My MDJ column today.

I have added several hyperlinks to educate the reader.

Georgia helping prove what Bush hates to hear:
ENFORCEMENT WORKS

D.A. King
Columnist

“I’m sorry that the Senate was unable to reach agreement on the bill this morning. Illegal immigration is one of the top concerns of the American people and Congress’ failure to act on it is a disappointment. The American people understand that the status quo is unacceptable when it comes to our immigration laws -“
– President Bush, on the defeat of the latest attempt at amnesty, June 28

The good news: Last week the majority of the U.S. Senate capitulated to the will of the American people on the issue of granting amnesty to criminal employers and illegal aliens. Fifty three senators in the “world’s greatest deliberative body” – including some who had actually read the language of the “grand compromise” – made the decision that it was better to heed the law and the voters than the arm-twisting from the president, a large part of the media, the ethnocentric separatists and the corporate lobbyists.

Senate staffers reported being unable to use their office phones to make outgoing calls because they would not stop ringing with incoming calls from irate citizens demanding that their senators just say “No.”

In the U.S. government-vs.-America amnesty issue, the American people won one. This is an unusual occurrence. Most Americans do not share the president’s “disappointment.”

Most Americans understand that it is not the duty of Congress to enforce the law. That is a duty of the chief executive.

The bad news: Those who toil in the well-funded open-borders conspiracy, constantly looking for cheap labor and advancement of an ethnic-based agenda, will never give up. Even now there are plans to introduce more, but smaller-scaled, amnesty plans. Again.

It is important to understand exactly who and what “we the people” were able to overcome on the most recent amnesty attempt.

While many of us are familiar with the usual suspects involved on a national level, it is important to note who here in Georgia represents the illegal aliens and will never stop pushing for amnesty.

While there are many, including Teodoro Maus, a former Atlanta Mexican Consul General and Mexican citizen, not enough people know about the most vocal of the Georgia activists for illegal aliens: Jerry Gonzalez, executive director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials.

Gonzalez is a former MALDEF employee and very visible in the Georgia media when the story involves illegal immigration and what Gonzalez likes to refer to as “immigrants.”

GALEO’s chairman is former Georgia state Sen. Sam Zamarippa, who also is a board member of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational fund (better known as MALDEF). And GALEO’s “founding friends” and donors include such all-American luminaries as Jane Fonda.

Most Americans realize that immigrants join the American family according to American laws and do not require amnesty. It is the illegal aliens that concern us.

Gonzalez is well-known in the Georgia Capitol and has made national headlines for vehemently insisting that illegals be referred to as “undocumented workers” and saying that using the legal and accurate term “illegal aliens” is akin to using the “n word” to describe black Americans.

None of this writer’s African-American friends are amused by Jerry’s shameful attempts at creating the concept that there is a connection between the civil rights struggle in our nation and illegal immigration, or between civil rights and “looking for a better life” through identity theft and by ignoring the same rule of law that we all depend on to provide equal protection in our nation.

Not only is Jerry Gonzalez disappointed that amnesty failed, he is also worried by the new Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act authored by state Sen. Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock) that took effect Sunday.

Contrary to most of his quotes in the media about how Rogers’ law will have little real effect here, it is amusing to read those all too seldom brushes with the truth as when Gonzalez told an Atlanta alternative news weekly last month that because of SB 529, “the immigrant community is very fearful and anxious” and that people are “selling their homes, liquidating their assets and emptying their bank accounts to insure that they will be able to move on a moment’s notice.”

We are proving something here in Georgia. Something the president and people like Jerry Gonzalez do not want to most Americans to hear: Enforcement works.

D.A. King of east Cobb is president of the Dustin Inman Society, which is actively opposed to illegal immigration .On the Web: www.theDustinInmanSociety.org