{"id":4511,"date":"2013-05-31T06:19:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T11:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=4511"},"modified":"2013-05-31T06:19:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T11:19:51","slug":"da-king-in-the-marietta-daily-journal-todaywill-georgia-senators-vote-for-amnesty-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/31\/da-king-in-the-marietta-daily-journal-todaywill-georgia-senators-vote-for-amnesty-again\/","title":{"rendered":"D.A. King in the Marietta Daily Journal today:Will Georgia Senators vote for amnesty-again?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marietta Daily Journal<\/em>
\nMay 31, 2013
\nOpinion<\/p>\n

Will Georgia Senators vote for amnesty-again?<\/strong><\/p>\n

D.A. King<\/p>\n

U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson says he is not hearing from many Georgians regarding the Senate amnesty bill. This sad fact is easily explained. Most GOP voters simply make the assumption that both of Georgia\u2019s Republican senators are automatic \u201cNay\u201d votes on the now 1,000-page monster legalization scam. <\/p>\n

Trusting conservatives assume that because New York\u2019s Chuck Schumer (that\u2019s Schumer, with a radical \u201cD\u201d) is the bill\u2019s sponsor, and because it is being pushed by Alinskyite Community Organizer in Chief Barack Obama, there is no need for concern about how the two GOP senators will vote.<\/p>\n

This is a very unsafe assumption.<\/p>\n

Isakson and fellow Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss had a hand in writing the last amnesty try in 2007. But they dropped out under withering negative public pressure. The Wall Street Journal reports Isakson was receiving 2,000 calls a day then but only about 100 a day on amnesty so far this year.<\/p>\n

From reading past press releases and statements from Isakson and Chambliss, there is good reason for the \u201cof-course-they-will-vote-no\u201d assumptions and that they will continue the struggle to protect American workers. <\/p>\n

Example? Here is one from a February 2010 joint press release (\u201cIsakson, Chambliss: Improving Immigration Laws Will Help Unemployment\u201d) illustrating both senators\u2019 recognition of immigration\u2019s direct relation to unemployment. It includes a letter to the president of the Senate urging enforcement of immigration laws. <\/p>\n

\u201cIsakson and Chambliss believe the millions of workers who are in the United States illegally are only exacerbating the unfair competition American workers currently face as they struggle to find jobs,\u201d they wrote then.<\/p>\n

A November 2009 missive to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano strongly criticized her comment that legalizing millions of undocumented individuals would somehow benefit our economy. The Isakson-Chambliss letter said, \u201cWith all due respect, legalizing those who have no legal right to be in the United States will not be a \u2018boon\u2019 to American workers. Rather, it would only exacerbate the unfair competition American workers currently face as they struggle to find jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

In spring 2008 the Democrats tried to include legalization for some illegal aliens in an unrelated bill. Both senators spoke loudly against what they recognized as amnesty with another public statement (\u201cIsakson, Chambliss Praise Senate\u2019s Rejection of Amnesty Provision in Emergency War Supplemental Bill\u201d May 2008): \u201cSens. Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss today praised the Senate\u2019s refusal to include an amnesty provision in the emergency war supplemental bill. Language that would have granted legal status to over 1 million illegal agriculture workers and their families was stripped \u2026 from the spending bill for troops. \u2026 Isakson and Chambliss earlier this week had urged the Democratic leader to remove the amnesty provision from the bill.\u201d <\/p>\n

But earlier this month Politico described Chambliss and Isakson as Republican senators \u201cwho could be swayed to a yes vote on the Schumer-Rubio amnesty. It quotes both Georgia Senators. Chambliss said the bill includes \u201csome good basic principles, and \u201cnot deal killers I see, right now.\u201d Isakson revealed he was open to it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not ready to embrace it,\u201d Isakson said. \u201cThere\u2019s not a red flag but not a green one either.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThe key is Rubio,\u201d said the executive director of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles. \u201cWithout Rubio, this bill would not get anywhere with Republicans. He gives them the cover.\u201d<\/p>\n

On his Senate website, Isakson makes clear his official position: \u201cAs I have stated in the past, when it comes to illegal immigration, it is absolutely critical to our state and to this nation that we first secure the borders, honor those who have come here legally by not offering amnesty, and restore credibility to our broken immigration system.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the hype, the ruse being promoted by Marco Rubio does none of the above. I have posted 40 verifiable facts that disprove the Rubio commercials in my MDJ blog<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Georgians who ever hope to see real border security and immigration enforcement should contact both Georgia senators to ask about today\u2019s position on Schumer\u2019s amnesty legislation.<\/p>\n

D.A. King is president of the Cobb-based Dustin Inman Society. His blog is posted on www.MDJonline.com <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read more: The Marietta Daily Journal – Will Georgia\u2019s senators vote for \u2018amnesty again \u2019 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marietta Daily Journal May 31, 2013 Opinion Will Georgia Senators vote for amnesty-again? D.A. King U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson says he is not hearing from many Georgians regarding the Senate amnesty bill. This sad fact is easily explained. Most GOP voters simply make the assumption that both of Georgia\u2019s Republican senators are automatic \u201cNay\u201d votes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4511"}],"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=4511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}