The Atlanta Journal Constitution 

Letters to the editor

January 13, 2016

Pro-enforcement is not “anti-immigrant”

Jay Bookman (“Snub of judge will echo,” Opinion, Jan. 10) seems to look at the world through the lens of race, skin color and ethnicity. Apparently he assumes that the rest of us suffer from the same disability. We don’t.

Like the late Barbara Jordan, it is my long-held position that we cannot honor real immigrants unless we adhere to a policy of an equal application of our immigration laws. It is not “anti-immigrant” to demand immigration enforcement.

Bookman provides useful insight by labeling that view “extremist.

Confirmation of GALEO’s Dax Lopez for federal judge is not being opposed because of his ethnicity, but because of what he has said and done as a director of the GALEO corporation for 11 years.

Dax Lopez’s statement that he “agrees with their mission” must always be viewed with the knowledge that, since 2003, the corporate-funded GALEO Inc. has viciously condemned law enforcement officers who dare to enforce immigration laws. GALEO has marched in the streets of Georgia for another amnesty, lobbied against state E-Verify laws designed to protect legal workers, against local jails honoring ICE holds for criminal aliens and vehemently opposed voter ID. And they lobby against English as our official language.

No wonder Lopez is not speaking to the press.

D.A. KING, MARIETTA, PRESIDENT, DUSTIN INMAN SOCIETY