Updated:The effort to help Billy and Kathy Inman now has a Go Fund Me account. HERE
Desperate Georgia family in need of help at Christmas
Kathy Inman confined to a wheel chair since car wreck caused by illegal alien
A community relief fund account has been established for Billy and Kathy Inman, long-time residents of Woodstock.
The Inman family is desperate for help. Kathy Inman has been confined to a wheelchair since June of 2000 when an automobile wreck also killed the Inman’s only child, sixteen-year-old Dustin. The Inman family was on their way to a Father’s Day weekend of fishing in the North Georgia Mountains when a car traveling at high speed crashed into the rear of the Inman’s vehicle while it was stopped at a red light in Ellijay, Georgia.
The Inman’s need donations and assistance with payment of on-going medical expenses and a daytime home health-care aide for Mrs. Inman, age fifty-three.
Mr. Inman works three days a week as a route driver and has been paying for a caregiver for his wife for years while he is at work. The Inman’s lost their home-health care aide several weeks ago and Mr. Inman is frantically searching for a compassionate replacement companion for his wife.
Addressing the hardships they endure, Mr. Inman, a proud and soft-spoken man, admits the loss of their son, Mrs. Inman’s deteriorating health and financial strains are wearing on both him and his wife. “She is always in pain” he says of his wife of 33 years. Mrs. Inman, a rising star in management of the Kroger supermarket chain before the wreck, now requires help in personal care and meals.
It’s not fair. I don’t get to hug my son,” says Mr. Inman. “I don’t get to have him help me do whatever in the yard or on the truck. I won’t be a grandpa. Kathy is forgetting things…”
Since his computer expired, Mr. Inman has been trying to write letters on his smart phone to elected officials asking for guidance on finding help for his wife. He hopes to purchase a new desktop computer.
Donations to help the Inman family can be deposited to the recently established ‘Inman Family Relief Fund- Billy Inman’ at any Sun Trust Bank branch using the account number 1000196179930 or mailed to Sun Trust Bank, Mail Code GA – Alt 0492, 2674 Sandy Plains Rd., Marietta, Ga. 30066 with the same information.
“The Alliant Energy Corporation, where Davis served variously as President, CEO, and Chairman from 1998 to 2006 when he became Georgia’s USG Chancellor sponsors the Erroll B. Davis, Jr. Achievement Award. But, not all students are eligible. To receive the tuition help, students must be either legal immigrants or, (gulp)…U.S. citizens.”
And white students need not apply.
Macon Telegraph
December 9, 2016
OPINION
D.A. King
Georgia’s former University System of Georgia ( USG ) Chancellor, Erroll Davis, was recently quoted in the AJC as saying that the current policy of keeping illegal aliens out of some USG schools and charging them out-of-state tuition at the remaining institutions equated to segregationist “Jim Crow” laws.
Trained on coverage by the New York Times Institute on Immigration Reporting at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and the Institute for Justice and Journalism on Immigration, the AJC’s Jeremy Redmon wrote “Davis, who is black, said he sees parallels between the enforcement of those policies today and the Jim Crow era when African-Americans were barred from certain public institutions…”
Davis has had a change of heart on the restrictions. He was chancellor when the above policy was implemented, but he is not alone in the disgusting comparison. The “it’s Jim Crow!” angle on mainstream America’s objection to rewarding illegal immigration is boilerplate rhetoric for the totalitarian, anti-borders crowd.
Davis’ race-baiting here approaches that of Emiko Soltis who is Executive Director and Professor of Human Rights and Social Movements at something calling itself “Freedom University”. According to its website, “Freedom University is a modern-day freedom school based in Atlanta. We provide rigorous college preparation classes, college and scholarship application assistance, and leadership development for undocumented students in Georgia.”
Erroll Davis photo: USG
The ‘college prep’ courses aimed at victims of borders at Georgia’s FU include *‘Border Studies: Immigration, Identity, and the Undocumented Student Movement’
* A People’s History of the United States
* Mindfulness and Compassion: The Science, Theory, and Practice of Meditation
* Race, Immigration, and Incarceration in the United States
* Human Rights in the United States: History, Theory, and Skill-Building for Social Change
* Global Migration in the Americas: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Labor.
“None of these bans would’ve been passed if they said, “let’s ban brown students.” Soltis explained to the WABE “Closer Look” crew.
It looks like both Davis and Soltis may be trying to say that protecting our university system for residents with legal status is a civil rights violation. Or that all minorities are illegal aliens. Or that all illegal aliens are minorities. It’s confusing. Somebody should ask them about it.
For readers trying to sort through the confusing priorities of the identity politics/ illegal alien lobby and keep score on all this, add the fact that former Chancellor Erroll Davis is quite proud of a scholarship program administered in his name.
The Alliant Energy Corporation, where Davis served variously as President, CEO, and Chairman from 1998 to 2006 when he became Georgia’s USG Chancellor sponsors the Erroll B. Davis, Jr. Achievement Award. But, not all students are eligible. To receive the tuition help, students must be either legal immigrants or, (gulp)…U.S. citizens.
And white students need not apply.
To be considered for the Erroll B. Davis Academic Achievement Award, student applicants must be “African American, Hispanic or Latino, American Indian, Southeast Asian or from a racial or ethnic group traditionally underrepresented in the fields of Engineering or Business.”
Maybe WABE will take a “closer look” at the difference in opinion on college admissions and what constitutes “racial code?”
Georgia voters have their own opinions on illegal aliens and higher education. In the last state-wide poll, two-thirds of Georgians wanted to bar “the undocumented” from attending taxpayer-funded state universities – at any tuition rate.
This majority outlook reflects the intent of 2006 state legislation, the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act, part of which was written to keep all illegals out of all tax-funded post secondary schools.
Regardless of what the soon-to-be President Trump does or does not do in office, Georgia lawmakers should take a stand and clarify state laws on admissions and any public subsidies to any post-secondary education of any illegal aliens.
Let’s not allow Emiko Soltis and Erroll Davis to dictate Georgia’s higher-ed policy. HERE
D.A. King is president of the Cobb-based Dustin Inman Society Twitter: @DAKDIS
Cobb’s Hispanic voting population has nearly doubled since 2008 and now accounts for 3.8 percent of the county’s registered voters. If these numbers continue to grow, Cobb may find itself, like Gwinnett County, mandated to provide Spanish-language ballots and other materials to voters who may not speak and read English well.
Gwinnett County became the only Georgia county required to provide bilingual voting ballots and materials to its Hispanic voters by a U.S. Census Bureau designation released Monday. Under the designation, established by Section 203 of the Federal Voting Rights Act, counties with a minority voting population of more than 10,000 or greater than 5 percent that speak a single, non-English language must accommodate those voters by providing ballots and voting material in that population group’s language.
Jerry Gonzalez, executive director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, said the designation is important because “more Latino voters will have equal access to be able to exercise their right to vote without having English language proficiency as a barrier.”
Gwinnett is the first Georgia county to receive this designation, but “other counties, like Cobb, Hall and Whitfield counties, are likely next,” Gonzalez said.
Janine Eveler, director of the Cobb Board of Elections, said she is aware of the designation, but isn’t sure if Cobb will be impacted anytime soon.
“My understanding is that the designations are made every five years,” Eveler said. “There’s no way to know where Cobb’s demographics will be at that time.”
Cobb does not provide Spanish-language or bilingual ballots.
According to the Georgia Secretary of State, in November 2016, there were 26,940 Hispanic voters registered in Gwinnett County, which accounted for 6.2 percent of the county’s 431,727 registered voters. Gwinnett’s total Latino population is estimated at 171,000 or 20.3 percent of the county’s total population, the U.S. Census Bureau reports.
By contrast, in November 2016, there were 16,428 registered Hispanic voters in Cobb which accounted for 3.8 percent of Cobb’s 423,890 registered voters. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that Cobb’s estimated 89,000 Hispanics or Latinos make up 12.5 percent of the Cobb’s total population.
Gonzalez said it would be premature to comment on the impact of the Latino vote in Gwinnett or Cobb County, but “Latino voters across the state of Georgia were turning out in large numbers as we have not seen before.”
Gonzalez also pointed out that “nationally only 19 percent of Latinos voted for Donald Trump, a historical low number for the GOP nominee.”
Although Cobb is not required to provide bilingual ballots under the U.S. Census designation, there are other provisions in the Voting Rights Act that may require the county to begin issuing Spanish-language ballots, Gonzalez said.
“People born and educated on the island of Puerto Rico are entitled to have access to Spanish language protections for voting as well and there are no numerical requirements,” he said.
According to Gonzalez, several counties in Georgia have Puerto Rican populations and those counties may be out of compliance with the Voting Rights Act by not providing bilingual ballots and other materials to Puerto Rican voters.
Eveler said she was not aware of this provision in the Voting Rights Act. HERE
Re; “State board that hears immigration complaints rules against Atlanta” Atlanta could face potential fines, sanctions related to vocal immigration critic’s complaint
Regina Willis, December 1, 2016
Dear editors,
I was pleasantly surprised to read your balanced coverage of my complaints against the City of Atlanta to the Immigration Enforcement Review Board regarding clear violations of state law on safeguarding public benefits. Thank you for covering what the AJC, WSB and literally all of the other Atlanta news outlets have pointedly ignored.
Allow me to clarify and correct a few details.
Your report tells readers that the respected Washington DC group ‘Pro-English’ is “anti-immigration.” This is demonstrably false. Because I have been a pro-enforcement immigration activist for more than a decade, I know that Pro-English is exactly that…pro-English. They advance the commonsense concept that national unity can be greatly increased with English as our common and official language.
Your report says, “under Georgia’s immigration law, cities are supposed to verify that business licenses are only given to citizens or residents who are “lawfully present” in the United States. For-profit businesses must submit the necessary documents every year, but nonprofits need only do so the first time they apply.”
This is not even close. State law does not create any special treatment for non-profit businesses in any part of the code aimed at screening applicants for new or renewal business licenses. I urge you and interested readers to see OCGA 50-36-1. Mayor Reed’s administration has attempted to use a “loophole” that does not exist in reality.
Regarding Georgia’s 2011 “Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act” (H.B. 87), your report has it wrong when you tell readers “several sections of the law were eventually overturned by the courts…” While a federal judge initially put a stay on two sections (Sections 7 & 8) of the twenty-three-section legislation, an appeals court later upheld Section 8. The fact is that only one section was “overturned.”
It should be noted that I have also filed similar valid complaints with the state Attorney General, who has full responsibility to prosecute Mayor Reed and his administrators for the violations of Georgia law designed to protect us all from illegal immigration. No matter what the IERB does or does not do.
I have not received any notification from the AG that makes me believe these complaints are being processed.
Maybe your readers will see a “part two” to your coverage?
D.A. King
Marietta
President, The Dustin Inman Society
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Get Schooled blog
December 8, 2016
D.A. King of Marietta is an anti-illegal immigration activist. He is president of the Dustin Inman Society, named for the Georgia teenager killed in 2000 when an illegal immigrant crashed into the Inman family’s car while it was stopped at a red light.
In this piece, King addresses the president of Agnes Scott and her support of students on her campus whose parents are undocumented immigrants. President Elizabeth Kiss’ column ran earlier this week on the Get Schooled blog. His point on students attending U.S. colleges under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA: “They are not merely children of illegals – they are illegals. If not, they wouldn’t need deferred action on deportation.”
By D.A. King
In her plea to continue to educate the illegal aliens to whom President Obama has illegally granted executive amnesty, Agnes Scott College President Elizabeth Kiss’ compassion is duly noted. We get it. She is an educated, caring and enlightened American whose family escaped the horror of the Nazis and totalitarian Communist oppression. And the students in question just want to be Americans.
We respectfully note that such a column by a college president would not be needed in Mexican newspapers as illegal aliens are not considered victims or given special privileges in that nation.
It is time for the left to invent a different “anything but-illegal” label – it is too much of a stretch to call the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals illegals “undocumented” when they have been rewarded with a Social Security number, a work permit bearing fingerprints and a driver’s license.
For curious readers, yes, illegal aliens in Georgia are being issued the same driver’s licenses issued to foreign diplomats and Mercedes-Benz executives. It does not note their still-illegal status, and they can use it to board airliners.
Many of us who speak out for an equal application of American law – even on immigration – share Kiss’ concern for some of these young people. But we take a dim view of holding them up as a negative example of the consequences of America’s borders and already liberal immigration laws.
Pandering politicians and the parental abuse perpetrated by foreign parents who recognized they could make more money if they lived in the United States caused this crisis of “to enforce the law or not enforce the law” – the American dream of Americans to preserve and protect a constitutional republic be damned.
Many of the seven billion people in the world would jump at the chance to make it over our borders illegally – or overstay a temporary visa – to set up a permanent home for their families here.
That reflection of human nature is being proven even now as a record annual number – more than in 2014 – of “children” and “family units” happily crossing our southern border illegally and rushing to report to the nearest demoralized Border Patrol Agent to take advantage of Obama’s “send them on” policy.
Given the lack of “mainstream media” coverage of this intentional and politically driven debacle, I triple-dog dare the AJC PolitiFact editors to challenge that statement.
There can be no permanent solution to the illegal status of these DACA-covered illegal aliens or any other part of our immigration crisis unless and until there is lawful action by the Executive Branch and Congress to make it clear to the world the United States can and will forever secure our borders, track visa departures and enforce all of our immigration laws – even if illegal aliens have children.
If we can find a Congress with the courage to pass genuinely “one-time,” narrow and honest legislation that can help allow some of the “Dreamers” who are in school now to have their illegal status removed, it should be done. They should never be granted American citizenship.
The concept that Obama’s 2012 re-election ploy and his illegal executive decree that is DACA should directly result in U.S. citizenship and voting rights for anyone is a non-starter for most fed-up Americans.
The rule of law and its equal application is what is supposed to set us apart from the people President Kiss’ family escaped. HERE
State board that hears immigration complaints rules against Atlanta
Atlanta could face potential fines, sanctions related to vocal immigration critic’s complaint
REGINA WILLIS DEC. 1, 2016
Atlanta could face potential fines, sanctions related to vocal immigration critic’s complaintThe City of Atlanta could soon have a lot of paperwork on its hands thanks to a recent ruling by an obscure state panel that makes sure Georgia governments and agencies comply with the state’s immigration laws.
The Immigrant Enforcement Review Board, or IERB, is tasked with investigating and sanctioning government agencies, from state departments to local municipalities, for violating any of three laws passed as part of
House Bill 87, Georgia’s comprehensive and controversial immigration legislation which lawmakers approved in 2011.
The seven-person board holds meetings, can subpoena documents and witnesses, and is composed of political appointees, including a one-time lobbyist for anti-immigration group ProEnglish. In May 2014, the IERB threatened to fine DeKalb County $5,000 for not using an online program that checks immigration status for a summer program.
Under Georgia’s immigration law, cities are supposed to verify that business licenses are only given to citizens or residents who are “lawfully present” in the United States. For-profit businesses must submit the necessary documents every year, but nonprofits need only do so the first time they apply. Atlanta has never gone back to groups that applied with the city before the law went into effect in 2011 to obtain the relevant documents.
Angela Hinton, the city’s chief counsel,argued Atlanta’s case before the board at the Gold Dome on Nov. 10. She said nonprofits do not apply for their business license annually, so “there’s not an application. There’s not a requirement to resubmit yourself to the government.”
Without an application, Hinton argued, Atlanta has no legal reason to request the citizenship verification documents from a nonprofit applicant. New nonprofits would have to submit SAVE, eVerify, and secure and verifiable ID — the documents required to prove citizenship or immigration status — but older nonprofits have never gone through this process, Hinton said.
The board, however, disagreed with the city’s interpretation of the law. The crux of the debate is how city codes should be interpreted under state law and when a nonprofit is an “applicant for a public benefit.”
“What I see happening is, if we can redefine the word ‘application’ and thereby ‘applicant,’ that pretty much any entity in this state can somehow get out of compliance with a law whose intention was simply to protect taxpayer dollars and ensure that Georgia is not a comfortable place for people who are here illegally,” D.A. King, who filed the complaint, told the board on Nov. 10. His argument received vocal support from several members.
King leads the Dustin Inman Society, one of Georgia’s most vocal advocates for stronger immigration laws. He told Creative Loafing by email, “My hope is that the IERB will use all of its power to send a message to the other officials who are allowed to scoff at the law. Best case? Mayor Reed takes a heavy personal fine as the final authority in charge of what are admitted violations.”
King has filed seven of the eight complaints the board has received since it was created, including one against more than 1,200 local governments and agencies in Georgia, extending from the Abbeville Housing Authority to the City of Young Harris. The board did not take up that complaint, instead asking King to narrow down his complaint to one or two municipalities.
King was one of the key advocates for the passage of HB 87 and has faced criticism from organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League, for his role in Georgia’s immigration debate and the language he’s used. The ADL in 2014 said “King has demonized immigrants through his bigoted statements” but “he continues to be a major player in the immigration debate in Georgia.”
“In the limited bubble-world of totalitarian progressives, borders, immigration laws, and advocates for an equal application of the law are attacked with the liberal goop of racism,” King said in response to critics. “Thanks to years of this race-baiting and these baseless attacks, the American people woke up, took a stand, and elected Donald Trump president.”
Modeled after Arizona’s controversial measure and sponsored by state Rep. Matt Ramsey, R-Peachtree City, Georgia’s immigration law allowed police officers to question some people about their immigration status and set fines for people who assist undocumented immigrants, among other provisions.
Several sections of the law were eventually overturned by the courts, but the IERB, a late addition to the legislation that dominated the 2011 legislative session, and the rules they enforce, stuck around. Chuck Kuck, an Atlanta immigration lawyer and former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association who vocally opposed HB 87, says the IERB is “the only part of [the law] that’s really functioned at all.”
The IERB will send the city a letter with its official ruling, and Atlanta officials might be looking at updating quite a bit of paperwork if they want to avoid potential sanctions. According to IERB Chair Ben Vinson, the city has 30 days to appeal or “alter their process to avoid any consequence.” The IERB would hear the appeal. If it disagrees and continues as usual, a sanction hearing would be held. A Reed spokeswoman said the city had not been served with a written decision from the board. “Once we receive a decision, we will consider all options and make a determination at that time,” she said.
NOTE: After this story went to press, Vinson sent the city a letter asking it to take “remedial action” and that includes “obtaining SAVE documentation from those nonprofit entities originally licensed” after the 2011 immigration law took effect. It’s also asking the city to provide information about the “total number of nonprofits” that might be included in that group so the IERB “might further consider all ramifications and remedial actions.” HERE
