WXIA-TV — Atlanta

Illegal KSU Student Lobbies for Citizenship Law

…Speaking at the DREAM Act rally, former Atlanta Mexican Consul and Latino activist Teodoro Maus first seemed to imply that those who oppose it are racist. — “The cost of not allowing our children to
study is so large that only truly racist people will prefer to pay that price than to allow our children to study,” Maus said… HERE

The News — Mexico, DF

U.S. amnesty bill ‘this year’

A U.S. immigration reform [read: amnesty] can still be passed this year with the support of President Barack Obama, Representative Luis Gutiérrez (Dem.-Ill.) said Wednesday. — “It is still possible this year. The president is doing his part in enforcing immigration policies, and this should encourage the Congress to follow his lead and approve the reform,” Gutiérrez said…

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Napolitano Doesn’t Know What She is Doing

Can’t Define Border Security On The Record With Great Van Susteren — Fox News — July 15

If I knew what was meant by secure the border that would be one thing… –Janet Napolitano

Great Van Susteren: One last question. Republicans want to do it in two stages, so they say. First, seal or secure the border – and then so a comprehensive immigration reform – whatever that may be. The
Democrats and the President want to do it all at once. Do you have any objection to doing it in the two parts, at least that may move it forward?

DHS Chief Janet Napolitano: Well, if I knew what was meant by secure the border, that would be one thing, but the Department of Homeland Security has, you know, been meeting every congressional mandate in that sense, uhhh, you know, we are, uhhh, using the money that are appropriated to us to enforce the laws that we have to enforce border security in my judgment. What is happening is that the goal posts keep moving, as a way of not getting at what needs to happen, which is you need to have immigration reform, and that’s and parcel of our national security effort because, uhhh, we need to know whose in our country and we need to be able to enforce the rules who’s coming in and out. The law that is on the books right now does not meet our current needs. We need the Congress to fix it…

Report: Hezbollah smuggling people into U.S. through Mexico

Mexico has arrested Jameel Nasr, a Mexican national, Tijuana resident and graphic designer accused of trying to set up a South American Hezbollah network. Jameel reportedly traveled frequently to Lebanon to receive instructions from Hezbollah. He also traveled extensively around South America, including two months in 2008 in Hugo Chavez’s Venezuelan workers’ paradise.

There are a significant number of Shia Muslims in South America, many of them with family connections in Lebanon. It is this Lebanese community in South America that was targeted as potential local Hezbollah agents.

Hezbollah has made common cause with the drug cartels: In exchange for lending its tunnel-building prowess, Hezbollah gets a share of the drug-smuggling profits. In recent Congressional testimony, assistant administrator for intelligence at the Drug Enforcement Administration Anthony Placido said: “There are numerous reports of cocaine proceeds entering the coffers of Islamic Radical Groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas.”

Further, in 2009 Admiral James Stavridis testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee about Hezbollah’s drug-related activities in Colombia: “We have seen . . . an increase in a wide level of activity by the Iranian government in this region. That is a concern principally because of the connections between the government of Iran, which is a state sponsor of terrorism, and Hezbollah.”

And former assistant administrator and chief of operations at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Michael Braun says that Hezbollah uses “the same criminal weapons smugglers, document traffickers and transportation experts as the drug cartels. They work together. They rely on the same shadow facilitators. One way or another, they are all connected.”

Islamist terrorists in South America is not a new problem. MSNBC reported over three years ago:

The Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia has taken root in South America, fostering a well-financed force of Islamist radicals boiling with hatred for the United States and ready to die to prove it, according to militia members, U.S. officials and police agencies across the continent.
From its Western base in a remote region divided by the borders of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina known as the Tri-border, or the Triple Frontier, Hezbollah has mined the frustrations of many Muslims among about 25,000 Arab residents whose families immigrated mainly from Lebanon in two waves, after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war and after the 1985 Lebanese civil war.

What may be new is Hezbollah’s coming to sit on the doorstep of the United States. But it was foreseeable. As long ago as 2004 the CIA Counter Terrorism Center warned: “Many alien smuggling networks that facilitate the movement of non-Mexicans have established links to Muslim communities in Mexico. Non-Mexicans often are more difficult to intercept because they typically pay high-end smugglers a large sum of money to efficiently assist them across the border, rather than haphazardly traverse it on their own.”

And in fact there are documented instances of Hezbollah-niks sneaking into the United States:

· In 2001, Mahmoud Youssef Kourani drove from Mexico to Dearborn, Michigan. He was later convicted of providing material support to Hezbollah.

. In 2009 Mexico convicted Salim Boughader Mucharrafille of smuggling 200 people, including Hezbollah supporters, into the U.S…

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The Dream Act amnesty scheme:

A Dose of Reality Turns DREAMs into Nightmares

By Rosemary Jenks NumbersUSA

EDITOR’s NOTE: A line-by-line analysis of the DREAM Act (as introduced in the U.S. Senate) reveals no end to the nightmares. (1) The amnesty applies to illegal-alien “kids” up to age 35; (2) aliens merely need to make a “claim” that they are qualified for the amnesty — they don’t have to provide any proof that the claims are true; (3) but the feds have to perform costly, time-consuming investigations to prove the claims are false in order to deny an amnesty to anybody; (4) the parents who broke the law to bring these “kids” here can get U.S. citizenship; (5) DREAM would remove the federal ban on in-state tuition for future illegal aliens.

The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors, or DREAM, Act was introduced on March 26, 2009, as S. 729 by Senators Durbin (D-IL.) and Lugar (R-IN) and as H.R. 1751 by Rep. Berman (D-CA). As of April 6, 2009, the Senate bill has 19 cosponsors and the House bill has 20 cosponsors.

What its supporters don’t tell you, though, is that the DREAM Act would award amnesty to virtually any illegal alien under the age of 35 who first entered the United States before the age of 16, has been in the country for at least the last five years, and has earned a high school diploma or GED in the United States. While the age limit of 35 seems excessive, at least it sounds like a relatively well-defined population, right? Here’s the kicker: Illegal aliens only have to submit a petition in which they claim to meet these requirements. There is not a single provision in the DREAM Act that requires the aliens to provide proof that the claims are true. In fact, once an illegal alien submits this required petition, the only way the alien can be denied amnesty is if DHS proves that the claims are false.

Think what would happen if, say, half a million amnesty applications (an extremely conservative estimate) are dumped on an agency—US Citizenship and Immigration Services—that already has over three million applications pending. How many amnesty applications are likely to be denied when every denial involves additional time to track down proof that the statements on the application are false, versus an approval that takes only the stroke of a pen? Past experience shows that the answer is frighteningly close to none, so the potential for fraud is virtually unlimited.

On top of this, the incentives created by the bill make massive fraud a certainty. For example, once an illegal alien files a petition for amnesty, regardless of whether the alien actually meets the requirements or not, DHS is prohibited from deporting that individual for any reason until the petition is granted or until DHS has found proof that the alien does not qualify and so denies the petition. There are no exceptions to this. So, as long as an illegal alien files an amnesty petition before he flies a plane into the World Trade Center or goes on a killing spree in the local shopping mall, we are stuck with him for as long as it takes an already backlogged agency to consider his application for amnesty

… more HERE

Gina Loudon — The Hill — Washington

Obama and Dems playing race card with Arizona lawsuit, amnesty

In May, when I spoke at the “Stand With Arizona” rally in Tempe, Ariz., I was chided by national media outlets for saying, “America, this is our Alamo. Be ready to fight for everything that is precious to you.” The controversial remark drew hate mail in Spanish and ridicule by leftist media outlets. The mainstream media generally dismissed the event. Why?

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CBS News — July 13

Poll: Support for Arizona Immigration Law Hits 57 Percent

CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto

Public support for Arizona’s controversial new immigration law has increased slightly, a new CBS News poll shows, with 57 percent of Americans characterizing the law as “about right” in the way it addresses the issue of illegal immigration.

Support for the measure increased five points since May. Since then, the Justice Department has filed suit against the law, claiming that it usurps federal authority to enforce immigration laws.

The measure in question, signed into law in April and slated to go into effect later this month, makes it a state crime for a person to be in the country illegally. It also requires local law enforcement to question a person about his or her immigration status during all “lawful stops” if there is “reasonable suspicion” that person may be in the country illegally

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BIO 1/2010

A nationally recognized authority on illegal immigration, D.A. King, 58, 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 a senior writing fellow at the non-profit Californians for Population Stabilization located in Santa Barbara, California.

King 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. DIS mission statement: http://www.thedustininmansociety.org/info/dustin_inman_society_mission.html

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 the spreading 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, including one in 2006 on which he served as a guide for four Georgia state 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 who 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 28 years. He is not a member of any political party.

770 427 2857 DA@TheDustinInmanSociety.org

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Marietta Daily Journal

‘We have no reason not to allow illegals to attend’
by Jon Gillooly
jgillooly@mdjonline.co
July 14, 2010

ATLANTA – Chancellor Erroll Davis of the University System of Georgia said in an interview Tuesday that election-year politics is a factor in the controversy over illegal immigrants in the state’s colleges.

“We have no reason not to allow illegals to attend, any more than the grocer has a reason not to sell them groceries, any more than they have a reason not to eat subsidized food, any more than a reason that they don’t drive on subsidized highways,” Davis said.

“We’re not the Immigration and Naturalization Service. We offer products for sale like many other entities in society, and we want to make sure people are paying the appropriate price for those. If people are not residents, then they pay non-resident tuition. … We have enough to do without becoming the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Unfortunately, during an election year we’ve become an easy target,” Davis said.

Davis’ comments came after the second meeting of the special residency verification committee, held on the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta, during which members were again assured that out-of-state tuition does cover the full cost of a student’s education. The committee was created after it was learned that Kennesaw State student Jessica Colotl is an illegal immigrant who has been paying in-state tuition since 2006.

But Davis said the tuition cost isn’t the real issue, either, at least not for the system’s premier school, the University of Georgia.

“The issue is, there are a growing number of kids who can’t get in UGA and some other schools, and ‘Geez, is someone there who shouldn’t be there that’s taking my seat?’ If you look at the number of truly qualified applicants that UGA turned down, it is in fact larger than our entire Hispanic population in our system. That’s the interesting number. And as you heard from Georgia State, this is not a Hispanic issue. Out of their 19 undocumented students, two were Hispanic. So the issue to us is getting it right,” Davis said.

And Davis reiterated that Hispanics only make up 4.2 percent of the population in Georgia’s universities.

“That’s it. And the large majority of those, of course, are certainly U.S. or Georgia citizens or are on legal visas. It’s not for me to speculate why people would like to use minority groups in elections,” Davis said.

Regent James R. Jolly, chairman of the special committee created by the Board of Regents, agreed that the issue is more about politics.

“It’s a very political time and there are lot of people running for office and there’s just a lot of misunderstanding, I think, about what the law is,” said Jolly.

“I think that post election time we’ll hear a whole lot less.”

Jolly, who heads J&J Industries, Inc. in Dalton, said federal law does not preclude illegal immigrants from attending a Georgia university, but it does preclude them from receiving a public benefit.

The deeply discounted, in-state tuition is a public benefit, Jolly said, but mere admittance to a public university is not.

Davis said the committee will receive another report at its August meeting, similar to Tuesday’s meeting, “other than that hopefully we’ll have some data on the number of undocumented students.”

The committee expects to make a final report, with any policy recommendations, in October or November, he said.

Kimberly Ballard-Washington, the Regents’ assistant vice chancellor for legal affairs, said Georgia’s university presidents were given 60 days from June 11 to report any undocumented students who were incorrectly categorized for tuition purposes, so that the matter may be corrected.

Based on preliminary numbers, Ballard-Washington said she is confident that fewer than 100 students in the entire 310,000-student University System of Georgia are illegal immigrants.

Jolly said that figure “tells me that it’s not really a quote problem.”

“I don’t like to get too political, but as I say, this is a hot-button issue. It’s a very emotional issue. It’s a very easy issue for politicians to jump up and talk about and say ‘here’s where we stand, we shouldn’t do this, da da da da,'” Jolly said.

Davis said Tuesday was the first time he had heard the 100-student figure.

“I’m sure there are those who will say that if there is one undocumented student in our entire system there is a problem, but from a cost-benefits perspective in terms of what procedures we should change or what additional safeguards we should put in – everything has a cost,” Davis said.

Davis also pointed to the Regents policy that took effect July 1, 2007 regarding tuition charged to nonresidents.

“There are processes, processes that are subject to audit on an ongoing basis, and there is a high degree of diligence around this issue, and there has been, and as far back as 2006,” Davis said. “I have made it clear to the presidents that nonresidents should be paying out-of-state tuition and that no waivers are to be granted for in-state tuition for undocumented students. That guidance is four years old, outside of the election season.”

Four of the candidates for Georgia attorney general – Republicans Sam Olens and Max Wood and Democrats Rob Teilhet and Preston Smith – have said illegal immigrants should not be attending a public Georgia university at all, regardless of cost. And last month 15 state senators, among them Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers, whose district includes part of north Cobb; Judson Hill of east Cobb; and John Wiles of Kennesaw issued a letter to the Board of Regents, urging the body to do more to get illegal immigrants out of state-subsidized universities.

In their letter they said, “We remain disappointed and perplexed that the Board of Regents seems to be engaged in verbal gymnastics … to escape the obvious and full application of law. Persons not lawfully present in the United States are not eligible, regardless of tuition rates, to attend taxpayer supported colleges and universities in Georgia.”

The senators also wrote that out-of-state tuition rates do not cover the full cost to educate a student.

Yet during Tuesday’s meeting, Regents staff made a presentation that indicated out-of-state tuition does cover the full cost of educating the student.

Among those in attendance at the meeting was anti-illegal immigration activist D.A. King of Marietta, who was less than pleased by what he saw.

“Problem A is the Board of Regents’ attitude toward these public benefits, and the question is, why is the Board of Regents jumping through all of these hoops and why are they so determined to allow illegal aliens into our university system?” King asked.

“Illegals are ineligible to work upon graduation, they are deportable at any time, and it was made very clear today that we have a finite amount of classroom seats,” King said. “Georgians should be calling the Regents and asking them why are they doing this? What is their reason?”

Read more: The Marietta Daily Journal – We have no reason not to allow illegals to attend

Marietta Daily Journal

Official tells group workers checked through E-verify

by Katy Ruth Camp
krcamp@mdjonline.co

July 14, 2010

Several representatives from the workers group Jobs for Georgians voiced concerns Tuesday that illegal immigrants are continuing to work on the courthouse; however, an official with the county’s project management department said the employees in question were checked through the federal E-verify system, which confirmed their eligibility to work in the U.S.

At the Cobb Board of Commissioners’ Tuesday morning meeting, John Ciancia, of Jobs for Georgians, said several workers were fired in January after it was determined that Zebra Construction, a subcontractor on the project, had employed a subcontractor who was hiring illegal immigrants to help construct the $63 million courthouse. But two of those workers are back on the job site after likely obtaining fake identification, Ciancia said, and now are employed directly by Zebra Construction.

“We are certainly concerned about illegal workers at the courthouse,” Board of Commissioners Vice Chair Woody Thompson said. “These people are already criminals by finding work illegally, so it doesn’t surprise me that some may get false ID’s.”

According to an e-mail to all commissioners sent Thursday by Allen Kronenberger, project manager for Cobb County Property Management, the two workers were always eligible to work and left Zebra’s subcontractor to work for Zebra when the sub-subcontractor was fired.

“They originally left the site when their original employer, (Victor) Candeleria, was fired due to non-compliance with the E-verify system. Although these workers had legal status, they left Candeleria and went to work for Zebra Construction and were fully compliant with E-Verify system. These two men are now on site and are expected to continue working,” Kronenberger said in the e-mail.

But anti-illegal immigration activist D.A. King said the workers were not eligible to work when they were fired, and have since found a way to pass the E-verify system.

“E-verify verifies numbers, not so much people,” King said. “If I can successfully steal someone’s identification and use it to be hired, the chances are 50/50 that E-verify can’t catch me. Additionally, there is a federal law that makes it quite clear that the contractor is responsible if any contractor hires known illegal workers. Turner already knew that they were illegal in February and knows they’re illegal now, so that’s not going to wash.”

Kronenberger said the county and Turner Construction have already taken considerable measures to check employment status of the workers, even implementing a photo identification system for each individual that enters the work site. Each photo ID has been cross-referenced with E-verify to identify work status for each individual, Kronenberger said in the e-mail.

A total of 945 individuals have received the ID badges, Kronenberger said.

And on Tuesday afternoon, the county stepped up its security efforts. Following an afternoon meeting with County Manager David Hankerson, Sheriff Neil Warren and representatives from Turner Construction, the county had decided to assume control of security, Commissioner Bob Ott told the Journal Tuesday night.

Now, each worker will go through a new, more extensive background check conducted by the Sheriff’s Office and get a new badge, Ott said. All courthouse workers will also be subjected to spot checks performed by sheriff deputies, he said.

Read more: The Marietta Daily Journal – Official tells group workers checked through E verify

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