{"id":14891,"date":"2020-01-02T07:28:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T12:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=14891"},"modified":"2020-01-02T07:38:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T12:38:19","slug":"kemp-falling-short-on-immigration-promises-letter-to-the-editor-in-the-savannah-morning-news-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/02\/kemp-falling-short-on-immigration-promises-letter-to-the-editor-in-the-savannah-morning-news-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Governor Brian Kemp falling short on immigration promises &#8211; D.A. King Letter to the editor in the Savannah Morning News today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Savannah Morning News\/SavannahNow.com<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>OPINION<\/p>\n<p>Letters to the editor<\/p>\n<p>January 2, 2020<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14895\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AP_18311282626176-1400x790.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14895\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AP_18311282626176-1400x790-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AP_18311282626176-1400x790-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AP_18311282626176-1400x790-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AP_18311282626176-1400x790-1024x578.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AP_18311282626176-1400x790.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14895\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov Brian Kemp. Image: The Resurgent<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kemp falling short on immigration promises<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.savannahnow.com\/news\/20191219\/editorial-gov-kemp-enhancing-statersquos-business-climate\">\u201cOur View\u201d editorial published Dec. 20<\/a> praising Gov. Brian Kemp for his business-first approach to governing and further enhancing the climate for corporate profit neglected to note the tradeoffs he has made. Or the trusting conservative voters he has betrayed. Or the campaign promises he has ignored.<\/p>\n<p>Illegal immigration seems to have dropped off of the governor\u2019s radar since Election Day, 2018. The Georgia Budget and Policy Institute says Georgia is home to more \u201cundocumented workers\u201d than green card holders. DHS says we host more illegals than Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>This, despite state laws passed nearly every year since 2006 to make Georgia inhospitable to illegal immigration. The regulations in place, including the state\u2019s the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/breaking-news\/ice-suspected-being-here-illegally-found-store-search\/KBay5ocAD4XNgXKa1PXdLK\/\"> E-Verify laws, would serve the intended purpose if they were actually enforced<\/a> &#8212; or even noted by Gov. Kemp.<\/p>\n<p>Georgians should realize that most illegal immigration is a direct result of illegal employment and must be recognized as the organized crime that it is. Kemp is silent on the entire issue. \u201cBusiness friendly\u201d is a term that is counter to \u201cpro-enforcement\u201d on immigration.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative voters who can remember back to the summer of 2018 may recall<a href=\"https:\/\/kempforgovernor.com\/posts\/press\/brian-kemps-track-and-deport-plan\"> \u201cBrian Kemp\u2019s Track and Deport Plan\u201d<\/a> which was an extremely detailed campaign promise aimed at illegal aliens who commit additional crimes. \u201cAs governor, conservative businessman Brian Kemp will create a comprehensive database to track criminal aliens in Georgia. He will also update Georgia law to streamline deportations from our jails and prisons\u201d went the pledge. We challenge readers to find any mention of any of this from the governor &#8212; or the Georgia media &#8212; since he was elected.<\/p>\n<p>All this is yet another brilliant example of \u201csilence is consent\u201d and will continue until GOP voters find the courage to challenge the governor and the business lobby that has taken over the Gold Dome.<\/p>\n<p>D.A. King, Marietta<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.savannahnow.com\/news\/20200101\/letters-to-editor-thursday?utm_source=SFMC&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Savannah%20Morning%20News%20daily%202020-01-02&amp;utm_content=GMPG_SMN&amp;utm_term=010220\">Here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Savannah Morning News\/SavannahNow.com OPINION Letters to the editor January 2, 2020 &nbsp; &nbsp; Kemp falling short on immigration promises The \u201cOur View\u201d editorial published Dec. 20 praising Gov. Brian Kemp for his business-first approach to governing and further enhancing the climate for corporate profit neglected to note the tradeoffs he has made. Or the trusting [&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\/14891"}],"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=14891"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14898,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14891\/revisions\/14898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}