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Warning and advice to Republican Georgia lawmakers on immigration-related legislation: Educate yourself with real world facts, stop ignoring pro-enforcement experts while you allow the corporate-funded, leftist open borders lobby to indoctrinate you – and understand that honest journalism is dead. 

Below is a note from coastal Georgia resident and retired federal agent, Robert Trent sent to me after he read about Rep. Heath Clark and the House Public Safety Committee’s gutting of SB452 here. Rep Clark led the way to change language in SB452 so that local law enforcement information on illegal aliens apprehended in Georgia would not be passed on to other authorities until the illegals commit a felony.

He also made it clear the non-citizens should not be required to carry their aliens registration documents because they might lose them “and it is a pain” to replace them. He explained to a hearing room packed with the illegal alien lobby that he took this position because “this isn’t Nazi Germany.”   Video here.

Clark is a Republican.  All illegal aliens are deportable.

Federal law, since 1940 does require aliens over age 18 to carry proof of registration.

“Section 264(e) of INA requires every individual over the age of 18 to carry their “registration” documents with them at all times.   Specifically, section 264(e) reads:

e) Every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or alien registration receipt card issued to him pursuant to subsection (d)

[where the government issues a “registration certificate” after each foreign national’s registration]. Any alien who fails to comply with the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction for each offense be fined not to exceed $100 or be imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.” Here.

After I read Bob’s note, I asked him to send me a short bio which I paste here. The fact is that most of the “facts” gathered by legislators on state immigration bills come from the dishonest but well-funded anti-borders leftists who have created a vast industry to influence Georgia lawmakers. I restate a point that has been made and times before: In a state with more illegal aliens than Arizona, most of our lawmakers know very little about immigration – that is to say no more than what the liberal AJC and other news outlets allow them to “know.”

Which leads me to a riddle: What do many state Republican politicians and the liberal media call a recognized authority on immigration who is an independent voter and who after fifteen years of active participation knows the game and what the press ignores hides under the Gold Dome?  Answer: “Enemy.”

The unsolicited note from former immigration agent Robert Trent:

“When I worked drug investigations in and around Washington, DC most of the alien drug dealers were El Salvadoran MS-13. Working jointly with local police and other federal law enforcement agencies, we would do hand to hand purchases of small amounts of cocaine, meth, and heroin. Later in the same day, or the next, I would be asked to ID the sellers.

Typically I would approach them individually, and begin a small talk conversation in a combination of Spanish and English. Because I was white and a middle-aged male, they typically believed I was some kind of cop. They almost never thought I was immigration, because they knew there were very few immigration agents policing the streets, and they were right (approx. 24 agents for all of northern VA , and DC).

I’d ask them where they were from, and most would say some nearby town in MD to VA. Then I’d ask what country they were from, and invariably most would say El Salvador.

Under the law, once alienage is established, it is incumbent on the alien to prove they are legally present in the U.S.. Meaning the ball is legally in their court.

This is the part where I would discreetly show them my credentials, and inform them that they had to show me a document that legally permitted them to be in the U.S.. Rarely would they produce any ID, although occasionally they would produce fake or stolen ID. Sometimes, depending on the circumstances, I would make an arrest right then and there on the possession of the documents. This gave me the opportunity to search their pockets, take them to the office for fingerprints, and further checks.

More often they wouldn’t produce anything, but would agree to take me to their residence, so they could show me their documents. These trips were invaluable, because it gave us the opportunity to get a look inside and out of their abode. This was great for future the execution of search/arrest warrants.

To motivate them to engage with me in this activity I would tell them about INA Section 264(e), and how it was a misdemeanor to not carry immigration documents.

When the public reads articles in the paper about massive drug sweeps, and multiple people being arrested, most have been identified through this activity. Major drug distribution cases are built very slowly in this manner.”

(Robert Trent)

We thank Bob for his input. We do not thank Rep Heath Clark and th members of the House Public Safety Committee who voted with the crazies against maximum protection for trusting Georgians from illegal aliens who commit any other crimes.