{"id":4439,"date":"2012-10-17T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=4439"},"modified":"2012-10-17T10:01:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T15:01:32","slug":"da-king-in-the-marietta-daily-journal-today-ksu-should-hold-balanced-discussion-of-immigration-reform-but-don%e2%80%99t-hold-your-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/17\/da-king-in-the-marietta-daily-journal-today-ksu-should-hold-balanced-discussion-of-immigration-reform-but-don%e2%80%99t-hold-your-breath\/","title":{"rendered":"D.A. King in the Marietta Daily Journal today – KSU should hold balanced discussion of immigration reform, but don\u2019t hold your breath"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marietta Daily Journal<\/em>
\nOctober 17, 2012 <\/p>\n

KSU should hold balanced discussion of immigration reform, but don\u2019t hold your breath<\/strong>
\nD.A. King
\nColumnist<\/p>\n

Starting Thursday Kennesaw State University is hosting a three-day \u201c4th Conference on Immigration to the Southeast: Policy Analysis, Conflict Management\u201d event. Curious citizens should consider attending to hear the academic researchers \u201cshare.\u201d (See my MDJ blog for links to the KSU event webpage <\/a>and additional information).<\/p>\n

Bring your checkbook. Exposure to the wit and wisdom of the assembled \u201cexperts\u201d on immigration and \u201cconflict management\u201d will cost you up to $125. But it could be a bargain for Americans who have never seen some open borders radicals offer up their hissing, anti-enforcement arguments as members of KSU panel discussion groups.<\/p>\n

Example? Azadeh N. Shashahani, \u201cImmigrants Rights Director\u201d for the Georgia ACLU, is taking a break from her work to end enforcement of American immigration laws to participate as a panelist focused on higher education for illegal aliens. Shashahani, well-known in Gold Dome committee hearings on state legislation aimed at protecting jobs and benefits for legal residents (she is vehemently against it. \u201cStop the Deportations! Stop the Raids! Stop 287 g!\u201d) is also head organizer of the \u201cGeorgia Detention Watch,\u201d an assembly of leftist groups \u2014 including Amnesty International and the discredited Southern Poverty Law Center \u2014 determined to stop immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n

Another very appropriate panelist is Mexican citizen Adelina Nichols of the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (\u201cStop the raids and deportations!\u201d) who in 2003, imported speakers from the Socialist Workers Party \u2014 including a party leader, Roger Calero \u2014 to advise a meeting of \u201cGeorgians for Safer Roads,\u201d (an organization founded by the perpetually angry anti-enforcement extremist Jerry Gonzalez of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials). <\/p>\n

This was more notable before open socialism went to the White House. The goal then was Georgia driver\u2019s licenses for illegal aliens. Or just plain \u201cimmigrants\u201d in the dishonest Newspeak of the open borders mob.<\/p>\n

Something you likely won\u2019t hear at this KSU immigration conflict management event: By federal definition \u201cimmigrants\u201d are easily separated from illegal aliens. Immigrants do not require amnesty. Again.<\/p>\n

A similar KSU event two-years ago had one of this long-time American\u2019s favorite titles for a panel topic: \u201cMayans, Mexicans, Public Policy, Applied Anthropology and the limits of Highway Safety in the Suburbs.\u201d (Alan LeBaron, a KSU professor and an organizer of this year\u2019s seminar). What a hoot.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s winner is \u201cTalking about Immigration: What Permissivists Need to Understand about Public Opinion.\u201d <\/p>\n

Umm \u2026\u201cPermissivists?\u201d Head scratcher, isn\u2019t it? Let me help. Somebody has apparently concocted a word to describe the \u201cWe want open borders, uninhibited migration is a human right\u2026\u201d agenda. It is no-doubt intended as a roll-off-the-tongue opposite for \u201cimmigration restrictionist\u201d \u2014 those dastardly people who demand that immigration into the U.S. be legal, come in manageable numbers, be sustainable and that it benefit the United States of America.<\/p>\n

Other facts you don\u2019t get from the mainstream media and likely won\u2019t hear from the presenting \u201cimmigration researchers\u201d over at the third-largest university in Georgia: Regardless of the fact that more than 20 million Americans \u2014 including immigrants \u2014 are out of work, the United States takes in more legal immigrants than any other nation, more than one million annually. Or that traditional levels of immigration are around 300,000 a year. <\/p>\n

According to the most recent data from DHS, the country that sends the most legal immigrants to this country is Mexico, with nearly twice the number of souls each year as nation No. 2. What is nation No. 2 in sending replacement future citizens and voters? It\u2019s communist China. No. 3? India. Then the Philippines, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Vietnam, South Korea, Columbia, Haiti, Iraq, Jamaica, El Salvador, Bangladesh, Burma, Pakistan, Iran, Peru, Ethiopia, then, at number 20, Canada. <\/p>\n

Or that English is an optional language in Georgia and America. Or that Georgia suffers more illegal aliens than Arizona and Georgia taxpayers reportedly spend more than $2.4 billion annually on illegal residents and their \u201canchor\u201d babies. Or that while Georgia has an official unemployment rate of more than 9 percent, the Pew Hispanic Center says at least 7 percent of the state\u2019s workforce is black-market labor. \u201cConflict management\u201d indeed.<\/p>\n

You probably aren\u2019t going to learn that using Census Bureau data, a recent Center for Immigration Studies paper showed that in 2010, some 36 percent of immigrant-headed households used at least one major welfare program (primarily food assistance and Medicaid) compared to 23 percent of native households. And 23 percent of immigrants and their U.S.-born children lived in poverty, compared to 13.5 percent of natives. Immigrants and their children accounted for one-fourth of all persons in poverty. <\/p>\n

KSU would do the community a service by hosting a balanced discussion of American immigration policy someday. <\/p>\n

But don\u2019t hold your breath.<\/p>\n

D.A. King is president of the Cobb-based Dustin Inman Society and a nationally recognized authority on immigration<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read more: The Marietta Daily Journal – KSU should hold balanced discussion of immigration reform but don\u2019t hold your breath <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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