Joe Kirby — Marietta Daily Journal
‘Immigration’ Conference: Shame on KSU

Shame on KSU. Shame on the Burruss Institute. So much for the outdated notion that colleges and universities are devoted to the airing all points of view, and to academic freedom. Case in point: the heavily one-sided mega-conference on “immigration” under way this weekend at The A.L. Burruss Institute of Public Policy and Research at Kennesaw State University…

HERE

Ever wonder where illegal aliens who get arrested for additional crimes work – which employers are hiring illegal labor?

Investigative reporter Randy Travis from Fox Five TV has done a terrific job of using public records from 287(g) authorized county jails to derive the names of some of the employers who use black-market replacement labor while Americans suffer staggering unemployment. The info below come from HERE. All info below is taken from arrest reports when anyone is booked into jail…these are the arrests of people found to be illegal aliens after being run through 287(g). This is really great reporting and useful information.

Cobb County, Ga. HERE

Hall County HERE

Gwinnett County HERE

Whitfield County is listed as well, but is read only file. I cannot link, but you can locate using above link.

CALL YOUR STATE REP/SENATOR AND DEMAND THAT ALL EMPLOYERS IN GEORGIA BE REQUIRED TO USE E-VERY (it’s free!) TO OBTAIN OR RENEW A BUSINESS LICENSE!

Company Responses to Hiring Illegal Workers

Thursday, 28 Oct 2010

Four companies issued statements concerning the practice of hiring illegal immigrants. Read their statements below.

Statement from McDonald’s:

“McDonald’s takes immigration laws very seriously. Our hiring and employment practices comply with applicable local, state and federal immigration and employment laws.

“We caution anyone from jumping to conclusions based on incomplete and potentially unreliable information.

“McDonald’s does not permit the employment of individuals without completing the appropriate procedures, including reviewing documentation and completing Form I-9s. Any individuals unable to meet the legal requirements for authorization to work are not employed by McDonald’s. If we subsequently determine that someone is not authorized to work, we take the appropriate action.”

Beth Van Loon, Director of Human Resources – McDonald’s Atlanta Region

Statement from International House of Pancakes:

“It is our expectation that the 22 franchisees that own the 55 restaurants in the Atlanta market comply with all laws pertaining to the operation of their business.”

Patrick Lenow, Executive Director, Corporate Communications – DineEquity, Inc.

Statement from Target:

“At Target, we are committed to maintaining high ethical standards in every aspect of our business. This includes abiding by all applicable federal immigration laws.

“We are confident in the policies and procedures we currently have in place to ensure our team members and vendors are complying with all applicable laws and maintaining the highest ethical standards. These policies and procedures include:

Annual companywide I-9 compliance training
A team at our headquarters location devoted to reviewing I-9 forms
Store audits
Partnership with law enforcement during any investigation of potential unauthorized workers
The use of e-verify as required by state law

“Target is committed to treating all team members in a fair, respectful, and non-discriminatory manner, while upholding our obligations to fully comply with workplace immigration laws. We can confirm that none of the individuals referenced are current team members at Target or otherwise work in our stores. We are unable to provide additional information related to their employment.”

Target Communications

Statement from CKS Packaging :

“CKS is and always has been firmly committed to employing only those legally authorized to work in the United States. CKS has always taken efforts to follow the law and ensure I-9 compliance. In fact, in 2008, CKS voluntarily instituted an E-verify program, which is the gold standard, and above and beyond that required by law, and the best thing CKS can do to ensure that it does not employ any individuals who are not authorized to work in the United States.

“We are committed to our community. Twice a year, CKS sponsors Maximum Impact Love – a faith-based community outreach ministry that brings together local church groups, community leaders and the residents of the Fulton Industrial Boulevard community to enjoy a day of fellowship. Participants are ministered to through Christian music; they are provided food, clothing, hair cuts, and Christian counseling.”

Malcolm McCarn – General Counsel

Statement from Wendy’s

“We are as diligent as we can be in verifying the authenticity of the job applications that we receive. We go through extra steps to be diligent. Of the names you provided, we found that 12 have worked for us. Eleven are no longer there. The 12th is still working but has an updated permanent residence card and cleared E-Verify.”

Denny Lynch, Senior V.P. – Wendy’s International

Statement from Kennesaw State University

“Except for KSU’s public safety department, external law enforcement officials do not provide us with information about who they arrest, nor do they ask us to identify the enrollment status of any students or alleged students who they arrest. If law enforcement officials ask us to provide information, we will fully cooperate, and we’ll share any information that is needed within the protections of FERPA laws.

“Our focus has been and remains on ensuring compliance with the Board of Regents’ mandate to identify any undocumented students to ensure that they are paying appropriate tuition rates.

“We are comfortable with the recent review that we conducted to ensure that all of our students are either adequately documented to pay in-state tuition, or–if they did not have documentation to reflect eligibility for in-state tuition–they are being charged out-of-state-tuition.

“If the information that you have might be useful in that regard, then we welcome it. Since FERPA allows directory information such as the names and dates of attendance of students to be made public, we would then be able to verify those details against our records.”

MORE HERE

FOX FIVE TV
Newsmaker: Hiring Illegal Immigrants

, 28 Oct 2010
28 Oct 2010, 11:55 PM EDT

By: MYFOXATLANTA STAFF/myfoxatlanta

ATLANTA – E-Verify is a free service sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security that allows companies to verify a potential employee’s immigration status. So why aren’t all employers using it? Employers can only use the service when they make a new hire. So what about undocumented workers who are already employed?

An estimated half million illegal immigrants live in Georgia. Four counties take part in 287(g), the federal program allowing local sheriffs to screen for undocumented immigrants. Cherokee County is awaiting approval.

So far nearly 16,000 suspected illegal aliens have been turned over to immigrations authorities through the 287(g) program in Georgia.

D.A. King, a prominent opponent of illegal immigration in Georgia stopped by the FOX 5 studios Thursday to talk about the topic.

ATLANTA – The government estimates nearly half a million illegal immigrants live in Georgia. Legally, they’re not allowed to work. But they are allowed to go to school. FOX 5 I-Team reporter Randy Travis reveals for the first time which schools they’re attending. No one knows for sure how many illegal immigrants are students in Georgia high schools and colleges.

But we do know how many have been arrested.

WSB-TV — Atlanta

Hundreds of non-citizens vote

A Channel 2 Action News investigation found at least three dozen non-United States citizens on Georgia’s voter rolls, seven of whom actually voted in our elections. — The total numbers could be as high as 605 non-citizens registered to vote, and 220 who voted. State leaders could not confirm the exact numbers because, as our investigation found, no one keeps accurate data of non-citizens who live here…

HERE

Associated Press

Georgia legislative committee on immigration meets

…”It was a good first step,” said D.A. King, founder of the Dustin Inman Society, which seeks stricter laws against illegal immigration. — King said he plans to be very vocal during the 2011 legislative session in support of creating real penalties for companies or public agencies that knowingly flout immigration laws… HERE [Related item]

My column in today’s MDJ with added links to educate the reader. I hope that you eventually find time to hit all of them to learn more truth about the subversive open borders nuts who are invading our universities.

Marietta Daily Journal

D.A. King: Immigration should benefit U.S., not just immigrants
by D.A. King
Columnist

The Marietta Daily Journal

October 29, 2010

The A.L. Burruss Institute of Public Service and Research at Kennesaw State University is hosting a three-day conference that begins today titled “Immigration in the Southeast: Defining Problems, Finding Solutions.”

Put this long-time American down as firmly supportive of all U.S. universities properly educating students on immigration. As someone who has been studying “immigration” for nearly a decade, I can say without equivocation that there is plenty to learn.

Heck, if I had known about the extravaganza, I would have tried to find the $55 registration fee and attend. The last time KSU hosted a large event on “immigration,” many citizens got their first exposure to former-Mexican president Vicente Fox’s – and the Wall Street Journal’s – plan for open borders in North America and an “American Union” based on the EU. It was a hoot.

The list of speakers in the online flyer for the latest shindig – if anyone else has stumbled on it – should create questions on what may get left out of the “research” and “promotion of understanding.” It’s a veritable who’s-who of the anti-enforcement, amnesty-again mouthpieces.

The presenters who will provide insight for the promised “White Paper” to be produced from the KSU event include two from the liberal and pro-legalization Brookings Institution, the Consul General of Mexico in Atlanta, the Atlanta Consul General of Guatemala, Mexican citizen Adelina Nichols of the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (“Stop the raids and deportations!”) who in 2003 brought in two speakers from the Socialist Workers Party – including one of the party’s leaders, Roger Calero – to advise a meeting of “Georgians for Safer Roads,” (an organization founded by the perpetually angry, anti-enforcement extremist Jerry Gonzalez of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials). The goal then was Georgia driver’s licenses for illegal aliens. Or just plain “immigrants” in the shameful Newspeak of the open borders crowd.

Another notable speaker who is scheduled to join Comrade Nichols in presenting a segment titled “Teaching and working on Immigration Issues and Rights in Georgia” is the ACLU’s Azadeh Shahshahani, who also heads the Georgia Detention Watch. GDW’s stated objective? “We are dedicated to stopping the proliferation of 287(g) Agreements between localities and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials as well as other attempts at local enforcement of immigration laws in Georgia.” There is a pattern here.

It is worth the trouble to go online and read the KSU conference “schedule of activities” for other headings for oh-so-enlightened presentations. My favorite title is “Mayans, Mexicans, Public Policy, Applied Anthropology and the limits of Highway Safety in the Suburbs.” (Alan LeBaron, a KSU professor). I am not making any of this up … honest.

It is unlikely that the late immigration expert Barbara Jordan (D-Texas) will be quoted. Or noted. “It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest,” said the first black woman elected to Congress from the Deep South.

Jordan, who was appointed to head then-president Bill Clinton’s Commission on Immigration Reform – and was awarded a 1994 Presidential Medal of Freedom – also testified to Congress on what it would take to gain credibility on immigration policy: “Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave – deportation is crucial.”

On the criminal employers who lure illegals into our republic, Jordan recommended mandatory electronic verification of legal employment eligibility. “Employer sanctions can work,” she said.

Woe unto Jordan were she alive today and were so openly pro-enforcement.

Something else I am guessing won’t be echoing off the walls at KSU’s secretive conference: Immigration must be sustainable, and unless we enforce immigration laws, we have defacto open borders. At more than a million each year, the United States takes in more real, legal immigrants than any nation on the planet. We have nothing to apologize for. As Jordan noted, immigration should benefit America and Americans, not serve as a pressure-relief valve for failing Third-World nations that unashamedly enforce their own immigration laws.

There is much more to being an immigrant – and an American – than escaping capture at our borders. And there is no universal civil right to migrate to the United States of America.

D.A. King is president of the Cobb-based Dustin Inman Society and a nationally recognized authority on illegal immigration. www.TheDustinInmanSociety.org

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KSU immigration conference follows controversy

by Marcus E. Howard
mhoward@mdjonline.co m

The Marietta Daily Journal
October 28, 2010

MARIETTA – Beginning today, Kennesaw State University will host a three-day conference on immigration issues in Georgia and the southeast. The timing of the event comes in the wake of controversy surrounding state college admission policy of illegal immigrants and the arrest of a KSU student, Jessica Colotl who was discovered to be in the country illegally.

The “Conference on Immigration in the Southeast: Defining Problems, Finding Solutions” will take place through Saturday at the KSU Center on Busbee Drive. Guest speakers, panel sessions and a final session focused on producing a white paper on immigration are planned.

The report and panels at the conference will promote an understanding of the problems associated with immigration, with an emphasis on suggesting practical solutions to challenges that threaten economic growth and social strength in the southeast, according to the event Web page.

But some anti-illegal immigration activists, such as D.A. King of Kennesaw, have expressed concerns about whether both sides of the illegal immigration debate will be presented at the conference. Concerns have also been raised about the cost to taxpayers for having a possible one-sided conference and late public notification of the event.

King said he believes the presenters listed on the conference’s schedule – who include those from the Washington, D.C.-based Brookings Institute, several universities, and the consul general offices of Mexico and Guatemala – have a pro-illegal immigration agenda.

“There is a vast difference between education and indoctrination,” King said. “This three-day event seems like immense taxpayer-funded overkill on the latter.”

The university sent no notifications to the Journal concerning the conference. Conference information was posted online on the A.L. Burruss Institute of Public Policy and Research’s website; however, Dr. Richard Engstrom, interim director, said he had nothing to do with organizing the conference.

King believes it was purposely kept quiet.

Other calls and e-mails to the university were not returned by press time.

The conference is sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies, Center for Regional History and Culture, and Maya Heritage Community Project at KSU, according to the university. The Consortium for Latino Immigration Studies at the University of South Carolina, Centro de Investigaciones Sobre America del Norte of the Universidad Nacional Aut noma de Mexico, and Emory University’s sociology department and women’s studies department are also listed as sponsors.

According to the website, there is a $55 registration fee, paid at the conference, that will include meals. However, it is not clear if the university is paying expenses related to travel, lodging or speaking fees.

Since the spring, KSU had been at the center of a debate storm over illegal immigrants attending public colleges and universities in Georgia.

Jessica Colotl, a KSU student whose arrest on traffic charges last spring led to her detention on immigration charges, sparked the controversy. The incident led to a vote earlier this month by the state Board of Regents to ban illegal immigrants from attending certain public colleges beginning next fall.

This fall, a new 14-member, all-Republican committee of the General Assembly will meet to find ways to prevent illegal immigration in Georgia.

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