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February 24, 2020

Neil Munro

GA state Rep Philip Singleton
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GOP Rep. Pushes Anti-Sanctuary Cities Bill in Georgia

A GOP legislator and 19 co-sponsors are pushing legislation to bar sanctuary cities in Georgia.

“I’m very hopeful,” said state Rep. Philip Singleton, who flew AH-64 attack helicopters in Afghanistan and Iraq. He continued

This legislation is directly in line with President Donald Trump’s agenda and the agenda that Governor Brian Kemp ran on, and the Republicans across the state have talked about for years.  I’m very hopeful that they will decide to legislate the way that they campaigned.

This is extremely important for Georgia, not only for the safety of the immigrant community but also for the safety of every Georgian. And it’s important, especially in a major election year, that the voters see that the conservatives that they’ve elected will actually get legislation improving their lives like the [candidates] promised.

A July 2018 report by the left-wing Georgia Budget and Policy Institute said the roughly one-third of all immigrants in the state are  “unauthorized immigrants.” The estimated population of 377,000 illegals outnumbered the resident population of 260,000 green card holders and was close to the population of 427,000 immigrant citizens.

The population of illegals nudges up crime rates, pushes down Americans’ wages, and boosts housing prices. But business groups welcome the extra population because it provides more workers, customers, and renters to businesses.

The “Georgia Anti-Sanctuary Act” is being co-sponsored by GOP Reps. Steve Tarvin, Scot Turner, Ken Pullin, Kevin Cook, Michael Caldwell, and Sheri Gilligan. They are backed up by additional sponsors, including Marc Morris, Mitchell Scoggins, Mathew Gambill, Steven Sainz, Emory Dunahoo, Joseph Gullett, Jeff Jones, David Clark, Rick Williams, and Danny Mathis, said D.A. King, a pro-American immigration-reform activist in the state, and the founder of the Dustin Inman Society.

Their HB 915 bill would require the state to support federal immigration enforcement efforts and prevent any local obstruction. A statement at InsiderAdvantage.com from Singleton said:

State entities and agencies would be required to comply with federal immigration detainers and would be prohibited from withholding information or records from federal immigration enforcement efforts regarding an immigrant’s status. Additionally, the bill would encourage a seamless transfer process regarding illegal aliens who are held in a state’s correctional facility to be transferred into federal custody. Under this bill, it would also be illegal for state or local law enforcement officers who have custody of an illegal to deny or knowingly fail to comply with an alien’s detainer’s requests.

My bill is carefully modeled from the 2017 Texas SB-4 and 2019 Florida SB-168 bills. They have both been signed into law in their respective states and have both been upheld in federal court rulings.

However, Singleton and the cosponsors need the support of top GOP leaders for the bill to become law, said King.

“What’s required for this bill to pass is [first] a hearing in a subcommittee, then a full committee hearing at the Judiciary Committee, and then it has to go from [the] judiciary [committee] to [the] rules [committee], and then from rules to the House floor before legislative day 28,” he said… Read the rest here.

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UPDATED May 13, 2019. Governor Kemp signed this bill yesterday. The IERB is officially abolished. Good riddance!

The bill (HB553) that repeals the law that created the IERB received zero “NAY” votes. We are confident the governor will allow this bill to become law. Did we say “WHOPPEE?” Please see here for a little more insight on our joy. See here for more info from Decaturish.com

DIS archive of IERB here.

HB 553

PART XVII
318 SECTION 17-1.

319 Title 50 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to state government, is amended
320 by repealing Code Section 50-36-3, relating to the Immigration Enforcement Review Board,
321 membership, duties, sanctions, and civil actions, and designating said Code section as
322 reserved.

323 SECTION 17-2.
324 Any assets of the Immigration Enforcement Review Board existing as of June 30, 2019, shall
325 devolve by operation of law and without further action to the State of Georgia on July 1,
326 2019. Any liabilities and obligations of the Immigration Enforcement Review Board existing
327 as of June 30, 2019, shall be transferred to and assumed by the State of Georgia, by such
328 instruments as may be required to maintain the same.

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Also sent for Whitfield schools, Bibb County Schools, Hall County Schools, Glynn County Schools, DeKalb County Schools and Bulloch County Schools.

January 1, 2018

To: Immigration Enforcement Review Board

Re; Appeal of board’s final decision on complaint 2017-01 (Gwinnett County School District) made on December 5, 2018

I am filing this appeal to the board’s decision despite the Chairman’s statement that no appeal would be allowed in the letter I received on December 22, 2018 memorializing the board’s action.

Chairman Balli claims the decision was made by the full board and as such is exempt from the appeal process under the IERB’s rules. I dispute that claim. By law, the IERB consists of seven members.

The official Meeting Summary (marked “A”) posted on the Audits and Accounts website for this meeting shows lists only six members and shows that three members were present at the meeting and one member called in via telephone.

I also note that the Meeting Agenda (marked “B”) posted on the Audits and Accounts website for the December 5, 2018 meeting excluded any notice of any planned consideration of the many complaints I had pending. For this reason, I did not attend. When Balli convened the meeting and saw I was not in attendance and could not present evidence or address the partial board, Balli offered a motion to amend his agenda, got it passed by members who know nothing of the issue surrounding the complaints and then was successful in convincing the members who were in attendance to dismiss the complaints based on far-fetched and easily proven false concepts of immigration law, both state and federal.

I have documentation that clearly disproves Balli’s argument that was the basis for dismissal and have sent those points to the board at least twice in the past. I am appealing for an opportunity to present the facts that prove Balli’s reasoning presented to the other members to be inaccurate.

I note that by law (OCGA 50-36-3), IERB members are permitted to serve two terms of two years per term. Member Terry Clark, was originally appointed to the board in July, 2011. I contend that Clark has served and voted on the IERB without authority and in violation of state law since July, 2015. I further contend that this alone is grounds for invalidation of all decisions Clark voted on since July 2015.

I also note that originally being appointed to the IERB by the Speaker of the House in 2014 with specific language that Balli was to serve until “July 2015 or until successor is duly appointed” that Balli is serving as a IERB member and Chairman without authority and in violation of state law (OCGA 50-36-3). I also note that having used Georgia open records law to request a copy of any document that show any reappointment of Chairman Balli, no such document has been produced. Indeed, if such document exists, it could not lawfully reappoint Balli to serve beyond July, 2017. I contend that any decisions made by the board in which Balli voted or Chaired after that date are invalid and unlawful.

I also note that as of this writing, on December 31, 2018, Balli has called for a special meeting of the IERB for January 8, 2019 but not divulged any agenda saying in the announcement that the agenda (marked “C”) is to be determined.

Along with noting the board has dismissed valid complaints in the past without allowing me to present evidence or even speak when I did attend the hearing, I note the January 8, 2019 special meeting to illustrate the unprofessional and illegal habits of the board.

D.A. King

Note: Here is a timeline of most IERB members appointments.

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Email received from Audits and Accounts, December 31, 2018 at 3:38 PM:

Good Afternoon,

The Immigration Enforcement Review Board has scheduled a Special Called Meeting for Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at 10:00.  The members will be holding this meeting via conference call.  A conference call line will be set up in Room 1-151 at the Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts if you wish to hear the meeting in person.  The address for the Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts is listed on the agenda.  The building is located at the corner of Trinity Avenue and Washington Street.  Please enter the building on the Trinity Avenue side.  You will need to go through security and show a valid ID to enter the building.  I have attached a tentative agenda, but will resend.

Thank you,

Carol Schwinne

Good Afternoon,

mail.audits.ga.gov made the following annotations on 12/31/18:

NOTICE: This e-mail (including attachments) may contain information that is confidential and legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately and delete the message.

Thank you for your cooperation.

__

***Note: More on the IERB here and here.

Agenda -January 8, 2019

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Georgia’s GOP Speaker David Ralston photo, Georgia General Assembly

Breitbart News
April 15, 2018

D.A. King: GOP Blocks Georgia Immigration Enforcement Bill, But OKs Traffic Cameras

The Republican Speaker of the Georgia House blocked a bill that would help deport criminal illegal aliens, but he pushed through a last-minute bill touted by his lobbyist son, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The paper reported April 12:

Georgia House Speaker David Ralston delayed the end of this year’s legislative session past a midnight deadline so lawmakers could vote on a bill to allow speeding ticket cameras in school zones.

The bill was pushed by Ralston’s son, a lobbyist for an Arizona-based company, American Traffic Solutions, that sells the camera systems to local governments.

Ralston and Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, the president of the state Senate, agreed to continue working past midnight to allow the House to approve the bill after it had passed the Senate a few minutes earlier, said Kaleb McMichen, a spokesman for Ralston, a Blue Ridge Republican.

In contrast, Ralston refused to allow a vote on a public safety bill in the GOP-dominated House before ended its annual session on March 30. Corporate-funded anti-borders groups took credit for the defeating the bill, which would have required state officials to notify federal immigration-enforcement officers of illegal migrants in the state’s jails.

GOP leaders offered excuses for blocking the popular immigration-reform bill

“We ran out of time before we had finished all the bills that were worthwhile,” said House Majority Whip, Christian Coomer. “Other bills took priority and SB452 wasn’t called before the clock struck midnight,” he told the liberal Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper.

GOP Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle originally backed the immigration enforcement legislation but stayed quiet when the bill was narrowed to exclude migrants who did not commit “serious crimes.” But after the bill was blocked, Cagle issued a statement saying:

Law enforcement agencies at every level of government should work together to make sure that criminal illegal aliens who commit serious crimes are arrested, convicted, deported, and never allowed back inside our nation’s borders.

Cagle is one of four GOP politicians vying for this year’s gubernatorial nomination.

Ralston faces a May 22 primary election against Margaret Williamson.

Ralston is an attorney, with clients that include construction companies. Many construction companies rely on black-market labor hired by subcontractors. His website says:

The firm also represents the interests of both home builders and contractors, as well as home owners in litigation issues arising over construction. With over 35 years of courtroom experience in the construction law area, our firm has successfully litigated and defended against a range of matters in the construction area.

Majority whip Coomer told excused the decision by telling the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the GOP establishment might approve a similar bill in 2019 and – if public pressure continues.

“If the state’s interest in reasonable law enforcement approaches to criminal aliens and misdemeanor bail issues remains high, then another version of the bill may see movement next year,” he said…  Read the rest here.

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Lt. Governor Casey Cagle: “I will not give up on enforcing the law to keep our citizens safe,” he said. “Law enforcement agencies at every level of government should work together to make sure that criminal illegal aliens who commit serious crimes are arrested, convicted, deported, and never allowed back inside our nation’s borders.”

AJC
April, 4, 2018

Lawmaker: New version of Georgia immigration bill could come next year

The sweeping immigration enforcement measure backed by Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle stalled in Georgia’s House when lawmakers raced to consider other priorities on the final day of the legislative session, House Majority Whip Christian Coomer said Wednesday.

But it’s possible, according to the Cartersville Republican, that a new version of the bill will surface next year.

Senate Bill 452 would have required prosecutors to determine whether people facing sentencing in Georgia’s courts are in the country illegally and to notify federal authorities when they are.

SB 452 also would have required defendants to be brought before a judge, even if the court has a “bond schedule” allowing them to be released on their own recognizance as soon as they are brought to a local jail. Atlanta is the only Georgia city following such a system. It was adopted after reports by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and other news outlets of poor people sitting in jail for weeks or months because they could not afford to post bonds for crimes like begging for money or urinating in public.

“We ran out of time before we had finished all the bills that were worthwhile,” Coomer said in an email…. More here.

Republican state senator Chuck Payne. Photo: Senate website.

Just in from various sources at the Georgia Capitol

Scott Tidwell has reportedly qualified to oppose Dalton’s Chuck Payne in the GOP primary for North Georgia’s Senate District 54.

Including from this pro-enforcement outlet, Senator Chuck Payne has been under barrage of fire recently for his “no” vote – along with Senator Kay Kirkpatrick – in the senate Public Safety Committee last month on an illegal alien drivers license reform bill (SB417) offered by conservative Senator Josh McKoon. A nearly identical bill passed the senate in 2016 with a near two-thirds majority but was not allowed a hearing in the House.

According to DDS, Georgia has issued, renewed or replaced more than 21,000 drivers licenses and or ID Cards for aliens USCIS says lack lawful status.

Payne penned a response to this writer’s letter to the editor of the Dalton Daily Citizen that was not well received by many conservatives in his district. Word from Dalton is that Payne has created almost as much anger over his curious public defense of his vote as he has the vote with the Democrats to kill McKoon’s legislation.

Details to follow.

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*Update, 12:50: I just spoke to Mr. Tidwell who was calling from the Georgia Capitol. He qualified about 11:00AM and said he had prayed about this decision all week. I asked him about Patne’s vote on the drivers license reform bill. He was not happy with his senator’s vote. “My vote would have been the opposite of that” he told me. On illegal immigration told me “this is a big issue with me…I am not for amnesty or this sort of thing” he said. His idea is that no illegal aliens should have a Georgia drivers license.

Age forty-six, Scott Tidwell is a native Georgian who grew up in the Powder Springs – Austell area of Cobb County. He lives with his family in Resaca. More details to follow.

Scott Tidwell qualifies for senate race. Photo: Special to DIS.

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Please call, leave a polite message with the assistant or voice mail, then send a short E-Mail: “Please pass out SB 417 and change the drivers license to illegals so it is vertically oriented.”

Please contact the office of Georgia State Senator John Albers, Chairman, Senate Public Safety Committee
Capitol Office
421-C State Capitol
Atlanta, GA 30334
Phone: (404) 463-8055
Fax: (404) 651-6768
info@senatoralbers.com Email

RE; SB 417 – Change Georgia drivers license/IDCards issued to illegal aliens.

Sponsors : Senators Josh McKoon, William Ligon, Bruce Thompson, David Shafer, Marty Harbin, Michael Williams and others.

New tier of drivers license for illegal aliens must be oriented vertically – as are under 21 credentials.

SB417 will require Department of Drivers Services (DDS) to change the current policy of issuing illegal aliens who have been given a deferral on deportation (and some who have already been ordered to be deported) the exact same drivers license and official state ID card as is issued to legal immigrants and Mercedes Benz/KIA executives here on legal temporary visas. These credentials can and are used to board airliners and create needless confusion in our voting process.

Since 2012, DDS says they have issued, renewed or replaced more than 50,000 such credentials.

→ One of the changes to the documents required in the bill is to orient the drivers license/ID Cards vertically – as we already do for American citizens under the age of 21 (photo). 

Georgia drivers license issued to drivers who are under age twenty-one

ACTION NEEDED: Please call and email the office of Senator Albers and make it clear that you are watching this bill and want the illegal alien’s drivers licenses/ID Cards to be clearly marked to show the status of the holder and that it is imperative they are vertically oriented. If we can do it for American youth, we should have no problem doing it for illegal aliens.

Fact sheet on this bizarre issue here.

dak

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UPDATED: Mystery solved. DDS answered a question not asked. HERE.

AJC and USCIS numbers of illegal aliens with DACA status in Georgia is a “no match.”

AJC news article with USCIS number (21,600) of DACA illegal aliens in Georgia HERE. The USCIS report cited is HERE (page 6).

Letter from DDS (our DMV) to a state Senator about number of drivers licenses issued to DACA illegals (48,935) HERE.

Seems like the AJC would know this. Note: the AJC refers to illegal aliens as “immigrants without legal status.”

Also included in the DDS letter to are numbers of illegal aliens who do not have deferred action on deportation, and who are already under deportation orders.

–> Not mentioned (anywhere but here…ever) is fact that because 2016’s SB6 was not allowed a hearing in the GOP Georgia House – it passed the senate with a near 2/3rd majority – DDS gives the same drivers license and ID card to illegal aliens that it gives to legal immigrants, families of foreign diplomats and foreign Mercedes Benz executives here on legal guest worker visas.

DDS photo – This is the drivers license issued to illegal aliens with DACA and to legal immigrants and guest workers. It can and is used to board airliners, enter federal buildings and rent vehicles.

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–> FYI: A 2016 bill (SB6, committee substitute) was introduced in the Republican-ruled Georgia senate (thank you, Senator Josh McKoon) to formally bar illegal aliens from practicing law in Georgia – it was never allowed a hearing.

“Seven states including California, Florida and New York have already begun admitting undocumented immigrants to the state bar. The ABA resolution will serve as a guideline for other states to follow.”

The National Jurist
August 21, 2017

ABA calls for bar admission of undocumented law grads

“Suspended, expelled or disciplined? No. Criminal history? No. Fired from a job for dishonesty? No.

Status of U.S. Citizenship . . .

These are questions that most bar candidates encounter on their character and fitness application. How a candidate answers the last question could prevent them from being admitted to the practice of law, depending on which state bar they apply to.

For law student Thomas Kim, who wants to practice law in the state of Oregon, his presence in the U.S. as an undocumented immigrant will bar him from admission. But a recent resolution, championed by Kim and passed by the American Bar Association, may soon change that.

At the ABA’s annual meeting in New York, the ABA House of Delegates approved a resolution that urges Congress to allow state courts to permit undocumented immigrants seeking legal status to obtain a law license.

“This resolution on which my team and I worked diligently lets undocumented students, as well as documented students, know that America is still a land of opportunity,” Kim said. “Passing of this resolution reminds me that I can continue to make substantive, positive impact in my community and in this country.”

Kim was born in Korea and entered the U.S. legally with his family as a teenager. He was captain of his cross-country team, a speaker at his high school graduation and was the first in his family to attend college. Then, in 2011, he discovered that his family’s green card application had been denied.

Although he was no longer eligible for federal financial aid, Kim worked his way through college and set his sights on becoming a lawyer to help other immigrant families. Kim received a full-tuition scholarship to Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, where he is a rising third-year student.

Not all delegates supported the resolution. Jack Long of the State Bar of Georgia argued that undocumented immigrants were in violation of the law, similar to other bar applicants who receive a DUI while applying to the bar. Long also expressed concern that law graduates with undocumented status are barred from certain employment opportunities…” Read the rest HERE.

Bonus reading: Illegal alien lawyer hires illegal aliens lawyer in California.