Activist key to immigration bill
Posted: Tuesday, July 05, 2011
By KATE BRUMBACK
ATLANTA – With the fate of a proposal to crack down on illegal immigration still unknown in the frenetic final days of Georgia’s legislative session, the bill’s author was spotted several times huddled in hushed discussions in the Capitol hallways with D.A. King.
King, 59, has been a permanent fixture at the Capitol for years, lobbying lawmakers and rallying supporters for phone and letter-writing campaigns. The broad-shouldered, 6-foot-2 activist’s approach is sometimes confrontational and always outspoken, making him a hero among those who favor stricter immigration enforcement – and earning him plenty of enemies.
His advice has been welcomed by some legislators, including state Rep. Matt Ramsey, a Republican in the Atlanta suburb of Peachtree City who authored Georgia’s strict measure.
“I can’t think of anybody in my 20 years of working on this issue who has been more adroit in working inside the state legislature to get legislation actually passed,” said Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, which pushes for tighter immigration control. “He’s just kind of at the top of the heap nationwide in terms of local activists.”
Ramsey said King provided integral guidance when drafting the new law, and he rallied supporters to pressure lawmakers with phone calls and emails.
Even though a judge last week temporarily blocked two provisions of the law, King claims victory. He cited several parts that were not blocked, saying they “will greatly deter illegal aliens from attempting to take jobs in Georgia.”
One will require businesses with 500 or more employees to use a federal database called E-Verify to check the immigration status of new hires starting Jan. 1. That requirement will be phased in for all businesses with more than 10 employees by July 2013. Another makes it a felony to use false information or documentation when applying for a job. Also starting Jan. 1, applicants for public benefits must provide at least one state or federally issued “secure and verifiable” document.
The Montgomery, Ala.-based Southern Poverty Law Center hasn’t put King’s organization on its list of hate groups.
But the center lists him as a “nativist” and has expressed concern about his tendency to call illegal immigrants “invaders” and his contact with other more extreme activists.
“His tactics have generally not been to get up in the face of actual immigrants and threaten them,” said the law center’s Heidi Beirich. “Because he is fighting, working on his legislation through the political process, that is not something we can quibble with, whether we like the law or not.”
Other critics take a harsher view.
“I think he works to push his agenda in a very divisive way,” said Jerry Gonzalez, executive director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials. “One has to look at who this man is. He is a convicted felon who is advising our legislators and our governor on very important policy matters.”
King talks openly about his felony conviction. He pleaded guilty in 1977 to a charge of interstate gambling, stemming from work he did answering phones and picking up money for a bookmaker taking bets on sporting events in Alabama.
He was ordered to pay a fine and to serve two years of probation.
The grandson of a Detroit police officer, King grew up in the suburbs of that city, served two years in the U.S. Marine Corps and built a career as an insurance agent. He had no interest in politics or activism and didn’t vote.
“What happened is when I started learning about illegal immigration, I went from being very, very shy to being very, very upset,” he said.
In the late 1990s, a Mexican family moved in across the street from the house he shares with his wife in suburban Atlanta. Before long, there were about 20 people he suspected were in the country illegally living in the three-bedroom home, the yard was full of old vehicles and loud parties disrupted the neighborhood, King said.
He complained to his local government about code violations but got no response, he said.
Then the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks marked his “aha moment,” he said.
“I realized if I could have people living illegally across the street from me and there are people in the country who are flying planes into our buildings, this doesn’t seem like a big effort at national security,” he said.
That’s when he began researching illegal immigration on an old hand-me-down computer from his brother-in-law.
The Pew Hispanic Center estimated Georgia’s illegal immigrant population to be about 425,000 last year, making it the state with the seventh-largest illegal immigrant population.
King stopped working as an insurance agent in 2003 to devote himself full time to his cause and held a rally at the state Capitol in 2003, the first of more than two dozen. He also was profoundly affected by five trips to the Arizona-Mexico border between 2003 and 2006, he said.
He met Billy and Kathy Inman, whose 16-year-old son, Dustin, had been killed in a car crash caused by an illegal immigrant, and in 2005 renamed his group from the American Resistance to the Dustin Inman Society at their request to make their son’s name live on, he said.
“This crisis took more than 30 years to develop,” he said. “There is no overnight solution.”
But the federal government has a fundamental duty to the secure the nation’s borders and to follow up on visas to make sure people leave once their time has expired, he said.
Federal immigration authorities also must enforce the law so illegal immigrants won’t come and won’t stay, which he calls “attrition through enforcement.” It also is important for English to be the official language of the U.S., he said.
He calls the groups who lobby against illegal immigration crackdowns “open borders crazies” and is quick to call or email journalists about their reporting on the topic.
“I know what gets left out of the news,” he said. “I know and watch every day how illegal immigration is constantly spun.”
King said he’s working on a book, but making the fight against illegal immigration a full-time job for nearly a decade has left him deep in debt and forced him to refinance his house and sell stock his grandmother left him. He said soon he’ll have to do what he can to “return to real life.”
“I’m in no way quitting,” he said, “but I don’t know that I’m going to be regarded as furniture in the Georgia Capitol next year.”
Audio taken from the official records of the Gwinnett County Commission meeting on August 6, 2019. The link is here , Fosque’s filthy smear starts at 13:27 of the ‘introduction’ segment. The video is here on Youtube.
Ms. Fosque:
Well, this afternoon, I would like to share some, remarks, and not so much as an announcement.
Good afternoon. Last Wednesday, I held my first community engagement discussion, where the topic was 8… the 287(g). The purpose of the discussion was to create an open space for dialogue between Gwinnett county residents and panelists, which focus on the benefits and impacts of the 287(g) program.
For those of you who don’t know, 287(g) is a federal immigration program the Gwinnett County Sheriff Department has, uh, has participated in for the last 10 years, yet no one brought these two opposing sides together to discuss facets of this program until now.
Now, I do not usually quote President Trump, but on Monday, the president stated, “In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy. These sinister ideologies must be defeated. Hate has no place in America. Hatred warps the mind, it ravages the heart, and it devours the soul.”
Well, I want to change one of President Trump’s statements to say, “Hate has no place anywhere.” Hate definitely do not belong in Gwinnett county.
For whatever reason, still unbeknownst to me, Sheriff Butch Conway invited a man from Cobb county to participate as a panelist in our local discussion. Our, our Gwinnett county issue. I will mention this man’s name, probably two times only, and then I’m gonna refer to him as “the man from Cobb county.”
The Southern Poverty Law states, “the Dustin Inman Society is a Georgia-based, anti-immigrant hate group founded and led by activist, D.A. King.”
They list this group as an anti-immigrant hate group because it criticizes unfairly, it belittles, immigrants and it supports efforts to make the lives of immigrants so hard that they leave on their own, which is a tactic known as attrition through enforcement. The Southern Poverty Law Center also state that this man from Cobb county was comfortably working with, and accepting money from, some of the most hardcore elements of anti-immigrate- immigrant movement, including white nationalists.
I rebuke, denounce, deplore, and condemn the participation of Donald A. King, better known as D.A. King, of Cobb county, from being a panelist at my Gwinnett county community engagement discussion that was held on last Wednesday, July 31st. This individual, as noted by an anti-defamation league director, has ties to the extreme elements of the anti-immigrant movement. Spewing hatred and imitatin’-imitatin’, I’m sorry- intimidating advocate, advocacy groups.
This man from Cobb county, he should have never been invited by Sheriff Butch Conway, to participate in our local, Gwinnett discussion. Especially, representing our Gwinnett County Sheriff Department. This man from Cal, from Cobb county, he didn’t bring value to the discussion. Instead, he was more of a distraction. This man from Cobb county does not represent our Gwinnett standards, nor that Gwinnett County Sheriff Department, and he sure doesn’t speak on behalf of me, or any of our residents.
We do not want this type of hatred and distraction in our ever-growing, prosperous, and vibrant county. We include and embrace all individuals, but not their, for their hateful opinions.
To Sheriff Butch Conway, I’m very disappointed in your choice for the panelists and how you moved forward with allowing this man from Cobb county to participate, even after I offered you two replacement options. This was disheartening.
All the negativity, the petitions, the angry comments, whatever’s going on right now throughout Gwinnett, it didn’t have to happen, if you chose differently. Therefore, it is my opin, opinion that Sheriff Conway and the sheriff’s public information officer were wrong for allowing this man, from Cobb county, someone known for spewing hatred and bigotry and racism, to represent our Gwinnett County Sheriff Department in a public forum.
Never again should this happen in Gwinnett county, never again. Now I know, there are wonderful men and women employed with our sheriff department. In fact, I’ve met many of them. You see, Gwinnett county is a great place to live, to work, and to play, and to learn. We have award-winning parks and recreation, schools, and libraries. We have excellence in water production and wastewater treatment, and we maintain a competitive, viable, and sustainable economy, built with strong partnerships.
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These are some of the Gwinnett attributes we want to be known from, and I got in a magazine just today, by the Gwinnett Chamber, here’s some other numbers: 95% of animals are saved at the Gwinnett County Animal Shelter. That’s what we want to be known for. 3,900 and 4,000 meals are served to seniors by our Health and Human Services division. That’s what we want to be known for. 2.78 million people have visited our Gwinnett county public library br- um, library branches. And then 733,000, the number of police calls dispatched, per the, to the, e, 9-1-1 center.
So lastly, as a leader in Gwinnett, I will continue to strive to create peaceful and respectful, open spaces in our communities, so that there’s times and opportunities to create dialogue among Gwinnett county residents. It does matter that all of our voices are heard, which was the whole premise of the whole community engagement discussion. Thank you.
“The Montgomery, Ala.-based Southern Poverty Law Center hasnât put Kingâs organization on its list of hate groups.
But the center lists him as a ânativistâ and has expressed concern about his tendency to call illegal immigrants âinvadersâ and his contact with other more extreme activists.
âHis tactics have generally not been to get up in the face of actual immigrants and threaten them,â said the law centerâs Heidi Beirich. âBecause he is fighting, working on his legislation through the political process, that is not something we can quibble with, whether we like the law or not.â
ATLANTA – With the fate of a proposal to crack down on illegal immigration still unknown in the frenetic final days of Georgia’s legislative session, the bill’s author was spotted several times huddled in hushed discussions in the Capitol hallways with D.A. King.
King, 59, has been a permanent fixture at the Capitol for years, lobbying lawmakers and rallying supporters for phone and letter-writing campaigns. The broad-shouldered, 6-foot-2 activist’s approach is sometimes confrontational and always outspoken, making him a hero among those who favor stricter immigration enforcement – and earning him plenty of enemies.
His advice has been welcomed by some legislators, including state Rep. Matt Ramsey, a Republican in the Atlanta suburb of Peachtree City who authored Georgia’s strict measure.
“I can’t think of anybody in my 20 years of working on this issue who has been more adroit in working inside the state legislature to get legislation actually passed,” said Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, which pushes for tighter immigration control. “He’s just kind of at the top of the heap nationwide in terms of local activists.”
Ramsey said King provided integral guidance when drafting the new law, and he rallied supporters to pressure lawmakers with phone calls and emails.
Even though a judge last week temporarily blocked two provisions of the law, King claims victory. He cited several parts that were not blocked, saying they “will greatly deter illegal aliens from attempting to take jobs in Georgia.”
One will require businesses with 500 or more employees to use a federal database called E-Verify to check the immigration status of new hires starting Jan. 1. That requirement will be phased in for all businesses with more than 10 employees by July 2013. Another makes it a felony to use false information or documentation when applying for a job. Also starting Jan. 1, applicants for public benefits must provide at least one state or federally issued “secure and verifiable” document.
The Montgomery, Ala.-based Southern Poverty Law Center hasn’t put King’s organization on its list of hate groups.
But the center lists him as a “nativist” and has expressed concern about his tendency to call illegal immigrants “invaders” and his contact with other more extreme activists.
“His tactics have generally not been to get up in the face of actual immigrants and threaten them,” said the law center’s Heidi Beirich. “Because he is fighting, working on his legislation through the political process, that is not something we can quibble with, whether we like the law or not.”
Other critics take a harsher view.
“I think he works to push his agenda in a very divisive way,” said Jerry Gonzalez, executive director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials. “One has to look at who this man is. He is a convicted felon who is advising our legislators and our governor on very important policy matters.”
King talks openly about his felony conviction. He pleaded guilty in 1977 to a charge of interstate gambling, stemming from work he did answering phones and picking up money for a bookmaker taking bets on sporting events in Alabama.
He was ordered to pay a fine and to serve two years of probation.
The grandson of a Detroit police officer, King grew up in the suburbs of that city, served two years in the U.S. Marine Corps and built a career as an insurance agent. He had no interest in politics or activism and didn’t vote.
“What happened is when I started learning about illegal immigration, I went from being very, very shy to being very, very upset,” he said.
In the late 1990s, a Mexican family moved in across the street from the house he shares with his wife in suburban Atlanta. Before long, there were about 20 people he suspected were in the country illegally living in the three-bedroom home, the yard was full of old vehicles and loud parties disrupted the neighborhood, King said.
He complained to his local government about code violations but got no response, he said.
Then the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks marked his “aha moment,” he said.
“I realized if I could have people living illegally across the street from me and there are people in the country who are flying planes into our buildings, this doesn’t seem like a big effort at national security,” he said.
That’s when he began researching illegal immigration on an old hand-me-down computer from his brother-in-law.
The Pew Hispanic Center estimated Georgia’s illegal immigrant population to be about 425,000 last year, making it the state with the seventh-largest illegal immigrant population.
King stopped working as an insurance agent in 2003 to devote himself full time to his cause and held a rally at the state Capitol in 2003, the first of more than two dozen. He also was profoundly affected by five trips to the Arizona-Mexico border between 2003 and 2006, he said.
He met Billy and Kathy Inman, whose 16-year-old son, Dustin, had been killed in a car crash caused by an illegal immigrant, and in 2005 renamed his group from the American Resistance to the Dustin Inman Society at their request to make their son’s name live on, he said.
“This crisis took more than 30 years to develop,” he said. “There is no overnight solution.”
But the federal government has a fundamental duty to the secure the nation’s borders and to follow up on visas to make sure people leave once their time has expired, he said.
Federal immigration authorities also must enforce the law so illegal immigrants won’t come and won’t stay, which he calls “attrition through enforcement.” It also is important for English to be the official language of the U.S., he said.
He calls the groups who lobby against illegal immigration crackdowns “open borders crazies” and is quick to call or email journalists about their reporting on the topic.
“I know what gets left out of the news,” he said. “I know and watch every day how illegal immigration is constantly spun.”
King said he’s working on a book, but making the fight against illegal immigration a full-time job for nearly a decade has left him deep in debt and forced him to refinance his house and sell stock his grandmother left him. He said soon he’ll have to do what he can to “return to real life.”
“I’m in no way quitting,” he said, “but I don’t know that I’m going to be regarded as furniture in the Georgia Capitol next year.”
Note: This page is under construction and information will be constantly added. We will also be posting a list of the GOP Georgia delegation and their responses to an upcoming questionaire regarding their own position on joining the Obama Democrats and some in the Republican party in a quest for another legalization program. We hope that you will check back soon and also see our facebook page.
Please be an educated voter and make your voice heard. Please contact both of Georgia’s U.S. Senators and your own GOP Congressman with your views on a repeat of the amensty for illegal aliens of 1986. Ask them how this ridiculous surrender would help honest Georgians find a job…and remember, there is another election in twenty-three months. Contact info HERE.
Facts and talking points for pro-enforcement Americans against another massive legalization plan for illegal aliens in the USA. Please share this with friends, family and fellow patriots.
Following the disastrous November 2012 defeat in the presidential election and regardless of past evidence and majority American opinion, many Republicans are now joining Barack Hussein Obama and the far-left Democrats in trying to force an amnesty for illegal aliens through congress. There will be no public-input hearings or committee meetings on the maneuver.
The liberal media , political pundits and $ean Hannity , along with too many in GOP leadership are going to try to convince you that a legalization plan would end illegal immigration, result in secure borders and would somehow increase the Republican voting rolls. The fact that it is the liberal press and the Democrats who are pushing hardest for this sham should be an indicator of the fantasy of newly legalized, mostly Hispanic, low-wage, entitlement-dependent aliens joining the small government, low tax, rule-of-law Republican party.
Apparently, panicked leaders in the GOP are attempting to prove âthose who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.â Again.
Most illegal immigration comes from Latin America. âHispanicsâ are not a monolithic voting bloc. But they do largely vote big-government Democrat. Rather than whatâs best for the republic, far too many low-wage voters support the candidate that promises the most entitlements (loot ). Hispanics included. In any language, it is 20th century Democrat President John F. Kennedyâs âAsk not what your country can do for you â ask what you can do for your countryâ in reverse.
What is the message to the patriotic, rule-of-law, conservative Hispanic-Americans â including those who are real, legal immigrants â who do support Republicans if the GOP surrenders to the ongoing extortion from Obama, some in the GOP and the illegal alien lobby?
Reliable evidence available on Hispanic public opinion makes it clear that generally, âHispanicsâ are a fairly liberal voting group. Just 12 percent of Latinos polled supported a cuts-only approach to deficit reduction. Only 25 percent want to repeal Obamacare. Only 31 percent said theyâd be more likely to vote for a Republican who supports the DREAM Act.
Memo to the GOP base: Hispanics do not reward Republicans with majority support on amnesty.
FACT: Amnesty, by any name, is not the answer. Attrition through Enforcement works
The reasonable and workable solution to Americaâs illegal immigration crisis is to secure our borders, as is required by the constitution, insure that all temporary visa holders leave the U.S. on time and as agreed in their visa process and to enforce all of our immigration, benefits and employment laws. It has taken more than thirty years for this nationally-suicidal nightmare to develop. There is no overnight fix. The fact is that illegal aliens flee areas in which the law is enforced. Please tell your elected officials at all levels: Attrition Through Enforcement works ! A steady, gradual attrition of the illegal population through enforcement of the law is the answer.
FACT: We already tried amnesty â in 1986. It only served to increase illegal immigration. It did NOT increase GOP voting by Hispanics.
The first thing all Americans should know about legalizing the 12-20 million illegal aliens who are even now taking American jobs, benefit and services while they march in the streets of our nation demanding special treatment under the law is that âcomprehensive immigration reformâ is the 21st century code word for another amnesty and that this is not a new or un-tried idea. I was done in 1986 and only rewarded and increased illegal immigration .
In 1986 we were told by the GOP-led federal government, big business, big religion, the big ethnic lobby and the shameless liberal media that the illegal immigration problem would be solved forever, that our borders would be secured and illegal employment would end if we legalized about one million illegal aliens. The real result was that about three-million illegals eventually received amnesty. Remember that when the press constantly tells you that there are only â11 millionâ illegals here now.
Pro-amnesty GOP leaders should pay attention to 2012 election-day talking points distributed by Dr. Juan Andrade Jr. at the United States Hispanic Leadership Institute. He unintentionally illustrates the absurdity and folly of the latest position on âcomprehensive immigration reformâ from some congressional leaders. Andrade points out that in his run for re-election in 1984, Ronald Reagan promised legalization. And got 37 percent of the Hispanic vote.
In 1988, just two years after the GOP actually delivered the âone-timeâ amnesty, Republican presidential candidate George H.W. Bush lost the Latino vote by 39 points. Ever-pandering GOP Texan George W. Bush, who promised amnesty in his 2004 re-election campaign, got less than 40 percent of the Hispanic vote.
Republican John McCain got 31 percent of the Latino vote despite his desperate foreign-language radio campaign promise of amnesty âon day oneâ in 2008.
The record low was Bob Dole at 21 percent in 1996 against incumbent Bill Clinton, who had just implemented landmark, effective border enforcement with âOperation Gatekeeper ,â a massive project announced in 1994 âto restore integrity and safety to the nationâs busiest borderâ that secured the American/Mexican border in San Diego. An action that outraged the illegal alien lobby then and still does today.
Pro-enforcement Democrat Clinton won in a landslide. With 72 percent of the Hispanic vote.
Documenting millions of undocumented potential Democrats is a ridiculous approach to electing a conservative president or saving the remnants of the Republican Party.
FACT: Illegal aliens are not âimmigrantsâ
Federal law defines âimmigrantâ as an alien (non-citizen) who enters the United States lawfully with the intention of permanent residence ( LPR, which is documented with a âGreen Cardâ) â or an alien who is already here and has been granted LPR. An illegal alien, someone here in violation of our immigration laws is not any kind of an âimmigrant.â
FACT: Border security is not a bargaining chip and nearly half the illegals now here did not come over the border illegally. They came lawfully, on temporary visas. There is no effective system in place to effectively monitor visa departures or overstays.
Do we continually offer amnesty to visa-overstayers too? Why not simply announce a scheduled future comprehensive pull-out for all of our immigration law enforcement?
FACT: The United States has nothing to apologize for on immigration.
Even now, with the years-old unemployment crisis, the USA takes in more (real, legal) immigrants than any nation in the world at more than one million each year. The traditional level of immigration is around 250,000 â 300,000 annually. If any apology is needed, it should be to the immigrants and citizens who are watching their jobs and rule of law be taken by illegal aliens and the people who employ them. Note: The U.S. also imports more than one million temporary guest workers each year.
FACT: The main cause of Illegal immigration is illegal employment.
While it is true that some non-citizens are here with the intention of doing us great harm, most illegal immigration is caused by the fact even as millions of their countrymen suffer from unemployment, integrity-free employers will hire black-market labor because illegals will work for less than an American or legal immigrant. It is all about the money, profit margins and âcheap labor.â The illegals come here because they can make more money than at home and the illegal employers hire thm for more profits.
FACT: There is no such thing as âcheap labor.â
The artificially low wages paid to illegal labor does not allow the illegals to afford to pay for the benefits and services that they consume. It is the American citizens â including those who are real, legal immigrants – who are watching as their taxes go top pay for illegals. Governor Nathan Deal has repeatedly said that Georgians pay around $2.4 billion each year for the cost of education, health care amd incarceration alone because of illegal aliens and their children.
FACT: Employment verification â E-Verify -deters illegal hiring, illegal immigration and saves JOBS!, JOBS!, JOBS! for American workers.
The no-cost (itâs free!) federal E-Verify employment verification system is a quick, easy to use, reliable and accurate method of insuring that newly-hired employees are eligible to work in the United States. E-Veroifyu is currently used by*** employers and about *** employers sign up every day month week***
FACT: Corporate America is as anti-enforcement as the radical ethnic lobby and is a powerful enemy of the American majority on immigration enforcement and amnesty.
It was the United States Chamber of Commerce that sued multiple times in federal court in an effort to prevent the federal government from requiring use of E-Verify for many federal contractors. It was also the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in concert with radical far-left groups that went all the way to the United States Supreme Court to stop implementation of Arizonaâs 2007 E-Verify law.
FACT: There is no such thing as an âundocumented immigrant.â
The legal, proper and accurate name for those here in violation of American immigration laws is âillegal alien.â Illegal aliens possess a wide variety of âdocumentsâ including fraudulent and stolen IDs and identification from their home countries designed to make likle easier for them to reside illegally in the United States. While they send billions of dollars back
Below is my MDJ column written Thursday morning. This version contains several links to referenced information and a few added bits of information. It may vary slightly from the as-published MDJ version.
Note: $EAN HANNITY JOINS OBAMA ON AMNESTY-AGAIN! Please make special note that the sell-out Sean Hannity’s of the world will have a difficult time with the fact that nearly half of the illegals in the USA did/do not arrive illegally.
*Also, we note that PJB has just weighed in on the same sell-out this evening as well…HERE.
Marietta Daily Journal
D.A. King
Columnist
November 9, 2012
Amnesty-again wrong answer for GOP in 2016
Mitt Romneyâs loss to the Obama regime has the establishment GOP â including here in Georgia â scratching their heads, wringing their hands and chattering semi-coherently with advice about how to retake the White House from the socialists.
The confused âconservativeâ consternation comes with a predictable, disproven and suicidal scheme as a solution: Another amnesty for illegal aliens. The promised results? âWeâll get more of the Hispanic vote.â
Apparently, they are attempting to again prove “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
In addition to mindless – and sad – âimmigration enforcement is seen as ethnic-cleansing!âon-air rants from out-going talk-radio relic Neal Boortz ( extra: medicated, pre sell-out Boortz HERE ), the latest local example of âenforcing our immigration laws is not the answerâ advice comes from a recent Cobb Chamber of Commerce Chairmanâs Club briefing in which political âexpertâ and pollster Matt Towery offers his take on the GOPâs latest loss. (extra: note from D.A. King: donât miss pre-sale Matt Towery on amnesty HERE )
As reported by this newspaper Towery expressed alarm that election-night Florida exit polls from the Cuban American community had Romney only five or six points ahead. âThatâs significant trouble because thatâs your most loyal Republican base,â Towery said. âIf the party doesnât deal with that, and you canât do it by saying, âseal the borders and throw everybody outâ, because if you say that youâre saying to them, âyou donât belong here in the United States of America. So I think thereâs going to have to be a reinvention of how do you deal with these issues without simply trying to appeal to the red meat of one core part of the Republican Party.â
The conclusion is less than educated. And, as usual, Romneyâs enforcement plank is misrepresented.
Most Cuban-Americans do not support illegal immigration. Especially from Mexico, which is the source of most illegals . People who are in the USA in violation of our immigration laws do not belong here. Also, like Boortz, Towery seems surprisingly ignorant on the quite reasonable and proven-successful attrition through enforcement â âself-deportationâ- solution.
Romney and most pro-enforcement Americans are simply demanding that we at least enforce the same immigration laws that bring more than a million, mostly poor, legal immigrants (which is far too many) each year.
Towery, along with the rest of the pack in the Republican Party that is even now plotting another run at legalization by capitulating to Barack Hussein Obama – and the Chamber of Commerce – on amnesty-again should struggle to understand that âHispanicsâ are not a monolithic voting bloc. But they do mostly vote Democrat. Far too many voters support the candidate that promises the most entitlements (loot) . Hispanics included.
Nearly half of the illegal aliens present in the U.S. right now did not come here illegally. They overstayed temporary visas. For votes, should we ignore visa violations too? That is how many of the 9/11 terrorists were able to remain here.
Reliable evidence available on Hispanic public opinion from an election eve ImpreMedia/Media Decisions (slogan:âEverything Latino politicsâ) poll makes it clear that (unlike the proud Hispanics on the board of the Dustin Inman Society which this writer heads) generally, âHispanicsâ are a fairly liberal voting group. Just 12 percent of Latinos polled supported a cuts-only approach to deficit reduction. Only 25 percent want to repeal Obamacare. Only 31 percent said theyâd be more likely to vote for a Republican who supports the DREAM Act.
Using election-day talking points distributed by Dr. Juan Andrade Jr. at the United States Hispanic Leadership Institute, the folly of current âexpertâ advice is evident: In his run for re-election in 1984, Ronald Reagan promised legalization. And got 37% of the Hispanic vote.
In 1988, just two years after the GOP actually delivered amnesty, Republican presidential candidate George H.W. Bush lost the Latino vote by 39 points (Boston.com ). Even the super-Hispandering GOP Texan George W. Bush, who promised amnesty in his 2004 re-election campaign, got less than 40% of the Hispanic vote.
Republican John McCain got 31% of the Latino vote despite his foreign language radio promise of amnesty âon day oneâ in 2008.
The record low was Bob Dole at 21% in 1996 against incumbent Bill Clinton, who had just implemented landmark, meaningful enforcement with âOperation Gatekeeper â, a massive project announced in 1994 “to restore integrity and safety to the nation’s busiest borderâ that secured the American/Mexican border in San Diego. Pro-enforcement Democrat Clinton won in a landslide with 72% of the Hispanic vote.
Documenting millions of resentful undocumented Democrats is a crack-pot approach to electing a Republican president.
KING: Newtâs illegal immigrant pandering
Gingrich offers the same false choices as liberals
Nobody should be surprised that Newt Gingrich’s immigration enforcement position has devolved from his unworkable gibberish of November down to the Bush-Kennedy-McCain “guest-worker” amnesty schemes of the last decade he has been trying to camouflage.
After months of absurdly asserting that Americans lack the will to enforce our quite liberal immigration laws – and thereby honor the real, legal immigrants who have joined the American family in accordance with the law – the amazingly arrogant Mr. Gingrich reportedly mocked Mitt Romney this week for promoting the concept of “self-deportation” while he simultaneously advanced the transparent “we can write a law that makes them eligible to apply for a guest-worker permit” shtick for the foreign-language press at Univision and the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
Who is “them” in the Grandiose One’s “guest” scenario? They would be the 11 million to 20 million illegal-alien fugitives who either have escaped capture while sneaking across our still-unsecured borders or have refused to leave when their assorted visas – including guest-worker visas – have expired.
They would be the screaming, angry illegal aliens we see marching in American streets demanding amnesty, citizenship – and the vote.
They would be the resentful “undocumented workers” who make up a Pew-estimated 5 percent of the American workforce while millions of Americans – including lawful immigrants – stand in unemployment lines wondering about “jobs, jobs, jobs” and why their local public services and benefits are fading and asking themselves whatever happened to the American dream of equal justice under the law.
“Compassion” indeed.
Mr. Gingrich is referring to the illegals who drew strength, encouragement and political power as a result of his willing work as a congressman from Georgia who supported the failed 1986 “compassionate” legalization that was to have ended illegal immigration forever.
He is proposing that we legalize the black-market labor that Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich protected when he obediently followed commands from the Chamber of Commerce in 1996 with his failed effort to abort what is now E-verify at its bipartisan inception, successfully using his office and power to help make it a voluntary system instead of the mandatory job-saving tool it was intended to be.
It is clear he needs more education on the self-deportation concept, but Mr. Romney is – so far, courageously – actually promoting the proven and reasonable solution to illegal immigration called “attrition through enforcement.”
The straw-man argument for another amnesty goes like this: Because it is impossible to deport every illegal alien by sundown tomorrow, the only other option must be to begin another fraud-ridden legalization program – the same false choice used in 1986.
The attrition-through-enforcement solution recognizes that it took more than 30 years for the current national crisis to develop and there is no magical overnight remedy. It could take 30 years to solve fully.
Gradual attrition of the illegal population through enforcement of the law is the logical and reasonable choice hidden from Americans by many in the media.
Attrition through enforcement recognizes that border security and law enforcement are fundamental duties of the federal government and not a campaign bargaining chip. It also acknowledges that like all criminals, illegally present aliens flee enforcement.
It is a solution proved successful each time a state passes an immigration enforcement law.
I write from my home of nearly 30 years in what was the 6th District in Georgia – Mr. Gingrich’s former congressional district – where we read daily news reports lamenting the fact that illegals are rushing to migrate out of the Peach State in panicked fear of the state’s illegal-immigration enforcement law, passed last year.
The most vigorously contested component of the Georgia law requires use of E-Verify for most employers. It was a well-funded coalition of the Chamber of Commerce, ethnic organizations, various religious groups, the agriculture lobby and the American Civil Liberties Union that worked feverishly against the law’s passage.
On immigration enforcement, Mr. Gingrich is coming from the left of the late congressional Democrat Barbara Jordan, who, as President Clinton’s chairman of the Commission on Immigration Reform, testified to Congress that cutting off jobs, benefits and services was integral to stopping illegal immigration. This was a decade after the “one-time” amnesty.
A President Gingrich surely would find some “compassionate” pretext to bow again to the anti-enforcement coalition when it came time to enforce the law on his “guest-worker” scam.
The crime of illegal immigration is not somehow a separate issue unconnected to taxes, jobs, culture, common language, education, health care or national security. Or rule of law.
D.A. King is president of the Dustin Inman Society and worked closely with Georgia legislators on the state’s immigration reforms.
Read more: The Marietta Daily Journal – D A King Adios Newt Nothing âhumanitarianâ about Gingrich amnesty proposal
Marietta Daily Journal
November 25, 2011
D.A. King
Many thanks to the former House Speaker for explaining his core values and oh-so-morally-superior âcompassionâ on Americaâs illegal immigration crisis, another amnesty and the rule of law in the GOP presidential primary debate this week.
This long-time American was ever so close to making the blunder of supporting him for president.
With a blend of talking points taken from the anti-enforcement Chamber of Commerce, Barack Obama, the National Council of La Raza, the open borders Big Religion Inc. and Jerry Gonzalez of GALEO, the former speaker ended any confusion about his aversion to enforcement of the laws on immigration he voted for as a congressman.
âI do not believe that the people of the United States are going to take people who have been here a quarter century, who have children and grandchildren, who are members of the community, who may have done something 25 years ago, separate them from their families and expel them. Iâm prepared to take the heat for saying, letâs be humane in enforcing the law without giving them citizenship but by finding a way to create legality so that they are not separated from their familiesâ said Gingrich.
Heads up for Newt from recent Rasmussen poll headlines:
â59% say U.S. government encourages illegal immigration
63% favor immigration checks on all routine traffic stops
Most voters oppose public schooling, tuition breaks, driverâs licenses for illegal immigrants
64% say U.S. society fair and decentâ
Gingrich also degraded and insulted the entire concept of legal immigration and U.S. citizenship by referring to not-yet-captured illegal aliens as âlaw-abiding citizens.â
He added, âI do believe if youâve been here recently and have no ties to the U.S., we should deport you.â So it is a matter of time? Golly, thanks Newt. Apparently there is a statute of limitations on immigration violations for the would-be president of the republic.
Itâs ironic that Gingrich would pick a figure of âa quarter centuryâ as a time period for which an illegal can avoid deportation and then gain legal status in the USA.
Twenty-five years ago, then Congressman Newt Gingrich voted for the Simpson-Mazzoli legislation that legalized illegal aliens and offered the promise of future employer sanctions and secure American borders.
It was to have ended illegal immigration in the U.S forever.
The 1986 âone-timeâ amnesty legislation eventually made about three million illegal alien fugitives legal. The borders were not secured. Despite tireless work on the part of the Obama administration and the media to convince America otherwise, they still arenât secure. Employers continue to hire and employ the less costly black-market labor who made it past Border Patrol Agents.
Despite the fraud involved in the same scheme in 1986, for Gingrich, it seems that amnesty is an every-25-year âhumanitarianâ project.
Gingrich also said with a straight face at the debate he wanted to create âa guest worker programâ to help solve illegal immigration.
This dishonest concept and talking point taken straight from George W. Bush, John McCain and Ted Kennedy is offered up knowing that most Americans are unaware that we already have multiple guest worker programs in place. Including for agriculture. And that we already take in more than a million guest workers each year. Along with another million or so legal immigrants annually. While unemployment runs around 10 percent. And wages are stagnant. And many local governments all over the nation are going broke.
Gingrich knows no debate moderator is ever going to ask him or any other candidate for a reasonable explanation of this lunacy.
As I type, I can hear the usual voices on talk radio who have made up their minds to back Gingrich â no matter what â yelp that we canât âround up and deport millions of illegal aliensâ ⊠yada yada.
Sure we could. Obama is claiming to have deported about 400,000 illegals last year and the year before. That claim is deceptive at best, but certainly those numbers are easily reached. Deporting say, half-a-million illegals every year until they are gone is quite possible and most American would support the endeavor. This one included.
But the real answer is attrition through enforcement â making the illegals leave on their own because of a lack of jobs, benefits and services and fear of strict, enthusiastic enforcement of the federal immigration laws for which the 1986 Congressman Newt Gingrich voted.
He has made it crystal clear that they now mean very little to him.
Adios, Newt â we know you too well.
D.A. King is president of the Cobb-based Dustin Inman Society which is actively opposed to any legalization of illegal aliens.
We thank the AP and reporter Kate Brumback for a fair and balanced report.
Ga. man key to crafting illegal immigration bill
Kate Brumback
Associated Press
Athens Banner Herald
With the fate of a proposal to crack down on illegal immigration still unknown in the frenetic final days of Georgia’s legislative session, the bill’s author was spotted several times huddled in hushed discussions in the Capitol hallways with D.A. King.
King, 59, has been a permanent fixture at the Capitol for years, lobbying lawmakers and rallying supporters for phone and letter-writing campaigns. The broad-shouldered, 6-foot-2 activist’s approach is sometimes confrontational and always outspoken, making him a hero among those who favor stricter immigration enforcement – and earning him plenty of enemies.
His advice has been welcomed by some legislators, including state Rep. Matt Ramsey, a Republican in the Atlanta suburb of Peachtree City who authored Georgia’s strict measure.
“I can’t think of anybody in my 20 years of working on this issue who has been more adroit in working inside the state Legislature to get legislation actually passed,” said Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, which pushes for tighter immigration control. “He’s just kind of at the top of the heap nationwide in terms of local activists.”
Ramsey said King provided integral guidance when drafting the new law, and he rallied supporters to pressure lawmakers with phone calls and emails.
Even though a judge last week temporarily blocked two provisions of the law, King claims victory. He cited several parts that were not blocked, saying they “will greatly deter illegal aliens from attempting to take jobs in Georgia.”
One will require businesses with 500 or more employees to use a federal database called E-Verify to check the immigration status of new hires starting Jan. 1. That requirement will be phased in for all businesses with more than 10 employees by July 2013. Another makes it a felony to use false information or documentation when applying for a job. Also starting Jan. 1, applicants for public benefits must provide at least one state or federally issued “secure and verifiable” document.
The Montgomery, Ala.-based Southern Poverty Law Center hasn’t put King’s organization on its list of hate groups. But the center lists him as a “nativist” and has expressed concern about his tendency to call illegal immigrants “invaders” and his contact with other more extreme activists.
“His tactics have generally not been to get up in the face of actual immigrants and threaten them,” said the law center’s Heidi Beirich. “Because he is fighting, working on his legislation through the political process, that is not something we can quibble with, whether we like the law or not.”
Other critics take a harsher view.
“I think he works to push his agenda in a very divisive way,” said Jerry Gonzalez, executive director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials. “One has to look at who this man is. He is a convicted felon who is advising our legislators and our governor on very important policy matters.”
King talks openly about his felony conviction. He pleaded guilty in 1977 to a charge of interstate gambling, stemming from work he did answering phones and picking up money for a bookmaker taking bets on sporting events in Alabama. He was ordered to pay a fine and to serve two years of probation.
The grandson of a Detroit police officer, King grew up in the suburbs of that city, served two years in the U.S. Marine Corps and built a career as an insurance agent. He had no interest in politics or activism and didn’t vote.
“What happened is when I started learning about illegal immigration, I went from being very, very shy to being very, very upset,” he said.
In the late 1990s, a Mexican family moved in across the street from the house he shares with his wife in suburban Atlanta. Before long, there were about 20 people he suspected were in the country illegally living in the three-bedroom home, the yard was full of old vehicles and loud parties disrupted the neighborhood, King said. He complained to his local government about code violations but got no response, he said.
Then the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks marked his “aha moment,” he said.
“I realized if I could have people living illegally across the street from me and there are people in the country who are flying planes into our buildings, this doesn’t seem like a big effort at national security,” he said.
That’s when he began researching illegal immigration on an old hand-me-down computer from his brother-in-law.
The Pew Hispanic Center estimated Georgia’s illegal immigrant population to be about 425,000 last year, making it the state with the seventh-largest illegal immigrant population.
King stopped working as an insurance agent in 2003 to devote himself full time to his cause and held a rally at the state Capitol in 2003, the first of more than two dozen. He also was profoundly affected by five trips to the Arizona-Mexico border between 2003 and 2006, he said.
He met Billy and Kathy Inman, whose 16-year-old son Dustin had been killed in a car crash caused by an illegal immigrant, and in 2005 renamed his group from the American Resistance to the Dustin Inman Society at their request to make their son’s name live on, he said.
“This crisis took more than 30 years to develop,” he said. “There is no overnight solution.”
But the federal government has a fundamental duty to the secure the nation’s borders and to follow up on visas to make sure people leave once their time has expired, he said. Federal immigration authorities must also enforce the law so illegal immigrants won’t come and won’t stay, which he calls “attrition through enforcement.” It is also important for English to be the official language of the U.S., he said.
He calls the groups who lobby against illegal immigration crackdowns “open borders crazies” and is quick to call or email journalists about their reporting on the topic.
“I know what gets left out of the news,” he said. “I know and watch every day how illegal immigration is constantly spun.”
King said he’s working on a book, but making the fight against illegal immigration a full-time job for nearly a decade has left him deep in debt and forced him to refinance his house and sell stock his grandmother left him. He said soon he’ll have to do what he can to “return to real life.”
“I’m in no way quitting,” he said, “but I don’t know that I’m going to be regarded as furniture in the Georgia Capitol next year.”
DHS Trumpets New Deportation Statistics, but Ignores Job-Stealing Illegal Aliens
October 7, 2010, from NumbersUSA
The Department of Homeland Security set a new record for illegal alien deportations in fiscal year 2010, removing nearly 400,000 illegal aliens. About half, 195,000, were convicted criminals, which amounts to a 70 percent increase from 2008, but the Administration continues to ignore the millions of illegal aliens who hold jobs in the United States.
The increase in criminal alien deportations is mostly due to the expanded Secure Communities initiative, which uses fingerprints taken from criminals by local police officers and compares it with data kept by federal immigration officials. In 2008, only 14 communities were part of the program, but it’s been expanded to more than 660 municipalities.
The other 200,000 illegal aliens deported had either just recently crossed the border or were fugitives from immigration courts.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials also audited more than 2,200 hiring documents from various businesses and levied $50 million in fines to the companies that hired illegal aliens. But the agency has done nothing to address the estimated 8 million illegal aliens holding jobs while 22 million Americans are can’t find a job.
“This report shows that the record of the Obama Administration is mixed,” said Roy Beck, CEO of NumbersUSA. “It simply is not true as some critics suggest that Pres. Obama has ended immigration enforcement. It is a benefit to society if more felony criminal aliens are being removed from the country. The increase is relatively modest, but the trend is hopeful.
“However, the numbers do not look so good when looking at the non-felony illegal aliens. The Administration tends to look at them as if they are not creating victims, too. It is as though illegal aliens keeping unemployed Americans from having jobs is not a serious issue. Mr. Obama’s constant efforts to bar states and localities from moving illegal foreign workers out of their jobs to make room for unemployed Americans belie a truly serious effort to combat illegal immigration.”
Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee Lamar Smith (R-Texas) also offered a comment on the DHS report.
âThe deportation of criminal aliens is only one piece of the immigration enforcement pie. While criminal arrests may be on the rise, worksite enforcement has been all but forgotten by the Obama administration. Millions of Americans are struggling to find work, while an estimated seven million illegal immigrants are working in the U.S. Worksite enforcement could help make those much-needed jobs available for U.S. citizen and legal immigrant workers.
“But under President Obama, worksite enforcement administrative arrests are down 77%, criminal arrests are down 60%, indictments are down 64% and convictions are down 68%.”
âThe Obama administration needs to do more than just enforce a few immigration laws. In addition to deporting criminal aliens, they need to secure the border to ensure those deported cannot come right back into the U.S. And they need to conduct worksite enforcement to punish employers who hire illegal immigrants and make millions of jobs available to U.S. citizen and legal immigrant workers.â
TV’s Colbert & Farmworkers Union Miss 2 Key Facts In Their Illegal Alien Stunt
By Roy Beck, posted on NumbersUSA
4% and H-2A!
These are two powerful reasons why TV comedian Stephen Colbert and the United Farm Workers of America are completely misleading the public with their “Take Our Jobs” stunt.
They claim that they are bringing a dose of reality to the national desire to move illegal aliens out of the country. They suggest that because few Americans have stepped forward to take field work at existing wages and conditions, that means we need most of the illegal aliens who are in the country.
In a nutshell, here are the two main reasons their gag is full of a baloney:
Only 4% of illegal alien workers have jobs in agriculture
To whatever extent a farmer may rely on illegal ag workers, he/she has an unlimited supply of LEGAL ag workers available through a foreign visa program called H-2A.
UNION ABANDONS WORKERS TO MAKE AMNESTY POINT
The Union’s founder, Caesar Chavez was a champion against illegal immigraiton because he knew how it depressed wages, benefits and working conditions for those who work the fields.
But now the union is much more concerned with adding millions of illegal foreign workers into the rolls of registered voters to accomplish other political goals.
Union officials said the campaign called “Take Our Jobs” is intended to highlight the role of illegal workers in feeding Americans and to goad Congress to overhaul U.S. immigration policy. . . I can’t imagine we’ll find that many Americans want to work in the fields,” said Arturo Rodriguez, president of the California-based union.
Kicking out illegal aliens would lead to crops rotting in the fields, higher food prices and a greater reliance on imports, the Associated Press says the union contends.
“If we asked all the undocumented immigrants to leave the country, the agriculture industry would die,” Mr. Rodriguez said.
Can you believe such bald-faced lying!
I hope you will challenge every reporter who ever quotes such nonsense without a response that shows what a lie it is.
The H-2A visa program allows any farmer in America to import an unlimited number of foreign workers to labor in the fields.
If the government made illegal aliens go home, there would be no reason for a single head of lettuce to rot in the fields or an apple to fall and rot on the ground.
Then why are there so many illegal aliens working the fields?
Because the farmers who hire them refuse to pay the slightly higher wages required when they use the LEGAL H-2A system and because they don’t plan ahead enough to use the system. North Carolina farmers, on the other hand, have banded together in a kind of co-op to easily use the H-2A system and beat some red tape issues.
ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE MAINLY THREAT TO NON-AG JOBS
Advocates for illegal foreign workers almost always focus on agriculture because they know — as does Stephen Colbert — that few native-born Americans are interested in working the fields at current low wages, tough working conditions and low benefits.
But hardly any illegal aliens are in the ag occupations.
The Pew Hispanic Center in April of 2009 issued a report that found:
4% of undocumented workers are in “Farming, Fishing, and Forestry.”
That is according to Pew’s Table 6, “Comparing Industries of U.S.-born and unauthorized immigrant workers, 2008”
The overwhelming majority of illegal aliens (and even higher percentage of legal foreign workers) have jobs in construction, manufacturing, service and transportation. These are jobs that a high percentage of the 25 million Americans unable to find a full-time job WOULD take.
Attrition Through Enforcement efforts that have helped cause a reduction of approximately 2 million in the illegal alien population over the last two years are designed to open up jobs that Americans DO want and to reduce burdens on taxpayers and local communities.
Using ag work as an excuse for amnesty not only is illogical, it is intentionally deceptive.
ROY BECK is Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA
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