Who was Dustin Inman?

• Letter below sent November 20, 2017 – it was not published.

Dear editor,

The AJC’s Bill Torpy has apparently chosen the crime of illegal immigration as a pet topic and constantly describes illegal aliens as “immigrants.” He also says illegals are ‘voiceless’ and is clearly against locking them up once they are captured.

 Not for the first time, I urge Mr. Torpy to come OTP to Woodstock and visit with what remains of our American family.

 In 2000, on Father’s Day weekend, an illegal alien killed our only child Dustin Inman and put my wife, Kathy, in a wheelchair for the rest of her life. That person had previous run-ins with Georgia police and was allowed to go free. He is hiding out in Mexico, unpunished, having escaped before local law enforcement could lock him up after killing our son.

 We can tell Mr. Torpy about being voiceless and who we think the victims really are in the illegal immigration mess.

Billy and Kathy Inman

Woodstock, Ga.

Atlanta Journal Constitution
November 20, 2017

Torpy at Large: Too bad Atlanta’s immigration hypocrisy isn’t illegal

Bill Torpy, photo AJC

Earlier this month, Mayor Kasim Reed boasted on his very active Twitter account that his town is immigrant friendly.

“Atlanta is proud to be a welcoming city,” he wrote. “Pleased to be a part of the Safe Cities Network offering legal representation for those individuals facing deportation.”

Fighting for the rights of immigrants is now an important battleground for Dems and progressives. Families are being torn apart through deportation. People who’ve lived and worked here for years suddenly disappear one day into a murky system that affords them few rights. And it’s President Donald Trump’s pet issue!

From a liberal standpoint, resistance is a noble fight. It’s standing up for the powerless.

So, it might come as a surprise that the city of Atlanta, that beacon of civil rights, that Sanctuary City Lite, is profiting greatly from Señor Trump’s roundup. (As it did from President Barack Obama’s roundup, as well.)

At any given time, the Atlanta City Detention Center in south downtown holds about 250 immigrants waiting to be booted from U.S. soil. The city receives $78 per each detained soul per night from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Multiply those numbers and that human suffering amounts to some real cash… MORE HERE

Photo: AJC.com

Atlanta Journal Constitution
November 14, 2017

Georgia immigration enforcement board weighs hiring outside help

Georgia’s Immigration Enforcement Review Board is considering hiring a private investigator or a paralegal to help it get through a backlog of complaints, most of them filed by longtime anti-illegal immigration activist D.A. King.

Appointed by the governor, lieutenant governor and House speaker, the seven-member board — which has a $20,000 annual budget — is now tracking 14 pending complaints. All but one were filed by King, president and founder of the Dustin Inman Society, a nonprofit organization the Southern Poverty Law Center calls a “nativist extremist” group. Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle recently filed one against Decatur’s police policies… MORE HERE.

IN-DEPTH: Georgia’s immigration enforcement panel draws scrutiny

photo: Shoebat.com

Decaturish.com

November 14, 2017

Dear Decaturish,

My family recently returned to Texas where I grew up in a border town after 16 years in the Atlanta area. We still monitor Georgia politics, especially immigration issues. The founder of the Dustin Inman Society, DA King, has been committed for many years in helping people understand the truth about immigration and the law. He correctly points out that Georgia has more illegal immigrants than Arizona. I assure you, this is not helping middle-class or low-income Georgians.

As a proud Latina donor and board member of The Dustin Inman Society, I was stunned to read that you passed along the misinformed insult regarding The Dustin Inman Society from Jim Galloway at the AJC, who is using the SPLC as a reliable arbiter of ‘extremism.’ Surely you are aware of the criticism by the Anti Defamation League of the SPLC for its faking a “hate group” crisis and reprimand by the DOJ for “unprofessional and frivolous behavior in immigration court proceedings”? Tactics and accusations by the SPLC are very questionable, a fact the AJC conveniently omits from their reporting. My hope is that Decaturish.com is more dedicated to fairness in journalism than Jim Galloway, the AJC – and the SPLC.

– Maria Silvia Montoya

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Dear Decaturish,

As an immigrant and an advisory board member of the Dustin Inman Society, I find your recent news article ( “Lt. Governor Casey Cagle escalates fight with Decatur using state immigration board”) that curiously repeats the inaccurate AJC/SPLC characterization that the Dustin Inman Society is “extreme” for insisting that our immigration law be enforced to be extremely offensive.

My parents and aunts and uncles fled a communist regime and spent years in refugee camps, and only emigrated after finding sponsors. They went through the proper steps.

One of the most important civics lessons I learned as a schoolgirl in Rochester, New York, in the 1960s was that the United States system was based on fairness.

Liberal or not, to blur the lines between legal and illegal, as Jim Galloway and the SPLC have repeatedly done, is a violation of the underlying principles of American justice and an insult to all real immigrants. The Dustin Inman Society, led by Mr. D.A. King is pro-enforcement on immigration. It appears that the Southern Poverty Law Center and Jim Galloway at the AJC take a counter position to that agenda. Is that the case for Decaturish.com too?

Sincerely,

Mary Grabar
Clinton, NY

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Dear Decaturish,

As a Black American conservative and proud member of the Board of Advisors of the Dustin Inman Society, I was saddened to see the report on the Immigration Enforcement Review Board that seemed to stray into smear politics.

I have been a friend of D.A. King for more than a decade and have worked alongside him as a volunteer at the Gold Dome to educate legislators on our illegal immigration crisis. I have also watched the SPLC smear conservative political opponents as “hate groups” in an effort to discredit our work. Referring to D.A. King as anything but an honest, hard working patriot who believes in immigration sanity is shameful.

I have had first hand experience with the SPLC when, along with many Black, Asian and Hispanic Americans, I attended an informative 2015 immigration seminar in Washington, DC that the SPLC later falsely described as a “white nationalist” meeting.

Any news outlet risks damaging its reputation by using the race-baiting and discredited SPLC as an authority on immigration and integrity.

– Inger Eberhart

Kennesaw

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Bill Torpy, photo AJC

The liberal AJC posted a head-shaker column (it was in the hard copy too) by a writer named Bill Torpy at 6:00 AM today. We love the part where Torpy suggests that if an illegal alien waded across the Rio Grande, it might mean “his paperwork is messed up.” The AJC crew turned off comment ability about noon and you can see from the small box at the top that there were three comments already made. I breezed through reading two of them this morning.

This is the liberal AJC norm. Advocating for immigration enforcement is “anti-immigration.” How original.

Torpy clearly doesn’t know much about immigration, but he can Goggle the open borders Cato Institute. This isn’t his first try at anti-enforcement immigration commentary, his first one that I know of was even better. Via Twitter I have strongly urged the caring and oh-so-tolerant Mr. Torpy to go talk to Billy and Kathy Inman about immigration enforcement several times.

My friend Billy Inman posted a Tweet aimed at Torpy today too.

So far – no interest in American families that are forever separated by the crime of illegal immigration.

You may get a paywall, but here is the headline, link and first several paragraphs:

Torpy at Large: The real reason Casey Cagle is on Decatur’s case

by Bill Torpy – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“Lt. Governor Casey Cagle this week again tore into Decatur, alleging that the liberal bastion is a hideaway — no, more like a sanctuary — for immigrants who have entered this country without legal permission.

Cagle filed a complaint with something called the Immigration Enforcement Review Board, a kangaroo court created by the state to give anti-immigration activist D.A. King something to do.

The Lt. Gov’s beef with the city is a Decatur police manual that says the cops aren’t supposed to turn over people to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unless there’s a judicial warrant to hold them.

In essence, Decatur is saying police will hang onto people they stop if they are wanted for something — an active warrant for fraud, burglary, not showing up to traffic court, etc. — but they won’t throw the person into the slammer on behalf of ICE simply if there’s a suspicion that they sneaked across the border without U.S. blessing.

Last year, Candidate Trump said he wanted to get rid of the “bad hombres” coming to our country, and Old Casey is deputizing himself in that roundup. In his correspondence, Cagle goes all law-and-order on this matter, talking about murders and dope dealing, and even sex cases.

Cagle’s complaint states that “sanctuary policies create sanctuaries for criminals,” and that he wants to “ensure that every criminal illegal alien encountered by our law enforcement officers is arrested, transferred to federal custody and deported.”

“Criminal illegal alien” might mean that an immigrant is peddling meth or gang banging. Or it might mean he’s a dude who waded across the Rio Grande, cuts your lawn and has his paperwork messed up…” HERE

Photo: Billy and kathy Inman holding a picture of their late son, Dustin. AJC

Decaturish.com
November 9, 2017

Dear Decaturish – Decaturish.com and AJC spread ‘baseless smear’ about Dustin Inman Society

Dear editor,

Decaturish.com recently ran a news story about a complaint filed with the Immigration enforcement Review Board by Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle concerning what Cagle says is a violation of state law. In that article, you inserted additional news about what Jim Galloway of the AJC wrote on his blog about the pro-enforcement non-profit group named after our son, Dustin Inman.

“AJC political columnist Jim Galloway reported that the Immigration Enforcement Review Board handled 20 cases in six years, 19 of which were filed by the founder of the Dustin Inman Society, dubbed a ‘extremist’ group by the Southern Poverty Law Center” wrote Dan Whisenhunt.

Our friend D.A. King, founder and president of the Dustin Inman Society, has worked for nearly fifteen years to advance the cause of immigration enforcement. Our son, Dustin, is forever 16 because a speeding illegal immigrant ran into our car on Father’s Day weekend in 2000 killing Dustin instantly and putting both my wife, Kathy and me in comas. We learned that our only child was gone only when we awakened. After his funeral.

Even now, almost 18 years later Kathy is in constant pain and has been confined to a wheelchair since the horror that separated our American family forever.

Some people have told us that it could have been anyone that killed ruined our lives and family. It wasn’t just anyone. It was a person with no legal right to even be in our country.

Galloway is well known for trying to marginalize our enforcement work. So is the SPLC which is also noted for labeling as “hate” or “extreme” any person or group that does not follow their far-left anti-enforcement agenda. We are saddened but not surprised to see that Galloway and the AJC have taken to use of the discredited SPLC to try to intimidate the majority of Americans who only ask that we enforce our laws. Even our immigration laws.

We are also puzzled as to why Decaturish.com felt it necessary to help spread the baseless smear from Galloway and the SPLC. To us, that seems “extreme.”

– Billy and Kathy Inman   HERE

HERE

Below is my response to AJC editor Maureen Downey’s recent blog focused on another immigration amnesty. I am very grateful to Ms. Downey for the space.

Karen Reyes shares her story of living as an undocumented teacher and DACA recipient during a protest in support of the DREAM Act at the office of Texas Rep. Michael McCaul in Austin, Texas, on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. NICK WAGNER / AMERICAN-STATESMAN

Opinion: Separate DACA from DREAM Act – and put immigration enforcement first

Atlanta Journal Constitution ‘Get Schooled’ education blog
October 29, 2017

D.A. King is president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society, which advocates for enforcement of immigration laws.

In this piece, King responds to a blog last week about a letter to Congress from national educational leaders beseeching Congress to provide permanent stability for young people with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA status.

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By D.A. King

In her education blog a few days ago, Maureen Downey wrote about a letter to Congress from school leaders including Georgia charter school leader and former Cobb state Rep. Alisha Morgan asking that illegal aliens with executive amnesty through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals be given a path to U.S. citizenship.

She cites passage of the proposed DREAM Act as a solution to making Americans of people brought here illegally as children by their parents. This argument creates an “apples and oranges” conversation. It is important to note the difference between DACA, an executive action under President Obama, and the amnesty outlined in the language of any possible federal DREAM Act — the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act.

According to a September United States Citizenship and Immigration Services report, there are 689,800 illegal aliens with DACA status, with 21,600 of them living in Georgia. Congressional amnesty for those 689,800 DACA recipients is far different from passage of current versions of the DREAM Act, which, according to the Migration Policy Institute, could provide legalization for more than three million illegal aliens, far more than the “one-time” Republican amnesty of 1986. (Approved under President Ronald Reagan, the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act gave a pathway to citizenship to 2.7 million undocumented people.)

The DREAM Act has failed in Congress several times since it was cooked up in 2001 because of the duplicity of its authors in hiding its true intent and the fact it was a rerun of 1986. It will be much more difficult to trick the American public on immigration amnesty again.

That said, it would make a lot of people happy to see a bargain on real enforcement for a limited, conditional, truly one-time legislative event that would grant legalization to a portion of “the children” (some of whom are now 36-years-old) who have already registered for Obama’s DACA program — and that limited group only.

One of the lessons of the 1986 amnesty is that nobody here illegally – of any age and no matter how they got here – should ever again be rewarded with U.S. citizenship. Neither should they ever be allowed to sponsor their parents or other family members for naturalization or admittance into the United States.

The obvious but mostly unpublicized danger of allowing a Congressional DACA amnesty “for the children” is that even now, illegal aliens are flowing over the border with children in tow. Are we to have an amnesty “for the children” every decade or so?

To deter the sure-to-come illegal rush of additional of victims of borders seeking the next “dreamer” amnesty, any consideration of legalization for DACA recipients should be well after legislation has been passed, funding appropriated and significant progress has been made on implementation of badly needed nationwide work-place verification (E-Verify), true border security – including President Trump’s promised border barrier – increased interior immigration enforcement and the biometric system to monitor the departure of temporary visa holder’s departure from the U.S. which is already law, but not practice.

About half of the illegal aliens now present in our nation did not come here illegally. They came on temporary visas and never intended to leave as promised. The Department of Homeland Security reports that last year alone, 629,000 visa holders overstayed their visas as students, workers or tourists.

All weeping and howling that we must grant amnesty and citizenship to “the children” – and that we must never “break up families” — should be met with educated and obvious reality. In addition to the children being brought over our borders illegally right now, last week, next week and next year, parents of the potential 2027 push “for the children” amnesty are flouting the fact their tourist visa to visit Disney World expired while they enroll their now illegal alien anchors in the American school system.

More reality is that many DACA recipients are protesting in American streets demanding an end to any immigration enforcement. Waving signs that read “ICE OUT OF GEORGIA –NOT ONE MORE DEPORTATION!” does little for their amnesty cause among mainstream Americans.

Reality should matter on immigration and amnesty. HERE

photo: AJC.com

The AJC “news” report is HERE.

I have added some links to the letters below to educate the reader. I post them here in case the AJC forgets to publish any of them.

*Added October 30, 2017 8:45 PM: The letters below were sent to the AJC and copied to me. The one above was posted tonight in the AJC for the Oct. 31 edition. The author did not copy me.

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To the editor,

As an immigrant and an advisory board member of the Dustin Inman Society, I find your articles that repeatedly characterize the Dustin Inman Society as anti-immigrant, and now via slanders of the Southern Poverty Law Center, as a “nativist extremist group,” to be extremely offensive.

My parents and aunts and uncles fled a communist regime and spent years in refugee camps, and only emigrated after finding sponsors. They went through the proper steps.

One of the most important civics lessons I learned as a schoolgirl in Rochester, New York, in the 1960s was that the United States system was based on fairness.

To blur the lines between legal and illegal, as your newspaper has repeatedly done, is a violation of the underlying principles of American justice and an insult to all immigrants.

Sincerely,
Mary Grabar
Clinton, NY 13323

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Dear editor,

My family recently returned to Texas where I grew up in a border town after 16 years in the Atlanta area. We still monitor Georgia politics, especially immigration issues. I am a proud Latina donor and board member of The Dustin Inman Society; we follow our friend D.A. King’s efforts to help people understand the truth on immigration and the law.

I was stunned and outraged when I read the AJC piece on King and the Immigration Board that curiously featured the SPLC and remarks from Jerry Gonzalez of GALEO. Gonzalez is widely known for opposition to any immigration enforcement efforts – state or federal. The Anti Defamation League has criticized SPLC for faking a “hate-group” crisis.

Georgia corporations, including the AJC’s parent company, Cox Enterprises, largely fund GALEO. It is insulting that this wasn’t noted in the AJC piece about D.A. King and The Dustin Inman Society’s citizen donors.

Maria Silvia Montoya

Sherman, TX 75092

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Dear editor,

As a Black American conservative and proud member of the Board of Advisors of the Dustin Inman Society, I was saddened to see the AJC report on the Immigration Enforcement Review Board that seemed to stray into smear politics.

I have been a friend of D.A. King for more than a decade and have worked alongside him as a volunteer at the Gold Dome to educate legislators on our illegal immigration crisis. I have also watched the SPLC smear conservative political opponents as “hate groups” in an effort to discredit our work. Referring to D.A. King as anything but an honest, hard working patriot who believes in immigration sanity is shameful.

I have had first hand experience with the SPLC when, along with many Black, Asian and Hispanic Americans, I attended an informative 2015 immigration seminar in Washington, DC that the SPLC later falsely described as a “white nationalist” meeting.

The AJC has damaged its reputation by using the race-baiting and discredited SPLC as an authority on immigration and integrity.

Inger Eberhart
Kennesaw

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To the editor:

Your article entitled “Georgia’s immigration enforcement panel draws scrutiny” came across as over the top biased against the Dustin Inman Society and its founder D.A. King. The credibility really went down the tubes when you used The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a supposed reliable source. By their definition I would be considered a hate group because of a Christian organization I belong to that believes in traditional values. You can do better than this.

Leslie McPherson
Villa Rica, GA

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Dear editor,

Re; the AJC on D.A. King: The Dustin Inman Society is named after a 16 year-old Woodstock boy who was killed by an illegal alien who escaped capture and is now hiding out in Mexico. D.A. King has been fighting illegal immigration since he quit his own business in 2003. In your report we find out the SPLC wants to label The Dustin Inman Society a “hate group.”

King should be thanked for the complaints against the officials in Georgia who are evidently violating state laws.

The SPLC is a fake civil rights group that has a poor record. In 1994 Alabama, the Montgomery Advertiser newspaper reported African-Americans had never “held top management positions in the center’s [then] 23-year history, and some former employees say blacks are treated like second-class citizens.”

That the AJC reporter used the discredited SPLC to attack King and the Dustin Inman Society says a lot about the AJC reporter.

Bill Buckler

Kennesaw

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Editor,

The article this week about the Dustin Inman Society and complaints about violations of state laws on illegal immigration filed by D.A. King seemed to us like the AJC had other things on their mind.

Inserting the SPLC into the news article was rather obvious.

My wife is an immigrant, which means she is here lawfully. We resent the AJC headlines that read “immigrant” when the topic of the story is clearly illegal aliens who are usually portrayed as victims. We want our borders secured and our laws enforced. Even for immigrants. The SPLC attacks virtually everyone who thinks like this. Your reporter also told us that Jerry Gonzalez doesn’t like King or the immigration enforcement board, but we saw no reference to where Gonzalez gets the money to operate GALEO while he protests against immigration enforcement.

We need more D.A. Kings and far fewer people like Gonzalez and the SPLC staff. And we need fair reporting.

John Litland

Marietta

‘DREAMERS’ protest immigration laws – photo, Getty Images

BuzzFeed News

October 23, 2017

So Many Father-Led Families Are Crossing The US Border That Immigration Agents Don’t Have Room To Hold Them

There’s been a spike in Central American fathers and their children crossing the US border illegally over the last seven months, BuzzFeed News has learned. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement official confirmed the increase, which human rights activists say is the unintended byproduct of the Department of Homeland Security’s successful push to stop the flow of women and children across the border.

A DHS official would not say how many father-led families have been detained since March, or how many of those families have since been released, but the official acknowledged that the department is releasing some. Activists say that’s because there isn’t space in facilities to house all the father-led families detained, so Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are forced to let hundreds of them go each week.

“We see as many fathers with children as pregnant women or moms with kids. It used to be so rare,” said Teresa Cavendish, the operations director at Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona, which operates short-term shelters for immigrants released by ICE.

An ICE official acknowledged the agency has seen a significant increase in fathers with children since the beginning of March, noting that 28 of the 37 families being held at the Berks Family Residential Center in Leesport, Pennsylvania, are led by fathers. Berks, which can house 96 individuals, is the only detention center in the country that accepts male-led families.

Although DHS has begun a push to expand immigration detention capacity, so far those new detention centers would only house adults…. READ MORE HERE.

photo: DIS – added October 20 – 1:12 PM

Below are the contents of an email received from AJC immigration reporter Jeremy Redmon yesterday, October 18, 2017 at 3:43 PM along with my written responses to the questions he asked me for a coming AJC news item. I am sending Redmon a link to this post as my reply. *I don’t know how to attach the spreadsheet he sent but most of the complaints are posted on our badly out-dated website HERE.

Note: This is the same AJC immigration reporter who has blocked me on Twitter and who refers to Soros-funded radicals who protest and work to stop enforcement of American immigration laws as “civil rights activists.” I received this list of questions from the AJC later in the same day that I posted and distributed this revealing criticism of that struggling, liberal newspaper to which I subscribe.

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From Jeremy Redmon

Subject: AJC reporting on HB87/Immigration Enforcement Review Board 

Greetings Mr. King,

I’m writing about the Immigration Enforcement Review Board and seeking comments from you for my article. Could you be available for a phone interview this week? My questions:

1. Since the board was created in 2011 it has received 20 complaints. All but one have come from you. (*See the attached spreadsheet I obtained from the board through the Open Records Act.) What do you think about this development?

Response: The IERB was a creation of the Association County Commissioners of Georgia and the Georgia Municipal Association’s lawyers and lobbyists in an attempt to insure that those group’s members were not sanctioned for violating state laws focused on immigration and protecting jobs, benefits and services from the crime of illegal immigration. There would be far more complaints if everyday Georgians understood the law or that that compliance with those laws is widely regarded as optional. Most Georgians have no idea the IERB even exists. Built into the board’s regulations is the ability to give any official or entity found to be in violation thirty days to correct those violations so as escape punishment. Common Georgia citizens should be so lucky as to have that privilege in their daily lives.

The General assembly should look into changing the constraints on the IERB – but because of a dedicated lack of media coverage, even many legislators are unaware of its existence. And ACCG/GMA has a very powerful lobbying presence under the Gold Dome, which ironically is funded with taxpayer money. Your readers may have an interest in the dues paid by their counties and municipal governments’ to ACCG/GMA which are then used to fund lobbyists who work  against illegal immigration bills in the Georgia Capitol.

2. Only one of the 20 complaints the board has received has resulted in a sanction: Atlanta paid the board a $1,000 fine in August. Two other complaints resulted in Atlanta and DeKalb County taking corrective action. Four complaints have either been dismissed or were withdrawn. Thirteen – most of them deal with access to adult education and date back to January and February of this year – are still pending. What’s your reaction to these results and the amount of time it is taking the board to resolve complaints?

Response: The Immigration Enforcement Review Board has a new chairman and I hope and expect that fact will produce more focused and timely hearings and action on valid complaints. Early in its history, the former IERB chair dismissed out-of-hand one valid complaint while saying the board lacked the resources or time to handle the volume of violations it contained. He could have easily been referred to as the “establishment’s firewall chairman.” In the past, I have been critical of the board’s operation, but applaud the majority of members who strive for timely service to the Georgia taxpayers and I am encouraged by recent changes. But there is *still a need for remedial legislative work on the entire process. (*I corrected ‘stipend’ here to “still a need” – 12:12 Oct 20)

A double-digit page complaint was dismissed when I was told six months after filing that the list of complaints against each agency on which I had clear evidence of violation taken from state records had to be filed separately. I lack the time and resources for doing the job of investigating and revealing all the violations of the state law that official law enforcement agencies are charged with enforcing on immigration related matters.

I once withdrew a complaint from the board after being told by the AG’s office that they would take no action while it was pending at the board. The withdrawal maneuver produced no action from the AG’s office that I was ever made aware of.

HB 87 explicitly states that the board’s action or lack of action has no effect on the AG’s office carrying out their enforcement duties. I will soon be filing separate complaints with enforcement agencies outside the IERB to be forwarded to the AG. It remains to be seen what will happen, if anything, to school districts that are providing adult education without any effort to obey state law in place to insure non-mandated tax dollars and public benefits do not go to illegal aliens.

3. You have been quoted as saying you helped write House Bill 87, which created the Immigration Enforcement Review Board:
https://patch.com/georgia/kennesaw/voices-cobbs-da-king-applauds-hb-87 Could you confirm what role you had with HB 87?

Response: The heart of HB 87 was the E-Verify component. It clearly needs to be improved, but that fact is is ignored by virtually all candidates for state office, including governor. I was proud to have been consulted when HB 87 was being drafted and to have been invited to testify as an expert witness several times in its committee process. The IERB is nothing close to what I would have asked for if I had that ability.

Although operating on a shoestring budget, in an effort to counter the daily falsehoods cranked out by the usual well-funded anti-enforcement suspects which included the Georgia and Metro Atlanta Chambers of Commerce, the Ag industry lobbyists and the corporate-funded ethnic hustlers like GALEO, the Dustin Inman Society provided a basic education to lawmakers and members of the public and press who asked for information and references to federal law. I have been told that educational input we provided was helpful on HB 87. We pray that it soon sees actual enforcement and that it helps prevent other families from going through the hell-on-Earth that the parents of Dustin Inman  have endured since 2000 when an illegal aliens killed their only child.

4. You are president of the Dustin Inman Society. The Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled the Dustin Inman Society a “nativist extremist group.” 
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2017/once-again-number-nativist-extremist-groups-falls
What is your response to the SPLC’s statement?

Response: Yes, and they also able Christian groups who advocate for biblical marriage as hate groups. The discredited and agenda-driven SPLC has millions stashed in tax-haven off-shore accounts and seen by many as a far-left, hate mongering gang of hucksters whose real business is fundraising and shutting down free speech. In many conservative’s opinion, including my own, the entire SPLC enterprise is no better than the morals of its co-founder, Morris Dees. On Dees and the SPLC, we agree with one of Dees’ former partners, celebrated anti-death penalty lawyer Millard Farmer. “He’s the Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker of the civil rights movement, though I don’t mean to malign Jim and Tammy Faye” said Farmer.

With the SPLC’s anti-enforcement agenda on immigration, along with the immigrant and minority members of the DIS board of advisors, I take any criticism from the SPLC as an indicator that our pro-enforcement efforts are having an effect. I understand that the hate spewed from the SPLC says much more about them than it does about our work on sustainable, reasonable and legal immigration. We also note that vindictive liberal newspapers often use the discredited SPLC when on a mission to smear stubborn political enemies and critics. And we note the AJC’s past supportive editorial position on open borders seems to match up with the SPLC agenda.

5. The Dustin Inman Society is soliciting donations through U.S. Inc.
http://www.thedustininmansociety.org/info/donate.html U.S. Inc was founded by John Tanton. The SPLC has called him the “racist architect of the modern anti-immigrant movement.” https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/john-tanton What’s your response to the SPLC’s statement?

6. How much in donations has the Dustin Inman Society received from U.S. Inc. in all?

7. How would you describe the Dustin Inman Society’s relationship with U.S. Inc. today?

Response to questions 5,6 and 7: For the SPLC, pretty much everyone who opposes their political agenda is attacked as “racists” or “haters.” That smear campaign isn’t fooling many thinking Americans. The sanity-in-immigration patriots at U.S. Inc. have been kind enough to sometimes act as an administrative assistant of sorts in a small part of our limited efforts at fundraising. Given the facts, most Americans do not regard traditional levels of immigration that benefits the USA as “anti-immigrant.”

With our meager revenue, in accordance with federal law, the Dustin Inman Society files the IRS “postcard” form 990–N.

In addition to liberal media outlets, in our pro-American educational efforts, we stand up against race-baiting, anti-enforcement immigration groups that are openly funded by corporations such as Cox Enterprises, Coca-Cola, Georgia Power and State Farm Insurance Company. This is in addition to the various open-borders organizations funding received from many well-heeled immigration lawyers.

Much of our Barbara Jordan-inspired work is aimed at protecting American workers by fighting against a repeat of the immigration amnesty of 1986 and promoting official English, which is counter to the agenda of these business interests and we are grateful for the administrative help from U.S. Inc. All contributions received by U.S. Inc. designated for DIS are forwarded, on behalf of the donor, as a service to our pro-enforcement Society.

To battle the powerful anti-borders forces, we depend on donations from the mainstream public, most of which come in small amounts. In case your readers have a desire to donate to our cause, donations can also be accepted at GoFundMe and Paypal.

I guess I would consider taking the time to research and total up our meager contributions sometime in the future. Maybe after the AJC provides us a report of their revenues and salaries of all employees. And the amount of employee time and AJC money spent to act as Chair organization for the 2004 Atlanta MALDEF fundraiser that DIS protested – a rally that was covered by CNN but not by the AJC.

8. Could you email me a copy of the Dustin Inman Society’s most recent 990 Form or point me to where I could fine it online? I can’t find anything more recent than your 2008 990.

Response: The 2016 Form 990-N is posted HERE.

Could you respond by Friday morning? Please email me or call me at 770-627-3491.

Thank you,

Jeremy Redmon
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