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Buzz Brockway, lobbyist – SB 45, 2021/2022 – (video): Gutting occupational licensing security

May 16, 2022 By D.A. King

Photo: Ga. Health News

RE: OCGA 50-36-1

Buzz Brockway lobbies for changes in occupational licensing, House version of SB 45, 2021/2022 session.

As passed the senate bill here. Note line 49. We pushed hard for that addition. The fifty-seven page House version (that did not pass and did not see a vote) was changed into an unrecognizable dumping ground, wish list for the dismantling of the verification system in place to keep illegal aliens out of the occupational licensing process. That complete rewrite was done in the House Regulated Industries committee chaired by Rep Alan Powell.

Brockway is not what a lot of kindly but naive people think he is. Alan Powell does not enjoy that confusion.

Our goal for the last nineteen years has been to make Georgia as difficult and inhospitable for  illegal immigration as possible.

That is not Brockway’s mission. Or Powell’s.

Anything for a buck.

Start the video at 4:55

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Bookmark: Romney, David Perdue, J. Neil Purcell, Bradley T. Crate, Trump and a mismanaged campaign for GA governor

May 16, 2022 By D.A. King

 

 

Photo: Twitter.

Note to self/bookmark on the odiferous Perdue campaign. Future research coming.

Notice that the above very accurate ad (that came out about ten days before Primary Day) is paid for by Perdue for Governor Inc.

Here is the Ga Sec of State info on Perdue for Governor Inc. Note that Bradley T. Crate is CFO and Secretary.

He is also the founder and head of Red Curve Solutions and was treasurer of the 2020 Trump campaign.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Center for Immigration Studies 2022 Border Tour Videos – Rio Grande Valley

April 28, 2022 By D.A. King

Image: Bridgewatwer State U.
By Mark Krikorian on April 28, 2022

The Center for Immigration Studies 2022 Border Tour is currently taking place in the Rio Grande Valley, from Roma to the Gulf of Mexico. Members of the tour meet with border residents, receive briefings from Border Patrol, local law enforcement, farmers, residents, politicians, and activists, as well as visit immigration related points of interest. As the tour progresses, we will post short videos with Mark Krikorian, the Center’s Executive Director, highlighting some of these experiences.

See new videos here.

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What Happens When the State Department Sanctions Nations for Not Taking Our Deportees?

January 16, 2022 By D.A. King

Center for Immigration Studies
By David North on January 13, 2022

Some recalcitrant nations are deliberately slow to accept our deportees and other forced returns of migrants from those nations, as my colleague Dan Cadman reported a couple of years ago. They do so because they do not want these citizens of their countries to bring their behaviors back to the homeland. Most democracies, including the U.S., readily accept similar rejects from other lands.

Eleven nations have received sanctions for that behavior. What happens to the outward flow from the U.S. of removed migrants from those places? It’s a mixed bag.

In four (in bold below) of the 11 cases, we have what look like success stories; in three of those four, the number of removals has more than doubled since sanctions were imposed, and in a fourth, the ratio was almost 2:1.

In three others it is too soon to tell and in the other four there was little change or, in the case of Burma, a move in the wrong direction.

Our statistics, all drawn from previously under-utilized government files on the subject, are shown below… read the rest here.

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By request: dak’s famous Georgia pimento cheese (run faster, jump higher!)

December 16, 2021 By D.A. King

Posted here because I can

Don King’s famous Georgia pimento cheese (run faster, jump higher!)

PIMENTO CHEESE 

1)  brick Kraft Cracker Barrel Aged Reserve Cheddar Cheese (White)

2)  bricks Kraft EXTRA SHARP yellow Cheddar Cheese

2)  7 oz. jars Lindsay DICED pimentos (sometimes I add part of a 3rd jar or a entire smaller jar of sliced pimentos…)

1 8 oz. jar, Duke’s mayo (Hellman’s if no access to Duke’s)

Ground red pepper (cayenne)

Into a large (preferably flat-bottomed) container (I use a 1984 Tupperware cake holder) grate half the cheese on a course grater, the other half on medium. Mix together and shake some cayenne (you canned more later) and a little fresh-ground black pepper. Keep mixing.

NOTE Do NOT grate cheese too fine or you will get mush. We are making a semi lumpy spread, not a dip.

Drain pimentos and add to grated cheese, mixing well – then add some more shakes of cayenne and mix again. It’s obviously personal taste but finished product should NOT be extremely spicy hot, just a nice gentle bite and flavor addition to the cheese.

Add about 3/4 8 oz. jar of mayo and mix well – push mixture against side of bowl with a large fork with enough pressure to push some moisture out of pimentos and to insure there is zero un-mayo-ed cheese. Then add most of the remainder of mayo. Don’t use too much – it will be too thin.

Like many foods, this seems to get better in the fridge overnight and we have used it well into the second week after prep. But it usually doesn’t last that long.

Note # 2: While everyone has their own fave sharp cheddar, there are severe penalties for using mayo other than Duke’s (or Hellman’s if necessary) – or adding anything other than the above five-ish basic ingredients (well, except for de-seeded, diced jalapeños sometimes). Even more severe for adding garlic or onion. We are watching!

Enjoy! Try mixing it with the filling ½ & ½ in your deviled eggs or spread on fresh, split banana peppers as well as the obvious crackers and the famous pimento cheese sandwich.

Recipe adapted from one we saw in an 80’s (?) edition of Gourmet magazine.

D.A. King

Georgia

Amended, Nov. 2021

Mayo added and smushed.

Ta-da.

 

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Study: 20-Year Cost of ‘Build Back Better’ Amnesty: $483 billion

December 8, 2021 By D.A. King

 

Center for Immigration Studies

CBO estimates fiscal drain would be even bigger after that

By Steven A. Camarota on December 6, 2021

As the Senate debates the Build Back Better Act (H.R. 5376), a little-noticed part of the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) cost estimates shows that the bill’s amnesty provisions will create enormous fiscal costs for taxpayers. Like its prior fiscal cost estimate for a larger-scale amnesty, or its estimates for smaller amnesties, CBO’s most recent fiscal estimate (new revenue minus new expenditures) for H.R. 5376 shows a large negative fiscal impact — $124 billion in the first 10 years.

But what is most striking about the CBO’s newest estimate is that the amnesty would create an additional $359 billion in net costs in the second decade after passage.

The total net fiscal cost of the bill’s amnesty provisions over 20 years is $483 billion. Perhaps equally important, CBO states that the bill would increase the deficit “by larger amounts in the subsequent decade”.

As the Center has emphasized, the cost of any amnesty increases over time as illegal immigrants become eligible for more and more social programs, especially Social Security and Medicare. CBO’s extension of its normal 10-year time horizon is a welcome development that helps to capture more of these long-term costs.

The costs illegal immigrants create are not because they are lazy or because they all came to get welfare. Rather, illegal immigrants have modest levels of education on average and, as a result, tend to earn similarly modest wages and thus make modest tax payments. Their low incomes also mean that many more would qualify for public benefits if legalized, thereby dramatically increasing fiscal costs. The realities of the modern American economy and the existence of a well-developed welfare state mean that allowing illegal immigrants to remain in the country and giving them any kind of legal status is very costly to taxpayers.

Among the CBO’s findings:

Section 60001 of H.R. 5376 (parole amnesty) would create $131.85 billion in new expenditures between 2022 and 2031, while generating just $7.49 billion in new revenue, for a net fiscal drain of $124.36 billion in the first 10 years.

The amnesty would create an additional $357.82 billion in new expenditures between 2032 and 2041, and it would also reduce revenue by $1.24 billion, creating a net drain of $359.06 billion in the second 10 years.

The total net fiscal drain from the amnesty provisions for the entire 20-year period (2022 to 2041) would be $483.42 billion.

The primary reason a parole amnesty would result in large new expenditures according to the CBO is that amnesty recipients would be able to receive Affordable Care Act subsidies, Medicaid, the Earned Income and Child Tax Credits, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, often called food stamps), Social Security, and Medicare to a much greater extent than they would without legal status.

The primary reason the amnesty would have minimal effect on federal revenues is that immigrants’ increase in reporting of taxable income “would mostly be offset” because businesses “would report smaller taxable profits and pay less in income taxes”. In other words, with legalization employers would be able to deduct the wages and benefits they currently pay off the books to illegal immigrants, thereby lowering their tax payments in roughly equal proportion to the increase in taxes illegal aliens would pay once legalized. Read the rest here at CIS.org .

 

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FY 2021’s Historically Bad Border Numbers Are Worse than You Think

November 4, 2021 By D.A. King

Center for Immigration Studies
Washington, D.C.(October, 26, 2021) – The Center for Immigration Studies reported last week that the Border Patrol had apprehended an all-time record number of illegal migrants at the Southwest border in FY 2021 – 1,659,206 illegal migrants, 15,000 more than the previous record there. The number of children, families and third-country nationals are all up, driven by Biden administration policies.

A big reason why the number of “family units” FMUs apprehended at the Southwest border surged in FY 2021 (they totaled fewer than 52,300 in all of FY 2020) was because the Biden administration ditched the highly successful Trump-era “Migrant Protection Protocols” (MPP), better known as “Remain in Mexico”.

Andrew Arthur, the Center’s resident fellow in law and policy and author of the analysis, writes, “Biden’s DHS is now being forced kicking and screaming to reinstate MPP, but without other significant policy changes, it will not be enough. The worst part is, as the Center explained in a recent regulatory comment, the Biden administration wants to turbocharge the incentives for illegal migrants, by granting itself (in violation of law) the authority to simply release every alien who enters.”

Key points:
  • More illegal migrants were apprehended at the Southwest border in FY 2021 than in any prior fiscal year.
  • The number and percentage of illegal migrants who were not from Mexico or the “Northern Triangle” countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras have reached all-time highs, and are increasing in a disturbing new trend with a 600 percent increase in just eight months.
  • The number of unaccompanied alien children apprehended at the Southwest border in FY 2021 nearly doubled the previous yearly record, set in FY 2019.
  • The number of alien adults and children entering illegally in “family units” (FMUs) approached their previous yearly record, again set in FY 2019. Unlike in FY 2019, however, migrants entering illegally in family units have not declined in line with historical monthly trends.
  • The decision by the Biden administration to terminate successful Trump administration policies, including “Remain in Mexico”, is driving this illegal migrant surge at the Southwest border.
  • The Biden administration is proposing to increase the incentives for aliens to enter the United States illegally, by granting itself the ability to release all illegal migrants in violation of law.

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Dramatic increase in foreign population almost certainly reflects the current surge of illegal immigration

November 2, 2021 By D.A. King

 

Center for Immigration Studies

Monthly Census Bureau Data Shows Big Increase in Foreign-Born

Immigrant population (legal and illegal) grew 1.6 million in past (fiscal) year

By Steven A. Camarota and Karen Zeigler on November 2, 2021

An analysis of the Census Bureau monthly Current Population Survey (CPS) by the Center for Immigration Studies shows that after falling for much of 2020, the foreign-born population (legal and illegal), has rebounded dramatically, increasing by 1.6 million between September 2020 and September 2021, which is the most recent data available. Unlike arrival figures for legal immigrants or border apprehension numbers, the CPS provides insight into the number of foreign-born people, also referred to as immigrants, who have actually settled in the United States, reflecting both new arrivals and those who leave or die each year. There is a lot of variation from month to month in the CPS, so any change should be interpreted in light of this variability. But the data shows clear evidence first of a decline in the total immigrant population (legal and illegal) due to Covid-19 restrictions, and then a dramatic increase reflecting the surge of illegal immigration at the southern border, the restarting of visa processing at American consulates overseas, and the return of international travelers more generally in recent months.

Growth in the Immigrant Population. While there is some undercount, particularly of illegal immigrants, the foreign-born in Census Bureau surveys includes all persons who were not U.S. citizens at birth — naturalized citizens, lawful permanent residents, long-term temporary visitors (e.g. guestworkers and foreign students) and illegal immigrants. Growth in the total immigrant population can only be caused by new legal and illegal immigrants arriving from abroad. Births to immigrants in the United States do not add to the foreign-born as all persons born in the United States are considered native-born by definition. New immigration is offset by those immigrants who leave the country each year (previously estimated at nearly one million annually) and natural mortality among the existing immigrant population of roughly 300,000 a year. For the immigrant population to grow, new arrivals must exceed return migration and deaths.

Figure 1 shows the total immigrant population (legal and illegal) from January 2010 to September 2021, along with margins of error. Figure 1 shows that the nation’s immigrant population grew to 45.4 million in September 2021, a 1.6 million increase since September 2020. The recent growth of 1.6 million follows a 1.1 one million decline in the total immigrant population between September 2019 and September 2020. The decline almost certainly reflects the significant reduction in new legal and illegal immigration due to Covid-19 restrictions on international travel, the suspension, for a time, of visa processing at American consulates overseas, and Title 42 expulsions, which allowed the U.S. government to send illegal immigrants apprehended at the border immediately back to Mexico, even if the immigrant was not from that country. All of these factors seem to have significantly slowed the pace of new arrivals into the country. At the same time, some level of outmigration continued during this time period as did natural mortality, causing the total immigrant population to fall through the middle of 2020. Figure 2 shows a year-to-year monthly comparison in the size of the immigrant population. The biggest year-to-year monthly decline was the 1.6 million from March 2019 to March 2020. But the immigrant population fell to its smallest size of 43.8 million in August 2020…

Entire CIS.org report here.

 

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They are still coming – The Next ‘Del Rio’ Mass Migration Crisis Is Already Brewing in Yuma, Arizona

October 6, 2021 By D.A. King

Image: CIS.org

Another Epic Migrant Drama at the Southern Border, Still Largely Invisible

Todd Bensman

Center for Immigration Studies

Oct. 5, 2012

Before a Del Rio, Texas, migrant camp of 15,000 briefly captured national and White House attention, another volcanic rupture point in the southern border fault line was already flaring: this one in Yuma, Ariz.

In a sign that the Department of Homeland Security sees the Yuma Sector as poised to blow even more out of control, agents in other still-beleaguered sectors have been called in to help process an international medley of migrants streaming through this desert wilderness on the California-Arizona state line. Swells of border-crossers have forced the government to establish temporary tent shelters to process many of the illegal migrants into the country.

From October 2020 through August 2021, the most recent U.S. Customs and Border Protection apprehension numbers available, agents encountered 91,841 migrants from mostly Haiti and South America, but also from around the world. In August alone, agents encountered 17,097 migrants, up from 684 that month in 2020, the highest of all nine sectors. That’s a 2,400 percent spike through August 2021 compared to the same time frame in 2020.

Of course, 2020 numbers were at an historic nadir because of pandemic policies that year. But even adjusting for that, the numbers coming in through Yuma on a monthly basis show that something new and very different is afoot.

There is much more here from CIS.org.

 

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The DACA Myth, What Americans Need to Know

September 28, 2021 By D.A. King

FAIR

DACA Myths

Much of the public narrative surrounding the DACA program was built by open borders proponents and the mainstream media and is constructed of several core myths. These myths include:

  • That the program protects “kids” who were brought into the country through no fault of their own.
  • Applicants are almost exclusively Hispanic, and that as poverty-stricken citizens of Latin American republics a short distance away from the wealthy and successful United States, their parents’ decision to violate U.S. immigration laws was somehow acceptable, if not honorable.
  • They are often portrayed as having skills well beyond what reality suggests, while the media amplifies that perception by focusing on the rare “valedictorian” in order to create the impression this represents the general DACA population. Likewise, others try to suggest that many are proud members of the U.S. military.
  • Open borders advocates also claim DACA recipients are needed as critical essential workers.

Of course, open borders advocates work hard to find rare exceptions in an effort to paint a false picture of the DACA population that convinces Americans the program is a benefit to the public.

Political leaders from both parties also commonly claim that it would be cruel to deport anyone covered by the DACA program because these “incredible kids” would be unable to assimilate if they are sent back to their country of birth – after all, the U.S. was “the only home that they have ever known.” [iii]

Focusing on “kids” is a deliberate way to shift attention from the parents who came here illegally with their children seeking legal status. Rewarding minors with amnesty is giving their parents the very thing they broke the law to achieve. DACA absolved illegal aliens of their fundamental responsibilities as parents and instead suggests that if you violate U.S. immigration policy, American society is responsible for fixing the mess you created for yourself and your family.

DACA Facts

From the outset, much of the narrative surrounding the DACA program rang hollow. In a column for The Washington Post, Mickey Kaus described it as public-relations-style “hooey.”[iv] Here are a number of reasons why:

  • Many of these DACA “kids” were not brought here as young children. Instead, they entered or were smuggled into the United States as older teenagers.
    • In fact, the current average DACA recipient is 27, and as of 2017, 64 percent of all applicants were beyond high school age.[v]
    • A large number of DACA applicants weren’t “brought” here by anyone – they crossed the border themselves.
    • The DACA program did not require that applicants prove they were brought into the country without their consent.
    • Anyone who entered the U.S. prior to age 16 – and who was under 31 on June 15, 2012 – could apply.[vi]
  • Very few are valedictorians: [vii]  
    • Despite being a requirement for the program, less than half (49 percent) of all DACA beneficiaries have a high school education.
    • 24 percent can be categorized as functionally illiterate in English.
    • Only 46 percent have basic English skills.
  • Many have committed serious crimes.
    • Of the 756,166 aliens who were approved for DACA, 79,398 (10.4 percent) had at least one prior arrest. Of that total, roughly 16,000 were arrested again at some point after their DACA applications were approved.[viii]
    • Some of the charges included DUI, theft, assault, burglary, sexual assault, and even murder.
  • Fewer than 900 DACA recipients – slightly more than one-tenth of one percent of the total DACA population – joined the military.[ix]
  • Many DACA recipients are from non-Spanish-speaking countries.[x]
    • At least 36 of the nations of origin listed by USCIS are European, including: Portugal, Italy, Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Austria, and Switzerland.
    • Applicants also originate from at least nine Asian countries with fully developed or rapidly developing economies, such as South Korea, Japan, Singapore, and Malaysia.
    • 360 nationals of Israel have applied for DACA benefits. Israel is a developed nation, with a thriving economy, that – as a matter of law – accepts all returned citizens and provides free instruction in Hebrew to returnees and immigrants.
  • Many DACA recipients are from terror-prone or hostile nations.
    • More than 1,000 DACA applications were accepted from Pakistani nationals despite concerns over growing anti-U.S. sentiment within the country and the Pakistani government’s overt support of jihadist terror groups.[xi]
    • At least 60 applicants were accepted from Iran, and more than 2,000 from Venezuela, even though both nations remain overtly hostile to the United States. Since DACA does not require a thorough vetting process, it’s impossible to know whether these individuals are fleeing these governments or if they retain sympathies for the failed states.[xii]
    • Applications were accepted from Libyans, Syrians, and Yemenis even though the Obama administration had placed travel restrictions on nationals from these countries due to terrorism concerns at the time of the program’s implementation.[xiii]

The evidence shows that most DACA recipients are not shining valedictorians or medal-of-honor recipients like open border proponents and the mainstream media commonly suggest. Furthermore, neither are they typically young children who were brought into the country by no choice of their own. Instead, they are mostly adults in their 20s and 30s, many of whom did not even meet the basic qualifications for the program but were offered DACA status anyways. Tens of thousands of recipients are criminals.

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