Updated: The effort to help Billy and Kathy Inman now has a Go Fund Me account. HERE

Desperate Georgia family in need of help at Christmas

Kathy Inman confined to a wheel chair since car wreck caused by illegal alien

A community relief fund account has been established for Billy and Kathy Inman, long-time residents of Woodstock.

The Inman family is desperate for help. Kathy Inman has been confined to a wheelchair since June of 2000 when an automobile wreck also killed the Inman’s only child, sixteen-year-old Dustin. The Inman family was on their way to a Father’s Day weekend of fishing in the North Georgia Mountains when a car traveling at high speed crashed into the rear of the Inman’s vehicle while it was stopped at a red light in Ellijay, Georgia.

The driver of the other vehicle, an illegal alien, fled police custody and remains free in Mexico today. U.S. authorities have located the fugitive, but informed Mr. Inman that current extradition agreements do not allow for returning Gonzalo Harrell Gonzalez to the U.S for trial.

The Inman’s need donations and assistance with payment of on-going medical expenses and a daytime home health-care aide for Mrs. Inman, age fifty-three. 

Mr. Inman works three days a week as a route driver and has been paying for a caregiver for his wife for years while he is at work. The Inman’s lost their home-health care aide several weeks ago and Mr. Inman is frantically searching for a compassionate replacement companion for his wife.

Addressing the hardships they endure, Mr. Inman, a proud and soft-spoken man, admits the loss of their son, Mrs. Inman’s deteriorating health and financial strains are wearing on both him and his wife. “She is always in pain” he says of his wife of 33 years. Mrs. Inman, a rising star in management of the Kroger supermarket chain before the wreck, now requires help in personal care and meals.

It’s not fair. I don’t get to hug my son,” says Mr. Inman. “I don’t get to have him help me do whatever in the yard or on the truck. I won’t be a grandpa. Kathy is forgetting things…”

Since his computer expired, Mr. Inman has been trying to write letters on his smart phone to elected officials asking for guidance on finding help for his wife. He hopes to purchase a new desktop computer.

Donations to help the Inman family can be deposited to the recently established ‘Inman Family Relief Fund- Billy Inman’ at any Sun Trust Bank branch using the account number 1000196179930 or mailed to Sun Trust Bank, Mail Code GA – Alt 0492,   2674 Sandy Plains Rd., Marietta, Ga. 30066 with the same information.

Dustin Inman – forever sixteen, a victim of “cheap labor”and political correctness

“Americans last…”

Dustin Inman Society statement for the sixteenth anniversary of Dustin Inman’s death – June 16, 2016

Who was Dustin Inman?

Billy and Kathy Inman have endured the unendurable for sixteen years – the exact length of their only child’s short life – while even now our government continues the lawless anti-enforcement policies that led to Dustin Inman’s death at the hands of an illegal alien. The Inman’s are just one of the hundreds of thousands of American families who have paid the ultimate price for our unsecured borders and the immigration laws that are ignored in the name of “cheap labor” and disgusting political correctness.

Billy and Kathy are two of the strongest people I know, but no one could bear the latest news contained in the recent letter from the U.S. Department of Justice to Billy Inman. The same government that refuses to enforce our laws or to protect us from invasion has sent a letter telling Billy there “is no legal remedy” to bring Dustin’s killer back from Mexico to answer for his crimes. While we see endless news stories about the hardships of being “undocumented” in Georgia and the victimized howls from the powerful illegal alien lobby that deportation of illegals would “separate immigrant families,” we all should pledge to never forget the real victims of illegal immigration. We must protect American families first.

The United States Department of Justice is telling the Inman family to be comforted by their long and unsuccessful struggle for justice and to accept the reality that allowing Dustin’s killer to remain an unpunished fugitive is due to laws that will be enforced.

Speaking from long, close-up experience I can sadly report that this “Americans last” attitude reaches to the highest levels of government on the local, state and national levels. Americans lost to the crime of illegal immigration are merely viewed as the cost of doing business, when they are considered at all. We urge Georgians to honor and remember the Inman’s suffering by refusing to allow any elected official at any level to avoid the immigration issue. Ever.

Please remember Dustin Inman and God bless Billy and Kathy.

Please see our request to support Billy and Kathy Inman HERE.

D.A. King
President
The Dustin Inman Society
Marietta, Georgia
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The below letter was published in the Atlanta Journal Constitution today in response to a “Atlanta Forward” guest column of about 600 words from the ACLU and Co.http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/2011/07/thousands-rally-in-atlanta-against.html Link to that column HERE. http://atlantaforward.blog.ajc.com/2014/11/06/should-police-detain-immigrants/

Immigration laws protect law-abiding

While we are only middle-class Americans seeking justice in our own country, we hope to add our voice in opposition to the well-funded illegal alien lobby’s war on immigration enforcement. In their column “Detention requests warrantless” (Atlanta Forward, Nov. 6), Azadeh Shahshahani and Adelina Nicholls describe implementation of the federal Secure Communities program as having “troubling patterns … that involved racial discrimination, and indiscriminate targeting of immigrants.”

While not as strict as immigration enforcement in Mexico, the Secure Communities program works toward locating illegal aliens who have landed in the nation’s jails because of arrests for additional crimes. All foreign inmates’ fingerprints are shared with DHS. The perpetual race-baiting from the anti-enforcement left is not fooling anyone. Identifying illegals because of their local arrests is designed to have them deported before they commit even more crimes, like murder or rape.

Killed by an illegal alien in 2000, our only child, Dustin Inman, is forever 16 because his killer was released after previous contact with local law enforcement. We fully understand the concept of “family separation.” Shahshahani’s and Nichols’ shameless mission to end common-sense enforcement is spitting on the grave of our beloved son Dustin and in the faces of the hundreds of thousands of American families who have lost loved ones to illegal immigration.

BILLY AND KATHY INMAN, WOODSTOCK

HERE http://www.ajc.com/news/news/opinion/readers-write-nov-12/nh4n3/

Billy and Kathy Inman with Georgia U.S. Senate candidate Karen Handel and Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, April 28, 2014. Governor Brewer has endorsed Karen in the race for Senate seat. Georgia’s primary is May.

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.”

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MEDIA ADVISORY 14 June 2010

The Dustin Inman Society
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Marietta, Ga. 30066
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Inman family to observe tenth anniversary of Dustin’s death with a candlelight vigil – American family separation one of the consequences of the illegal immigration invasion

Dustin Inman was a sixteen-year-old American boy killed by an illegal alien in a senseless traffic collision on Father’s Day weekend in the year 2000.

When: 7:00 PM Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Where: Rolling Hills Memory Gardens cemetery, 4355 Highway 92
Acworth, GA 30102 MAP HERE

Killed by an illegal alien at age 16 on Father’s Day weekend, Dustin Inman was one of the un-counted thousands of Americans who have needlessly lost their lives because government in America refuses to secure American borders or enthusiastically enforce American immigration and employment laws.

On June 16, 2000, a speeding vehicle driven by Gonzalo Harrell-Gonzalez hurtled into the rear of the Inman family’s car while it was stopped at a red light in Ellijay, Georgia – killing Dustin and knocking unconscious Kathy and Billy Inman – Dustin’s parents. Because of their injuries in the wreck, Kathy and Billy were not able to attend their only son’s funeral

When she regained consciousness after five weeks in a coma, Kathy learned of Dustin’s death and that because of spinal injuries received in the wreck that killed him, she would spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. According to Billy Inman, the family has lost track of the exact number of corrective surgeries Kathy has endured because of the crash that separated the Inman family.

Kathy is now being cared for at home by a part-time visiting nurse and her husband after the most recent operation to relieve the pain which occurred last week.

“Billy Inman will tell you that he blames his federal and state government for his son’s death more than he blames the illegal alien who killed him. No one should have to suffer the mental and physical agony these fine folks have been enduring for ten years” said D.A. King, president of the Dustin Inman Society. “Families like ours are the real victims of illegal immigration. We will miss Dustin until the day we die” said Kathy Inman from her wheelchair.

Inman family friend and Cobb County anti-illegal immigration activist Mary Kirkendoll has kindly set up an account to aid the Inmans’ with their financial difficulties caused by Kathy’s ongoing medical care.

Donations from the public to the Inman Family can be made through The Inman Family Fund at any Regions Bank branch in Georgia.

See the Dustin Inman Society Mission Statement .

Parents: Son Killed By Illegal Immigrant
Dustin Inman Was Killed 9 Years Ago
CBS Atlanta June 16, 2009

CHEROKEE COUNTY, Ga. — A Cherokee County couple is speaking out against President Obama’s plans to legalize millions of immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

Their only son was killed by a man they said is an illegal immigrant.

Dustin Inman was killed nine years ago and his parents are holding a vigil Tuesday night in Acworth at his grave site at Rolling Hills Cemetery.

Each year the pain gnaws at the hearts of his parents Billy and Kathy Inman.

“There’s a hole in my heart that’ll never be healed,” said Billy Inman.

Back in 2000, a car slammed into the Inman’s family car at an intersection in Ellijay.

Dustin Inman was just 16-years-old at the time.

“It just breaks my heart. I don’t get to hug him. I keep him in my heart and my mind daily. It’s just hard,” said Billy Inman.

Kathy Inman suffered a brain injury and was hurt so badly she’s still confined to a wheelchair.

“I’m in pain every single second of the day,” said Kathy Inman.

Authorities said Gonzalo Harrell Gonzalez, the man accused of causing the wreck, is an illegal immigrant.

Gonzalez took off after being taken to the hospital that night, never to be found again.

“It’s not right,” said Billy Inman.

MORE

HERE

“It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.” – Barbara Jordan

So there is no confusion…

Dustin Inman Society Mission Statement

The Dustin Inman Society is was founded in 2005 and – at his parent’s request – named in memory of a Georgia youth who lost his life to the crime of illegal immigration. We are proud to represent and be supported by a broad-based coalition of Americans of every race, ethnicity and description – including many immigrants.

We believe the fundamental duty of the federal government is to enforce federal laws, to secure American borders and protect the American people from unauthorized and uninspected border crossings.

We recognize that immigration into the United States is not a universal right and must be reasonable, sustainable, regulated and serve the national interest.

We reject the agenda held by many that open borders and the free flow of people into the United States is in the interest of the nation or its sovereignty.

It is our opinion that use of the term “immigrants” should be limited to describing individuals who join the American family lawfully. And there is more to being an American – or an immigrant – than having escaped capture by American Border Patrol Agents or failing to keep the promise of departure from the USA when an official visa expires.

Like the majority of Americans throughout our history, we know that there is a distinct and much envied “American culture.” We insist that English be the common and official language of the United States of America and that immigrants assimilate into our culture and language.

As it has proven to encourage and expand illegal immigration and employment, the Dustin Inman Society is actively opposed to any repeat of the 1986 legalization program for illegal aliens present in the U.S.

We further recognize that state and local governments not only have the right, but the duty, to comply with all existing law and use all available legal tools to protect their citizens from the ravages of illegal immigration.

Our unequivocal mission is to end illegal immigration, illegal employment, the illegal administration and granting of Public Benefits and services through the equal application of existing laws. Additionally, we are proud to successfully advocate for and offer expert, experienced advice on crafting state and local legislation aimed at impeding illegal immigration.

Because of very limited resources, the Dustin Inman Society is primarily focused on the state of Georgia, where we are based. We are very proud of our success in assisting in the passage of numerous pieces of state and local legislation that have proven to discourage illegal immigration in Georgia.

We are particularly proud of our success in our now more than three-year education program and public advocacy for the proliferation of 287(g) agreements between County Sheriffs in Georgia and the federal government.

We have no doubt that our work has saved many American lives.

In our patriotic endeavors, we are also proud to have all the right enemies including the ACLU.

Currently, the below Americans make-up our Board of Advisors:

D.A. King (President) – listen to audio interview on NPR, February, 2009. (Also HERE)
Billy Inman
Kathy Inman
Inger Eberhart
Fred Elbel
Francisco Jorge
Lupe Moreno
Everett Robinson

The Dustin Inman Society was organized and founded with the personal funds of D.A. King. Those funds are exhausted. We can now only continue our work with TAX-DEDUCTABLE contributions from supporters. To donate, please click HERE .

Marietta Daily Journal

Dustin Inman’s cause of death? Illegal immigration

By D.A. King
Columnist

Billy and Kathy Inman of Woodstock should be in our prayers today. Their only son was killed nine years ago today. An agonizingly sad anniversary they bear with incredible dignity and strength. Cause of death? Illegal immigration.

Dustin Inman was one of the tens of thousands of Americans who have needlessly lost their lives because the American government has refused to secure American borders or reasonably enforce American immigration and employment laws.

Dustin Inman was a 16-year-old American youth killed in a senseless traffic collision on Father’s Day weekend in 2000. He was on his way to a weekend of family camping and fishing in the North Georgia mountains.

Despite being in the United States illegally, the man later charged with being the driver of the car that killed Dustin, Gonzalo Harrell-Gonzalez, was able to obtain a valid North Carolina driver’s license using his Mexican birth certificate and a Mexican issued matricula consular ID card.

On June 16, 2000, a speeding vehicle driven by Harrell-Gonzalez hurtled into the rear of the Inman family’s car while it was stopped at a red light in Ellijay – killing Dustin instantly.

When she regained consciousness after five weeks in a coma, Kathy learned of the death of her only son. She also learned that because of spinal injuries received in the wreck, she would spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. Nearly a decade later, anxiously waiting to hear from her many doctors if she will need to have more surgery – this time to relieve pressure on her brain – Kathy struggles with constant pain, both physical and emotional. But at least a million illegal aliens entered our nation last year.

Because of their injuries in the wreck, Kathy and Billy were not able to attend the funeral of their son, who today would be a 25 year-old American looking for a better life in his own country.

Harrell-Gonzalez escaped custody on the day of the crash and has never been brought to justice. He is still free.

Billy Inman will tell you that he blames the government sworn to protect him and his family for his son’s death more than he blames the illegal alien who killed him.

Say a little prayer for our nation as well.

Crazies masquerading as “civil rights advocates” who will do or say anything to promote and defend the crime of illegal immigration, and the illegals who have become a cash cow for these shameless charlatans, are hard at work to convince the American people that it is the illegals who are the real victims.

Case in point: Aimed at stopping the super-effective 287 (g) local enforcement program, along with Amnesty International, the ACLU’s “Georgia Detention Watch” staged an all-day vigil in front of the Immigration Customs Enforcement Atlanta Detention office last week to protest any and all local enforcement of American immigration laws. They cite the case of Roberto Martinez Medina, a 39-year old illegal alien who died of natural causes three months ago while in detention at the Stewart Detention facility.

His death proves that immigration enforcement is a human-rights violation, according to these anti-enforcement radicals. While holding signs that read “Liberty and Justice for All,” “No human being is illegal” and “STOP 287 (g)” at their protest against enforcement promoted by Jerry Gonzalez and the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, these people argued that because thousands of illegal aliens who landed in Cobb Sheriff Neil Warren’s jail were then deported, the “undocumented immigrant community” lives in fear in Georgia. Thank you, Sheriff Warren.

Another reason to say a little prayer: Today, President Obama is scheduled to begin the 2009 attempt to repeat the 1986 reward process for the 20 million or so illegal aliens now present in the U.S. by legalizing them and granting a path to citizenship.

Think of it as an early – but calculated – “get out the vote” campaign. But don’t think of it as a way to stop illegal immigration.

Very much in support of immigration law enforcement, the Inman family is holding its own 7 p.m. vigil in memory of Dustin today at Rolling Hills Cemetery in Acworth. Billy says he hopes that keeping their story alive may in some way make a difference that would prevent another family from “going through the mess we have.”

Me too, Billy. I’ll say a prayer.

D.A. King is president of the Cobb-based Dustin Inman Society, which is opposed to illegal immigration and named in memory of the Inman youth. On the Web: www.TheDustinInmanSociety.org

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The Dustin Inman Society
June 12, 2009

Memorial for Dustin Inman TUESDAY 7PM, Rolling Hills Cemetery, Acworth, Ga.

Dustin Inman was killed nine years ago Tuesday, June 16. If you are not familiar with the tragic story, you can read about it HERE. You can see Billy and Kathy HERE

Billy and Kathy Inman, Dustin’s parents are holding a candlelight memorial Tuesday evening to remember Dustin and to again try to make people understand that the crime of illegal immigration has consequences. If you live in the metro Atlanta area and can spare an hour to show your concern and support for Billy and Kathy – and your outrage on the fact that right now illegal aliens are pouring across our borders, Americans are still dying because of our open borders and well-heeled charlatans are pushing for another amnesty – PLEASE consider coming by the cemetery where Dustin is forever sixteen years old. He would be a productive twenty five year old man today, looking for a better life in his own country.

Here is what Billy sent out: “Hi Well it’s been 9 Years since that terrible day 6-16-2000 that took Our Son Dustin’s Life and Drastically Changed ours every day Since , We are Going to have a Candle Light Vigil 6-16-09 at The Cemetery at 7 pm Remembering Dustin an Hopes of Keeping our Story Alive Because as you No Gonzalo is still out there Somewhere an Hoping More will be done one the PROBLEM so someone else won’t have to go through the mess we have
Thanks Billy Dustin’s Dad
Cemetery Add. Rolling Hills 4355 Highway 92, Acworth, GA 30102-2137”

MAPQUEST HERE

SEE YOU THERE.