Recent Posts Achrives

.

“Tori, don’t, don’t ever say that to me again. I am too. I’ve served proudly, and you don’t need to throw that in my face.” Republican state Senator Shawn Still on veteran status to Senate District 20 Republican Primary candidate and former U.S. Marine Tori Branum in a recorded May, 2024 telephone conversation.

________________

In several May, 2024 posts, we focused on a claim by Georgia state Senator Shawn Still (R- Norcross) that he is a military veteran. He isn’t.

While the political right correctly goes after Democrat Tim Walz for his shameless stolen valor remarks, as far as we can see there is silence from Georgia Republicans on Shawn Still. That includes Georgia Republican Party leadership, Georgia’s Gov. Brian Kemp, the president of the Senate, Lt, Governor Burt Jones, Still’s Senate colleagues and Republican voters – even voters in Still’s home district in Gwinnett County.

You can read about Freshman Sen. Shawn Still here and here and here. There is a lot more information linked into the posts.

Shawn Still Senate bio here.

For political insiders who do more than read “the news” it may help to explain Senator Still’s approach to policy by pointing out he was named the 2023 Freshman Senator of the Year by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. That reminds us: Don’t forget to remember the date of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce 2024 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Summit.

• Senator Shawn Still can be contacted at his Capitol office here. 

Heads up: Still has made it clear to this writer that he does not want to talk about the stolen valor topic.

SMH

August 08, 2024

TOPEKA, Kan. — (AP) — Fifteen states filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Biden administration over a rule that is expected to allow 100,000 immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children to enroll next year in the federal Affordable Care Act’s health insurance.

The states are seeking to block the rule from taking effect Nov. 1 and providing people known as “Dreamers” access to tax breaks when they sign up for coverage. The Affordable Care Act’s marketplace enrollment opens the same day, just four days ahead of the presidential election.

The states filed suit in North Dakota, one of the states involved. All have Republican attorneys general who are part of a GOP effort to thwart Biden administration rules advancing Democratic policy goals.

“The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society.”  – Democrat Ted Kennedy on the promised effects of the 1965 change to U.S. immigration law.

When Americans are allowed to talk about legal immigration at all, straying outside the parameters of “legal immigration good, illegal immigration bad” is often deemed to be “anti-immigration.” The politically correct “solution” to illegal immigration is usually to increase legal immigration. Most other reactions are often deemed “anti-immigrant hate” by the arbiters of permitted speech. That includes any talk of enforcing immigration laws.

In the endless push for “immigration reform,” – meaning a repeat of the failed amnesty of 1986 and increased legal immigration levels – a long list of politicians of both parties assure us that even now, the U.S. somehow has a shortage of immigrants. We don’t.

The USA imports more legal immigrants than any nation in the world. We take in more than a million legal immigrants each year. My adopted sister is one of them. So are several of the members of the board of the Dustin Inman Society of which this writer is founder. It is not somehow “anti-immigrant” to believe that immigration should benefit Americans and America. And it is not “anti-immigration” to have a serious conversation about reducing legal immigration and enforcing our immigration laws.

We also import more than 750,000 guest workers each year, many of whom refuse to leave when their temporary visa expires.

• Recommended reading: Historical Overview of Immigration Policy

The assimilation process of the fabled “great wave” of immigration from the beginning of the last century came about due to a sharp reduction in immigration from 1924 to the mid-sixties. The numbers went from about 700,000 immigrants per year to about 200,000 due to the 1924 law passed by congress. Because of the laws of supply and demand, this reduction not only allowed American wages to rise — thereby creating the now vanishing middle class — but also created an atmosphere of common culture, language and patriotic unity in our Republic.

• Related reading: How the 1924 Immigration Act Helped Build the Black Middle Class

But in the name of “civil rights” the numbers steadily increased after the Hart Cellar Act was passed in 1965. Democrat Ted Kennedy assured the nation that these amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act would have minimal effect on our society. “The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society.” His brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, made the same prediction: “[The bill] would increase the amount of authorized immigration by only a fraction.”

• Recommended reading: “The 1965 Immigration Act: A Little Humility, Please!”

Democrat President Lyndon Johnson told us “This bill that we will sign today is not a revolutionary bill. It does not affect the lives of millions. It will not reshape the structure of our daily lives, or really add importantly to either our wealth or our power…”

The law changed the face of America forever.

A March 2024 report from the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington D.C. tells us the foreign-born share of the U.S. population has more than tripled since 1970, nearly doubled since 1990, and is up 40 percent just since 2000.

A majority of Americans want lower immigration numbers

A June 2024 national Gallup poll (“Sharply More Americans Want to Curb Immigration to U.S.”) that may have been left out of “the news.” Gallup reveals that 55% of Americans want immigration levels reduced. That’s the highest since 2001- after the horror of 9/11. Gallup says 55% of American adults would like to see immigration to the U.S. decreased.

“This is the first time since 2005 that a majority of Americans have wanted there to be less immigration, and today’s figure is the largest percentage holding that view since a 58% reading in 2001. The record high was 65%, recorded in 1993 and 1995” according to Gallup. “This represents a 10-percentage-point decline in those saying they want increased immigration, now at 16%.”

There has also been a decline in those wanting to see immigration kept at its present level, down six points to 25%.

The dangerous idiocy of “illegal immigration bad, legal immigration good” goop pushed by the people who hope we won’t talk about immigration at all is now on display in Europe. Many European leaders have been busy legally importing immigrants who openly espouse their intentions. It goes something like “we will rape your mothers and wives, conquer you and kill those of you who do not submit to our religion and Sharia law.”

How is England adapting? The police in the United Kingdom are now opening press conferences with Islamic greetings like “salam alaykum.” 

For readers who are not certain the above is true, I recommend getting an account on X (formerly known as Twitter) to see what is left out of reports in the liberal press here in the U.S.

I urge haste. It is fully within the realm of possibility that if the Democrats win the White House columns like this one will be punishable under law. It is already happening in Europe. Last week I watched video after video of invited and taxpayer subsidized radical Islamist “migrants” chase down and beat native Englishmen and women in the streets of England.

This while Brit police arrest English citizens in their homes for posting their objections to the mass, legal immigration that has put their country on an all but certain path to extinction. The London Metropolitan police commissioner threatens to extradite and jail US citizens over social media posts: ‘We will come after you.’ Yes, London’s Police chief announced officials will not only be cracking down on British citizens for commenting on the riots in the UK, but on American citizens as well” (Fox News).

• See @LosingEurope on X

Here at home, Minnesota Governor and now candidate for Vice President Tim Walz tells  MSNBC that “…there’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech especially around our Democracy.”

Guess who intends to define “misinformation” and “hate speech?”

 Better immigration is possible. To make Washington hear your voice on reducing immigration, please see NumbersUSA.com .

Silence is consent.

D.A. King is @DAKDIS on X (formerly known as Twitter).

Note: It looks like it’s “realmuckraker.com” and “@muckraker” on X.  Correcti0ns welcomed.

There is a video from something called “realmuckraker.com”  (“Non-Citizens Registered to Vote in Georgia“) going around that features Hispanic people apparently living in Gwinnett County GA. being asked if they are registered to vote or if they have already voted. Some of those asked say they are not U.S. citizens but have indeed already voted. Others say they are here illegally and are registered to vote. It seems easy enough to verify…

The @muckraker video has been sent here by numerous people – many of whom I haven’t heard from in a long time.

Observations:

If you are looking for an example of the power created by corporate donations to radical, far-left, anti-enforcement groups here in Georgia that loudly boast about their decade-long push to register voters, see the GALEO Inc. concern founded by former MALDEF board member and former Democrat Georgia state Senator Sam Zamarippa. It has been run since its inception in 2003 by a former MALDEF lobbyist and Democrat fundraiser, Jerry Gonzalez, who is a determined and perpetually angry Marxist ethnic hustler.

• Bonus education on MALDEF: “…Co-founder Mario Obledo said in 1998: “California is going to be a Hispanic state and anyone who doesn’t like it should leave. They ought to go back to Europe.”

To get started on the GALEO voter registration caper, see here and here and here and here.

A long-time member of the GALEO Inc. Board of Directors, Dax Lopez, saw his Obama-sponsored nomination for a lifetime seat on the federal bench go down in flames when the GALEO ties were made public. This writer was happy to lead that fight and create the deciding online exposure that we shared with our U.S. Senators then.

“Unauthorized population” vs non-citizens

The realmuckraker.com video has some serious flaws in that is presents a table from the leftist Migration Policy Institute with an out-of-date estimate of the “Unauthorized Population” living in Georgia. “Unauthorized” is one of the many “don’t say illegal” words used by the anti-enforcement side to describe illegal aliens. We think MPI’s numbers are drastically low as they have been up long before the Democrats opened the southern border when the Biden/Harris administration took over the White House.

But that’s not the point: MPI is estimating illegal aliens living in Georgia. The narrative presented by the gang at @realmuckraker / actforamerica substack talks about “non-citizens” – foreigners living in Georgia – legally or not.

For clarity: A German Mercedes Benz executive here on a temporary work visa living with his family in Atlanta is a “non-citizen” – but not part of the “unauthorized population.”  Nether are the members of his family, assuming they came on a visa (such as an H-4 visa).

The (dated and too low) info in the video from MPI is on “unauthorized population.” (illegal aliens). The video narrative presented says “non-citizens” – which includes foreigners here legally. It’s sloppy and unprofessional. Conflating illegals with foreign nationals here lawfully has a significant effect on the stats in the realmuckraker’s breathless conclusion that there may be “over forty-seven thousand non-citizens registered to vote” in Georgia. It’s a shame that so many people are getting an unfounded view of this issue.

That said – I have no idea if or how many ineligible voters have been registered by GALEO Inc. and the Democrats. But neither do the well-intentioned people who are sending me this whacky video. Because they aren’t paying attention.

It appears that at least one taxpayer-funded Georgia university excludes illegal aliens from accessing the no-cost college classes offered in Gov. Kemp’s Dual Enrollment program. The new information creates a lot of questions, which we will get to another time.

Former GOP candidate for Georgia Senate District 20, Tori Branum sent us a screen shot of the Dual Enrollment (DE) page from Middle Georgia State University (apparently also called Middle Georgia Academy or MGA) on which there is a link to the DE “Application Process” that includes “submit proof of lawful presence” in the “follow the application steps” pulldown box. Screen shot below:

As I write on July 29, (12:55 PM) the link to ‘lawful presence’ is dead. I sent a letter to various staffers at MGA alerting them to the broken link and asking if there was an error on the page or if in fact the school does indeed require proof of lawful status for D.E. applicants. A timely response from Dual Enrollment Recruiter Ms. Holly Spires informs me that yes, Middle Georgia State University does require proof of lawful presence for DE applicants. Hooray!

8:28 AM July 29, 2024

Good morning, Mr. King:

Thank you for reaching out with your questions.  I am happy to help.

Middle Georgia State University does require submission of Proof of Lawful Presence when applying for dual enrollment.

Please let me know if you have any other questions, and I will my best to assist you.

Holly Spires
Dual Enrollment Recruiter

Academic Services Building

MGA Warner Robins Campus

Suite 124 Office 128

100 University Blvd, Warner Robins, GA 31093

C:  478-342-6015
holly.spires@mga.edu

 

Thank you for the terrific news, Ms. Spires!

• Contrast that fact with the knowledge that the Georgia Student Finance Commission and other schools  we have checked on make it clear that there are zero exclusions for “the undocumented” who can and do get free college classes from Georgia taxpayers under the DE program (much more information on DE here).

For an example, see the statement on the “Resources for DACA and Undocumented Students” from the University of North Georgia website here (click “show all”) and below.