This is what they meant when it was said that a picture is worth a thousand words.

The “Atlanta group” mentioned below is an open borders amnesty-again outfit run by Mexican citizen and former Atlanta Mexican Consul General Teodoro Maus.
Their Website is HERE
Fox Five Atlanta TV news report

Georgia Group Supports Dream Act
8 Nov 2010

By: MYFOXATLANTA STAFF/myfoxatlanta

ATLANTA – A Georgia organization is stepping up efforts to assure illegal immigrants access to Georgia colleges and universities. The group is calling on Georgians to support the federal Dream Act legislation.

Supporters say the children of undocumented workers who have the grades should be allowed to pursue higher education, but opponents argue that laws like the Dream Act would set a dangerous precedent.

The Board of Regents will meet this week and at least two groups are planning protests in response to the board’s recent action regarding illegal immigrant students. HERE

Center for Immigration Studies
Subsidizing Sanctuary Cities

Federal Government Reimburses for Jailing Illegals, Even When Locals Obstruct Immigration EnforcementWASHINGTON (November 8, 2010) – A new Center for Immigration Studies

Memorandum finds that the Department of Justice annually awards millions of dollars in grants to local governments to compensate for the cost of jailing illegal aliens, even when those governments have policies obstructing immigration law enforcement or encouraging illegal settlement. The report includes a list of the 27 sanctuary jurisdictions receiving grants in 2010.

The grant program, known as the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP), doled out a total of $400 million to about 850 cities, counties, and states in 2010. Among them were 27 jurisdictions widely considered to be sanctuary jurisdictions, which together received more than $62.6 million, or 15.6 percent of the total. For example, the 2010 SCAAP grantees include some jurisdictions – such as San Francisco, Chicago, Santa Clara County, Calif., Washington, D.C., and Arlington, Va. – which are trying to opt out of Secure Communities, the program that automatically flags criminal aliens for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) attention at the time they are booked into jail.

The authors suggest a remedy: restrict eligibility for SCAAP grants to those jurisdictions that agree to work with ICE to identify and remove criminal aliens by participating in Secure Communities, 287(g), or similar programs.

The report, ‘Subsidizing Sanctuaries: The State Criminal Alien Assistance Program,’ by Jessica Vaughan and Russ Doubleday, is online at http://www.cis.org/subsidizing-sanctuaries .

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The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent non-partisan research institution that examines the impact of immigration on the United States.

Fox News

Republican resurgence likely to derail amnesty schemes

As part of an 11th-hour appeal, President Obama warned Hispanic voters last month that the fate of comprehensive immigration reform [aka amnesty] would hinge largely on Tuesday’s midterm elections. — Now that Republicans, through sweeping gains in those elections, have captured the House and diminished the Democratic majority in the Senate, the fate of immigration reform is very much in doubt…

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Articulating the Popular Rage – a tribute to Terry Anderson




Terry Anderson’s very successful radio show, the Terry Anderson Radio Show, ran for 10 years. It was the only radio show in the country that focused solely on illegal immigration and the duty of our government to secure our borders and enforce our existing immigration laws. Terry was an outspoken leader for the cause of halting illegal immigration and enforcing American laws. This video was edited and produced by Fred Elbel as a tribute to Terry, who died in July of 2010.

Read D.A. King’s article in the Summer 2010 Social Contract Journal: “Goodbye to Terry Anderson – An American Hero“

Below is a video of D.A. King saying goodbye to Terry at the October 2010 Social Contract Writers Workshop.

Atlanta Business Chronicle

Lawmakers may toughen state’s immigration laws

by Dave Williams
November 4, 2010

Georgia lawmakers are expected to take another crack at the thorny problem of illegal immigration this winter, five years after passing the nation’s toughest law against hiring undocumented workers.

Other states have upped the ante since 2006, when the General Assembly acted to require Georgia businesses seeking government contracts to make sure their employees were in the U.S. legally.

Legislative leaders will be looking for ways to catch up with their peers when the 2011 session convenes in January, likely through some combination of tightening existing Georgia laws or piggybacking on other states’ laws.

Georgia and other states have become more active on illegal immigration in recent years, citing a need to act because Congress has failed to address the issue.

“The way we’re going to get the federal government involved is for the states to come up with legislation on their own,” said state Sen. Jack Murphy, R-Cumming, co-chairman of a special joint committee formed by House and Senate leaders this fall to tackle immigration reform.

The anti-illegal immigration agenda the committee recommends to the full General Assembly could include legislation to:

Ban illegal students from attending public colleges and universities.
Require all businesses to use the federal E-Verify system to ensure that their employees are in the U.S. legally.
Impose penalties on government agencies that are not using E-Verify to determine the immigration status of employees or the SAVE system to ensure that applicants for certain public benefits are U.S. citizens.
Adopt an “Arizona-style” law giving police the authority to question people suspected of being in the U.S. illegally.

Illegal students attending public colleges and universities became a hot topic last spring with the discovery that a student brought to the U.S. illegally by her parents was attending Kennesaw State University at the in-state tuition rate.

The University System of Georgia Board of Regents adopted a policy last month prohibiting illegal immigrants from enrolling in any institution that has rejected academically qualified applicants for the past two years because of space.

But such a policy doesn’t go far enough, Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers told Murphy’s committee Oct. 28. Rogers, R-Woodstock, said it’s a waste of public funds to subsidize illegal immigrants’ college educations because employers can’t legally hire them.

“Public education is the use of taxpayer dollars to invest in individuals,” he said.

“If a person isn’t eligible for a job, why on Earth would the taxpayers invest in that person’s education?”

Rogers led the push for the 2006 law but said “holes” discovered in the measure in subsequent years warrant making some changes.

A bill introduced in the House of Representatives last winter called for extending the E-Verify requirement to all Georgia businesses, not just those seeking government contracts.

D.A. King, president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society, an organization that opposes illegal immigration, said requiring every business to verify the immigration status of prospective hires would prevent illegal immigrants from taking jobs that otherwise would go to citizens.

“Illegal immigration is about jobs, jobs, jobs,” he said. “If we’re serious about protecting jobs, driving out illegal labor will go a long way toward doing that.”

Jay Ruby, a lawyer with the labor and employment law firm Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart P.C., said business clients in states that have a universal E-Verify requirement have reported no significant problems complying with the law.

But Ruby said Georgia industries that rely heavily on undocumented workers could feel the effects of a universal E-Verify mandate.

Bryan Tolar, spokesman for the Georgia Agribusiness Council, said the requirement would be burdensome on farmers who employ temporary workers.

“We already have laws that say when you hire someone, [certain] documents have to be presented,” he said. “If [a prospective worker] present documents that look legitimate, I should be able to hire them.”

Along with businesses, government agencies in Georgia are required to use E-Verify and SAVE, another Web-based verification system that screens applicants for public benefits.

But government agencies have been slow to comply, prompting some lawmakers to suggest imposing penalties, perhaps through denial of state aid.

Clint Mueller, legislative director for the Association County Commissioners of Georgia, said counties have improved their compliance rate to 97 percent for E-Verify and 74 percent for SAVE. He said further progress by the end of the year could help blunt the case for penalties.

Some legislators also have vowed to follow Arizona’s example with a law that empowers police officers who stop someone suspected of committing a crime to then question their immigration status.

Charles Kuck, managing partner with Kuck Immigration Partners LLC of Atlanta, said Georgia lawmakers should await the outcome of a federal lawsuit challenging the Arizona law before acting.

“It’s clearly a political move to address a problem the states can’t solve,” he said. “We’re going to end up with 50 state laws and it will be impossible to do business in America.”

But King said the federal government’s refusal to enforce immigration laws has created a void that states can fill effectively.

“The law clearly gives us at the state level the ability to go after employers through licensing,” he said. “Even the threat of enforcement at the state or local level will cause illegal labor to migrate out of the area.”

Reach Williams at davewilliams@bizjournals.co m

Read more: Lawmakers may toughen state’s immigration laws | Atlanta Business Chronicle HERE

Note from D.A. King:

Bolton’s order did not affect several other provisions of the Arizona law which are now on the books.
These include:

— Creating a separate state crime making it illegal to transport or harbor an illegal immigrant.
— Making it a crime to stop a vehicle in traffic to hire a day laborer or for someone looking for work to get into a stopped vehicle.
— Requiring state officials to work with the federal government regarding illegal immigrants.
— Allowing Arizona residents to file suit against any agency, official, city or county for adopting policies that restrict the ability of workers to enforce federal immigration law “to less than the full extent permitted by federal law

WCVB-TV — Boston

Illegals say TSA approved flight training

Boston — Three Brazilian nationals accused being in the country illegally while studying to be pilots at a Stow flight school said they were cleared by the federal Transportation Security Administration for flight training. — The men, who agreed to talk to NewsCenter 5 under a condition of anonymity, said they came to the United States legally but now have expired visas…

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HAPPY DANCE HERE!

Washington Post

Arlington must participate in Secure Communities

Arlington County has no choice but to work with U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement’s Secure Communities program. — After a meeting between county and federal officials, County Manager Barbara M. Donnellan wrote a memo to the county board which said, “ICE stated clearly — and with finality — that local activated communities do not have the option of withholding information from the program…

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KRGV-TV — Weslaco, Texas

Border Patrol agents dodge rocks to recover drugs

Border Patrol agents recovered 300 pounds of marijuana but not before dodging rocks thrown at them and pulling a truck from the river. — An agent working near the Los Ebanos area saw a pickup being loaded with bundles of marijuana. The driver of the pickup drove into the river as the agent approached… HERE

Mark Krikorian — Center for Immigration Studies

Lies, damn lies, and statistics

The amnesty crowd is hawking a new fable — that a massive margin among Hispanics saved Harry Reid: Longtime immigration advocate Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) credited Hispanics Wednesday for keeping Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in the Senate. — “Latino citizens responded to Majority Leader Harry Reid’s aggressive pursuit of immigration reform…”

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