{"id":8816,"date":"2017-04-28T18:42:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T23:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=8816"},"modified":"2017-05-26T07:46:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T12:46:18","slug":"8816","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/28\/8816\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia\u2019s Sixth District special election: American workers and immigration enforcement not a priority"},"content":{"rendered":"

Georgia\u2019s Sixth District election: American workers and immigration enforcement not a priority<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Candidates have apparent similar positions: It doesn\u2019t look good for immigration enforcement in Georgia\u2019s special election<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Unsurprisingly, national attention being given the tight special election here in Georgia\u2019s Sixth Congressional District to replace Dr. Tom Price has so far overlooked the immigration issue.<\/p>\n

Some insight on Republican candidate Karen Handel now may save some surprised disappointment from immigration skeptics when the June 20 runoff is over. While it is mostly ignored by the GOP faithful in Georgia – where we host more illegal aliens than Arizona – Republican candidate Karen Handel\u2019s position is much closer to Paul Ryan than to Steve King.<\/p>\n

Shorter: So far, she\u2019s a squish.<\/p>\n

Handel\u2019s opponent, Democrat Jon Ossoff, working on a campaign budget surpassing $8 million<\/a> and counting, has predictably, but quietly, taken the standard pro-amnesty position one would expect. \u201cThe only real solution is comprehensive immigration reform that secures our borders and provides a path to legal status for non-felons who are here without proper legal documentation,\u201d Ossoff told the audience at a pre-primary candidate forum covered by the liberal Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper.<\/a><\/p>\n

At the same event, former Secretary of State Handel offered a similar and decidedly ambiguous statement on legalization that echoes the \u201cyes, immigration and victims of borders are a problem, but we\u2019ll talk about it later\u2026\u201d response so familiar to those tuned in to the Republican House establishment. \u201cThese immigrants have come to our country and blatantly disregarded our laws,\u201d she said. \u201cWe cannot, we should not reward that. No amnesty. No ability to vote. Get those borders secure and then deal with that situation. I\u2019m not prepared to talk about hypothetical.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cpath to legal status” from Ossoff and Handel\u2019s \u201cno ability to vote\u201d is notable in that it sounds like both may be getting some experienced guidance from the \u201cit\u2019s not amnesty if they don\u2019t immediately become Democrat voters\u201d incremental-path-to-citizenship faction of the Gang of Eight crowd. It is easy to imagine the marches protesting \u201csecond class citizenship!\u201d and \u201cno taxation without representation!\u201d that would quickly follow passage of a non-citizenship amnesty.<\/p>\n

On the \u201cissues\u201d page of her campaign website<\/a>, Handel has a paragraph on immigration that omits any mention of E-Verify but supports the promised Trump border wall and improving the \u201creliability of temporary visas.\u201d But it seems that she is on the side of the Chamber of Commerce regarding the beleaguered American workers. She is actually campaigning on creating \u201ca viable guest worker program<\/a>\u201d and assures us she believes \u201cwe should be welcoming of those who wish to migrate to our great country.\u201d Handel doesn\u2019t say how many wishful migrants we should welcome \u2013 maybe all of them? BTW: “The current immigration system is broken.” Sound familiar?<\/p>\n

Recently endorsed by the Georgia and U.S. Chambers of Commerce, Handel, former CEO of metro-Atlanta\u2019s North Fulton Chamber of Commerce, has a much more detailed section on her website when it comes to \u201cJobs and the Economy.<\/a>\u201d There is no mention of E-Verify there either, but we do get this: \u201cI believe that the only way we can grow our economy at a more robust pace is through lower taxes and fewer regulations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with Georgia\u2019s corporate-funded anti-enforcement GALEO and the ACLU, the Georgia Chamber actively opposed 2011 state level E-Verify legislation. The U.S. Chamber joined La Raza, the SPLC, and a host of open borders, identity politics groups in unsuccessfully challenging Arizona\u2019s 2007 immigration crackdown in the Supreme Court.<\/a><\/p>\n

Handel, who has raised more than a million dollars since the April 18 non-partisan primary, declined to respond to the NumbersUSA candidate survey on immigration<\/a> and mailed out an issues survey of her own asking 6th district voters what the issues were – without any mention of immigration.<\/a><\/p>\n

We have actually heard GOP voters express the hope that if she is successful in replacing now HHS Secretary Tom Price and the Republicans keep the now purple 6th District, Handel will move to the right and adopt a more pro-American worker and beneficial immigration policy position after<\/em> she is sworn in.<\/p>\n

Maybe President Trump asked her about that while he was here in Atlanta for a Handel fundraiser<\/a> Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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