Immigration Research Archives

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

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.

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 3^rd 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

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.

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.

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.

Here.