{"id":14525,"date":"2019-09-21T10:23:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T15:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=14525"},"modified":"2019-10-22T17:19:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T22:19:06","slug":"287g-immigration-program-being-hotly-debated-by-phil-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/21\/287g-immigration-program-being-hotly-debated-by-phil-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"287(g) Immigration Program Being Hotly Debated, by Phil Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anti-enforcement candidate for congress, Brenda Lopez Romero. Image: Youtube<\/p><\/div>\n

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Insider Advantage Georgia<\/p>\n

287(g) Immigration Program Being Hotly Debated<\/strong>
\nby Phil Kent | Sep 17, 2019<\/p>\n

Two sheriffs of large Georgia counties just signed new agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to participate in the 287(g) program, named for part of a 1996 federal law. Sheriffs Butch Conway of Gwinnett County and Neil Warren of Cobb County say the renewals enhance the ability their departments to assist ICE in locating and deporting those here in this country illegally. If illegal aliens are arrested for a serious crime and discovered, via 287(g), to be here illegally, they are given to ICE for deportation.<\/p>\n

Conway\u2019s decision has led to attacks on him, his department and Dustin Inman Society President D.A. King. The anti-illegal immigration activist was attacked after Conway invited him to speak about the benefits of the Gwinnett jail\u2019s 287(g) immigration program at a community meeting hosted by Gwinnett District 4 Commissioner Marlene Fosque.<\/p>\n

The idea of the community meeting was to air differing views about the public safety program but, in the words of Conway, it turned into \u201cunfair and unwarranted name-calling and misleading innuendo.\u201d<\/p>\n

For example, Fosque accused King of \u201cspewing hatred and bigotry and racism.\u201d (King\u2019s organization is named after 16-year-old Dustin Inman, who was killed in an Ellijay car crash by an illegal alien.)<\/p>\n

King said his purpose was to inform the public about 287(g) and \u201clend (his) experienced knowledge on how to respond to the far-left race-baiting anti-enforcement lobby that is funded by corporate-America.\u201d And Conway praised King, saying he \u201cshowed professionalism and restraint during the meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt should be noted that after being instructed to stick with the topic of 287(g), it was a campaigning (District 99 State Rep.) Brenda Lopez Romero<\/a> who felt the need to present false ad hominem, personal attacks on me because she has no rational argument for not using every available tool to reduce crime in Gwinnett, including 287(g),\u201d King told the Gwinnett Daily Post. \u201cThe goal (of) the illegal alien lobby, which includes the cowardly groups that dropped out and the three anti-enforcement substitute panelists, was never to argue on 287(g) \u2014 it was to marginalize anyone who supports the program.\u201d<\/p>\n

Everett Robinson, an African-American board member of the Dustin Inman Society, also says he doesn\u2019t know a man \u201cless deserving of the hateful names (King) is being called.\u201d<\/p>\n

In neighboring Cobb County, Warren\u2014 who is running for-re-election next year\u2013 is also the target of criticism and heated rhetoric. \u201cWe\u2019re living under such a hostile political environment against immigrants in general,\u201d says Carlos Garcia of the Pro-Immigrant Alliance of Cobb County.\u201d Garcia claims the program \u201cracially profiles,\u201d a charge the sheriff denies. And Warren cites statistics that 287(g) is protecting citizens by removing dangerous criminals and that it is effectively addressing gang crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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