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September 7, 2018
 Atlanta Mayor Keisha Bottoms, photo, City of Atlanta
“Civil offenses do not warrant criminal consequences – and no one should be jailed solely because they seek the American Dream,” – Atlanta Mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms.
Oh, mayor, you should stop taking goofy and intentionally false points from the anti-borders crazies you put on your advisory board. Actually, federal law (8 USC 1325) says illegal entry (or “improper entry”) to the US carries criminal penalties (fines and jail or prison time), in addition to civil penalties and immigration consequences (deportation and bars from future entry). More here.
The Associated Press
ATLANTA
Atlanta’s city jail will no longer accept immigrants detained by federal officials, the mayor announced Thursday, saying it was the best way to demonstrate her administration’s opposition to current “inhumane” national immigration policies.
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms signed an executive order directing the Atlanta City Detention Center to stop accepting detainees of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The jail had been receiving the detainees under an agreement with the U.S. Marshals Service.
The order directs Atlanta’s corrections chief to formally request that ICE transfer all detainees as soon as possible.
“As we work to achieve our vision of an Atlanta that is welcoming and inclusive, with equal opportunity for all, it is untenable for our city to be complicit in the inhumane immigration policies that have led to the separation of hundreds of families at the United States southern border,” Bottoms said.
“Civil offenses do not warrant criminal consequences – and no one should be jailed solely because they seek the American Dream,” she added.
U.S. Rep. and civil rights icon John Lewis applauded Bottoms’ action, remarking in a statement that… Read the rest here.
September 5, 2018
 photo: The market oracle
The liberal AJC today:
ICE detainees dwindling in Atlanta jail as contract decision looms
By Jeremy Redmon – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Entire report here.
“Immigrant-rights activists have severely criticized the city for holding ICE detainees. In contrast, Secretary of State Brian Kemp, Georgia’s Republican nominee for governor, said during the GOP primary this summer that the city should honor its “longstanding agreement” to house the detainees, adding: “Public safety – not partisan politics – must always come first.”
The members of the Atlanta mayor’s anti-enforcement board who are usually referred to as described as “immigrants rights activists” are
CoChair – Shana Tabak, Executive Director, Tahirih Justice Center
CoChair – Bee Nguyen, State Representative District 89
Charles Kuck – Managing Partner, Kuck Baxter Immigration
Ariel Prado – Project Manager, Innovation Law Lab: Center for Excellence in Atlanta
William E. Hoffman – Senior Counsel at Georgia Asylum and Immigration Network
Jessica Stern – Managing Partner and Owner, Stern Law
Geraldine Carolan – Former Deputy Counsel for Coca-Cola and attorney with CARA pro-bono project
Azadeh Shahshahani – Legal and Advocacy Director, Project South
Amilcar Valencia – Executive Director, El Refugio Ministry
Laura Rivera – Advocacy Attorney, Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative, Southern Poverty Law Center
Eli Echols – Partner at Socheat Chea, P.C.
Monica Khant – Executive Director, Georgia Asylum and Immigration Network (GAIN)
Amy Fairchild Haer – Senior Program Director, Immigration and Legal Services, Catholic Charities Atlanta
Pamela Peynado Stewart – Partner/Immigration Attorney, Lee & Peynado Immigration Law Group
Estrella Sanchez – Former detainee and immigration advocate
Patrick “Pat” Labat – Chief, Atlanta Department of Corrections
Javeria Jamil – Director of Legal Services, Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta
Ouleye Warnock – Senior Human Trafficking Fellow, City of Atlanta
Immigration and Customs Enforcement – Please note that ICE attended one committee meeting and others with City staff. ICE was NOT a contributor to the report.
Former detainees who wish to remain anonymous
–> Note, the below ADL piece was updated sometime this morning – the below version is what was up last night and before the crazies accused a White house staffer of flashing a hate hand gesture. The image right is from the ADL.
The link to that original article is;
No, the “OK” Gesture Is Not a Hate Symbol.
The headline was change today to: How the “OK” Symbol Became a Popular Trolling Gesture
This is the original version:
No, the “OK” Gesture Is Not a Hate Symbol
Has the simple thumb-and-forefinger “OK” hand gesture become a white supremacist hand sign? Well, no, it hasn’t, but you are likely to hear just the opposite from social media, thanks to the latest hoax from members of notorious website 4chan.
The site 4chan is an anonymous discussion board with an outsized cultural impact on the Internet. It has been responsible for everything from the “I can haz cheeseburger” cat meme to the concept of rickrolling. There is little that 4channers like so much as a hoax and in recent months they have served up a number of fakeries with white supremacist themes to largely credulous on-line audiences.
The “OK” hand gesture hoax originated in February 2017 when an anonymous 4channer announced “Operation O-KKK,” telling other members that “we must flood Twitter and other social media websites…claiming that the OK hand sign is a symbol of white supremacy.” The user even provided a helpful graphic showing how the letters WP (for “white power”) could be traced within an “OK” gesture. The originator and others also suggested useful hashtags to help spread the hoax, such as #PowerHandPrivilege and #NotOkay. “Leftists have dug so deep down into their lunacy,” wrote the poster, “We must force [them] to dig more, until the rest of society ain’t going anywhere near that s***.”
Following the cues of the hoax’s originator, 4channers created fake e-mail and Twitter accounts and bombarded civil rights organizations, journalists, and others with messages furthering the “OK” hoax. Some of the hoaxers were possibly racists or white supremacists themselves, as parts of 4chan are something of a haven for them and the site itself has been a source of adherents of the alt right segment of the white supremacist movement.
The original launch of “Operation O-KKK” sputtered after a few days and it seemed that the hoax had run its course without spreading too far, but it picked up again in late April and this time was far more successful in spreading across social media—and beyond.
The “OK” hoax was actually just the most recent in a recent series of hoaxes in which 4channers (and members of other, similar places on the Internet such as 8chan and Reddit) have tried to take innocuous items, symbols or gestures and falsely attribute white supremacist meanings to them in order to fool liberals and get them to spread such false messages.
One recent 4chan thread devoted itself to brainstorming the next such hoax. “We need to make some pics that are warning parents about what the dab really means and spread it around,” wrote one 4channer (the “dab” is a popular dance move). Another 4channer suggested spreading the notion that clapping was “anti-feminist.”
One of the more successful of these recent 4chan hoaxes, also originating in February 2017, was the concept that white supremacists were drinking milk to show “the superiority of the white race” and the “purity of white milk.” One hoaxer trying to convince the Anti-Defamation League “explained” that “they are chugging milk in front of people of color, quoting racist books and phrases and supposed statistics about people of color being lactose intolerant.” Even a number of media websites bought into the milk hoax.
Another such hoax was the attempt by 4channers to convince people that white supremacists had adopted a popular polar bear emoji from the messenger app Kik as a white supremacist symbol. In recent days, ADL has received e-mails from other would-be hoaxers attempting to claim that white supremacists had adopted symbols ranging from the rainbow flag to the iFunny chef (the mascot of humor website iFunny) as new hate symbols.
The fact that all of these hoaxes have emerged in recent months is not a coincidence; they are a reaction to the surge of media attention given to white supremacy, especially the alt right, in the wake of the 2016 election campaign. They are also a response to the willingness of many on the left in the United States to believe that the Trump administration is full of hardcore white supremacists, a belief so powerful that recently a photo of White House staffer Stephen Miller adjusting his suit and tie before an interview went viral with the claim that Miller was actually using his hands to form an obscure white supremacist hand sign for “white power” as a secret signal to white supremacists who might be watching. It is this willingness to believe that 4channers have been trying to exploit.
The reality is, though, that white supremacist symbols and signs do not form and become accepted overnight. “Leaving aside hate group logos, most hate symbols appear and spread organically, over time,” said Mark Pitcavage, Senior Research Fellow in ADL’s Center on Extremism. “The process of acceptance and growth in use typically takes months or even years, even for on-line symbols. If someone presents you with a symbol and says it is the big new white supremacist symbol, you should be appropriately skeptical.”
 photo: City of Atlanta
City of Atlanta
Mr. King, please find responsive documents to your request pasted below. Feel free to reach out with any questions.
Best,
ADVISORY COUNCIL
CoChair – Shana Tabak, Executive Director, Tahirih Justice Center
CoChair – Bee Nguyen, State Representative District 89
Charles Kuck – Managing Partner, Kuck Baxter Immigration
Ariel Prado – Project Manager, Innovation Law Lab: Center for Excellence in Atlanta
William E. Hoffman – Senior Counsel at Georgia Asylum and Immigration Network
Jessica Stern – Managing Partner and Owner, Stern Law
Geraldine Carolan – Former Deputy Counsel for Coca-Cola and attorney with CARA pro-bono project
Azadeh Shahshahani – Legal and Advocacy Director, Project South
Amilcar Valencia – Executive Director, El Refugio Ministry
Laura Rivera – Advocacy Attorney, Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative, Southern Poverty Law Center
Eli Echols – Partner at Socheat Chea, P.C.
Monica Khant – Executive Director, Georgia Asylum and Immigration Network (GAIN)
Amy Fairchild Haer – Senior Program Director, Immigration and Legal Services, Catholic Charities Atlanta
Pamela Peynado Stewart – Partner/Immigration Attorney, Lee & Peynado Immigration Law Group
Estrella Sanchez – Former detainee and immigration advocate
Patrick “Pat” Labat – Chief, Atlanta Department of Corrections
Javeria Jamil – Director of Legal Services, Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta
Ouleye Warnock – Senior Human Trafficking Fellow, City of Atlanta
Immigration and Customs Enforcement – Please note that ICE attended one committee meeting and others with City staff. ICE was NOT a contributor to the report.
Former detainees who wish to remain anonymous
Michael Smith
Press Secretary
Mayor’s Office of Communications | City of Atlanta
55 Trinity Avenue, Suite 2500 Atlanta, Georgia 30303
T: 404-546-1465 | C: 470-372-8752
mismith@atlantaga.gov
From: D. A. King
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2018 12:14 PM
To: Smith, Michael
Subject: Re: OPEN RECORDS REQUEST – Request for list of names – members of the mayor’s Advisory Council on Immigrant Detention
TY
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 15, 2018, at 11:06 AM, Smith, Michael wrote:
Received. Will circle back asap.
Michael Smith
Press Secretary
Mayor’s Office of Communications | City of Atlanta
55 Trinity Avenue, Suite 2500 Atlanta, Georgia 30303
T: 404-546-1465 | C: 470-372-8752
mismith@atlantaga.gov
From: D.A. King
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2018 7:33 PM
To: Smith, Michael
Subject: OPEN RECORDS REQUEST – Request for list of names – members of the mayor’s Advisory Council on Immigrant Detention
Please regard this as my request for public records. Please send me a list of the members of the Mayor’s Advisory Council on Immigrant Detention.
Thank you
D.A. King
Marietta
Link to entire NBC news report mentioned below – here.
Official USCIS statement on status of DACA recipients – here.
August 30, 2018
Lobbyist Renewal letter Session 2019
GEORGIA BUILDING AUTHORITY
One Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, Atlanta, Georgia 30334
Parking and Access Services Ph: 404-656-4088
Governor Executive Director
Nathan Deal Steve Stancil
Lobbyist Parking Renewal Reminder for 2019 Legislative Session
Beginning September 1, 2018 parking requests should be emailed to panderson@gba.ga.govor faxed to 404-651-7518. All parking requests must include your name, Lobbyist credential number, organization name, address, phone and email on your company’s letterhead.
Due to the limited amount of available parking spaces,only 100Pete Hackney Deck Spaces are available and only two permits per company. Permits will be offered at $600.00 per space for the entire Session.
Lobbyist requests will be assigned on a first come first serve basis until full; however any parking requests made after October 1, 2018 will be automatically placed on a waitlist for parking assignment. Notification of parking assignments will be emailed to you beginning November 15, 2018.
There will be a $20.00 replacement charge for lost or damaged parking hangtags/permits.
The hours of operation for the valid use of the parking hangtag will be between 6:00 am until 9:00 pm. Hangtags are not valid on weekends, state observed holidays or special events. The footbridge on the 5thLevel connecting the Pete Hackney Parking Deck to the Butler Deck, take elevator to bridge level for access to the James H. “Sloppy” Floyd building will be available for use. The footbridge will be open from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm.
Please returnyour permits and session cards from previous sessions, so we can remove items from your profile.
For additional information, please contact Parking and Access Services at (404) 656-4088
 photo: DIS – added October 20 – 1:12 PM Newnan Times Herald
Opinion
August 30, 2018
On immigration, DACA and Rep. Ferguson’s security bill
In his recent guest column here railing against Congressman Drew Ferguson’s pending immigration security legislation, the Rule of Law, immigration enforcement and protecting American workers, Jack Bernard very nearly hit every talking point thrown out by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, the liberal media and the rest of massive corporate-funded anti-enforcement lobby.
Mr. Bernard made it clear that he favors a repeat of the toothless “one-time” 1986 immigration amnesty and path to U.S. citizenship that was the cause of much of today’s illegal immigration crisis.
Memo to Republicans: Another amnesty would be the biggest single voter-roll increase in Democrat history.
Any “dilemma” President Trump has on “separating families at the border” is that the illegal crossers have been educated on how to make false pleas for asylum and that bringing children – their own or rented from industrious entrepreneurs – will result in a better chance of being allowed to live and work in the United States. So, either the illegal aliens are locked up while their case is sorted out, or they are released to disappear, usually forever, into the interior of the U.S.
Children cannot be confined in the adult holding facilities. It’s illegal. And dangerous.
Mr. Bernard says Obama’s 2012 re-election scheme to grant de facto DACA amnesty to what has now become a special, protected class of illegal aliens known as “dreamers” was “wildly popular.”
We respectfully note that contrary to what Mr. Bernard writes, Obama’s amnesty was not an executive order – it was merely a policy memo. And that pre-DACA, Obama himself publicly announced more than 20 times that he lacked the authority to unilaterally do what the legislative branch specifically refused to authorize on multiple occasions.
Any DACA popularity was founded on ignorance or defiance of the law and endless promotion by the open borders lobby.
According to the Associated Press, so far this fiscal year, agents in the Yuma, Ariz. border sector have apprehended nearly 10,000 families and 4,500 unaccompanied children, a giant increase from just seven years ago when they arrested only 98 families and 222 unaccompanied children.
Think of the future “we need another DACA for the children” arguments.
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has reported that “almost 8 percent of total DACA requestors (59,786 individuals) had arrest records as of the date the systems were queried, which included offenses such as assault and battery, rape, murder, and drunk driving, among others” according to officials.
Rep. Ferguson’s legislation also acknowledges the fact that about half of the total illegal aliens in the U.S. today did not come here illegally. They came on legal, temporary visas and then refused to leave as promised. Over 700,000 foreigners overstayed their visas in 2016, according to DHS. We do not have a system in place to track them.
Rep. Ferguson’s bill would fix that lunacy.
According to the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, Georgia is home to more illegal aliens than green card holders (legal immigrants) and according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, more illegals than border-state Arizona.
On legal immigration, it helps to understand that the USA takes in more than one million legal immigrants each year – more than any other nation. Many people who study the issue – this writer included – view that number as too high for badly needed assimilation, including preserving English usage. And realize that high immigration numbers reduces American wages.
For example, work from the eminent Harvard economist George Borjas shows that when immigration increases the size of the labor pool by 10 percent, wages for African American men drop 2.5 percent – and their employment rate declines by nearly 6 percent.
About 62 percent of Americans want immigration cut by 50 percent or more (Pulse Opinion Research, courtesy NumbersUSA.com, July, 2017) We hope readers of all description will heed the 1995 words of Barbara Jordan, the late Democrat and chair of then-President Bill Clinton’s U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform: “Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave.”
D.A. King
Marietta
Here.
The below was sent today.
Ms. Wilson, thank you for your time on the phone this morning. As discussed, here are some questions for an upcoming column/news report on the statewide news outlet, Insider Advantage Georgia.
A recent Bloomberg news report contains well-researched information that seems to indicate some Georgia employers with E-Verify MOUs are not using the system to verify work eligibility of some or all newly hired employees. This would be a violation of the terms of the E-Verify MOU which states: “The Employer must use E-Verify for all new employees. The Employer will not verify selectively and will not verify employees hired before the effective date of this MOU.”
Bloomberg: “Georgia, for instance, has 101,667 enrolled businesses, the most in the country. It also has the lowest percentage—23 percent—of enrollees that e-verified a hire in the past year”.
With the employment market booming, it is logical to assume that far more than 23% of E-Verify users in Georgia have hired new employees in the last year and that many E-Verify users in Georgia are in violation of their MOU. As you know, use of E-Verify is mandated by state law for public employers and contractors/vendors and for most private employers.
Questions
1) Does USCIS/DHS have in place any audit, or monitoring system to insure that E-Verify users are in compliance with the MOU which clearly states “the Employer must use E-Verify for all new employees. The Employer will not verify selectively and will not verify employees hired before the effective date of this MOU”, please?
2) Does USCIS/DHS have a system by which non-compliance with the MOU is sanctioned with revocation of the MOU for employers? From the E-Verify MOU: “Notwithstanding Article V, part A of this MOU, DHS may terminate this MOU, and thereby the Employer’s participation in E-Verify, with or without notice at any time if deemed necessary because of the requirements of law or policy, or upon a determination by SSA or DHS that there has been a breach of system integrity or security by the Employer, or a failure on the part of the Employer to comply with established E-Verify procedures and/or legal requirements.”
3) Has USCIS/DHS terminated any MOUs for non-complaince in the last year in Georgia? Any other state?
4) Does USCIS/DHS have in place a system by which public complaints of non-compliance in E-Verify MOUs are taken?
5) Please alert me to the database or resource that indicates the number of E-verify users who verified a new hire in the past?
I may have follow up questions. Thanks again for your interest.
Have a nice weekend!
D.A. King
August 28, 2018
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