In early January the sad prediction from this weary denizen of the Gold Dome was that it would be after the November mid-term elections before pro-enforcement immigration conservatives would be put on the full-time defense in Republican/Chamber of Commerce-ruled Georgia.I was very, very wrong. That change is already here.The adventures of legislators on immigration and common sense will likely come as a surprise to many voters.Four examples that I know of:• The leadership of the Republican super-majority Georgia Senate refused to allow Senate Bill 404 out of the Rules Committee for a vote by the full body. The bill was aimed at ending the practice of issuing driver’s licenses to illegal aliens who have been rewarded with “deferred action” on their deportation proceedings by President Barack Obama. As the White House acknowledges, these illegal aliens who have been promised an exclusion from the same rule of law governing Americans are still illegal aliens. They do not have “lawful status.”Early in the session, when informed of the fact that illegals were obtaining driver’s licenses, more than one confused legislator howled that “it isn’t our fault. Obama did this with his DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) virtual amnesty.”True enough. But they have the power to adjust Georgia law to stop these and future illegal aliens from accessing the de facto national ID card issued by Department of Driver Services as well as the other benefits they are now collecting.Note to all concerned: The “war on terror” is not over. Virtually anyone with a driver’s license can board an airliner in 21st century America. The 9/11 terrorists had U.S.-issued driver’s licenses. There were 30 driver’s licenses between 19 hijackers. By definition, illegal border crossers enter the USA without inspection. Do we really want to “document” them with the national ID in the name of “cheap labor?”When finally given a chance to vote on allowing an amendment with the language of Senate Bill 404 to be attached to another bill (Senate Bill 392) only eight state Senators voted “yea.” Why? The business community and the far-left ethnic lobby opposed the action. (www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/georgia-business-groups-move-to-block-proposals-in/nd3fc/)You can see how your own senator voted here. (www.thedustininmansociety.org/blog/?p=4555)There was no legislation offered in the Georgia House aimed at keeping driver’s licenses from illegal aliens.• The leadership of the Republican state Senate refused to allow Senate Resolution 1031 out of the Rules Committee for a vote. The resolution would have simply allowed the people of Georgia to vote on a November ballot question on amending the state constitution to make English the constitutional official language of government in the Peach State. If approved, it would also have ended the practice of offering the written driver’s license exam in 11 foreign languages.A similar ballot question passed in Oklahoma in 2010 by a 76 percent margin. Nobody in the Capitol believed the result would have been much different in Georgia.• Despite having been educated on the appointment, the state Senate confirmed Gov. Nathan Deal’s shocking appointment of a radical anti-enforcement immigration activist, Rocio Del Milagro Woody, to the Board of Corrections.You can see how your own state senator voted here. (www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/en-US/Vote.aspx?VoteID=11762)• The Republican Georgia House passed a bill (House Bill 1051) that would have removed safeguards from the public benefits protection law and allowed illegal aliens who have driver’s licenses to more easily renew those benefits. The vote was 167-3.You can see how your own state House rep voted here. (www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/en-US/vote.aspx?VoteID=11610)After House Bill 1051 passed the House, it was amended and made even more illegal alien-friendly by a Senate committee before public pressure finally killed it. The vote count was 19 “yea” and 34 “nay.”You can see how your own state senator voted here. (www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/en-US/vote.aspx?VoteID=11926)It has been clear for years that the various business interests who demand “cheap” foreign workers were becoming more and more brazen in their statewide efforts against protecting American workers.The hopeful assumption was that the pressure of the looming election for all state legislators, the fact that Georgia suffers more illegal aliens than Arizona and that Republican Gov. Deal’s re-election campaign would be sensitive to the values of the conservative base -- at least until fall.The above is going on while many past state immigration laws are treated as “compliance optional” and while Border Patrol agents risk their lives daily.And while President Obama is considering the expansion of the number of illegals he is illegally rewarding with “deferred action” on deportation.Welcome to Georgiafornia.D.A. King is president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society. He is not a member of any political party. Twitter:@DAKDIS.

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