photo: DIS – added October 20 – 1:12 PM

Below are the contents of an email received from AJC immigration reporter Jeremy Redmon yesterday, October 18, 2017 at 3:43 PM along with my written responses to the questions he asked me for a coming AJC news item. I am sending Redmon a link to this post as my reply. *I don’t know how to attach the spreadsheet he sent but most of the complaints are posted on our badly out-dated website HERE.

Note: This is the same AJC immigration reporter who has blocked me on Twitter and who refers to Soros-funded radicals who protest and work to stop enforcement of American immigration laws as “civil rights activists.” I received this list of questions from the AJC later in the same day that I posted and distributed this revealing criticism of that struggling, liberal newspaper to which I subscribe.

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From Jeremy Redmon

Subject: AJC reporting on HB87/Immigration Enforcement Review Board 

Greetings Mr. King,

I’m writing about the Immigration Enforcement Review Board and seeking comments from you for my article. Could you be available for a phone interview this week? My questions:

1. Since the board was created in 2011 it has received 20 complaints. All but one have come from you. (*See the attached spreadsheet I obtained from the board through the Open Records Act.) What do you think about this development?

Response: The IERB was a creation of the Association County Commissioners of Georgia and the Georgia Municipal Association’s lawyers and lobbyists in an attempt to insure that those group’s members were not sanctioned for violating state laws focused on immigration and protecting jobs, benefits and services from the crime of illegal immigration. There would be far more complaints if everyday Georgians understood the law or that that compliance with those laws is widely regarded as optional. Most Georgians have no idea the IERB even exists. Built into the board’s regulations is the ability to give any official or entity found to be in violation thirty days to correct those violations so as escape punishment. Common Georgia citizens should be so lucky as to have that privilege in their daily lives.

The General assembly should look into changing the constraints on the IERB – but because of a dedicated lack of media coverage, even many legislators are unaware of its existence. And ACCG/GMA has a very powerful lobbying presence under the Gold Dome, which ironically is funded with taxpayer money. Your readers may have an interest in the dues paid by their counties and municipal governments’ to ACCG/GMA which are then used to fund lobbyists who work  against illegal immigration bills in the Georgia Capitol.

2. Only one of the 20 complaints the board has received has resulted in a sanction: Atlanta paid the board a $1,000 fine in August. Two other complaints resulted in Atlanta and DeKalb County taking corrective action. Four complaints have either been dismissed or were withdrawn. Thirteen – most of them deal with access to adult education and date back to January and February of this year – are still pending. What’s your reaction to these results and the amount of time it is taking the board to resolve complaints?

Response: The Immigration Enforcement Review Board has a new chairman and I hope and expect that fact will produce more focused and timely hearings and action on valid complaints. Early in its history, the former IERB chair dismissed out-of-hand one valid complaint while saying the board lacked the resources or time to handle the volume of violations it contained. He could have easily been referred to as the “establishment’s firewall chairman.” In the past, I have been critical of the board’s operation, but applaud the majority of members who strive for timely service to the Georgia taxpayers and I am encouraged by recent changes. But there is *still a need for remedial legislative work on the entire process. (*I corrected ‘stipend’ here to “still a need” – 12:12 Oct 20)

A double-digit page complaint was dismissed when I was told six months after filing that the list of complaints against each agency on which I had clear evidence of violation taken from state records had to be filed separately. I lack the time and resources for doing the job of investigating and revealing all the violations of the state law that official law enforcement agencies are charged with enforcing on immigration related matters.

I once withdrew a complaint from the board after being told by the AG’s office that they would take no action while it was pending at the board. The withdrawal maneuver produced no action from the AG’s office that I was ever made aware of.

HB 87 explicitly states that the board’s action or lack of action has no effect on the AG’s office carrying out their enforcement duties. I will soon be filing separate complaints with enforcement agencies outside the IERB to be forwarded to the AG. It remains to be seen what will happen, if anything, to school districts that are providing adult education without any effort to obey state law in place to insure non-mandated tax dollars and public benefits do not go to illegal aliens.

3. You have been quoted as saying you helped write House Bill 87, which created the Immigration Enforcement Review Board:
https://patch.com/georgia/kennesaw/voices-cobbs-da-king-applauds-hb-87 Could you confirm what role you had with HB 87?

Response: The heart of HB 87 was the E-Verify component. It clearly needs to be improved, but that fact is is ignored by virtually all candidates for state office, including governor. I was proud to have been consulted when HB 87 was being drafted and to have been invited to testify as an expert witness several times in its committee process. The IERB is nothing close to what I would have asked for if I had that ability.

Although operating on a shoestring budget, in an effort to counter the daily falsehoods cranked out by the usual well-funded anti-enforcement suspects which included the Georgia and Metro Atlanta Chambers of Commerce, the Ag industry lobbyists and the corporate-funded ethnic hustlers like GALEO, the Dustin Inman Society provided a basic education to lawmakers and members of the public and press who asked for information and references to federal law. I have been told that educational input we provided was helpful on HB 87. We pray that it soon sees actual enforcement and that it helps prevent other families from going through the hell-on-Earth that the parents of Dustin Inman  have endured since 2000 when an illegal aliens killed their only child.

4. You are president of the Dustin Inman Society. The Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled the Dustin Inman Society a “nativist extremist group.” 
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2017/once-again-number-nativist-extremist-groups-falls
What is your response to the SPLC’s statement?

Response: Yes, and they also able Christian groups who advocate for biblical marriage as hate groups. The discredited and agenda-driven SPLC has millions stashed in tax-haven off-shore accounts and seen by many as a far-left, hate mongering gang of hucksters whose real business is fundraising and shutting down free speech. In many conservative’s opinion, including my own, the entire SPLC enterprise is no better than the morals of its co-founder, Morris Dees. On Dees and the SPLC, we agree with one of Dees’ former partners, celebrated anti-death penalty lawyer Millard Farmer. “He’s the Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker of the civil rights movement, though I don’t mean to malign Jim and Tammy Faye” said Farmer.

With the SPLC’s anti-enforcement agenda on immigration, along with the immigrant and minority members of the DIS board of advisors, I take any criticism from the SPLC as an indicator that our pro-enforcement efforts are having an effect. I understand that the hate spewed from the SPLC says much more about them than it does about our work on sustainable, reasonable and legal immigration. We also note that vindictive liberal newspapers often use the discredited SPLC when on a mission to smear stubborn political enemies and critics. And we note the AJC’s past supportive editorial position on open borders seems to match up with the SPLC agenda.

5. The Dustin Inman Society is soliciting donations through U.S. Inc.
http://www.thedustininmansociety.org/info/donate.html U.S. Inc was founded by John Tanton. The SPLC has called him the “racist architect of the modern anti-immigrant movement.” https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/john-tanton What’s your response to the SPLC’s statement?

6. How much in donations has the Dustin Inman Society received from U.S. Inc. in all?

7. How would you describe the Dustin Inman Society’s relationship with U.S. Inc. today?

Response to questions 5,6 and 7: For the SPLC, pretty much everyone who opposes their political agenda is attacked as “racists” or “haters.” That smear campaign isn’t fooling many thinking Americans. The sanity-in-immigration patriots at U.S. Inc. have been kind enough to sometimes act as an administrative assistant of sorts in a small part of our limited efforts at fundraising. Given the facts, most Americans do not regard traditional levels of immigration that benefits the USA as “anti-immigrant.”

With our meager revenue, in accordance with federal law, the Dustin Inman Society files the IRS “postcard” form 990–N.

In addition to liberal media outlets, in our pro-American educational efforts, we stand up against race-baiting, anti-enforcement immigration groups that are openly funded by corporations such as Cox Enterprises, Coca-Cola, Georgia Power and State Farm Insurance Company. This is in addition to the various open-borders organizations funding received from many well-heeled immigration lawyers.

Much of our Barbara Jordan-inspired work is aimed at protecting American workers by fighting against a repeat of the immigration amnesty of 1986 and promoting official English, which is counter to the agenda of these business interests and we are grateful for the administrative help from U.S. Inc. All contributions received by U.S. Inc. designated for DIS are forwarded, on behalf of the donor, as a service to our pro-enforcement Society.

To battle the powerful anti-borders forces, we depend on donations from the mainstream public, most of which come in small amounts. In case your readers have a desire to donate to our cause, donations can also be accepted at GoFundMe and Paypal.

I guess I would consider taking the time to research and total up our meager contributions sometime in the future. Maybe after the AJC provides us a report of their revenues and salaries of all employees. And the amount of employee time and AJC money spent to act as Chair organization for the 2004 Atlanta MALDEF fundraiser that DIS protested – a rally that was covered by CNN but not by the AJC.

8. Could you email me a copy of the Dustin Inman Society’s most recent 990 Form or point me to where I could fine it online? I can’t find anything more recent than your 2008 990.

Response: The 2016 Form 990-N is posted HERE.

Could you respond by Friday morning? Please email me or call me at 770-627-3491.

Thank you,

Jeremy Redmon
Reporter
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Office:770-627-3491
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