Examiner

SB1070 Bad for Los Angeles – Good for Arizona – Part 2 ( I have no clue where Part 1 is)

The Los Angeles Unified School District has 617,798 K-12 students. Nearly 75% are illegal aliens or the children or grand-children of illegal aliens. California and US Taxpayers spend $13 Billion a year, every year, to warehouse the students. The City of Los Angeles has about 4 million residents. The average Mexican household has about 5 persons.

The County has an official unemployment rate of 12.3%, the true rate is much higher. 20% of the County residents are on welfare, projected to grow another 12.7% this year. 11% are over age 65. More than 1/3 were born in a foreign country. Most telling of all, we have more than 2,300 people living in the average square mile. In the 1950s new houses were sold on quarter acre lots; 3 bedrooms, 2 baths 1,600 square feet with plenty of room to expand. There were many larger homes on larger lots. These were for the average working stiff.

Los Angeles is a mess, it simply cannot absorb an additional 500,000 residents this year. To put it in perspective, that is nearly as many people that were displaced by hurricane Katrina but without the nationwide relocation assistance provided by the Federal Government. These 500,000 aren’t going to be given housing spread-out from New York to San Diego. They will be headed to Cities where the local government does not enforce immigration laws. Los Angeles is the closest and the largest.

These illegal immigrants will bring higher crime rates to Los Angeles. 38% of the California State Prison population is Hispanic.

One million County residents live in unincorporated areas. One can expect a large percentage of the immigrants to relocate there rather than deal with a local police department that does enforce immigration laws. This means massive influxes to places like Ladera Heights, Windsor Hills, Lennox, Athens, Walnut Park, Willowbrook, West Compton, West Carson, East Compton, East LA, West Whittier, South Whittier, Hacienda Heights, Rowland Heights, North El Monte, East San Gabriel, East Pasadena, well, you get the picture. The County is dotted with unincorporated areas which are patrolled by the Sheriff’s Department, more or less.

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Wall Street Journal

Immigration law boosts Arizona governor

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s call to raise taxes threatened her political future, say political analysts, but her decision to crack down on illegal immigration could save it. — Facing a yawning budget gap and anemic political support, Gov. Brewer stands to get a boost from her signing last week of an immigration enforcement bill…

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D.A. King and Jerry Gonzalez on Atlanta TV

Video from live Atlanta TV yesterday – your education on just one of the slimy, ethnic hustlers in the illegal alien lobby – Atlanta’s Gerardo E. (Jerry) Gonzalez.

Jerry Gonzalez of GALEO loses a live TV debate -again – on Arizona law and amnesty again then goes into smear mode. Again.

Angry Jerry talks about the ‘rule of law’, the constitution and the fact that we had an amnesty more than twenty years ago… and brings a smile to D.A. King. Jerry astounded the entire crew in the Fox Five studio. The studio crew apologized to me for his very unprofessional smear attacks and will be reluctant to invite him in again. I explained that Jerry was not too bright, lacks a real argument and is trained to ridicule his opponents and to never let truth or conscience get in the way.

The good thing here is that so many new people get a better understanding of who and what Jerry Gonzalez is. It doesn’t seem to be Jerry’s week. National Review Online has gotten wind of Jerry’s constant fabrications and written about him and the SPLC. Others have written about his offensive antics. An example HERE

VIDEO –

In Fox Five Atlanta studio, (7 minutes) Angry Jerry Gonzalez loses debate – kicks into smear mode at end. HERE

Second hit VIDEO (3 minutes)-

Edited re-cap and in which TV anchor finds out Jerry is a liar and confronts him with truth and Jerry is forced to admit his lies at end. HERE We also did a debate on the 7PM 11 Alive NBC Atlanta TV station – I cannot locate that on their Website yet. There, Jerry had apparently been told by his bossman to stick to the issue and just keep saying we cannot secure the border unless we grant another amnesty…I mean “comprehensive immigration reform.”

If you have thoughts and remarks on this, send them in to me and I will consider posting them on the DIS blog page.

For the record, I have written about my 1977 guilty plea to illegal gambling many times and include it in my bio that is sent out before each speaking engagement. It is not exactly news as the AJC ran a profile on me in 2006. Jerry Gonzalez is dim enough to believe that his endless attacks will somehow make people not recognize the truth about illegal immigration. My bio below:

BIO 1/2010

A nationally recognized authority on illegal immigration, D.A. King, is a former Marine, and a 27 -year resident of Marietta, Georgia.

He writes on border security and illegal immigration in the Marietta Daily Journal and other Georgia and nationally read newspapers including the Washington Times and the Atlanta Journal Constitution as well as the subscription Websites, Insider Advantage Georgia, and the Southern Political Report.

He is founder and president of the Dustin Inman Society. www.TheDustinInmanSociety.org .

With a focus on Georgia, The Dustin Inman Society is a coalition dedicated to educating the American public, the media and elected officials on the consequences of illegal immigration, illegal employment, illegal administration of Public Benefits, our un-secured borders and the breakdown of the rule of law in our republic.

The organization was named in memory of Dustin Inman, a sixteen-year-old youth from Woodstock, Georgia, killed by an illegal alien on Father’s Day week-end, 2000. Dustin was but one of the thousands of Americans who have lost their lives as a result of our intentionally unsecured borders and illegal immigration.

Dustin Inman’s killer remains at large. American law enforcement authorities report they believe he is successfully hiding in Mexico.

D.A. has been a tireless advocate for use of the 287 (g) enforcement program in Georgia and is proud that it has proven to be a successful tool in removing and deterring criminal aliens and saving lives.

D.A. has been studying our illegal immigration crisis for more than eight years and set aside his twenty five year insurance business in 2003 to devote full time to educating people on the crisis created by the acts of organized crime of illegal immigration and illegal employment.

He has made four trips to the Southwest border, the most recent of which being in December 2006 as a guide for four Georgia legislators.

He has appeared on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 Live, PBS, Fox News, CNN ESPANOL, CNN Lou Dobbs Tonight, CBS EVENING NEWS, MSNBC, Univision and in a 2004 CNN Presents one hour documentary on illegal immigration in Georgia.

He was an invited witness and testified on the effects of illegal immigration in the American workplace to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and The American Workforce at Congressional Field Hearings in Georgia in August 2006.

He has lectured to a UGA 2007 graduate class in the School of Social Work, a Kennesaw University debate class and a 2006 class of Emory University Journalism students as well as many high-school student organizations.

He has been featured in news stories on illegal immigration in Business Week magazine, Governing magazine, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the Rocky Mountain News, the National Journal, the Christian Science Monitor and other nationally read publications.

D.A. has been a guest host on nationwide radio broadcasts and is a frequent guest on numerous radio shows and networks addressing illegal immigration including NPR, Public Radio International, Air America and CNN.

In April, 2009 he spoke to Georgia Tax Commissioners as an invited authority on use of the federal SAVE system at the annual conference of the Technology Development Council of Georgia (TCTECH).

D.A. lobbies at the local level, at the Georgia Capitol and in Washington D.C. and does public speaking to educate the public. He lobbied in favor of the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act (SB 529), signed into law in April 2006 . He lobbied in favor of HB 2, a 2009 Georgia law aimed at gaining compliance with the 2006 GSICA.

His present projects include working to convince local governments in Georgia to comply with this law.

D.A. works at his own expense and donations. He has spent his savings doing so.

He has organized more than a dozen protest rallies against illegal immigration and a repeat of the failed amnesty of 1986, both in Georgia and Washington, including a 2005 rally at the White House and another in April of 2007, also at the White House.

In May 2007, he organized a rally to oppose a repeat of the 1986 amnesty legislation outside Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss’ Atlanta office and near Senator Johnny Isakson’s office.

In 1977, King pleaded guilty to a charge of illegal gambling and was punished with a fine and probation.

In 2006 he filed a complaint with the Secretary of the Georgia Senate against Georgia state Senator Sam Zamarripa who is founder and Chair of the tax – exempt corporation “Georgia Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials” (GALEO) and a former board member of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) for conflict of interest in opposing a bill (SB 529) that would require local governments in that state to obey long-standing federal immigration, employment and Public Benefits laws.

D.A. and Sue have been married for 27 years. He is not a member of any political party. dak 770 427 2857 DA@TheDustinInmanSociety.org

Reading http://www.thedustininmansociety.org/articles/news.html _________________________________________________________________

…”On the matter of immigration, here’s what Chambliss said about Arizona to CNN’s Candy Crowley:

CHAMBLISS: Well, it’s a very peculiar issue to Arizona that is not taking place in many other states. Border states have unique problems when it comes to immigration. We — we have an illegal alien problem here in Georgia, but it pales in comparison to what’s going on out there. And we have this issue called state’s rights. And this is one situation where the states of Arizona has decided to take matters into their own hands. And if that’s what the people of Arizona want to do, then certainly they have that right. Now, we do have a…
(CROSSTALK)
CHAMBLISS: We have a national problem. It is a national issue that needs to be addressed. And I hope we can do it in a reasonable and cautious manner, not let the emotions of people run away with this. Because it is, just simply stated, a very, very serious issue.
CROWLEY: But you’re on — you’re on to go at it now rather than put climate change up on the docket?
CHAMBLISS: Well, I’m not sure how you can really justify bringing either one of them up at this point. I mean, we’ve got a budget to deal with. We normally get that done before the 15th of April. That has not been done. We have not done one single appropriation bill in the Senate. We have not done a defense authorization bill.
We’ve got a lot of work left on our plate between now and the end of the summer. And we’re starting on financial regulatory reform, I assume, this week. That’s going to consume an extensive period of time. I’m not sure where you find the time to deal with these other major issues.

On the same topic, the state Capitol’s most fervent lobbyist on the immigration issue is D.A. King of Marietta. He’s predicting a low-number piece of legislation to be introduced early next year to introduce into Georgia many of the provisions in Arizona’s new law.

This year, ironically, King has been playing defense, battling the efforts of the Association County Commissioners of Georgia and the Georgia Municipal Association to limit the reach of an ‘06 state law intended to force local governments to use the E-verify system that determines citizenship of employees.

On his blog, King tells of an incident last week in which a weakening amendment was defeated in the House– only narrowly, on reconsideration. HERE.

It was HERE

GENERAL INFORMATION CONCERNING ALIEN STATUS

In accordance with the 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution, any person born in and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States is a citizen of the U.S. at birth. U.S. citizenship may also be acquired through DERIVATION from the U.S. citizen parent when children are born abroad or through NATURALIZATION after meeting the necessary residency requirements. All persons not citizens or nationals of the U.S. are aliens, which generally are classified as PERMANENT RESIDENTS (“Immigrants”), NON-IMMIGRANTS, or UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS.

PERMANENT RESIDENT ALIENS enjoy almost all of the same rights as U.S. citizens. This status may be obtained through a number of different procedures and, unless taken away administratively, is granted for life. Aliens with permanent residency must carry evidence of their status. The INS no longer requires permanent residents to report their address annually.

NON-IMMIGRANT ALIENS are admitted to the U.S. for a temporary period of time and for a specific purpose, most often as a tourist. There are different categories of non-immigrants, and they are identified through letter/ number symbols (e.g. B-2). Non-immigrants are also required to present evidence of their lawful status in the U.S. to offices of the INS. This will usually consist of a passport containing a visa and an Arrival/Departure Record (INS Form I-94).

UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS are those who may have crossed the border illegally and/or been smuggled into the interior of the U.S., or those who have violated their non-immigrant status by accepting unauthorized employment, remaining longer than permitted, or committing some other violation. Some of these aliens purchase counterfeit documents or assume another person’s identity by using fraudulently obtained genuine documents. HERE

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Pro & Con: Should driver’s license tests be conducted only in English?

Put yourself in the driver’s seat. You’re navigating through crowded, complex Atlanta traffic. You approach these signs “Linke spur endet,” or “Lucita Solo,” or “Puente de Salir Adelante.” For many, these signs simply don’t make sense…

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National Review Online

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Spreading the Smear [Mark Krikorian]

Just typing “Southern Poverty Law Center” makes me want to scrape off my shoes, but there’s a facet of their underhandedness that struck me recently.

As dishonest and politically motivated as some of their “hate group” listings are, there is a limit to how many of their mainstream political opponents they can label this way. If they’re too promiscuous with the “hate group” label, they would lose what little credibility they have left with reporters and even with their donors, the collection of whose money is the SPLC’s very reason for existence. So long as they reserve the designation mainly for groups that at least sound scary — Aryan Nations, Supreme Ferret of the Ku Klux Klan, whatever — even if they’re just P.O. boxes with no members, they can get away with it. But labeling AEI, for instance, or the Bradley Foundation as “hate groups” would strain the credulity of even a lot of gullible lefties.

So instead, the SPLC includes such targets (including, I’m proud to say, the Center for Immigration Studies) in lists of those “spreading bigotry,” or whatever, along with others they have decided to label “hate groups,” secure in the knowledge that the SPLC’s allies further down the leftist food chain will apply the label for them, serving the SPLC’s purposes without the SPLC having to take responsibility.

This happens all the time, but one example that came to my attention was the Dustin Inman Society, a mainstream (and quite effective) anti-illegal-immigration group in Georgia headed by D.A. King, a former Marine whom I know. King’s nemesis is the director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO), Jerry Gonzalez, who repeatedly writes that the SPLC has designated King’s outfit a “hate group” (see here and here, for instance). The point is not whether D.A. is a hater (he’s not — I’m not even sure he’s a restrictionist, since he limits himself to illegal immigration, and I’ve never heard so much as an epithet from him, even in private, let alone any Zionist conspiracies or Trilateral Commissions or even longing for the Lost Cause). Instead, the point is that Gonzalez, like many other activists in comparable situations, is simply lying, and he knows he’s lying, and the SPLC knows he’s lying — but that’s okay, because it’s part of a strategy of spreading the taint of racism to all those who disagree with the SPLC’s politics.

04/22 04:39 PMShare HERE

Here is just one occurrence from yesterday’s Georgia Legislative session.

Our story unfolds with the fact that despite the attempt of 2009’s HB 2, the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act of 2006 has no real penalty for violations.

Essentially, it is a law that says (in part) public employers (the state of Georgia, all official agencies and local governments and their contractors) – must use the federal employment system ‘E-Verify’ to verify that their newly hired employees are eligible to work in the United States and attest to doing so on a sworn affidavit.

Further, that all official agencies that administer Public Benefits collect an affidavit from applicants attesting to eligibility and verify that eligibility using the federal SAVE system.

Compliance by local governments can be politely described as “partial.”

The recent Cobb County Courthouse construction caper in which illegal labor was discovered working is an example of how the contractors regard the state law that says federal employment laws must be obeyed.

Enter freshman Rep. Rick Austin and his 2010 HB 1164 and state Senator Judson Hill with SB 460. Austin’s bill as originally written was an ambitious and comprehensive attempt to clarify the 2006 law completely and finally. Senator Hill’s bill was aimed only at public works contracts and contracts but provides for punishment for violation of the employment section of GSICA (OCGA 13-10-90).

While bills that require tanning bed operators to register with the state, driving too slow in the left lane and limits on hunting bears passed out of Rules committee, neither Austin’s (even in it’s eviscerated remains after Wendell Willard’s House Judiciary committee) or Hill’s bills made it to floor votes. Both were opposed by ACCG/GMA.

The fact that neither bill made it out of their respective Rules committees produced a high volume of outraged citizen phone calls to the Speaker’s & Lt’s offices.

Apparently bowing to public pressure, the House powers consented to adding what was left of Austin’s bill to a pending Senate bill, SB 447 ( what is now Section “2 A”)

While going through the House committee process, SB 447 saw the addition of a new definition of “physical performance of services” for contractors. This was a new definition also presented as changes to HB 1164 and SB 460 by ACCG and GMA. “Clarifying the law” was the point.

The new definition essentially limited use of the E-Verify system to work done on buildings, real property and roads.

SECTION 2.
Said chapter is further amended by revising Code Section 13-10-90, relating to definitions relative to security and immigration compliance, by adding a new paragraph to read as follows:

“(2.1) ‘Physical performance of services’ means the building, altering, repairing, improving, or demolishing of any public structure or building or other public improvements of any kind to public real property, including the construction, reconstruction, or maintenance of all or part of a public road.

Handy for all ACCG/ GMA and local governments that never wanted to fool with that icky, no cost federal verification process; the definition excluded such contractors as landscapers and cleaning services… as just two examples. It was an attempt to shrink the original 2006 law.

Enter Rep. Tom Rice who introduced a floor amendment to SB 447 adding:

“or any other performance of labor for a public employer under a contract or other bidding process.”

The Rice amendment was intended to restore the original intent of GSICA to include verification of all labor on public works, not only individuals working on buildings and roads.

The Rice amendment was opposed on the floor by…Reps. Wendell Willard and Jay Powell. Willard is city attorney for Sandy Springs.

The Rice amendment was defeated 74 -71 in the House but passed on a reconsideration vote immediately requested by Rice… 83-63.

The remains of Austin’s bill was then added and passed with only 4 NO votes.

It should be noted that ACCG and GMA are two of the most powerful lobbying groups in the Capitol and are funded by member dues which come from local governments (which get their revenue from their taxpayers) and…businesses. One of ACCG’s associate members is Turner construction, which is the contractor on the Cobb Courthouse.

Having begun a campaign to educate Georgians on the fact that their tax dollars are being used to pay ACCG/GMA lobbyists to oppose enforcement legislation, I can say that the average citizen is quite surprised and none too happy about the current situation.

I have gone before the Cobb Commission to suggest that Cobb withdraw its membership from ACCG until that non profit corporation stops using tax dollars to lobby against enforcement legislation under the Gold Dome.

Cobb Sheriff Neil Warren is investigating the Cobb Courthouse construction caper on my citizen complaint.

Clearly, ACCG/GMA and Wendell Willard are… “anti-enforcement” of the laws designed to protect tax dollars from going to black market labor. With 10% Ga. unemployment. And a shrinking state budget.

We win one. THANK YOU FOR YOUR CALLS AND E-MAILS TO THE CAPITOL!

NumbersUSA.com

Rep. Lamar Smith Highlights Fiscal Impacts of Illegal Immigration

Comprehensive Amnesty Threat

In 2006, separate versions were passed in the Senate and House, but an agreement was never reached in conference committee. In 2007, a version in the Senate proposed by Senators John McCain and Ted Kennedy with support from Pres. Bush failed to reach a cloture vote. The grassroots effort from NumbersUSA members was a major reason why the amnesty failed.

During the 2008 campaign, Pres. Obama offered support for amnesty, and with an overwhelming majority of supporters in the House and Senate, newer versions of the failed bills are likely to be introduced.

Rep. Lamar Smith Highlights Fiscal Impacts of Illegal Immigration
Friday, April 16, 2010, 11:29 AM EDT – posted on NumbersUSA

Rep. Lamar Smith

In honor of yesterday’s federal income tax filing deadline, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) wrote a column for The Hill and the Daily Caller, highlighting the high fiscal costs of illegal immigration and the impacts on American taxpayers.

In his piece, Rep. Smith discussed the educational costs, health care costs and costs associated with other federal programs like medicare, medicaid and social security.

President Obama and Congressional Democrats have been talking about giving amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. Tax Day seems like a good time to examine the impact that such a policy would have on your wallet.

Start with education. Using the average annual American public school elementary and secondary education costs, the Federation for American Immigration Reform has estimated that the total cost of K-12 education for illegal immigrant minors and the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants is $28.6 billion a year.

Then there’s health care. If illegal immigrants are covered in the health care bill (there is not a strong verification mechanism to ensure they won’t get benefits), it would increase the bill’s costs between $10-$30 billion. Of course, it won’t matter if illegal immigrants receive amnesty since the new law requires health care coverage for everyone.

Social Security is another area of great concern.Claims by amnesty advocates that illegal immigration can “save” Social Security are false.

Last year, the Social Security Administration (SSA) ran the numbers at my request. Here’s what they found:For a single 25-year old male with very low earnings, today’s value of his and his employer’s contributions to the Trust Fund will fall $15,596 short of the value of the Social Security retirement benefits he will eventually receive.A single female will receive $20,936 more in benefits than she pays into Social Security.If the immigrant is married but the sole wage-earner, the couple will eventually drain the Trust Fund by $52,460; if the immigrant is married to another very low earner, the drain on the trust fund will be $39,037.The legalization of one million illegal immigrant couples who work for very low wages would be a $101 billion blow to taxpayers.And amnesty for all illegal immigrants would multiply this figure many times!

When it comes to taxes, amnesty supporters like to say that illegal immigrants will pay their “fair share” of taxes after being granted amnesty.This is deceptive.

Low-skilled workers often pay no taxes and receive a check from the Internal Revenue Service in the form of the Earned Income Tax Credit.Putting illegal immigrants on the IRS rolls will actually cost the federal government money.

Since most illegal immigrants have less than a high school education and have well below average incomes, even those illegal immigrants who pay taxes pay far less in taxes than they (and their families) consume in taxpayer-supported benefits.Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation found that the average immigrant household headed by an immigrant without a high school degree receives over $19,000 more in total government benefits each year than it pays in federal, state and local taxes!

But the impact goes far beyond these direct costs.

There are nearly 16 million Americans out of work, and about 8 million jobs are held by illegal immigrants. By simply enforcing immigration laws already on the books, we could create millions of job opportunities for American citizens and legal immigrants who played by the rules and entered the U.S. the right way.

Instead, the Obama administration has all but abandoned worksite enforcement efforts.Administrative arrests are down 87 percent; criminal arrests of employees are down 83 percent; criminal arrests of employers are down 73 percent; the number of criminal indictments are down 86 percent; and the number of criminal convictions is down 83 percent since 2008.This insults unemployed and underemployed American workers who need the jobs held by illegal immigrants.

The hit is on your wallet!Illegal immigrants are a fiscal drain on American taxpayers.And the Obama administration’s policies only make it worse.

HERESee the original aritcle on The Hill and the Daily Caller.

Dave Gibson — The Examiner

Another “inconvenient truth” about illegal immigration… disease

Last month, 50 students and teachers at Lilburn Middle School in Gwinnett County, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta, tested positive for tuberculosis exposure, and four have been confirmed to have an active case of TB.. While that news may be shocking to most, it is nothing new…

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