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
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.
The below was sent tonight (10:10 PM) to Ms. Pamela Wilson
Public Affairs Officer
Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
Ms. Wilson,
I hope all is well with you. I have just returned from a week long tour of both sides of the southern border.
I am writing an article about the just-ended Georgia legislative session that involves the RIDE program and I have a question please. According to a state legislator, at least one senior state official has reportedly claimed that the RIDE program âis going away.â
Can you please offer an official statement that confirms or disputes that premise? Is the RIDE program being phased out and if so, is there a replacement program with similar goals?
I am writing for Insider Advantage Georgia and for my own news outlet, Immigration Politics Georgia. This information will also be part of a submission to National Review.
THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER IS EVERYTHING THATâS WRONG WITH LIBERALISM
The SPLCâs deceptive and hypocritical approach to anti-racismâŚ
by NATHAN J. ROBINSON
The Southern Poverty Law Center, the wealthiest civil rights organization in the country, has ousted its founder, Morris Dees, and president, Richard Cohen, amid unspecified allegations of workplace misconduct by Dees. Dees had been with the organization since creating it in 1971, while Cohen had joined in the mid-â80s, and the SPLCâs shake-up can be seen as part of the MeToo reckoning in which conduct that was accepted for years is finally being dealt with appropriately.
But the organization has long been dysfunctional in even deeper ways, and the story of Dees and the SPLC is useful for illustrating some of the worst and most hypocritical tendencies in American liberalism. If we understand the full extent of what went wrong in this organization, weâll better understand the ways in which a shallow âpolitics of spectacleâ can take hold, and see the kinds of practices that need to be categorically rejected in the pursuit of progressive change.
The Southern Poverty Law Center perfectly shows social change done wrong. It was a top-down organization controlled by an incompetent and venal leadership.* It was hypocritical in the extreme, preaching anti-racism while fostering a racist internal culture and being led by men whose own commitment to equality was questionable. It didnât care about listening to and incorporating the viewpoints of the people it was supposed to serve. It was obscenely rich in a time of terrible poverty, and squandered much its considerable wealth. Finally, it picked the wrong political targets, and focused on symbolic over substantive change. Each of these practices goes beyond the SPLC, and is endemic to a certain kind of âelite liberalismâ that desires âprogressâ without sacrifice. It is the kind of liberalism recognized by Phil Ochs in 1966, and its chief characteristics are a deep hypocrisy and a lack of willingness to seriously challenge the status quo…,. more here
@FWDus staffer @SamAguilarATL invents long, fake news fairy tale and posts it on Twitter – do his bosses read his feed?
We have already posted video and details of FWDus State Director “Stalker-Boy” Sam Aguilar following me around the Georgia Capitol, but it is important to add that creepy Sam is also not to be trusted with the truth. No telling what he is telling the bosses at the FWD.us anti-enforcement shop.
A February House committee hearing on HB202, a simple bill that would require the Georgia Department of Corrections to post a quarterly, public report  on the number of aliens, including illegal aliens in the state’s prison system produced several pro-enforcement Georgians who trekked to the Capitol to support the legislation. The House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee approved HB202. I was happy to see that we had more people there to support the bill than the corporate-funded illegal alien lobby had lobbyists. This does not happen much anymore here.
Many thanks to Mr. Rick Cox for the assistance in organizing much of the group. Click on the photo of the sign-up sheet below to get a feel of the room.
Image: DIS
As a 16-year and reluctant denizen of the Georgia Capitol, I spotted the paid anti-borders lobbyists – including FWDus Sam Aguilar as soon as I walked into the room. I was surprised that he did not testify against the bill, as that is his job. It was only much later that I realized why he did not go to the podium or sign up to speak. More on that in another blog.
After the hearing I was happy to offer my thanks and encouragement along with a short explanation of the next steps in the legislative process to the nine people who had come to the Capitol to help us. We gathered in the hallway outside the committee room and I was surprised to see Sam Aguilar come out and join our band. I introduced Aguilar to the group and explained that he is a former GALEO staffer now working for FWD.us and that a large part of his job was to stop any and all legislation that would impede illegal immigration in Georgia. “He works for another amnesty for illegal aliens…” was part of my explanation. He continued to stand and listen to my short pep talk and even quietly asked me if we could have a “short chat.” Bear in mind that this is the same guy who is on video stalking me.
Especially this arrogant young creep, I make it an iron-clad rule to never talk to the illegal alien lobby and told him so.
Sam Aguilar stood by and listened to every word I said with his near-constant goofy smirk. During the time I was talking to the pro-American group, “Stalker-Boy” took a photo of us on his cell phone. Then he posted it on Twitter with a ridiculous whole cloth lie about what I was explaining to the multi-hued group of Americans.
There is a different way to say this: Sam Aguilar is a liar. And his frustrated invention of what we were talking about illustrates that he is willing to tell lie after lie in an attempt to justify his professional opposition to immigration enforcement in the USA.
Twitter post from Sam Aguilar
For some reason the illegal alien lobby in under the impression that calling me by my full name somehow annoys me. It doesn’t. But their sophomoric attempts at hurting my feelings are amusing – which brings to mind “Stalker-Boy” Sam Aguilar’s former boss, GALEO’s Jerry Gonzalez, getting up and crossing a packed committee room several years ago to take the seat I had before I got up and took my turn to testify on legislation. I will never forget the look on the Capitol Police officer’s face when, shaking his head, he realized what a now beaming Gonzalez had done. Yep, he really got me.
The House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee approved HB202 and it passed on to the House Rules Committee where Republican Chairman Jay Powell let it die, at least for the year. Powell got a lot of publicity for that, including in his hometown newspaper.
Republican state Rep Jay Powell should be regarded as being on the same side as the paid anti-enforcement lobby, including Sam Aguilar.
This is @SamAguilarATL who now is State Director for FWD.us in Georgia. He is a former GALEO staffer.
2015 Late in the legislative session. At night, on the 4th floor of the GA Capitol. This bizarre character, Sam Aguilar, walked up and introduced himself with an odd smirk. As I shook his hand he informed me he worked for GALEO, which is one of the many corporate-funded anti-enforcement immigration lobby groups in GA. Warning, if you shake hands with this nutball, have a towel handy, his hands are miserably sweaty. After I walked away, I noticed he was following me, so I reversed direction to be sure. Sure enough, he was right on my tail. He stayed about 4 feet behind me for about 10 minutes around the building, with people everywhere, including when I went into the men’s room.
I finally told a Capitol Police officer what was up and handed my phone to a friend to record Stalker Boy Sam Aguilar. What you see here is the last minute of me, then age 63, being stalked by a paid GALEO anti-borders, millenial activist – in public. The Capitol Police officer was just about to get involved and Stalker Boy decided to slow down his tail. But he still had the weird smirk. I suppose in lefty-land this is considered revenge for my pro-enforcement work to make GA. inhospitable to the crime of illegal immigration. To be clear. Stalker Boy Sam Aguilar is a very strange egg.
Can the DACA âKidsâ get Instate College Tuition Rates? Not so far in Georgia
March 17, 2019
That is what D.A. King reported on his Immigration Politics Georgia website earlier this month in the wake of an Appellate court decision.
The gist of the decision is that Georgia does not have any responsibility to allow those illegal aliens known as DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipients to attend college on the taxpayerâs dime.
DACA kids are not lawfully present says the court, they only have their removal deferred at the moment!
Below is a bit of Kingâs report.
But first, his website is a reminder of what you all should be doing in your states as King explains,
ImmigrationPoliticsGA.com was created in late 2018 with personal funds in an effort to provide news and opinion now mostly muffled and hidden by the MSM in Georgia.
The story about the DACA âkidsâ lawsuit is here,
Appellate Court: Not lawfully present, illegal aliens with DACA are illegal aliens â Georgia issuing public benefits based on disputed status
Illegal aliens who have been awarded deferred action on deportation proceedings through the DACA amnesty by both the Obama and Trump administrations are illegal aliens and do not have âlawful presenceâ says the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. The decision was handed down March 6, 2019.
The ruling was in response to a suit brought by several illegal aliens in Georgia who are challenging the Board of Regents policy that requires lawful presence for instate tuition purposes and admittance to some USG universities.
A group of DACA recipients sued the leaders of the Georgia higher education system in 2016, which bars aliens who are not âlawfully presentâ from enrolling in some Georgia colleges and universities, even if they would academically qualify for admission. âThe students argued that they were lawfully present under federal law, which preempted state law. They also claimed that the admissions bar violated their right to equal protection, as Georgia treats aliens who are paroled into the U.S. or granted asylum as âlawfully presentâ reported the Immigration Reform Law Institute.
The Eleventh Circuit rejected all of the studentsâ claims. The court noted that âlawfully presentâ is not a standalone immigration classification, and it is not defined anywhere in the (Immigration and Nationality) Actâ *(opinion here).
The ruling is consistent with an official October 2017 statement to this writer from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that âcurrent law does not grant any legal status for the class of individuals who are current recipients of DACA. Recipients of DACA are currently unlawfully present in the U.S. with their removal deferred.â
House Rules Chairman Jay Powell (R- Camilla) Image: Georgia House
The below letter ran last week in the Mitchell County Enterprise-Journal. We are very grateful for the space.
An update on HB 202 and Rep Jay Powell
Dear editor,
Thank you very much for publishing my guest column last week alerting your readers to the peril of HB202 in the House Rules Committee run by Rep Jay Powell. The simple bill would have required the Georgia Department of Corrections to inform the public on the number of non-citizens, including illegal aliens in our prison system along with their home countries and crimes committed.
HB202 was deemed to be too much information to be made public.
I am sad to report that Rep Powell did not allow the bill to go to the House for a vote, where it would have passed by a wide margin. HB202 will not become law this year.
Including the discredited SPLC, the radical, leftist, corporate-funded illegal alien lobby that worked against passage has claimed another victory here in the Peach State with the defeat of HB 202.
While the big names in Atlanta media have carefully ignored it, the legislation, Rep Powellâs use of power and the fact that GOP-ruled Georgia is home to more illegal aliens than green card holders has captured the attention of smaller newspapers all over the state and several national news outlets, including Breitbart News. We will see more on this story.
It should be noted that because our new Governor, Brian Kemp has the authority, he could easily issue an Executive Order to require the Dept. of Corrections to create and make public the quarterly reports that HB 202 would have mandated if it had been allowed to pass. Governor Kempâs office number is 404-656-1776.
