“Just weeks ahead of the midterms, a new migrant caravan is approaching the southern border. It seems very possible that the timing of this caravan’s arrival is intended to provoke the Trump administration.” Read the piece from CIS.org here.

“One of our researchers, during an annual border tour, once asked a Guatemalan woman near the Mexico-US border why she was crossing. “I saw people doing it on CNN,” she told him. Potential migrants (and smugglers) track US domestic politics closely, and react accordingly.”

*Turn your sound up and make the video fill your screen. They will scream “asylum” and “family separation” when they get here if they are not stopped.

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More Illegal Aliens Giving Birth to Anchor Babies in Los Angeles than Total U.S. Births in 14 States

Here.

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Illegal Alien Births of Anchor Babies Cost U.S. Taxpayers $2.4B Every Year

Here.

DACA Illegal Aliens Have Cost Legal Immigrants $316M Since 2015

Here.

Brian Kemp silent on allowing voters to decide on official English

Pro-English voters should ask questions 

A December 2015 Rosetta Stone poll showed that a bipartisan 76% of Georgians support making English Georgia’s constitutional official language. The idea is English as official, not “English only” as goes the portrayal by dishonest opponents.

Policy differences for candidates in the race for Georgia governor may not extend to allowing Georgia voters to decide if the state constitution should be amended to make English the official language of government.

According to an AJC report last week, Democrat candidate Stacey Abrams promised to oppose constitutional official English in the General Assembly as governor and boasted of fighting against allowing voters to answer a ballot question when she was in the legislature.

We thought it surprising that the AJC did not include a quote or position from Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp on the voter-popular issue, so last Wednesday we sent a policy question and request for a quote to the Kemp campaign.

Brian Kemp – photo, Facebook

 “Do you support allowing Georgia voters to decide on a ballot question that would amend the state constitution to make English the official language of Georgia government and which would end current practice of offering the written road rules portion of the DDS drivers license exam in (eleven) foreign languages?

 If so, will you use the power of the governor’s office to promote that cause for the 2020 election?”

 A week later, we have not received a response from candidate Kemp. Maybe curious voters will ask him.

All concerned should be aware that Georgia has a 1996 statute in place that makes English the official language, but it also says officials can ignore that directive:

“State agencies, counties, municipal corporations, and political subdivisions of this state are authorized to use or to print official documents and forms in languages other than the official language, at the discretion of their governing authorities.”

The concept of allowing voters to have a voice on the matter is quite popular in the Georgia senate. Introduced by state Senator Josh McKoon, in 2016 SR 675  passed the Georgia senate with every Republican member voting “YEA.” It was not allowed a vote on the House floor.

McKoon’s Resolution created a ballot question voters would have considered that year which read:

“Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended so as to provide that English is the official language of the State of Georgia?”

 All persons desiring to vote in favor of ratifying the proposed amendment shall vote “Yes.”

 All persons desiring to vote against ratifying the proposed amendment shall vote “No.” 

 If such amendment shall be ratified as provided in said Paragraph of the Constitution, it shall become a part of the Constitution of this state.”

 Most conservatives would like to have the chance to answer that question in November, 2020.

 Readers who are not closely involved in Gold Dome politics are likely asking why they have not already been permitted to vote on making official English part of the state constitution. It helps to know that the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce are vehemently opposed to that idea.

It may also help to know that in metro-Atlanta’s DeKalb School District alone, administrators are dealing with students from 180 different countries who speak 140 different languages.

Without a constitutional mandate that English is the official language of government, readers can make their own predictions on how long it is before the angry marches in the streets begin with the demand that government in Georgia accommodate every imaginable language with the cry that “diversity is our strength.”

It seems like something a Republican candidate for Georgia governor would comment on. Comprende?

D.A. King of Marietta is president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society.

Insider Advantage Georgia

October 10, 2018 by D.A. King | Oct 10, 2018 | The Forum | 0 comments

What is Republican Brian Kemp’s position on allowing voters to decide on official English?

Candidate policy differences in the race for Georgia governor may not extend to allowing Georgia voters to decide if the state constitution should be amended to make English the official language of government.

A December 2015 Rosetta Stone poll showed that a bipartisan 76% of Georgians support making English Georgia’s constitutional official language. The idea is English as official, not “English only” as goes the portrayal by dishonest opponents.

Last week, Democrat candidate Stacey Abrams promised to oppose constitutional official English in the General Assembly as governor and boasted of fighting against allowing voters to answer an official English ballot question when she was in the legislature.

It is surprising that there doesn’t seem to be a quote or position from Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp on the voter-popular issue.

All concerned should be aware that Georgia has a 1996 statute in place that makes English the official language, but also says officials can ignore that directive. So, they do exactly that.

Introduced by state Senator Josh McKoon, in 2016 SR 675 passed the Georgia senate with every Republican member voting “YEA.” It was not allowed a vote on the House floor. McKoon’s Resolution created a ballot question voters would have considered that year which read:

“Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended so as to provide that English is the official language of the State of Georgia?”

If such amendment shall be ratified as provided in said Paragraph of the Constitution, it shall become a part of the Constitution of this state.”

Readers who are not closely involved in Gold Dome politics are likely asking why they have not already been permitted to vote on making official English part of the state constitution. It helps to know that the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce are vehemently opposed to that idea.

It may also help to know that in metro-Atlanta’s DeKalb School District alone, administrators are dealing with students from 180 different countries who speak 140 different languages.

Without a constitutional mandate that English is the official language of government, readers can make their own predictions on how long it is before the angry marches in the streets begin with the demand that government in Georgia accommodate every imaginable language with the cry that “diversity is our strength.”

It seems like something a Republican candidate for Georgia governor would comment on.

D.A. King of Marietta is president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society.    Here.

The below question was sent to Kemp campaign spokesman, Ryan Mahoney and candidate Kemp last week. We have not received a response. We have confirmed they have seen the request.

Sent October 3, 2018 at 11:03

From: “D.A. King”
Subject: Media request for quote and candidate position: Constitutional official English
Date: October 3, 2018 at 10:47:58 AM EDT
To: ryan@kempforgovernor***
Cc: Brian Kemp

According to the AJC, Stacey Abrams has announced her intent to oppose allowing Georgia voters to decide on a ballot question to amend the state constitution to make English the official language of Georgia government and was active in that opposition when she was in the General Assembly.

AJC: “The event at Plaza Fiesta, a mall largely populated with Latino-owned businesses, was a meet-and-greet pegged to Hispanic Heritage Month, which began Sept. 15. Abrams enumerated her proposed policies that touch Hispanic and immigrant communities, from preventing wage theft to opposing a state constitutional amendment making English the official language of Georgia, a bill she fought as a freshman state representative.” Here.

FYI, In 2016 SR 675 passed the Georgia senate with every Republican member voting “YEA.” It was not allowed a vote on the House floor.

That Resolution created the ballot question:
” Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended so as to provide that English is the official language of the State of Georgia?”

All persons desiring to vote in favor of ratifying the proposed amendment shall vote “Yes.”

All persons desiring to vote against ratifying the proposed amendment shall vote “No.”

If such amendment shall be ratified as provided in said Paragraph of the Constitution, it shall become a part of the Constitution of this state.”

FYI – There is a statute in place that makes English the official language, but also says officials can ignore that directive. “State agencies, counties, municipal corporations, and political subdivisions of this state are authorized to use or to print official documents and forms in languages other than the official language, at the discretion of their governing authorities.”

A 2015 Rostta Stone poll shows a 76% percent approval from Georgia voters on constitutional official English.

—> Question for candidate Kemp: Do you support allowing Georgia voters to decide on a ballot question that would amend the state constitution to make English the official language of Georgia government and which would end current practice of offering the written road rules portion of the DDS drivers license exam in (11) foreign languages? If so, will you use the power of the governor’s office to promote that cause for the 2020 election?

I will be writing the story this evening and will include any response or notation of lack thereof from the Kemp campaign.

Thank you in advance for a prompt reply.

Respectfully,

D.A. King
Marietta

Photo: Steemit

National Review Online

Blacklisted
By MARK KRIKORIAN
June 12, 2008 11:30 AM

D.A. King is a dynamo in Georgia, working tirelessly for tougher immigration enforcement. He’s a normal patriot — no Zionist conspiracy hogwash or anything like that — and has been published in the Atlanta paper and elsewhere and been on Fox, CNN, etc. Imagine my surprise, then, when I learned that he’s been blacklisted by the Washington Post. And I don’t mean that metaphorically. He submitted a letter in response to Jim Hoagland’s recent column about “pooling” American sovereignty (I blogged on the column here), got a positive response about publishing it from an editorial page staffer, then received the following:

“As you know, I liked the letter, but an editor here said that The Post will not print letters from your group.”

(D.A. tells the story here.) Now, papers don’t have to print anything they don’t want to. But maintaining this kind of formal blacklist for a mainstream group, however much the paper may not like its politics, is repellent. What’s worse, it looks like this isn’t the result of one editor’s prejudices, but rather the Post’s joining La Raza’s anti-free speech campaign, We Can Stop the Hate.

NRO blog here.

COMMENTS
It won’t be long now before we get our own “Human Rights Tribunals” like the one conducting Mark Steyn’s show trial in Canada.

The Republicans below have repeatedly refused to co-sponsor HR997 – the English Unity Act – which is the bill in Washington DC to make English the official language of the United States.

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