200x300.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12807\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Atlanta Mayor Keisha Bottoms, photo, City of Atlanta<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Civil offenses do not warrant criminal consequences &#8211; and no one should be jailed solely because they seek the American Dream,&#8221; &#8211; Atlanta Mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh, mayor, you should stop taking goofy and intentionally false points from the anti-borders crazies you put on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/05\/members-of-atlanta-mayors-advisory-council-on-immigrant-detention-response-to-open-records-request\/\">your advisory board<\/a>. Actually, federal law <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/8\/1325\">(8 USC 1325<\/a>) says illegal entry (or &#8220;improper entry&#8221;) to the US carries criminal penalties (fines and jail or prison time), in addition to civil penalties and immigration consequences (deportation and bars from future entry). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alllaw.com\/articles\/nolo\/us-immigration\/crime-enter-illegally.html\">More here.<\/a><\/p>\n<section class=\"container story\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row story-rail-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"wide-rail\">\n<div id=\"story-header\">\n<p class=\"title\"><strong>Mayor: Atlanta to stop holding federal detainees in its jail<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"story-body-items\">\n<div class=\"byline element-spacing-small\"><span class=\"ng_byline_credit\">The Associated Press<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"published-date-widget\">\n<p class=\"published-date\"><span id=\"publish_date\">September 06, 2018 03:14 PM<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dateline-storybody\">\n<p><span class=\"dateline\">ATLANTA <\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"story-target\" class=\"clearfix\">\n<div id=\"content-body-\" class=\"content-body\">\n<p>Atlanta&#8217;s city jail will no longer accept immigrants detained by federal officials, the mayor announced Thursday, saying it was the best way to demonstrate her administration&#8217;s opposition to current &#8220;inhumane&#8221; national immigration policies.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms signed an executive order directing the Atlanta City Detention Center to stop accepting detainees of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The jail had been receiving the detainees under an agreement with the U.S. Marshals Service.<\/p>\n<p>The order directs Atlanta&#8217;s corrections chief to formally request that ICE transfer all detainees as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we work to achieve our vision of an Atlanta that is welcoming and inclusive, with equal opportunity for all, it is untenable for our city to be complicit in the inhumane immigration policies that have led to the separation of hundreds of families at the United States southern border,&#8221; Bottoms said.<\/p>\n<form id=\"newsletter-signUpWidget\" class=\"newsletter-signup newsletter-cta-macro\" method=\"POST\">Until immigration policies are reformed, refusing to hold the federal detainees is the only way Atlanta can live up to its &#8220;legacy of compassion and tolerance,&#8221; the mayor said.<\/form>\n<p>&#8220;Civil offenses do not warrant criminal consequences &#8211; and no one should be jailed solely because they seek the American Dream,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Rep. and civil rights icon John Lewis applauded Bottoms&#8217; action, remarking in a statement that&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/nation-world\/article217922400.html\">Read the rest here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ice_twitter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12814\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ice_twitter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ice_twitter.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ice_twitter-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ice_twitter-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8220;Civil offenses do not warrant criminal consequences &#8211; and no one should be jailed solely because they seek the American Dream,&#8221; &#8211; Atlanta Mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms. Oh, mayor, you should stop taking goofy and intentionally false points from the anti-borders crazies you put on your advisory board. Actually, federal law (8 USC [&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\/12800"}],"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=12800"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12845,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12800\/revisions\/12845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}