CobbWEB: MDJonline readers sound off on 287(g)
October 22, 2009

EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is a selection of responses shared by readers of MDJOnline.com in reaction to recent MDJ stories …

Commission should rethink 287(g) program on illegals ( By ACLU – HERE )

Rodney in Austell wrote – Like most Americans who can think: if the ACLU is against it, I am for it.

Roland wrote -Austell is over run with illegals who brag about being illegal! Can I please demand that I don’t need a driver’s license as a human right? The ACLU hates America. I am proud that the majority of posts here are for the American side.

Kerry wrote – I don’t think 287(g) is best for Americans. It is not the best use of our limited law enforcement dollars. It is not good for our communities when Americans who are non-Anglo are afraid of being stopped by the police without cause. We do not benefit when our U.S. citizen children do not want to go to school because they are afraid their parents will not be there when they return.

Hogwash wrote -Yo, Kerry. I am an African American who welcomes 287 (g). You are doing a great job of following the instructions we got in the ACLU seminar (remember me?) on how to race-bait our way through resistance to local enforcement. The trouble is, everyone can see that it is nonsense. No one is being stopped without cause. Go back to the class and learn another silly point. REAL Americans think 287 (g) is saving lives!

ACLU -FREE wrote – Illegal immigration is a crime. This woman is trained to spout talking points until YOU vomit. Which I will no doubt do if I read this again. This is why I left California – the illegals and the ACLU-La Raza communists. There, we hear little English in many places. I now live in Cobb. The open borders socialists are everywhere now.

Gobblegook wrote – Please keep running letters from the ACLU! This is good stuff! I have been laughing for two days now. I knew they were far left, but not as vacant in the noodle. For the past 30 years, the American Civil Liberties Union has conducted a legal war on the Boy Scouts. Now it is borders and immigration laws. You can’t fix stupid.

Darlene in Smyrna wrote – “Hijacking local resources to do the government’s job just makes no sense.” Geez, these people are totally out of it! We are the people. We are America! It is easy to see that the government is the enemy to the ACLU nuts. How insipid can these arguments get? I may go to an ACLU meeting instead of a movie soon. I am guessing it would be far more entertaining!

Lainy wrote – I am proud we are a country which demands equal protection and due process for persons and not only citizens. 287 is wrought with federal preemption problems, and it is a tragedy that its local enforcement has led to these inequities.

Emily wrote – Lainy, your statement “287 is wrought with federal preemption problems …” may get you applause at the corner flag-burning Mao meeting, but please spare us the display of your lack of knowledge. You are fooling no one. If Section 287 G of the 1996 amendments to the Immigration & Nationality Act were really “wrought with federal preemption problems…” MALDEF, LA RAZA, ACLU and every immigration lawyer in the country would have been in court screaming for it to be overturned long ago. Stay away from the legalese. You need to stick to the mindless racial talk OK? You people are too funny. But neither “illegal” or “Hispanic” is a “race,” dearie. HERE

Warren doesn’t profile, is right on 287(g) program
October 23, 2009

DEAR EDITOR:

In reading the daily police blotter in the MDJ, I notice that more often than not, the charges include motor vehicle violations. None of them explain the circumstances that contributed to the arrest nor does it matter. What does matter is that a criminal has been taken off the street. The motor vehicle violations indicate the person was most likely stopped by a police officer while operating. Having been involved in law enforcement in the past, I believe that the most important aspect in determining how well this experience will turn out is the attitude of the operator when stopped by the police.

Last year I was stopped around 11 p.m. on Cobb Parkway by the Cobb police. I pulled to the side of the road, activated my four-way flashing lights, turned on my interior light and placed both hands on the steering wheel as the officer approached. I did not scream wanting to know why I was stopped. I knew the officer would eventually get to it.

The officer requested my driver’s license. I knew he had already checked my registration on his radio. In addition, I handed him my Georgia Firearm Permit as I informed him of the presence of a firearm in my vehicle. There was no screaming, “Get out of the vehicle” at gun point. Instead the officer explained that my tag lights were out as he returned to his vehicle to check out my license. In returning, the officer handed me my documents, requested I get my tag lights repaired and thanked me for my cooperation. This was a total of 15 minutes and I was on my way.

Suppose I was not legal and had no license and registration. My screaming at the officer resulted in his discovering drugs and a stolen firearm all because of burned out tag lights. There is no profiling there.

The ACLU and Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington shaking fingers at Cobb County Sheriff Neil Warren for his implementing the Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) 287(g) program is unbelievable. I work a few blocks from Georgia Tech where lately five students have been robbed at gun point with two of them shot. Pennington needs to clean his own house and let Warren protect the citizens of Cobb County. These attacks on Warren only reassure me why I voted to reelect him.

Laura Armstrong’s column in Sunday’s MDJ was so on the money. I am confident that there is no profiling in Cobb County law enforcement. I greatly encourage all those fine Cobb county officers to continue their outstanding efforts to keep us safe. Those that scream “profiling” are usually the ones that need to be closely examined.

Ralph Laughter
Marietta

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Arizona Republic
Jessica M. Vaughn and James R. Edwards

Feds’ target Arpaio, jeopardize us

State and local involvement in immigration-law enforcement is essential these days, as foreign nationals bent on terrorism remain a looming threat, as Mexican drug cartels and other international crime syndicates extend their reach into American communities, and as illegal workers increasingly resort to identity fraud to stay employed in scarce jobs…

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ICE has links to each 287(g) Agreement. HERE

Atlanta Journal Constitution

Authorities arrest 38 members of drug cartel in metro Atlanta

More than 300 people were arrested nationwide Wednesday, including 38 in metro Atlanta, in the largest-ever enforcement operation against a Mexican drug cartel, authorities said. — The operation dealt a severe blow to La Familia Michoacana, often called La Familia, a drug trafficking organization…

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Marietta Daily Journal
letter to the editor from MARIA LITLAND on Cobb Sheriff Neil Warren and use of 287 (g)

Sheriff thanked for use of 287(g) illegals program
October 21, 2009

DEAR EDITOR:

The ACLU is un-American and as a group, they make me nauseous. I am an immigrant. That separates me from illegal aliens because I came to this wonderful country according to the immigration laws. I am constantly offended when I see illegal aliens and the anti-enforcement nuts who feed on them use the term “immigrant” when they try to smear good and brave Americans like Cobb Sheriff Neil Warren and all of the brave law enforcement officers in Cobb. People who are criminals should fear law enforcement!

I wanted to say a big public thank you to Sheriff Warren and our local deputies and police for risking their lives to equally enforce the law. Thank you to the Board of Commissioners for supporting the use of 287(g). Thank you to immigration activist D.A. King and the MDJ for educating us on what is going on in our community with the ACLU and GALEO and amnesty.

I also must wonder how, in the most diverse nation in the world, someone can “look foreign born,” as the ACLU has tried to say when they are busy smearing our brave police to further their sick, un-American idea of open borders. If you listen closely, you can hear their real argument: For our agenda, there is a group of people for whom the law should not apply – even drivers’ license laws that result in illegal drivers killing Americans on our roads when violated.

I am ecstatic to learn that this 287(g) program in Cobb has resulted in the removal of nearly 7,000 illegal aliens who didn’t get caught when they snuck across our borders. That means there are 7,000 less chances of them killing another American like young Dustin Inman, about 7,000 more chances for Americans and real immigrants to get a job and that our schools and hospitals are somewhat less strained. I was elated to see that Warren is sending even more deputies to be trained

I wish that the sheriff could go after the illegal employers who hire these criminals and cheat us out of wages and the English language in our own country.

If the ACLU is against the 287(g) program, it is something I will forever enthusiastically support. Not enforcing immigration laws in any community is simply a local amnesty.

A note on the ACLU: These folks are so out there on the far margins, they can’t see how their sick opposition to 287(g) has helped us come together in Cobb County to support the same great Americans they strive to smear and to resist the real hate and race-baiting they spread. For that, I thank them.

If it wasn’t for MDJ columnist D.A. King having the knowledge and courage to stand up to these nuts and educate us, we would not know the level of their real hatred of America. Please keep his columns coming. I share them with all of my friends and family.

God Bless America!

Maria Litland
Marietta

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Associated Press

Usual folks think illegals should be counted in U.S. Census

A coalition of black, Latino and Asian lawmakers on Thursday expressed opposition to a proposal that would require next year’s census forms to ask about the status of a person’s citizenship. — The House lawmakers criticized a proposal by Sens. David Vitter, R-La., and Bob Bennett, R-Utah, as a political ploy designed to discourage [illegal aliens] from participating…

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Last year, the GALEO gang filed a comnplaint against me with the Georgia ethics commission on my lobbying at the Georgia Capitol and in Washington: it was dismissed last week. Posted below is a short news stoy from Insider advantage Georgia on the hearing. We are grateful to Mr. Dick Pettys for permission to re post. Insider Advantage is a subscription Website. HERE

Ethics Commission Postpones Decision On Whether Oxendine Received Illegal Contributions

(10/16/09) The State Ethics Commission has postponed a decision on whether Insurance Commissioner (and Republican gubernatorial candidate) John Oxendine’s campagn received illegal contributions.

On a 3-0 vote Thursday, the panel tabled the complaint until it receives responses from two west Georgia insurance companies and 10 Alabama-based political action committees.

The PACs contributed $120,000 to Oxendine’s gubernatorial campaign that came from the two insurers, which otherwise would have been proibited from contributing to elected officials who regulate their industry.

Oxendine returned the contributions last summer after the complaint was filed.

The commission dismissed a second complaint against Oxendine over the campaign’s purchase and use of a $37,000 campaign vehicle.

Tim Echols, the campaign manager, said the campaign was pleased with the dismissal of that charge and was confident the other would be dismissed “once the commission gets the information it seeks from other parties.”

He added, “Georgians are sick and tired of the negative attacks on John Oxendine. Every week one of John Oxendine’s opponents attempts a negative attack.”

In some other key decisions, the commission:

“…In some other key decisions, the commission:

* Dismissed a complaint against Derrick Dickey contending that the former Perdue staffer should have registered as a lobbyist when he was hired as a communications specialist to help promote so-called private cities legislation. Dickey since has registered as a lobbyist.

* Dismissed a complaint filed against anti-illegal immigration activist D.A. King by former state Sen. Sam Zamarripa. The complaint alleged that King had lobbied without registering during the 2006 and 2007 session.

King acknowledged that he did not register as a lobbyist until 2008, but added he had been speaking out earlier as a private citizen on the immigration issue. He also contended he had spent mostly his own money on his lobbying efforts. ( Note from D.A.- more on the dismissal and Sam and Jerry’s resulting unhappiness from the Spanish language “newspaper” translated from Babelfish HERE )

* Dismissed a complaint King filed against an attorney for the Mexican-American Legal and Education Fund for lobbying, allegedly without publicly displaying her lobbyist badge.

* Levied fines against Sen. Lester Jackson and former Sen. Regina Thomas for failing to file complete details on their finances. Both settled the complaints with plea agreements.

Thomas, a former Democratic senator, agreed to pay a $2,500 civil penalty from her personal funds, not unspent campaign funds. She admitted she failed to file a statement of her personal finances within the deadline after qualifying for re-election in 2005 and for not filing one at all the next year, even though it was required.

Jackson succeeded Thomas when she retired from the Senate to mount an unsuccessful run for Congress against John Barrow. Jackson admitted that he failed to file reports in June and December of last year related to his campaign as a member of the state House, which were required even though he was running for the state Senate.

He paid the $475 in late fees in February, but another $150 in late fees has accumulated since.

In the agreement the commission accepted Thursday, Jackson agrees to pay the new late fees and a $250 civil penalty from personal funds, not from his campaign.”

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Rasmussen Poll Shows Strong Support for Immigration Enforcement
Updated Thursday, October 22, 2009

A new survey conducted by Rasmussen Reports reveals that 56% of Americans say that federal immigration policies encourage illegal immigration, and 64% believe that local law enforcement should conduct raids in places where illegal aliens gather to find work. Only 19% opposed the raids compared to 24% who opposed such raids back in April

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CNN Poll: 3 out of 4 want illegal immigration decreased

CNN Political Ticker

WASHINGTON (CNN) – A new national poll indicates that nearly three-quarters of all Americans would like to see a decrease in the number of illegal immigrants in the country.

Seventy-three percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Thursday morning called for a drop in the number of illegal immigrants, with 22 percent saying the number should remain the same and just 3 percent stating that there should be an increase in the number of illegal immigrants. That 73 percent figure is the highest number since CNN started asking this question four years ago.

According to the poll, 37 percent want to see all illegal immigrants deported, also the highest number since the questions was first asked in 2006, and another 23 percent say that the number of illegal immigrants in the country should be decreased significantly.

“Support for deporting all illegal immigrants is highest among older Americans and people who live in rural areas. It’s highest in the South and Midwest and nearly as high in the Northeast, but only one in four Westerners think that all illegal immigrants should be deported,” says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted October 16-18, with 1,038 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey’s sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.

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