House Rules Chairman Jay Powell (R- Camilla)
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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 Powell’s 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 Kemp’s office number is 404-656-1776.

D.A. King
Marietta

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Insider Advantage Georgia

D.A. King

This writer is grateful to IAG for the recent space here to alert readers to the peril of House Bill 202 in the House Rules Committee run by Rep. Jay Powell (R-Camilla). The simple bill would require 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, crimes committed, and the percentage of the entire inmate population that group represents.

House Rules Chairman Jay Powell
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Apparently HB 202 was deemed to have created too much needless information to be made public.

With Crossover Day behind us, Rules Committee Chairman Powell did not allow the bill to go to the House for a vote, where it had the support to easily pass. Unless it is attached to an already-passed House bill by the Republican senate, HB 202 is as dead as Pancho Villa and will not become law this year.

Including the discredited SPLC, GALEO and CAIR, the leftist, corporate-funded illegal alien lobby that worked against passage has claimed yet another win here in the Peach State with the defeat of HB 202. They are warily crowing about their victory.

While the Capitol reports from the rest of Atlanta media have carefully ignored it, the legislation, Rep Powell’s thumbs-down decision and the fact that GOP-ruled Georgia is home to more illegal aliens than green card holders has captured the attention of small newspapers around the state and several national news outlets, including Breitbart News.
We will see more on this story.
I
t 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.

Readers may remember that Gov. Kemp ran on a promise of being tough on illegal immigration. With respect, it would seem that it would be easier to solve a problem if it was officially measured. How many “undocumented workers” are in our prison system, and what is the cost to Georgia taxpayers for this “cheap labor?”

This writer strives to stay informed and up-to-date on any mention of immigration in Georgia politics. If I have missed Governor Kemp bringing up the topic since January, I will be extremely grateful for a more attentive reader pointing that occasion out to me.

I’ll wash your car.

D.A. King is president of the Dustin Inman Society and proprietor of the Immigration Politics Georgia news site.

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A RESOLUTION
Expressing the will of this body to direct the General Assembly and the Governor to make public quarterly information illustrating the number of non-citizens in the Georgia Department of Corrections prison system and to reveal these alien’s immigration status and the crimes for which they have been convicted.

WHEREAS, The crime of illegal immigration is a proven threat to Georgia’s public safety; and
WHEREAS, Reports from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security show that Georgia is home to more illegal aliens than the state of Arizona; and
WHEREAS, According to the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute in 2018, the state of Georgia is also home to more illegal aliens than Lawful Permanent Residents (green card holders); and
WHEREAS, Violent criminal acts by illegal aliens have permanently separated American families in Georgia and created unnecessary and fully avoidable fear and misery; and
WHEREAS, The human cost of criminal acts by illegal aliens should be measured against the profits they illegally provide for illegal employers;
WHEREAS, Georgia taxpayers have a right to understand the monetary costs of incarcerating criminal aliens;
WHEREAS, The voters in Georgia have reached the end of their patience for and tolerance of the refusal of elected officials to pursue remedies for the crisi illegal immigration has created in Georgia; and
WHEREAS, It is impossible to gauge change or improvement in an issue that is not measured and publicly reported; and
WHEREAS Our grandfathers could not foresee the current effort to dilute American traditions, values and unity or the attacks on the American culture and public safety created by massive illegal immigration; and
WHEREAS. With ongoing use of the federal Secure Communities program and access to the federal 287(g) database the Department of Corrections already processes the tools to discover the immigration status of all non-citizen inmates; and

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the _________ County/District convention of the Georgia Republican Party that in the strongest of terms we urge the Governor of Georgia and the state legislature to order the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections to implement a quarterly public reporting system informing the proud citizens of Georgia of the number of non-citizens in the Department’s system, their immigration status, home nations, crimes and what percentage of the prison population is represented by foreigners;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Secretary of the ________ *County/District convention* is hereby authorized and directed to transfer a copy of this Resolution to the Republican House and Senate Delegations, The Honorable Geoff Duncan, Lieutenant Governor of the State of Georgia, The Honorable Brian Kemp, Governor of the State of Georgia and the Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party.

Respectfully Submitted:
By: ________________________________________
Name:
Title: Secretary, _________***Republican Party

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dak

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Below e-mail received a few minutes ago

Good Morning,

We have received your request for “copies of images of ALL versions of ALL driver’s licenses and ALL official ID Card credentials issued by DDS”. We will begin working on your request and send you an estimate of cost and time for fulfilling your request by close of business Thursday, December 20th.

DDS Open Records
DDSOpenRecords@dds.ga.gov
https://dds.georgia.gov/open-records

From: D.A. King
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 10:48 PM
To: Moore, Spencer ; Mcclendon, Angelique
Subject: Fwd: Open records request. GA public records law.

CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.

Sent from my iPad

Begin forwarded message:

From: “D.A. King ”
Date: December 14, 2018 at 10:41:18 PM EST
To: shevondah.leslie@dds.ga.gov
Cc: Brian Kemp Subject: Open records request. GA public records law.

To whom it may concern at DDS,
Please regard this email as my official open records request for copies of images of ALL versions of ALL drivers licenses and ALL official ID Card credentials issued by DDS. This request includes images of limited term, REAL ID Act compliant credentials, non-REAL ID Act compliant credential, under age twenty-one credentials and any/all versions of all drivers licenses and ID Cards I may have left unmentioned.
Thank you. I look forward to your response more than I can express.

D.A. King
Marietta

Cc: Breitbart News, Governor elect, Brian Kemp.

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Atlanta Journal Constitution

READERS WRITE: NOV. 30

Nov 29, 2018
By Our Readers

Voters should know the Dems did it

“Voter suppression?” It was the 1997 Georgia Democrats who introduced, sponsored and passed the now-infamous “use it or lose it” voter roll “purge” legislation that sore loser Stacey Abrams and the 2018 Democrats are using to attack Governor-Elect Brian Kemp. The exception on sponsors was Republican Robert Irvin.

It was Democrat Gov. Zell Miller who signed that legislation, HB 889, into law.

Contrary to the calculated howls from the Left, former Secretary of State Brian Kemp is merely “guilty” of obeying his oath of office and following the Democrat-concocted law.

Voters should be asking Democrats what they had in mind on the commonsense policy. Maybe it was long-forgotten interest in vote security?

D.A. KING, MARIETTA, PRESIDENT, THE DUSTIN INMAN SOCIETY

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Here is a ‘take-away’ on the liberal media’s incomplete coverage of Georgia Governor’s race: The Dems did the “use it or lose it” law and former Secretary of State Brian Kemp is only ‘guilty’ of following that law.

It was the 1997 Georgia Democrats who introduced, sponsored and passed the now infamous and partially reported “use it or lose it” voter ‘purge’ law that the liberal media, loser Stacey Abrams and the 2018 Democrats are using to vilify Governor-Elect Brian Kemp. The exception on sponsors was Republican Robert Irvin.

It was Democrat Governor Zell Miller who signed the legislation, HB 889, into law.

It was introduced by Chatham County Democrat Rep Sonny Dixon and was cosponsored by Reps (the late) William Lee (D), Larry Walker (D), Jimmy Skipper (D), Robert Irvin (R), and Greg K. Hecht (D).

Sonny Dixon won a Best Anchor Emmy Award for his work in broadcasting in Savannah and has a major road intersection named in his honor.

Attorney and writer Larry Walker has served on the Board of Regents and on the state’s Georgia Department of Transportation Board.

Greg Hecht went on to the state senate and was the Democrat’s 2014 candidate for Attorney General.

Brian Kemp wasn’t in the Georgia legislature in 1997 when the Dems passed the bill they hate so vocally now that Comrade Abrams has finally admitted defeat.

We haven’t seen this in any liberal media outlets – but will do a complete search for a credible and compelling Georgia news article that we may have missed. But, maybe they are hiding it.

*Hat tip to real-conservative Georgia state Senator Josh McKoon for the expert detective work on the Georgia General Assembly’s website.

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The liberal AJC today:

“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

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AJC

July 30, 2018

Lawyer: State’s immigration board members serving on expired terms

By Chris Joyner, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The Decatur city attorney has asked the Attorney General’s office to look into whether members of the Georgia Immigration Enforcement Review Board have overstayed their term in office and should be removed.

In his letter, Brian Downs said five of the seven members have served since the board’s creation in 2011, despite a state law that limits members to two terms of two years each.

“If these board members are not supposed to be serving under the law, then they need to step aside,” Downs said in an interview Monday.

It is the latest development in the city’s fight against Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle’s accusation that Decatur is violating state laws outlawing “sanctuary” cities.

The letter singles out Chairman Shawn Hanley and board member Phil Kent, both outspoken activists for tighter immigration controls, for replacement. Hanley and Kent were appointed by Gov. Nathan Deal.

But Downs also notes Cagle appointees Boyd Austin and Coweta County Sheriff Mike Yeager, along with Moultrie farmer Terry Clark, who was appointed by House Speaker David Ralston, have also served since 2011 without ever being reappointed.

“Expedited action on this situation is critical,” Downs said. “The IERB has multiple pending cases in which each of these individuals have no legal right to participate.”

Cagle filed a complaint against Decatur in November claiming that by prohibiting police from holding suspected illegal immigrants solely on a request from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement the city broke a state law forbidding “sanctuary cities.” Cagle filed the complaint from the lieutenant governor’s office, but it came amid his campaign against Secretary of State Brian Kemp for the Republican nomination for governor.

Both Cagle and Kemp sparred over who could be toughest on immigration, among other issues. Kemp defeated Cagle in a primary runoff July 24.

Decatur has denied its policy violates the state law. Downs has repeatedly said Decatur is not a sanctuary city in sometimes heated exchanges with immigration board members…. More here.

From NRO

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Where’s E-Verify?

Mark Krikorian

July 24, 2018

Illegal immigration isn’t just about criminals and the border — but that’s almost all we’ve been hearing about, whether at the national level or in the states, as has been the case leading up to today’s Georgia Republican-primary runoff.

Criminal deportations are essential, of course, and need to be increased. Sanctuary cities, shielding such criminals, have to be reined in. And the routine abuse of asylum, especially using children as a ticket into the U.S., has to be quashed.

But most illegal aliens are neither drunk-driving, dope-dealing rapists, nor bogus asylum seekers coached by immigration lawyers on how to game the system. They’re ordinary working stiffs, half of them arriving legally and then never leaving. They’re mainly coming to work, and that’s why weakening the magnet of jobs that attracts is essential both to the practice and the rhetoric of immigration control.

The president must have uttered/tweeted the words “E-Verify” at some point over the past three years, but no instance comes immediately to mind, certainly not a recent one. Even just a tweet or two would help keep the issue in the public discussion, providing for a more balanced immigration message and giving traction to ongoing efforts such as that of House Judiciary chairman Bob Goodlatte to get an E-Verify mandate passed.

The same holds true in today’s primary vote in Georgia. Both candidates — Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle and Secretary of State Brian Kemp — check a lot of the right boxes on immigration and don’t have any really obvious red flags. But, as Georgia’s steadfast immigration activist D.A. King has noted, the two candidates:

have mostly kept their immigration focus away from topics that may offend the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and narrowed to “sanctuary cities” and on illegal aliens who have already committed additional crimes in the United States — or “criminal illegal aliens.”

The main driver of illegal immigration is illegal employment, which was not mentioned in either campaign.

This matters because E-Verify is a state issue as well as a federal one. Georgia, one of the nation’s leading illegal-immigration states, does have an E-Verify mandate, but it could be further strengthened and in any case needs consistent oversight and audit….read the rest here.

TOMORROW’S GEORGIA REPUBLICAN GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARY RUN-OFF

GOP VOTERS SILENT AS RIVALS IGNORE HOT-BUTTON, POLL-TESTED IMMIGRATION ISSUES – SOROS DONATES $1 MILLION TO DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE

Lt. Governor Casey Cagle (left) and Secretary of State Brian Kemp – Photo courtesy Dawson News

D.A. KING

While the liberal media ignores the fact, both candidates in the bruising two-month Georgia Republican gubernatorial primary race have avoided immigration issues where the eventual governor can make the biggest difference.

With run-off day looming tomorrow, Lt. Governor Casey Cagle and Secretary of State Brian Kemp have mostly kept their immigration focus away from topics that may offend the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and narrowed to “sanctuary cities” and on illegal aliens who have already committed additional crimes in the United States – or “criminal illegal aliens.”

The main driver of illegal immigration is illegal employment, which was not mentioned in either campaign.

In addition to black market labor, they are also both dodging obvious and voter-popular immigration issues where a governor can play a central role, including drivers licenses to illegal aliens and official English for government.

No mention of protecting jobs for American workers

Silence on allowing voters to decide on constitutional official English

Nearly 86% of Republicans – and 76% of all voters polled – answered “yes” when asked “would you support an amendment to the Georgia constitution that makes English the official language of government?” in the same poll conducted by Atlanta-based Rosetta Stone Communications

Despite the objections of the business lobby and with a unanimous party-line vote, in 2016, the Republican-controlled Georgia state senate passed a Resolution that would have allowed all Georgia voters to answer a ballot question that year on English as the state’s constitutional official government language.

But the legislation quietly died with Democrat “no” votes when Republican House leadership instructed Republicans to stay away from a sub-committee hearing which killed the bill.

Official English is not a voluntary campaign topic for either of the Republican candidates for Georgia governor. This despite one metro-Atlanta school district boast that 140 foreign languages are spoken by its students.

While it is not widely understood by voters, currently, the state of ten million offers the written road rules portion of the drivers license exam in eleven foreign languages.

Drivers licenses for illegal aliens – not a campaign issue

The same statewide poll that asked about official constitutional official English showed that 80% of Republicans and 63% of all Georgians also want to end the practice of giving any drivers license to any illegal aliens.

Many voters are unaware of the fact that Republican Georgia has issued more than 20,000 drivers licenses and official state photo ID Cards to individuals who the United States Immigration and Citizenship Services classifies as lacking lawful immigration status – but who have been given work permits by both the Obama and Trump administrations.

This group of aliens includes recipients of the Obama DACA deferred action on deportation amnesty, aliens who have been granted deferred action outside of the DACA amnesty and aliens who have already been ordered to be deported by federal officials.

Work permits, officially known as Employment Authorization Documents (EAD) are issued by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services which is an agency in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

The 2005 REAL ID Act implemented after the horror of 9/11 says that illegal aliens who have been granted deferred action on deportation or who have been ordered deported but then apply for permanent residence can use that temporary condition as “evidence of lawful status” for the purpose of obtaining a federally approved drivers license or state ID card. Nothing in the REAL ID Act says any state must issue drivers licenses to any illegal aliens.

• In a direct contradiction, USCIS says “Current 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.”
• Through an official spokesperson, USCIS has provided a breakdown of the classification codes contained on the work permits that illustrate the immigration status of the bearer.
• USCIS also operates the SAVE verification system for official agencies to determine immigration status of applicants for public benefits. Drivers licenses and ID cards are public benefits in Georgia.
• Appointed by current governor Nathan Deal, Georgia’s Attorney General, Chris Carr, has told an Atlanta NPR affiliate that “We have continuously and clearly taken the position in ongoing legal cases that DACA does not confer legal status.” (July 17, 2017 WABE News).

Georgia is among the states that issues the identical drivers license to legal immigrants with ‘green cards’ and foreigners who entered the US lawfully on temporary visas – including Mercedes Benz executives – as are issued to the aliens the state Attorney General and USCIS says lack legal status. The defacto national ID, these credentials are used as valid ID to enter military bases, federal buildings and board airliners in America’s airports.

Drivers license issued to all non-citizens in Georgia, legal status or illegal status. Photo: DDS

Sponsored by conservative state Senator Josh McKoon, in 2016, legislation passed the Georgia Senate by a two-thirds majority – with every Republican vote except one – that would have clearly marked driving and ID credentials to note the illegal immigration status of the bearer. That measure was allowed to expire without a hearing in the GOP House, controlled by business-oriented Speaker David Ralston. McKoon also sponsored the official English Resolution.

Most Georgians do not realize that under state law the same aliens USCIS says have no lawful status but have been issued a work permit are eligible for state unemployment benefits.

The jobs-for Americans, drivers license/illegal alien/unemployment benefits issue are not topics in either Republican candidate’s campaign for the Republican nomination for Georgia governor.

Georgians deserve to know where the candidates stand.

The powerful Georgia business lobby has long worked against protecting jobs and wages for legal workers, use of E-Verify, immigration enforcement and official English. Georgia ranks ahead of Arizona in its population of illegal aliens, according to estimates from DHS and the Pew Research Center. One estimate is that the crime of illegal immigration costs Georgia taxpayers $2.4 billion annually.

The current governor, two-term, business-first Republican Nathan Deal, has avoided the illegal immigration issue since his first year in office. But, Deal boasts that Georgia is named number-one state in which to do business by Site Selection magazine.

The influx of migrants and the anti-enforcement power of the business lobby will eventually result in a Democrat in the Georgia governor’s office. This year’s far-left, anti-enforcement candidate for the office, Stacey Abrams, has a real chance of winning and has recently received a one million-dollar donation from Georgia Soros.

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