Americans For Sovereignty in the news…a news report on our first press conference.

The below report is from Insider Advantage Georgia, a subscription Website – Mr. Dick Pettys editor.
Reposted here with permission.

Do Talks Between U.S., Canada And Mexico Threaten National Sovereignty? Activist Says ‘Yes’

(8/20/07) Could America be on the verge of losing its national sovereignty through a little-publicized tripartite agreement with Mexico and Canada that some fear could morph into a European Union-type government in North America? That’s one of the questions being raised by Georgia-based anti-illegal immigration activist D.A. King in a new national campaign he’s launched.

He announced the campaign Monday during a news conference in the state Capitol on the same day President Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon were meeting in Montebello, Quebec for talks on the Security and Prosperity Partnership.

The partnership was created by executive order of the leaders of the three counties in 2005 to develop new levels of cooperation. But critics in the United States and in Canada believe it could lead to an erosion of national sovereignty.

King, who proved the reach of his megaphone in the battle over the Senate immigration bill this year, said in the news conference this isn’t a new battle for him; it’s the same battle he’s been fighting for years.

“Many of us have to ask ourselves if the President of the United State has not secured the American borders since 9-11, if he actually has any intention of actually doing so … I do not believe the President of the United States ever has any intention of securing our borders.”

He continued, “I believe the goal is to create the free flow of people. Illegal immigration, the open borders agenda and the Security and Prosperity Partnership are not separate issues. This is two sides of the same coin. People paying attention don’t have much trouble seeing that.”

He has created a new website to call attention to what he described as perhaps the most sensational yet underreported story of the century. The website can be found here.

King said he fears the partnership may be following a blueprint that ultimately could lead to combining the Social Security systems of the U.S. and Mexico and creating a common security perimeter around North America in the name of more efficient commerce and a lower wage.

“I am one of the many Americans who will not stand by and watch as anybody in any office diminishes or compromises the sovereignty of the United States of America in the interest of commerce, increased profit and lower wages. Not many of us want to imagine our children reciting, ‘I pledge allegiance to the continent and to the commerce for which it stands.”

Sen. Nancy Schaefer, R-Turnerville, joined King at the news conference. She vowed to press again next year for passage of SR 124, which would have urged Congress to withdraw the U.S. from the partnership.

“The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, known as the North American Union, and illegal immigration are all one issue. The dots can be connected,” she said.

Rep. Tim Bearden, R-Villa Rica, also attended the news conference, saying he opposed any threat to the sovereignty of the United States, and vowing to push next year for passage of his Constitutional amendment declaring English the official language of Georgia. It is HR 413.

Here is a link to the 2005 White House press release announcing formation of the partnership.

Incidentally, more than 20 congressmen have signed a letter of concern to President Bush about the partnership. Two are from Georgia – Reps. Tom Price and Phil Gingrey. Here is a link to the letter.

Not a peep about the SPP … by name.

Associated Press

Bush to tighten ties with Mexico, Canada
By BEN FELLER | Associated Press Writer
August 18, 2007

Never fond of interrupting his Texas vacation, President Bush is doing it this year to bolster ties with the leaders of Canada and Mexico, two friendly neighbors and vital partners. — Bush joins Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon in Montebello, Quebec, on Monday in hopes of expanding cooperation

“What’s really important is that they continue to reflect the significance of North American integration — the fact that there are post 9/11 problems, but they aren’t going to undermine trade and investment,” said Charles Doran, a scholar at John Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.

The rest here.

I’m a globalist” – Former Georgia state Senator Sam Zamarripa , also MALDEF board member and Chairman and co-founder of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO) and who works closely with the Georgia China Alliance (GCA), a nonprofit group he helped create in 2003.

GALEO proudly lists Jane Fonda as one of its “founding friends” and benefactors.

Zamarippa is also co-founder and Marketing Director of United Americas Bank in Georgia, one of the pioneers in making mortgage loans to illegal aliens …with bi-lingual services. United Americas Bank is one of many nation wide that accepts the federally issued Individual Tax Identification Number (ITIN) as valid ID in lieu of a Social Security Number, in direct violation of IRS regulations and intent regarding the ITIN.

However, as quoted in the Atlanta Progressive News ( May 2006), Zamarripa’s Executive Director of GALEO, Jerry Gonzalez, blames globalization and free trade for illegal immigration into the United States: “Gonzalez agreed that globalization, free-trade agreements, and bad economies created by bad governments were the root causes. The U.S. government, ultimately, has to address the economic prosperity of the entire hemisphere in order to curtail immigration.”

On its Website, GALEO promoted an Emory University Goizueta Business School October 2006 seminar titled “Beyond NAFTA: Prosperity and Security in an Integrated North America” outlining the “benefits” of expanding NAFTA and the deep integration of the three nations of North America.

Follow the money. Try hard to forget about the sovereignty of the United States of America.

Coming soon: Americans for Sovereignty.

MEDIA RELEASE 17 August, 2007

Americans for Sovereignty Contact: D.A. King
3595 Canton Rd.
A-9/337
Marietta, Ga. 30066

www.AmericanSov.org ( under construction)

In an effort to draw media attention and public and Congressional scrutiny to the little known ‘Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America’ (SPP), border security activist D.A. King will be available to the media to outline the potential threats to American sovereignty involved in the virtually unpublicized executive branch initiative.

When: Monday, August 20, 2007 NOON
Where: The Rotunda, the Georgia Capitol Building

The press conference is timed to coincide with the August 20 -21 “North American Leaders Summit” in Montebello, Canada involving President George W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican president Felipe Calderon which will focus on advancing the SPP.

King expects several elected officials to speak at the press conference.

“The true intent and lack of transparency and accountability concerning the SPP should be a matter of great concern to all Americans and those in the media” notes King. “The SPP seems to closely follow the 2005 Council on Foreign Relations report titled “Building a North American Community” which makes recommendations that include combining the Social Security systems of the U.S. and Mexico, and creating a common security perimeter around North America within which people would flow freely between the three nations….essentially integrated nations and open borders” King said.

King will also officially announce the formation of ‘Americans for Sovereignty’ (AFS), a recently incorporated Georgia – based national organization aimed at educating the public on the consequences of the SPP and any attempt to create an arrangement in North America similar to the European Union. King is co-founder and CEO of Americans for Sovereignty Inc. (501 c 3 status from the IRS for AFS will be applied for soon)

Americans for Sovereignty shares the deep concern regarding the SPP indicated in an August 6, 2007 letter to the President of the United States signed by more than twenty U.S. Congressional Representatives including Georgia’s Dr. Tom Price and Dr. Phil Gingrey.

King will provide copies of that letter and other background information to any members of the media who have an interest at the press conference.
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Repost from February:

The column below ran in today’s Marietta Daily Journal in February.

North American Union would be terrible mistake

D.A. King
Columnist
February 15, 2007

“There shall be open borders”
– A recurring 1984 proposal promoted by the Wall Street Journal for a five-word amendment to the Constitution.

“By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America”.
– Presidential candidate George W. Bush in a 2000 campaign speech on Latin America in Miami.

As someone who studies our intentional lack of border security and the resulting terror threat and illegal immigration crisis in the new America of the Bush administration, the most common question I hear after people begin to suspect that the president of the United States has no intention of securing American borders – Sept. 11, 2001, be damned – is natural enough: “Why?”

Why would the president – and a large part of Congress – refuse do everything possible to stop what a 2006 House Committee on Homeland Security report estimated to be somewhere between four and ten million illegal and uninspected border crossings in 2005 alone?….

Please read the rest/original here and see the video.

I cannot make stuff like this up… CONTACT INFO FOR THIS GUY BELOW. Call him, I am.

Border Patrol agents dont have the responsibility of apprehending illegal immigrants, Carlos X. Carrillo, chief patrol agent for the Laredo sector, said at a town hall meeting Wednesday.”The Border Patrol is not equipped to stop illegal immigrants,”

Read it here from the Laredo Morning Times.

FYI:
Laredo Sector (Texas)
The Sector encompasses 116 counties and covers 101,439 square miles of southwest and northeast Texas. The Rio Grande River is both the southwest and international boundary. The Laredo Sector is situated between the Del Rio and Marfa Sectors on the west and the Rio Grande Valley Sector on the southeast. The northern boundary extends to the Oklahoma border

Contact Information: Phone Number – (956) 764-3200; Sector Headquarters Mailing Address – 207 W. Del Mar Blvd., Laredo, TX 78041

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Lots of talk lately about regulating immigration and employment being solely a federal issue.

Sometimes, people should actually read the law before they write. Below is from that pesky existing federal law. The entire section can be read here.

TITLE 8 – ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
CHAPTER 12 – IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
SUBCHAPTER II – IMMIGRATION
PART VIII – GENERAL PENALTY PROVISIONS

Section 1324a. Unlawful employment of aliens

(h) Miscellaneous provisions

(2) Preemption

The provisions of this section preempt any State or local law
imposing civil or criminal sanctions (other than through
licensing and similar laws) upon those who employ, or recruit or
refer for a fee for employment, unauthorized aliens.

I have added a few hyperlinks to educate the reader.

Marietta Daily Journal
D.A. King
Columnist

Locals have duty to do jobs feds won’ t

“Economic freedom demands the unrestricted movement of human as well as financial capital across national borders.” – from the official Website of the Libertarian National Committee.

In the most recent example of liberal judicial activism, Federal Judge James Munley of Pennsylvania, a Bill Clinton appointee, ruled last month that the city of Hazleton, Pa., does not have the authority to enforce federal immigration law.

Good luck with that one on appeal, judge.

According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the head of Hazleton’s Hispanic Business Association, Rudy Espinal, hopes that the decision will “restore a sense of normalcy to his community.”

Normalcy indeed.

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) had this to say about the Hazleton case: “The ordinance usurped the federal government’s exclusive power to regulate immigration, deprived residents of their constitutional right to due process, and violated federal and state law.”

Quite a significant contradiction from the corporately funded MALDEF. The well-paid officials of that non-profit “civil rights” group, along with the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the National Council of La Raza, the National Immigration Forum and the National Immigration Law Center, put out a handbook for the rest of the illegal alien/open borders lobby last year titled “State and Local Police Enforcement of Federal Immigration Laws: A Tool Kit for Advocates.”

The second sentence of the introduction of the 53 page document clearly acknowledges the fact that the U.S. Department of Justice has found that local police have the “inherent authority to enforce all federal immigration laws.”

Maybe these advocates forgot about their own publication?

The “Toolkit” goes on to explain to other advocates for illegal aliens on how to persuade local authorities that they do not have the recognized and obvious enforcement authority.

This contradiction represents “normalcy” for MALDEF, widely recognized as one of the most aggressive proponents of illegal immigration and bilingualism in the United States.

On another remarkable note, former Republican Congressman Bob Barr of Cobb County – now a confirmed Libertarian – wrote a recent guest column in the Atlanta newspaper headlined “Immigration belongs at the federal level” enthusiastically endorsing Munley’s decision. “Immigration policy is a power reserved for the federal government,” he wrote.

Pehaps the former congressman and former U.S. Attorney has overlooked the 1996 amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act, passed while he was in Congress, in which the existing and inherent local enforcement authority is expanded with federal training in section 287(g).

Federal immigration law ( 8 USC 1324 a ((h)) ) clearly allows state and local governments to regulate “those who employ, or recruit or refer for a fee for employment, unauthorized aliens” by imposing civil or criminal sanctions through “licensing and other laws.”

Cobb Sheriff Neil Warren’s success in getting illegals out of our community is but one brilliant example of the results of taking advantage of the tools provided to local governments to enforce immigration laws. By using 287(g) authority his office has in just one month begun deportation cases on more than 50 illegal aliens.

Americans paying attention in Cobb can only hope that the Cobb police have plans to soon apply for the federal training.

State Sen. Chip Rogers’ Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act also uses available tools to enforce compliance with federal immigration laws. Georgia State Patrol officers will soon graduate from federal training and begin to enforce federal immigration laws.

Cobb was the first county in the state to begin using the no-cost federal program now called “E-Verify” – available to all employers – to determine the eligibility and immigration status and of newly hired employees, thereby helping to enforce the federal law making it a crime to knowingly employ an illegal alien.

Given their absurd argument that illegal immigration is solely a federal issue, one can only wonder when MALDEF and the ACLU will attempt to stop this very welcome enforcement.

We look forward to their argument that using these tools somehow usurps the federal government’s exclusive power to regulate immigration.

Regardless of judicial activism in Pennsylvania, Sheriff Warren and state and local officials all over the nation not only have the authority, but the duty to do the job the federal government will not do.

Doing so may return American citizens to “normalcy” in their own country.

King is president of the Dustin Inman Society, a Marietta based coalition actively opposed to illegal immigration.

Link to column in the MDJ here.

Sovereignty

Merriam Webster

Main Entry: sov·er·eign·ty

Function: noun

1 obsolete : supreme excellence or an example of it

2 a : supreme power especially over a body politic b : freedom from external control : AUTONOMY c : controlling influence

3 : one that is sovereign; especially : an autonomous state

Georgia Security and Immigration and Compliance Act
New Rules and Regulations from the Georgia Department of Transportation

HERE

Comments:

How does one report a possible illegal alien? It seems law enforcement can do nothing unless investigating a “crime”. I called the Immigration number in phone book…long recording, got referred to ICE….longer recording and I was kept on hold for 10 minutes…never got to speak to anyone (I had to get back to work). I also left message for my county commissioner and have not had my call returned.

My story: I was summoned for jury selection. I’m called to the box, front row and center. I see that the trial is between 2 mexican women. We were told that there was an interpreter because “although the spanish speaking clients spoke some English, it was to ensure they fully understood what was said in the courtroom”. Well, right away my impression is that they are probably illegal.

The defense attorney asked us if any of us had strong feelings or opinions about people in our country illegally….wow, hands went up. There was a few minutes of lively discussion…he and the judge tried to impress upon us that the issue was not citizenship status, but to try to case according to the facts…we were asked if we could be impartial and give a fair trial, about 6 of us said NO WAY. A few more questions came our way. When I answered that my son-in-law was a U.S. Border Patrol Agent, the defense attorney hung his head and said “I was afraid you were going to say that”…chuckles were heard across the courtroom. Six of us were excused. They called 6 more….6 more excused…it looked like there may be a problem finding jurors, but to my disgust, they finally found people who said they could disregard the illegal status. Oh my.

I want to know WHY, if people like lawyers and judges and other law enforcement in that courtroom do not have to call on Immigration authorities to verify someone who has evidently let the defense attorney know they are illegal. And if they won’t do it, I feel compelled as a legal citizen to now report this….but no one seems to be accessible.

Do you have instructions….”steps”….for reporting someone to have their status verified?

Thank you for your time.

S.L.
Georgia