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Moderator
... but for those wonderful introductions. Now what we’re gonna do, is get ready to put that lovely big clock up on the board for all of us to help keep track of, and each of the panelists up hear are going to have an opportunity, depending on if they are on the impact or the benefit side, to explain and discuss with you the position that they feel around 287G, whether from the benefit or the impact position. We’re gonna try and have the folks that are speaking about the benefit to speak in order, and then the folks that are speaking about the impact to follow in conversation.

D.A. King:
Um, thank you. I, first I wanted to thank Commissioner Fosque for hosting an organizing this event. I think it’s a terrific idea. Thank you very much, Madam. Uh, I also want to thank Deputy Shannon Volkodav and Sheriff Butch Conway, uh, for allowing me to speak on the pro side. I am pro enforcement.

D.A. King:
Um, I’m president of the Dustin Inman Society, and as a short piece of history, Dustin Inman was a 16-year-old Woodstock youth who was killed when an illegal alien crashed into the back of his car.

Protesters:
[inaudible 00:01:21]

D.A. King:
I, I’m, I, uh, they don’t bother me. If they’re going to stand up and protest somebody trying to protect Georgia youth that’s up to them, but what I’m trying to say is that Dustin Inman was killed after he had contact three separate times earlier that year, uh, by an illegal alien who had contact with local law enforcement. I am of the opinion that we cannot honor our rich tradition of immigration unless we enforce our immigration laws. My adopted sister happens to be an immigrant.

D.A. King:
When we’re talking tonight, I hope everybody will be very conscious of the use of the word immigrant. An immigrant is someone who comes here lawfully with the intention of permanent residence. You are going to hear that nobody is illegal, which is false. But you’re also going to hear the word immigrant mixed up when they’re talking about people here illegally. It’s disgusting to me and I find it offensive, if, if you could please remember the difference between an immigrant and someone here illegally it will help the conversation.

D.A. King:
I am of the opinion also that a good way to look at the issue of immigration enforcement is there are some people who are pro enforcement and some people who are anti-enforcement. Uh, at an early age, I picked a side, and I picked the pro enforcement side. 287G was created by Congress and signed into law by the president in 1996. In no part of the law does it say it was designed to go after only people who are here illegally who are violent. It’s important to know tonight that all illegal aliens are deportable. Nobody has ever been deported for a broken tail light or driving without a license or a traffic ticket. The sole reason for being deported from the United States is violation of American immigration law.

D.A. King:
Um, I’m often told that we’re spending too much money on 287G. It, it is somehow a waste of tax payer dollars. I can never get people who bring up that point to tell me how much money is too much money to protect American citizens and anybody who lives in Gwinnett County or any place else with 287G. How much money is too much to spend on enforcement? And if we’re not going to enforce our immigration laws, I hope everyone will ask themselves what will happen to our system of immigration.

D.A. King:
I also want to make it clear while I have a little microphone here that the state of Georgia has a law in place that requires the Department of Public Safety to have an agreement with 287G. That law went into effect in 2006. In 2011, that law was altered to require BPS, including state troopers to have 10 officers 287G trained every year. Currently, that law is being defied. BPS does not have a 287G agreement. It is the agenda on the Dustin Inman Society to render that, um, to fix that situation.

D.A. King:
I’m also very proud of a letter that I have on my website, TheDustinInmanSociety.org, from Sheriff Conway to a friend of mine and a, and a pro enforcement voter, thanking me in his letter for helping him get 287G into the county of Gwinnett. I’m extremely proud of that.

D.A. King:
I’ve got three minutes left. But I’ve pretty much said what I think the majority of Americans think. I hope people will ask themselves whether they are pro enforcement or anti enforcement. I’m looking at people up, up in the top of this room with tape over their mouths, holding up signs that says 287G tears families apart. 287G is a tool used-

Protesters:
[inaudible 00:05:29]

D.A. King:
… to determine the immigration status of fo- non citizens when they go into the Gwinnett County jail. Nobody can commit a crime and be punished without being separated from their family if they go to jail. It’s a ridiculous point, but it, it’s a point that is used all the time.

D.A. King:
I’m very proud to be in support of 287G. I look forward to some questions later on. And, so that we can get out of here early, I’m going to give up a minute and 53 seconds. Thank you very much.

Comm. Fosque:
Thank you, Mr. King.

Begin second segment:Speaker 1:

Moderator: All right. We’re gonna try this one more time. We’re gonna turn our attention to our panelists. Each panelist is allowed three minutes, as seen on the clock above, to either respond or create closing comments to tonight’s conversation. We’re gonna begin, um, this side with Mr. D.A. King, please.

D.A. KING:
Thank you. Um, ear-earlier tonight, we were backs-, i-i-in the back of this building in a green room, and the agreement was that we were here to talk about the merits or the benefits or impact, as it was put, of 287G. Earlier, um, I surrendered part of my time in the interest of moving the program along, only to watch, um, an anti-enforcement politician now running for Congress attack me, citing the disgraced and discredited Southern Poverty Law Center. So, much of my response will be that I take back nothing that she cited that I wrote. I was in downtown Atlanta in a 90-degree night watching 500 people in the country illegally scream at us, five of us, of multi-colors that they were never gonna leave our country, and to hell with your laws.

D.A. KING:
So, I, I, I don’t mind if she doesn’t like what I wrote. I, I do point out that each and every time, and I’ve been doing this for nearly 20 years, that immigration enforcement is brought up, immigrants are drug into it, instead of the illegal aliens at whom it is directed, and the race card is pulled out because that is the only logical tool that these people have to oppose the enforcement of our immigration laws.

Audience:
[inaudible 00:01:30].

D.A. KING:
I, I’m still speaking. Georgia is home to more illegal aliens than green card holders, according to the left-leaning Georgia Budget and Policy Institute. Georgia is home to more illegal aliens than Arizona. The alternative to enforcing our immigration laws, folks, is open borders, and I promise you, much of this side of the room is pulling for open borders. That is the final end.

Speaker 4:
No, we’re not.

D.A. KING:
It’s not about hate. Enforcing our laws is not hate. It’s not about-

Speaker 1:
Let him finish, please.

D.A. KING:
I, I’m … You can talk to me later, pal. I’m, I’ll enjoy it. So-

Audience:
[inaudible 00:02:08].

D.A. KING:
The alternative is open borders, folks. Gwinnett County is home to an estimated 72,000-

Speaker 1:
Please let him finish his sentence.

D.A. KING:
… illegal aliens. 8% of the population of this county is judged to be illegal by people on the left who take polls and statistics. Not enforcing our immigration laws is un-American, and it’s anti-immigrant. I am just d-, not just surprised at all. I know there’s a lot of people who are going, “Wow, I can’t believe that the politician attacked a big, bald guy a-as being a white supremacist or white nationalist,” whatever it is. It happens literally every day. The [inaudible 00:02:48] society is made up of people of all colors, creeds, and races, and it cracks me up, and I’m not kidding-

Audience:
[crosstalk 00:02:55]-

D.A. KING:
It cracks me up when the African Americans and the Hispanics on our board of advisors are attacked (laughs) as being white supremacists for the audacity to stand up and say that we should enforce our immigration laws and that the law should be equally applied. There’s a young lady here who’s got tape over her mouth, and she’s so full of hate that she has to take the tape off every once in a while to scream at me.

Audience:
(laughs)

D.A. KING:
Thank you very much, folks.

Speaker 1:
[Rupert Paul 00:03:18].

Audience:
Woo. Woo.

Speaker 1:
We are going to follow the same-

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