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May 10, 2007
The below is from a reader…I agree and am sending a short polite “thank you” to Senator Isakson’s office.
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Senator Isakson is showing wisdom, courage and conviction. I suggest we send him supportive, thankful e-mails to congratulate him.
U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson on DREAM ACT
Found in Letter to Constituent
Written by U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson
Thank you for contacting me regarding S.774 , the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act of 2007 .
I appreciate your comments and am glad to have the opportunity to respond.
S.774 would repeal the denial of an unlawful alien’s eligibility for higher education benefits based on state residence unless a U.S. national is similarly eligible without regard to such state residence. The legislation would apply to a person who entered the U.S. prior to his or her sixteenth birthday and has been present for at least five years, is of good moral character, is not inadmissible or deportable under specified ground of the Immigration and Nationality Act, has been admitted into an institution of higher education or earned a high school diploma, and from age sixteen and older has never been under a final order of exclusion, deportation or removal.
As a leader in the effort to secure our border I have always drawn a clear distinction between legal and illegal immigration. Those individuals who come to our country legally and obey our laws should be welcomed. But at the same time we must secure our borders and end the opportunity of illegal entry. The DREAM act would reward those who have obtained an education in a system in which they have not contributed. I am not supportive of programs that reward those behaviors, but understand the complex details of students who are seeking financial assistance for educational purposes who were brought to this country by their parents without a choice. That being said, should the DREAM Act be brought to the Senate floor, I would not support legislation that will pay for the education of an illegal immigrant when there are thousands of United States citizens who are in need of similar educational funds.
Thank you again for contacting me. If I can be of any further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me again.
Sincerely,
Johnny Isakson
United States Senator
For future correspondence with my office, please visit my web site at
http://isakson.senate.gov/contact.cfm
From Fox News
Brothers Charged in Terror Plot Lived Illegally in U.S. for 23 Years
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
FORT DIX, N.J. —
Three brothers charged in the alleged Fort Dix terror plot have been living illegally in the U.S. for more than 23 years and were accepted as Americans by neighbors and friends who had no idea they would scheme to attack military bases and slaughter GIs.
A federal law enforcement source confirmed to FOX News that the three — Dritan “Anthony” or “Tony” Duka, 28; Shain Duka, 26; and Eljvir “Elvis” Duka, 23 — also accumulated 19 traffic citations, but because they operated in “sanctuary cites,” where law enforcement does not routinely report illegal immigrants to homeland security, none of the tickets raised red flags
The brothers entered the United States near Brownsville, Texas, in 1984, the source said, which would put their ages at 1 to 6 when they crossed the border.
The source said there is no record of them entering by way of a regular border crossing, so they are investigating whether they were smuggled into the country.
Read the entire article.
May 7, 2007
Anything for an Amero DO NOT WATCH THIS THREE MINUTE VIDEO! Here.
May 6, 2007
University policy could cut short college careers
Undocumented residents to start paying out-of-state tuition July 1
By Victor Alvis
Dalton Daily Citizen
Editor’s note: Some names have been changed to maintain the anonymity of some students in this story.
( D.A.’s note…the names of the American students who did not get in because illegals were admitted are not published at all)
Julia Lopez came to Dalton from Mexico 13 years ago as a 7-year-old second-grader. She quickly learned the language and became a standout student.
She volunteered in local schools, serving as a translator between parents — mostly Dalton mill workers who didn’t speak English — and teachers. At 9, she began tagging along with Latino adults to their job interviews and translating for them there, as well.
At Southeast High School, she became a member of the National Honor Society, Junior Achievement and the DECA club, and was vice president of the French honor society.
By the end of this summer, Lopez, now 21, expects to earn an associate’s degree in business management from Dalton State College. She had planned to begin work on her bachelor’s degree this fall — until a new policy was proposed by the state Board of Regents, and the University System of Georgia advised college presidents to charge out-of-state tuition to all undocumented students (waivers were previously a possibility). The policy change is scheduled to go into effect July 1.
“It’s really affected me. They’ve given us such short notice to come up with an additional $4,000,” Lopez said. “I have the Goizueta scholarship, but to get it, you have to be a full-time student. But I can’t afford the $5,000 for just for one semester.”
According to Dalton State’s Web site, in-state tuition costs $1,349 per semester for a four-year program, while the same program costs $5,190 for an out-of-state student…
But some, like D.A. King, don’t feel the outrage.
Each time the University System of Georgia grants in-state tuition to illegal aliens, it violates federal law, says King, who plans to speak during a public forum on the Regents’ policy on Tuesday at Dalton State College.
King is founder and president of the Dustin Inman Society, a coalition of citizens and legal immigrants with the goal of educating the public on the consequences of illegal immigration.
“The Board of Regents has no power to waive federal law,” he said.
King says that, effective July 1, granting in-state tuition to illegal aliens will also violate the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act of 2006.
“If we are giving in-state tuition to someone from, say, Mexico, and we are not granting that in-state tuition to an American from anyplace else in the country, we are not only in violation of the law, but I believe we are morally wrong,” said King, a Cobb County resident.
“Every time we give a seat to somebody who has no legal right to be in this country, we are taking that seat in that classroom away from an American citizen,” he said.
King says he empathizes with people who were brought to this country as small children illegally.
“It would be nice if we could provide post-secondary education for everyone, but we cannot. There is a finite amount of seats in the classrooms,” he said.
King said that by giving in-state tuition to illegals, the University System of Georgia is giving them a “class seat in front of someone who was here legally, and on top of that we are going to charge them less money.”
“It is illegal to employ an illegal alien, so educating someone on the basis that we need to educate them so we can then employ them is counter to another federal law,” he said.
Read the entire report here…and another ( same paper, same day) on the results of SB 529 on compliance with federal law here
May 4, 2007
The Dustin Inman Society in the news here.
Amnesty – again is back on the front pages
By D.A. King, Marietta Daily Journal, April 11, 2007
http://www.mdjonline.com/articles/2007/04/11/270/10254664.prt
“I hope by now the American people understand the need for comprehensive immigration reform is a clear need”
President George W. Bush, at the Yuma, Arizona Border Patrol headquarters – April 9, 2007.
>“Last year we passed the worst piece of legislation I’ve seen here in my thirteen years”
Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss, on the U.S. Senate’s Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2005 – to the Marietta Rotary club – April 4, 2007
Having been in office since 2001 and taking an oath – twice – to faithfully discharge the duties of the office of the President, with several million illegal border crossings a year and the terror of 9/11, “Dubya” now hopes the American people understand the need for “immigration reform”?
This is the same man who, as Governor of Texas, said of the illegal border crossers and the Rio Grande River: “Hell, if they’ll cross Big Bend, we want ’em”! The same man who labeled American citizens “vigilantes” for having spent part of 2005 observing the border and reporting illegal crossings to Border Patrol using cell phones…from lawn chairs.
We do understand Mr. President, all too well sir.
That even more labor equals even lower priced labor is not that difficult a concept to grasp.
Not many Americans fail to understand that the phrase “comprehensive immigration reform” is code for finding a way, any way, to officially allow the millions of illegal aliens who have been allowed to live and work in the U.S. illegally to remain here… like we did in 1986.
Memo to the President and Congress: No gracias and no sale. Been there, done that and sadly, we have the t-shirt. It reads: “Press one for English”.
Much like the menu at the corner Mexican restaurant, in the language of the President’s – and much of Congress’ – never ending effort to repeat the failed amnesty of 1986, you basically get the same five ingredients served fifty different ways.
Neither do many working Americans fail to understand that no one is mentioning any penalty for the millions of criminal employers who have been rewarded for faithful campaign donations with a virtual free pass on illegally hiring the taxpayer subsidized “cheap” labor that flows in from Mexico.
Now that amnesty-again by any other name is on the front page – again – look for the usual suspects in the media to renew the name calling aimed at marginalizing the huge majority of Americans who demand secure borders and an equally applied rule of law, without conditions…any conditions.
Many in the press like to paint those who oppose illegal immigration and our unsecured borders as “anti-immigration” – rather like labeling the activists involved with Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) as being “anti-automobile”.
Few will argue with Senator Chambliss’ remarks to the Rotary club regarding last year’s Senate amnesty bill, but his use of the long worn-out phrase describing illegal aliens as being in “the shadows” is umm…nonsense. No one has forgotten the angry and defiant Mexican flag – waving criminals marching in the U.S. last year demanding American citizenship while screaming “THIS IS OUR CONTINENT and WE ARE AMERICA”!
In the shadows indeed.
For years we have been given the false choice of either rounding up and deporting millions of illegal aliens or rewarding them with what they came for: Legal status. For years we have been told the former is “impossible”.
Senator Chambliss says that now our government will decide which of the illegals are “behaving themselves” and which are “burdening our health care and legal systems”. The Senator told the Rotarians that “we will round up the latter folks and send them back”. Hmm.
It is not clear if stealing the identities of Americans, manufacturing and using false documents, illegally accessing taxpayer funded services or repeatedly driving with out ever having a driver’s license is regarded as “behaving themselves”.
All of those actions are treated and prosecuted as crimes when committed by Americans in America.
The announced plan is to now make the “well behaved” criminals “Temporary Workers”…that can perpetually renew their “temporary” status. Proving what much of Europe has learned…few things are more permanent than a temporary worker.
Senator Chambliss added that “we’ve got to enforce whatever we put in place”.
Let’s start by enforcing what we have already put in place. Secure American borders – at any price – enforce the existing laws and watch as the flow of illegal immigration stops and the illegals go home.
That is what most Americans want. We are America.
D.A. King is president of the Dustin Inman Society, a Marietta-based coalition actively opposed to illegal immigration. On the Web: (http://www.TheDustinInmanSociety.org)
Read the complete article.
May 3, 2007
Put yourself on the Dustin Inman Society mailing list. HERE.
From the Associated Press:
Migration to U.S. Tops Death in Mexico
May 03, 2007 8:43 PM EDT
MEXICO CITY – Mexico has lost more people to migration to the United States than death since 2000, according to a government report released Thursday.
Mexico’s demographics agency found that an average of 577,000 people migrated to the U.S. each year between 2000-2005, compared to 495,000 deaths a year in the same period. In 2006, 559,000 migrated and there were 501,000 deaths.
Mexico had 104.9 million residents as of last year, an increase of 6.4 million since 2000.
Read the rest here.
What do anchor babies and birthright citizenship have to do with the 14th Amendment? Actually, nothing. Yet the 14th Amendment is currently misinterpreted to allow babies born to illegal alien mothers to automatically become US citizens. That was decidedly not the intent of the authors of the 14th Amendment.
Read more about the misinterpretation at www.14thAmendment.US .
Fred Elbel
From la Times in March, 2007
White House works behind the scenes for immigration reform
The administration has been meeting with key Republican senators to devise a consensus plan aimed at garnering wide GOP support.By Nicole Gaouette, Times Staff Writer
March 29, 2007
WASHINGTON — With President Bush looking to counter a legacy increasingly marred by the war in Iraq, the White House has launched a bold, behind-the-scenes drive to advance a key domestic goal: immigration reform.
For a month, White House staffers and Cabinet members have met three to four times a week with influential Republican senators and aides to hash out a consensus plan designed to draw a significant number of GOP votes.
With that effort largely completed, Republicans were hoping to present their proposal Wednesday to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), who would lead the Democrats in any attempt to move a bill through the Senate.
The intense effort — conceived by the president’s chief political strategist, Karl Rove — is intended to ensure that Bush will achieve at least one crucial policy victory in the last two years of his presidency.
Success on immigration reform could also accomplish another Rove goal, shoring up the GOP’s weakened support among Latinos, who are even more important to the party as independent voters become increasingly disenchanted.
Time is short, though. Immigration is one of the few areas where the Democratic Congress sees eye to eye with the lame-duck president, but strains between the two are likely to worsen as the 2008 election nears.
Though public work on an immigration overhaul appeared to have slowed, momentum simply moved behind closed doors.
“We are working very hard on this,” Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said in an interview, calling it a “top priority.”
Kennedy has been waiting to see what the Republicans propose. Potentially fatal fault lines run through the question of citizenship for illegal immigrants and whether guest workers should be able to remain in the country and apply for legal status. So far, no one has devised a solution that will draw enough votes from both parties.
The White House has focused its energy on the Senate, which plans to move first. If the Senate can pass a bipartisan bill with strong Republican backing, it could give conservative Republicans and moderate Democrats in the House the political cover to vote for it.
The Republican strategy sessions, held in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, have typically included Gutierrez, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, White House personnel, six to 10 senators and various aides. Republicans with real differences on immigration are taking part, including both Arizona senators. Jon Kyl opposes giving illegal immigrants citizenship, and John McCain favors giving legal status to illegal immigrants who meet certain criteria.
Read the rest here and imagine what is coming.
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