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Jan 6, 2018

DOF Business office,

Please send me copies of any application for a business license/OTC and all relevant and required affidavits for La Amistadt Inc. located at 3434 Roswell Rd. NW, Atlanta Georgia. Please include the SAVE and E-Verify affidavits required by state law.

Thank you,
D.A. King
Marietta, Ga. 30066

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Reply:

DOF Office

Jan 9, 2018   3:41 PM

Greetings,

We are in receipt and evaluating  your request.  We will follow-up with you regarding our findings by Friday, January 12, 2018.

Thanks,

DOF Business Office Team

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Reply:

Jan 12, 2018  3:26PM

Greetings,

Please excuse the delay.  You should hear back from us by the end of next week.

Thanks,

DOF Business Office Team

 Department of Finance | Business Office

City of Atlanta | City Hall Tower | Office of the Chief Financial Officer

68 Mitchell Street SW, Suite 11100 | Atlanta, GA  30303

t: 404.330.6430  | f: 404.658.6667

e: dofbusinessoffice@atlantaga.gov | w: www.atlantaga.gov

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email received here 3:52 PM, January 25, 2018. (three weeks after request sent).

Greetings,

Your Open Records Request to the City of Atlanta, Department of Finance was received on Tuesday, January 9, 2018.  This correspondence will provide the City’s response to your request pursuant to the Georgia Open Records Act, O.C.G.A. § 50-18-70, et seq.  Specifically, you requested the following:

• Copies of business license/OTC and all relevant required affidavits for La Amistadt, Inc located at 3434 Roswell Road, NW Atlanta, GA include SAVE and E-Verify affidavits required by state law

Please be advised that the Department of Finance does not have documents in its custody or control that are responsive to your request; and, therefore, there are no documents to make available to you.

Thanks,

DOF Business Office Team

Department of Finance | Business Office

City of Atlanta | City Hall Tower | Office of the Chief Financial Officer

68 Mitchell Street SW, Suite 11100 | Atlanta, GA  30303

t: 404.330.6430  | f: 404.658.6667

e: dofbusinessoffice@atlantaga.gov | w: www.atlantaga.gov

California state Senator Kevin de Leon = photo: California senate

A reply from Georgia: Senator de Leon and his race-baiting anti-enforcement immigration column

D.A. King

A response to state Senator Kevin de Leon concerning his race-baiting statements in a recent Mercury News column in which he so vehemently attacks President Trump, opposes enforcement of American immigration laws and defends his sanctuary state legislation, SB 54.

Clearly, Senator de Leon stands in opposition to borders and immigration laws in general, but he should not be allowed to go unchallenged in his position that President Trump’s fulfillment of his campaign promises on immigration enforcement is “racist-driven.” Was immigration enforcement “racist-driven” when former President Obama tried to make America believe he had deported more illegal aliens than any other president? Are the brave Border Patrol Agents who risk their lives each day on our borders “racist-driven?” For those who do not know, about half of the Border Patrol is made up of proud Hispanic Americans who value equal protection and the rule of law.

Is Mexico’s unapologetic policy of the deportation of Central Americans who cross those borders illegally “racist-driven?”

The senator wants us to believe that California and America itself must have permanent access to black market labor to survive and state laws that require compliance with federal immigration and employment laws are prohibitively costly. In that effort de Leon cites discredited arguments against the 2011 immigration law here in Georgia, HB 87, that requires most employers to use the no-cost federal E-Verify system. On passage of Georgia’s HB 87, he writes: “As a result, farmers fell 40 percent short of the labor needed at harvest time, triggering an estimated $140 million in agricultural losses.”

This anti-enforcement fable was invented by the agriculture lobby here and happily disseminated by the liberal Georgia media. Georgia, like much of the nation, suffered a record drought that year which accounted for massive crop losses – thereby massive profit losses. The New York Times covered it with this:

“The heat and the drought are so bad in this southwest corner of Georgia that hogs can barely eat. Corn, a lucrative crop with a notorious thirst, is burning up in fields. Cotton plants are too weak to punch through soil so dry it might as well be pavement. Farmers with the money and equipment to irrigate are running wells dry in the unseasonably early and particularly brutal national drought that some say could rival the Dust Bowl days.”

Our governor declared twenty-two south Georgia farming counties disaster areas because of the drought in 2011. We can’t imagine how Senator de Leon missed this.

Also absent from the senator’s diatribe against immigration enforcement is the fact that agriculture is the only industry in the U.S. with their own visa for lawfully importing an unlimited (no numerical cap) number of temporary foreign workers. This visa, called the H2A, is widely avoided by many farmers because they are obligated to pay the legal workers a living wage and provide decent housing. Illegal labor is cheaper.

Due to the pressure created by Georgia’s 2011 HB 87 and its E-Verify component here – where agriculture is our largest industry – growers have moved to the H2A visas and the legal workforce it provides.

In 2012, the value of Georgia agricultural exports topped $3.32 billion, a 26 percent increase from 2011. And that Georgia’s agricultural exports reached an estimated $3 billion in 2013, up from $1.8 billion in 2009. And that since 2011 and passage of HB 87 and our E-Verify law, Georgia has been declared “the No. 1 state in which to do business” five times by the influential Site Selection magazine.

We think Senator de Leon may have a much different view of immigration enforcement if the hordes of illegals were English-speaking, potential conservative voters looking for a better life as they stream into California from Manitoba.

“Racist-driven deportation policies”, indeed.

Above: Drivers license issued to legal immigrants, visa holders and illegal aliens with deferred action on deportation photo -DDS

Insider Advantage Georgia is a subscription website. The below is reprinted here with permission.

Insider Advantage Georgia

January 4, 2018

*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.

AJC

January 4, 2018

photo: AJC

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.

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POLL: Most voters agree with Trump — END Chain Migration, REDUCE overall immigration

Here, from NumbersUSA.com

Photo: Zazzle

ConservativeReview.com
October 25, 2017

Strangers in our own land: Illegal aliens rule the roost

Hopefully you all took your blood pressure medicine today, in light of all the following:

A sheriff’s department in Oregon is investigating its own deputies for malfeasance. Their crime? Possibly working with ICE officials to help rid their community of criminal aliens.

As part of the resumption of the border surge, ICE agents confirmed that there are so many dads crossing over illegally with children from Central America that there is not enough space to detain them. They are being released! This has further incentivized more of them to come and fleece American communities.

In July, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court declared the entire state a sanctuary state by barring law enforcement from cooperating with ICE detainers. In a growing trend divorced from our legal history, illegal aliens are getting standing to sue in court against enforcement of our sovereignty.

Guess what? The man who originally got standing and won that case, Sreynuon Lunn, was arrested for allegedly slapping a 65-year-old wheelchair-bound woman in the face and stealing $2,000 from her after she exited a bank.

While the courts all over the country are blocking the federal government from clamping down on sanctuary cities, a district judge in Texas blocked the state from enforcing the law as well. Meanwhile, California can block immigration law with impunity, and private citizens aren’t granted standing to sue.

Now, the Mexican government is allowed to file an amicus brief on the appeal with the Fifth Circuit to advocate that we criminalize our sovereignty on their behalf. Lest you dismiss this anecdote, remember that courts in the past have cited concerns from Mexico as rationale for blocking Arizona’s enforcement laws.

A shocking new report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) found that 152 Afghani soldiers brought to our shores for training have gone AWOL since 2005, accounting for 50 percent of all disappearances of foreign-born troops in similar programs. Meanwhile, sanctimonious immigration groups continue to pressure Congress to bring in more “Special Immigrant Visas” for Afghani military personnel when it is so hard to vet them and their families — and there is a heightened risk of “green on blue” attacks.

As we’ve chronicled over the past few weeks, the courts are systematically undoing immigration enforcement, granting rights to illegal aliens (including access to abortion and the actual right to immigrate), blocking deportations, and codifying Obama’s amnesty as the law of the land to the point that they are treating the Trump administration like criminals and demanding the release of private documents related to the termination of DACA.

On a daily basis, criminal aliens are engaging in rape, murder, and mayhem, yet there is a total blackout in the political class who only want to focus on the “virtuous” ones and their desires and needs, not the needs and safety of the American people. (Read here, here, here, here, and here.)

The inmates are running the asylum. America has become a dumping ground and there is nothing we can do about it. This violates the core of the social compact expressed in the Declaration of Independence – that the society must consent to those who join it.

Thus, borders, sovereignty, immigration law have been rendered lawless by the courts. Amnesty and sanctuary cities are the law of the land. States who want to enforce the law will be slapped down by the courts, but when the feds want to enforce immigration law, sanctuary states get standing to block it.

Criminal aliens get standing to sue for the right to remain here against our will and secure driver’s licenses, welfare, and birthright citizenship for their kids, but citizens and law enforcement don’t get standing to sue when their communities are destroyed from the lawlessness.

In a sane country, where the politicians represented the people on some level, there would be an emergency effort on all parts of government to clamp down on enforcement and block the courts from getting involved in immigration…Read the rest, with informative links, here.

photo: wikimedia

Fiscal Year 2017

Annual Report of the Oklahoma Tax Commission

Review of tax collections:

Wire Transmitter Fee  $12,872,863.73

HERE – Page 14

photo: i.gumi.co.uk

David North – CIS
The Remittance Fee in Oklahoma, Georgia, and in the U.S. Congress

January 3, 2018

It’s time to take a new look at a nearly totally ignored potential source of governmental revenue — taken mostly from illegal aliens and drug dealers — to see how three different jurisdictions are handling the issue. Potentially it could bring in well over $2 billion a year for the federal and/or state governments, and not one penny would be paid by law-abiding residents.

Sounds like a winner, right? But Chamber of Commerce types have fought it successfully, except in Oklahoma, where there is such an arrangement.

What I have in mind is a 2 percent withholding fee on wire transfers out of the nation, i.e., on cash transfers that would include illegal aliens’ remittances to their homelands, some drug trades, and some legitimate, non-corporate money transactions. There would be no charge on corporate transfers. Note that we are proposing a fee, not a tax. The concept is that it is a withholding, a credit against one’s income tax, and thus costs nothing to law-abiding, tax-paying people.

In fact, Oklahoma tax authorities tell us, most of the fees are not reported on state income tax filings, and thus the moneys collected are a de facto tax on otherwise untaxed income. Chamber of Commerce objections relate not only to a knee-jerk reaction to new taxes of any kind, but also to the rational (if objectionable) fear that taxing the income of illegals in any way will push up pressure on the wages paid to those workers, and thus would reduce the profits of businessmen using illegal alien workers. (That is the presumed C of C rationale, not its public position.)

So, how is this issue playing out in Oklahoma, in Georgia, and with the federal government?

Oklahoma. This is the only state in the nation with a wire-transfer fee, as we have reported earlier, and the state’s most recent annual tax report (for fiscal year 2016-2017) showed that the wire transfer fee brought in $12,873,864. Oklahoma has a 1 percent fee.

While both business interests and the Government of Mexico (in an open manner, unlike Russian interventions in our politics) objected to the bill, it was adopted by the state legislature, and is no longer the subject of controversy. The annual collections increase each year by about 10 percent. It stands as a model for the rest of the nation.

Georgia. There is before this state’s legislature, as there may be elsewhere (but unknown to us), a bill (HR 66) to replicate the Oklahoma system at the 2 percent level. It was introduced by a member of the Republican majority in the State House of Representatives, State Rep. Jeff Jones (Brunswick)… read the rest here.