*Related note: The liberal AJC has altered immigration reporter Jeremy Redmon’s bio that was up for several years. Here is the current bio blurb. Courtesy of the extremely useful WAYBACK MACHINE website, here is the former description of Redmon’s immigration reporting training, which we paste below. Italic emphasis is mine.

“Jeremy Redmon is an award-winning journalist with more than two decades of experience reporting for newspapers. He now covers a variety of topics for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, including immigration, politics and military affairs. Redmon embedded with U.S. soldiers and Marines during three trips to Iraq between 2004 and 2006 and has covered state legislatures and gubernatorial elections in Virginia, Maryland and Georgia. He also reported on the 2012 presidential race across five states. Redmon graduated from George Mason University in 1994 and 1997 with undergraduate and graduate degrees in English.

In 2013, he completed a fellowship with The New York Times Institute on Immigration Reporting at the University of California Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. And in 2012, he completed fellowships at the Institute for Justice and Journalism on Immigration Reporting at the University of Oklahoma’s Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication and at the Journalist Law School at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.”

For patriotic, pro-enforcement readers who want secure borders, legal, sustainable and reduced immigration that benefits Americans and protects American jobs, benefits and services from illegal immigration and unbiased, complete and neutral coverage of immigration-releated issues under the Gold Dome, we advise you to regard the AJC employees pictured below as agenda-driven political enemies. We do.

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January 4, 2018

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Your AJC team at the Capitol

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution will have the largest group of journalists at the Capitol during the 2018 legislative session, providing expertise that can’t be found anywhere else. Here’s a look at the team:

Bob Andres joined the AJC in 1998. He has held photography and photo editing positions in California, Florida and Georgia. He will produce photos and videos from the Capitol during the legislative session.

Greg Bluestein covers the governor’s office and state politics. He joined the AJC in June 2012 after spending seven years with the Atlanta bureau of The Associated Press, where he covered a range of beats that included politics and legal affairs. He also contributes to the AJC’s Political Insider blog. This is his 14th legislative session and his sixth with the AJC.

Saurabh Datar is a news applications developer at the AJC. He uses computational techniques and programming to report on politics. He joined the AJC in the summer of 2016.

Jim Denery has worked at nine newspapers, mostly in the South, over the past 34 years. He has been at the AJC for 10 years. His primary duties during the session will be editing stories and writing the Capitol Recap, a summary of some of the biggest stories of the week from the General Assembly, with a dash of odd ones thrown in.

Bria Felicien joined the AJC in 2017. She currently works as an audience specialist for Politically Georgia, distributing content through various platforms to reach readers throughout the state.

Jim Galloway has been an editor and writer for the AJC since 1979. He is currently its political columnist and was the creator of its current-events blog, Political Insider.

Ariel Hart will be covering health care during the session. She has been at the AJC since 2005 and worked on its award-winning Doctors & Sex Abuse series.

Mark Niesse covers the Georgia House of Representatives and has been a reporter for the AJC for five years. He’ll report on rural Georgia, medical marijuana, voting machines and religious liberty.

Susan Potter is the senior editor of the AJC’s State Government and Politics Team and has led political coverage for more than nine years. She has been at the AJC for 20 years.

Maya T. Prabhu joined the AJC last year and will be covering the Senate during the legislative session, along with other aspects of state government and Georgia politics. During her career she has covered all levels of government, most recently the South Carolina General Assembly for The Post and Courier, based in Charleston.

Jeremy Redmon will cover a variety of issues at the Legislature, including immigration, refugees, and the opioid and heroin overdose epidemic.

Isaac Sabetai is an audience specialist who analyzes data, creates interactives and handles social media. He has been at the AJC for 10 years and is from Florida.

James Salzer has covered Georgia politics and state government since 1990, including five years on the AJC’s Investigative Team. Prior to that he covered state politics and wrote a political column in Texas. He specializes in stories about state spending, taxes, campaign finance and ethics.

Ty Tagami has covered government, politics, crime and, now, schools for the AJC. During this session, he’ll follow legislation affecting k-12 and higher education.

David Wickert will cover transportation issues during the legislative session. He joined the AJC in 2010 and has also covered local government in Fulton and Gwinnett counties. He previously worked at newspapers in Illinois, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington state.