On the big news about the coming big Gold Dome rally with Americans for Prosperity, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform and I assume many well-intentioned “TEA PARTY” people: Some easily referenced facts below. I challenge anyone to offer up a domestic issue that cannot be readily and easily connected to the fact that the amnesty of 1986 encouraged and enabled the more than 20 million illegal aliens we now have screaming for another legalization. Or that if we all ignore the agenda of groups that seek our support we will eventually be helping to assist the Senate amnesty legislation that will come sooner or later.

Norquist is a hired gun for amnesty-again industry, (I mean “Comprehensive Immigration Reform“) big business division. (Also, it seems for Muslim extremists)So that anyone who hasn’t already can check Grover’s position, I include a Google link to many left and right reports/blogs about Norquist, amnesty and the recent CPAC event. HERE . Grover Norquist is now trying to revive the all but dead 2010 Obama legalization for illegals that Obama had discarded for this year.

Let me put it another way: On illegal immigration and amnesty, Grover Norquist is to the left of Barack Hussein Obama.

BUT: an amnesty would amount to the biggest instantaneous voter increase in history for the leftist Dems.

While I doubt that anyone wants to spoil the excitement…maybe someone can ask Norquist about his position on enforcement and any legalization plan for illegals. That would be a step toward good government.

I fully understand the thrill of a “rally at the Capitol” and the fact that well known organizations are providing speakers. I urge people to at least know the agendas of the host groups.

According to an email that was forwarded to me this week from Virginia Galloway of Americans for Prosperity ( because it was apparently intended for “interested parties” I paste it below), while more than 15 million countrymen are out of work (US DOL stats), about a million illegals entered the USA last year (U.S. Border Patrol stats), Georgia suffers the highest rate of increase of illegal alien population in the entire nation ( DHS/Census stats this week)…Americans for Prosperity is “neutral” on the crime of illegal immigration.

Someone sent me all this below a little earlier today. I certainly cannot speak for Armey or Freedom Works – someone should contact them or their GA representative, Debbie Dooley. However, I do have a response concerning King’s attempt to drag AFP into this.

Americans For Prosperity has a number of Board members of diverse interests and opinions. When I came to work at AFPGA, I was told that illegal immigration was not one of our issues, one way or the other. In my 3 1/2 years of experience with AFP, it has never come up in any of our events or gatherings as an issue that AFP addresses. We focus on fiscal issues, mostly taxes,spending, and regulation. In a broad sense, you could certainly argue that illegal immigration affects our prosperity, as does the abortion industry, unmarried parents. breakdown of traditional families, and any number of other issues that we don’t address. Other organizations are addressing these issues, and as far as I can tell, AFP stays neutral on them.

As far as what other organizations our Board members support, I think if you looked on our websites, you’d find some diversity there. There certainly is among State Directors. I support my church financially – does that make AFP a Baptist organization? I don’t think so.

L***, I appreciate you asking me directly. Short answer, if you’d like to share w/ interested parties is : Other organizations are addressing these issues, and as far as I can tell, AFP stays neutral on them.

I look forward to seeing you next week at AFPGA Day at the Capitol!

Virginia Galloway
AFPGA State Director

Handy, but puzzling, as the organization was founded by the open borders Libertarians. “Americans for Prosperity was founded by David Koch. Mr. Koch is the same individual who helped found the Cato Institute and the Institute for Justice. Cato HERE and HERE .

Let me put it a different way: AFP was founded by open borders advocates.

While I am busy educating, and winning friends with what will likely be labeled ” extremist, sour grapes, hate facts” by those who are putting their hands over their ears and making loud “BLBB BLAABB BLABB” noises, let me also insert an educational segment on Dick Armey and his Freedom Works Inc. org that is fast taking control of many Tea Party groups – most of which are clueless about Armey or the open borders, amnesty-again agenda of both.

Armey is being paid more than half a million dollars a year to promote amnesty…you can see a short VIDEO HERE of him pitching legalization to the Reason Foundation…more open borders folks.

Bear with me…

Re; a mail I received this week that quoted Debbie Dooley who apparently is a grassroots community organizer for Freedom Works and is heading up one of the Tea Party orgs in Georgia: “I checked with Matt Kibbe , President of FreedomWorks yesterday. He said that they do NOT support granting amnesty to law breakers. Armey was taken out of context. He is upset at the government for taking so long to issue VISAS.”

Good one. We issue more than a million immigration visas a year and another million work visas – presently we are importing 125,000 foreign workers a MONTH….it will never be enough for the Dick Armey/Grover Norquist/WSJ OpenBordersLobby cabal.

Armey is very clear on his context.

His support “comprehensive immigration reform HERE
Can we please all agree that Dick Armey is a member of the world’s oldest profession, not to be trusted, works for amnesty (comprehensive immigration reform) and has worked for the Mexican government toward that goal? Please?

Example: In 2006, Armey’s lobbying firm represented the Senado de Republica (Mexican Senate) on “enhancing U.S.-Mexico relations,” and specifically on immigration policy. Curiously, during the same period, Armey’s Freedom Works stood out as one of the few right wing organizations to boldly support comprehensive immigration reform.

HERE, scroll down

Can we all agree please that Armey will do anything for a buck? And that nearly everyone who is actually paying attention understands that one of his long-time goals is open borders?

As a free-market economist influenced by the ideas of Milton Friedman, Armey favored relatively open immigration and the elimination of barriers to the movement of goods and people across national boundaries.

HERE

Most people who study immigration already know about Armey and Norquist. HERE

I understand many don’t want to hear it. I cannot express my concern enough and am too busy with session right now to follow up more. I urge all concerned to do their homework and to realize that many more than you can ever realize in the academic, political and media elite are working – while being very well funded – toward open borders. The free flow of labor. Borderless continent. Honest.

WSJ here:

Thinking Things Over – WSJ.com But over the decade or two he mentioned, a Nafta with open borders may yet prove not so wild a dream. Mr. Bartley is editor of The Wall Street Journal… HERE

I plead with everyone concerned to pick a side and insist that everyone else does? Positions matter. Or…maybe illegal immigration isn’t so bad and we should simply ignore it…

Thanks… I link to the mission statement of the Dustin Inman Society HERE. I also note that there are very good bills aimed at stopping illegal immigration and illegal employment pending in the Capitol right now. Anyone who wants info is welcome to contact me. HB 1164 HB 1259, SB 67, SB 385 (John Wiles), SB 136 and more coming next week.

D.A. King

AJC below.
1/24/2007

Constitution Home Edition
Friday, 9/7/2001
Editorial
A18

OUR OPINIONS: Bush, Fox should pursue union similar to Europe

/ Staff,

Mexican President Vicente Fox envisions a North American economic alliance that will make the border between the United States and Mexico as unrestricted as the one between Tennessee and Georgia.

Though neither Fox nor President Bush expects to dissolve the 2000-mile border overnight, the Mexican leader clearly prefers sooner rather than later. In Washington this week, Fox surprised his friend and fellow rancher president by calling for sweeping American immigration reform by year’s end.

Currently, U.S. government immigration policy echoes its position on gays in the military: Don’t ask, don’t tell. The nation essentially winks at the estimated 3 million illegal Mexican immigrants toiling in fields, poultry plants and construction sites. If America cracked down and rounded up all those workers, the nation’s agricultural and construction industries would collapse, says Jagdish Sheth, Emory University’s Kellstadt professor of marketing.

Despite American dependence on their labor, undocumented workers still live in the shadows and under threat of deportation, and Fox is right to insist that Mexicans working, paying taxes and obeying the law have ”all their legal rights when they’re living here in the United States.”

Those rights don’t have to spring from legal residency. Some sort of temporary guest worker visas stand a better chance with congressional conservatives than the blanket amnesty suggested last month by the White House. Opponents shot down that trial balloon before it even cleared the tree tops.

In the short-term and during this country’s economic downturn, Bush ought to concentrate on a work permit program that concedes the need for Mexican workers but imposes controls to stem illegal crossings. By loosening border restrictions, Mexicans may eventually return to their homeland, a journey that now entails too many perils. Reflecting the new policy of encouraging citizens to return, Fox said Thursday, “We need you to come home one day and play a part in building a strong Mexico.”

The United States also must play a part in sustaining Mexico’s economic growth. “For marginal workers, leaving his or her country is not an easy proposition. It is not a lark. It is a risky, dangerous proposition, ” says Juan M. Del Aguila, an Emory University associate professor of political studies. “If we can create incentives for them to stay in their own country, many of these potential immigrants would.”

In boom states like Georgia, it’s been painless to absorb Mexican immigrants. But in the unlikely scenario that the economy hits the skids, migrant labor — whether illegally coming from Mexico or legally from rural Alabama — could snatch jobs away from the local unskilled labor pool.

The ultimate goal of any White House policy ought to be a North American economic and political alliance similar in scope and ambition to the European Union. Unlike the varied landscapes and cultures of European Union members, the United States, Canada and Mexico already share a great deal in common, and language is not as great a barrier. President Bush, for example, is quite comfortable with the blended Mexican-Anglo culture forged in the border states of Texas, California and Arizona.

Of the three North American players, the United States clearly holds the place of dominance. By joining with its neighbors to the north and south, the United States would have the strongest voice in coordinating fiscal, energy and drug enforcement polices that affect the continent.

An erroneous public perception exists that Mexico would be the main beneficiary of a U.S.-Mexico partnership. In the aftermath of the 8-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement, Mexico has become the third-largest importer of Georgia products, $1.2 billion worth of goods last year. Mexico is the United States’ second-largest trading partner.

“Fundamentally, our economic integration with Mexico is inevitable, ” says Emory’s Sheth. “Out of nowhere, Mexico has become a $200 billion a year trade partner. We think that will grow to $500 billion.”

“If you look at the European process, not all countries benefit equally all the time, ” says Del Aguila. “But the commonwealth as a whole has improved, the standard of living has risen.”

Historically, immigration has enriched America culturally and economically, as demonstrated most recently by the Cubans in South Florida. The challenge with Mexico is to better manage the natural flow of a people who are not only America’s fastest-growing immigrant group, but also its closest neighbors.

“Our choice is to fight it and lose, ” says Georgia State University economics professor David Sjoquist, “or embrace it and all come out better for it.”