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Martha Zoller should stop digging – but does allow that “anybody whose child or is killed because of a person who’s an illegal immigrant, that is a wrong thing to do”

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Republican radio show host Martha Zoller says illegal immigration has increased so much that Brian Kemp “had to change his tactics” and abandon his campaign promises on “criminal illegals” and ending sanctuary cities.
“Enforcing the law should not be partisan.”
The below is from the Martha Zoller radio show, Jan. 18, 2024. Transcript by Rev.com. My cost $12.00 and about 1.5 hours of my time.
Martha Zoller on air: In response to a text Martha read from a listener noting that Gov Brian Kemp has not honored his 2018 campaign promises on illegal immigration and asking if she ever has D.A. King on her show:
 Zoller quickly starts with “I know D.A. King very well… he is the only person I have blocked on Twitter…”
Transcript from recording, still on D.A. King

“…Uh, and I’ve done it because he is unreasonable in his points of view. Um, I’ve worked with him on many issues related to Dustin Inman Society. I helped him raise money. I’ve been involved with it. And because I believe that Governor Kemp… First of all, you can’t assume every Hispanic person you see is an illegal immigrant. And that if they don’t speak English well, that they’re illegal. Okay, that’s- that’s unfair, that’s prejudiced. It’s not racist, it’s prejudiced, you’re, you have a prejudice against this person, okay. But what I will say is, um, we have pretty tough laws as it relates to illegal immigration and- and the governor has helped with the National Guard, he’s done all kinds of things with Governor Greg Abbott as far as the border crisis is concerned. Yes, you’re right, he hasn’t been “rounding up illegal immigrants” like he said in his primary ad. And I didn’t like that ad.

Screenshot, Brian Kemp 2018 TV campaign ad.

I was one of those people that, um, was seeing… I got to see those ads early and I picked the Jake one. I loved it. Where he was sitting on the porch by one of Jake Dateman’s daughter, I loved that. I thought it had a great sense of humor. And then the other one I liked was him taking a chainsaw to regulation. I didn’t like the- the pickup truck one, but that’s the one they went through. And I just believe the situation of, if you can’t look at the situation on the border and see that the s- that the game has changed, and that we’re gonna need different tactics to deal with it, then I can’t really talk to you about it. But, um, we’re gonna take a break and when we come back we’ll take you up to the top of the hour. I will look up Kayla Hamilton and, uh, try to be a little more knowledgeable about that. We’ll be back.*

  • Related: Dear Davos elites: Please tell your witch doctor to cast a spell GA. Gov. Brian Kemp while he is there?

Martha Zoller on air:

… first. Now, I looked up the Kayla Hamilton case. This happened in July of 2022. Uh, she was, um, autistic woman who was killed by an MS-13 gang member, um, and, um, you know, there, you know, is… She sent messages to President Biden, and look, anybody… Dustin Inman, anybody whose child or is killed because of a person who’s an illegal immigrant, that is a wrong thing to do. That is the, the wrong thing. Um, that is somebody that shouldn’t be in this country, so that person should still be safe and sound. So we should work hard against that, and that should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

We have got to secure the border, number one. You can join us on the phones at 770-535-2911, and I believe that we can do it. You know, I believe that we can deal with all of these things, and we can… we showed that we can do it during the Trump administration and, to some degree, during the, the Obama administration. The Obama… Obama was very tough on immigration. He deported more people every year. He, um… He didn’t do all this, “Come one, come all,” kind of stuff. He was very interesting because in front of his crowds, he would say one thing, but how he implemented the law was very different. And I’m sure that had to do, to some degree, with the fact that he had people that were legal immigrants in his life, and when you talk to people who were legal immigrants, who came here legally, they are very hard-line as it comes to the border situation.

But then you had Donald Trump come in, and he did the remain in Mexico. And he did a number of things, and he got the number of children, especially, in custody down to less than 500. And the sad thing about that was that those were people that they couldn’t find their families or their families didn’t want them. That’s really hard to imagine. Um, now we’re up to s- … of children in custody, and the reason why just whole separating kids from their parents, the reason why children… by and large, is they don’t have documentation they belong to that adult, and there is some rel- … reason to believe there might be something going on that’s… that could be bad for the child, either sex trafficking, labor trafficking, sut- …

We don’t just separate children from their parents, and we’ve got to stop making this a partisan issue because Republicans go in office, and we… we’re, we’re hard-line about it. Democrats come in, and we soften up. And then we go back and forth and back an- … Enforcing the law should not be partisan. Enforcing the law should be what we all do and that… what we all support, or we do what Governor Deal did when he was a congressman. You enforce the law, or you… if you don’t think the law fits anymore, then you change law. And that’s what you do. So I appreciate the [inaudible 00:03:12] from people, um, that related to this. You’ve got to really be… got to get on the same page as far as illegal immigration goes.

Um… in Cleveland said, “I’m so sick of democrats referring to our country as democracy. Thomas Jefferson had to say about democracies, ‘A democracy is nothing more than [inaudible 00:03:32] over 51% of the people may take away the rights of the other 40.’ They are a constitutional republic.” That’s Don from Cl- Cleveland. We… representative republic. We are a consti-

 

Dear Davos elites: Please tell your witch doctor to cast a spell on GA. Gov. Brian Kemp while he is there?

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Ga. Gov. Brain Kemp.

 

Yo, Davos! While he is over there, could you please have your witch doctor put a spell on Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp that would make him honor his oath of office and his 2018 campaign promises by enforcing our state laws against sanctuary cities? We want that to be the “Georgia way.” It’s worth a try!

We now have sanctuary counties.  BTW: Quanto costa?

Screenshot, Brian Kemp TV campaign ad, 2018.

 

A Chris Carr page

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Chris Carr, Attorney General for Georgia. Photo: Law.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We take an educated “Never Chris Carr” view.

 

GEORGIA POLITICAL HISTORY SHOULD BE REMEMBERED

Updates on this page began on August 14, 2024 and will continue while I round up the earlier posts from three websites starting in 2007.

  • 2023 – Nine Republican states have filed in federal court to shut down the illegal DACA program – GA not participating (Here).

 

  • 2023 – Twenty GOP states are challenging Biden’s illegal border parole hustle in a Texas federal court – GA is not one of them (Here).

 

  • 2023 – 25 GOP-Led States Ask SCOTUS to Restore Prohibition on Encouraging Illegal Immigration – GA Stands Back, Again (Here) Update: Note SCOTUS reversed the lower court decision. The suit was successful.

 

  • 2024 – 15 states sue to block Biden’s effort to make illegal aliens with the illegal DACA status get ObamaCare – GA absent from the list. (Here).

 

  • 2013 – Pro-enforcement immigration expert blacklisted by U.S. Senator’s Cheif of Staff (Here)

 

  • 2016 –  “Chris Carr was appointed by Governor Deal in 2013 to as Commissioner of the Department of Economic Development (GDEcD), the state agency charged with helping to create jobs and generate investment in Georgia” (ACCG) “I am also uncomfortable with the concept that any foreign consul or Georgia Commissioner of Economic Development would be given authority to appoint an official to be the arbiter of the validity of a foreign driver’s license, as SB 320 seems to read.” Then Gwinnett County Sheriff Butch Conway opposing SB 320 in a Feb. 2016 letter to the GA Senate Public Safety committee.

 

  • SB 320 was one of the most outrageous bills of the 2016 sessio0n under the Gold Dome. It was the result of Commissioner Chris Carr’s obedience to the special business interests led by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. I urge readers to see the SB 320 file HERE. The measure died a well deserved death after we sounded the alarm and got law enforcement officials involved, including retired Border Patrol Agents – but not before passing out of the Senate Public Safety Committee, Then Senator Tyler Harper, Chairman.

 

This page is a project in progress.

 

The liberal AJC must have a new “don’t tell” policy on illegal aliens

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The liberal AJC has apparently moved to be even more obvious in its agenda to blur the line between legal and illegal aliens. In the past, they would use terms like “undocumented” and “unauthorized” to describe illegal aliens if it became necessary to separate legal from illegal. Apparently there is a new policy from Andrew Morse et al.

In a recent story about the unsavory poultry bosses hiring black market labor to process chickens and a worker being injured on the job in that occupation the story contains no mention of the immigration status of object of main character/victim/hero of the story.

“Georgia man got hurt at his poultry job – then dismissed.” Sub headline “For immigrant poultry workers, gaining access to the workers’ compensation system can be littered with obstacles.”

To detect and demonstrate any stealth editing, I did a screenshot of the entire report.

  • Bonus read: “The ultimate goal of any White House policy ought to be a North American economic and political alliance similar in scope and ambition to the European Union” 

 

Illegal aliens on an oversight committee? Georgia’s pending ‘school choice’ bill needs more work SB 233

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Georgia House Chamber – photo, AJC.

 

“The bill defines “parents” as “a biological parent, legal guardian, custodian, or other person with legal authority to act on behalf of a student.”

It took several years of work from pro-enforcement advocates, but Georgia’s pending “school choice” bill, SB 233 (LC 49 1473S) excludes illegal alien students. See lines 82 & 83. Because it is intentionally cryptic, we posted an easy to understand explanation elsewhere for curious readers.

School choice is a solid conservative idea if done responsibly – but the current version still doesn’t fit that description. Not for the first time, we note that SB 233 contains no exclusion for illegal alien “parents.” This writer predicts this easily remedied fact will be a significant problem for bill sponsors and Gov. Kemp when trusting GOP voters are educated on the details of the legislation.

Ga. Gov. Brain Kemp.

The bill defines “parents” (on lines 37 & 38) as “a biological parent, legal guardian, custodian, or other person with legal authority to act on behalf of a student.” It makes the parent the applicant for the student to access the taxpayer funded “Promise Scholarship” benefit (see line 105).

Federal statistics reveal that over 300,000 illegal “migrants” entered the U.S last month (Dec. 2023) – more than the population of Savannah, Marietta and Warner Robins combined. Legislators ignore this reality at their political peril.

Hardworking Georgians will likely not take kindly to a GOP-pushed law that allows any illegals to apply for a discretionary taxpayer-funded benefit – including private school tuition.

  • Related: Estimates are that 400,000 illegal aliens called Georgia home in 2018

The same taxpayers may have a strong objection to a law that names any illegally present “parent” as the “recognized recipient” of state funds for private school tuition as laid out in lines 126-129: “Any account funds directed to a participating school or service provider are so directed on behalf of the participating student’s parent, the recognized recipient of such participating student’s account funds, and wholly as a result of the genuine and independent private choice of the parent.”

More, from lines 208-211: “The commission shall develop a system for parents to direct account funds to participating schools and service providers by electronic funds transfer, automated clearing-house transfer, or another system that the commission finds to be commercially viable, cost-effective, and easy for parents of participating students to use.”

S. Greg Dolezal (R- Alpharetta), lead sponsor, SB 233.

Lines 211- 214 create a scenario in which the state of Georgia could easily be in the position of sending tax dollars directly to illegal alien “parents” to reimburse them for out-of-pocket expenses and/or “certain qualified education expenses.”

It doesn’t take much imagination to realize that most conservative voters aren’t going to sit quietly while a law is put in place that would allow illegal aliens to serve on a school choice oversight committee either. But SB 233 does exactly that. “Parents” would serve on a parental review committee that would oversee eligible expenses for school choice benefits – see lines 238-240: “To assist in the determination of whether certain expenses meet the requirements to be considered a qualified education expense under this chapter, a parent review committee shall be established.”

And this from lines & 253-254: “The commission may request the (parent review) committee to determine whether an expenditure of account funds from an account qualifies as a qualified education expense under this chapter.”

Rep. Todd Jones (R- Cumming) House sponsor, SB 233.

More on parents’ participation: “(line 48) Qualified education expenses’ means any one or more of the following: … “Other expenses authorized by the State Board of Education or the commission; or Individual education expenses authorized by a majority of the parent review committee provided for in Code Section 20-2B-6 (lines 64-66).”

There are several commonsense solutions to all this. It seems that the simplest is to insert language into the bill that designates the “Promise Scholarship” school choice benefit as a “state grant.” That should require the applicant – the “parent” – to complete the “verification of lawful presence” process that is already in OCGA 50-36-1. Shorter: It would exclude illegal alien parents – if the law was enforced.

It is noteworthy that several inquiries have reportedly already been made to the Attorney General’s office asking if the school choice scholarship would be a state grant in the bill as is. I understand that the AG has informed more than one state legislator that the question would not be answered on a pending bill.

  • A version of the above oped was originally posted on the subscription outlet James Magazine Online on January 5, 2024.

D.A. King is president of the Dustin Inman Society and proprietor of ImmigrationPoliticsGA.com

GA senator explains penalty for talking back to Gov. Brian Kemp for his betrayal on illegal immigration to Cobb GOP

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State Sen. Ed Setzler, R-Acworth, and Cobb GOP Chair Salleigh Grubbs discussed a previous Cobb GOP resolution which censured Gov. Brian Kemp at the GOP’s monthly breakfast on Saturday at Kore Steakhouse in Marietta. Jon Gillooly

The below is taken from Newsbreak.com, Nov. 7, 2023

State Sen. Ed Setzler, R-Acworth, came to the Cobb County Republican Party’s monthly breakfast meeting to deliver a speech on the national debt and how the U.S. should act on the world stage.

But when he opened it up for questions, the animated audience had other topics on their minds.

One questioner asked why Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who’s prosecuting a case against former President Donald Trump, is still in power.

“We have a Republican governor, a Republican legislature, and they’re not doing anything to help Trump,” the questioner said, noting the exception was state Sen. Colton Moore who advocated impeaching Willis.

“I don’t know what’s wrong with (Gov.) Brian Kemp,” the questioner continued. “Frankly I don’t know what’s wrong. He says he’s a Christian. When is he going to act like a Christian?”

Cobb GOP Chair Salleigh Grubbs told Setzler that they feel abandoned in Cobb County.

Ga.Gov. Brain Kemp at Davos, 2023.

“We feel abandoned because when it came to the home rule provision with the attorney general’s office, Cobb County’s on its own,” Grubbs said. “The governor is not getting involved. There’s so many things that we feel like we’re on an island in Cobb County, and we run up the flag, and it’s the distress signal, and trust me Ed, I love you. You’re one of my favorite people, not only as a legislator, but as a friend, but we feel like we’re alone, and we feel like there’s nobody fighting for us.”

A similar theme came from audience member John McLean, who was there with his wife, Kathy. McLean said he lost count of how many times he’s come to such events and been told Republicans must come together.

“But while I’m being told we got to come together, I see the Republican caucus remove somebody they disagree with — in secret,” McClean said. “ … The other thing is we’ve got the governor of the state of Georgia that obviously can’t accept any criticism, and so he’s kicked the (state) GOP to the curb. We’ve got a supposed Republican secretary of state that’s AWOL and won’t commit to upgrading the voting machines. And whether we want to agree that there’s enough fraud in the election — there’s fraud — whether there was enough fraud in the election to overturn the election, there’s a certain percentage of Republicans and people in this room, I’m assuming like me, that are suspect of those voting machines he won’t upgrade.”

McLean said he wants to stay on the team and be committed, but he said he doesn’t see Georgia’s Republican leadership doing the same.

“We’ve got home rule being challenged in Cobb County and our attorney general is AWOL. He’s filed an amicus brief, but that’s not enough. We’ve got the Board of Education, the county Board of Education that’s decided not to defend their map. I just don’t get it, and I don’t see Republicans doing enough,” he said.

Setzler asked the audience if he had permission to tell the truth. Yes, the crowd answered. He then referenced the infamous September 2021 resolution in which the Cobb GOP censured Kemp. Ever since that censure took place, neither Kemp nor other statewide elected officials such as Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr have appeared at a Cobb GOP breakfast. (They do attend the meetings of Cobb County Republican Women’s Club, which is a separate organization run by club president Nancy Couch.)

  • Note from D.A.: I was happy to write the Cobb resolution in question and praise the Cobb GOP members who passed it.

“When a party organization, you may think you’re justified, when a party organization formally and in writing censures a sitting governor from their own party in a rebuke, I can guarantee you what that means. Your party organization’s voice vanishes,” Seltzer told the crowd. “That was, in my opinion, one of the most strategically ill-informed decisions I’ve ever seen since I’ve been associated with the Cobb County Republican Party. And (you) might have even been right. That doesn’t even mean whether you’re right or wrong on the issue. Set that aside. But when parties rebuke in writing and resolution their own sitting governor — you have every right to do that, but when you feel like your voice isn’t there anymore, you have only yourself to blame.”

Setzler said on top of that, it makes it difficult for him, state Sen. Kay Kirkpatrick, R-east Cobb, and others to advocate for Cobb County when the county party makes such a move.

Grubbs replied that there is “a culture of distrust” that exists in Georgia, which she said is bigger than the governor or legislature. As a member of the Georgia Republican Party’s executive committee, Grubbs said there is infighting on that board.

“Because it’s like, ‘Well you’re on (Georgia GOP head Josh McKoon’s) side. Or you’re a mole or you’re this or you’re that.’ And what that tells me is that an effective leader addresses the issue, and says, ‘It was a censure. I understand. I heard you. Let me tell you why that’s a problem, and let’s move past it.’ But here we are almost three years later, and we’re still having that conversation. And if you’re in a marriage … and you have a problem in your marriage, ‘Well, three years ago, you did not load the dish washer properly, and I’ve told you how to do it, and so now I’m divorcing you.’ You know, it’s insane, it’s immature, and it’s childish to not deal with issues and move on past it for the sake of America. This is not just Georgia we’re talking about. It’s the sake of America,” she said to applause.

Setzler responded by observing how they were certainly addressing the issue out in the open.

“It’s being aired out. We’re airing it out today. We all have roles. I think Salleigh’s role is extremely important, prominent. The work you put in is just stunning to me, I so, so appreciate that. I mean that not to be trite,” Setzler said.

However, he continued, “The Cobb County Republican Party as an organization is going to need to address that with our governor and his folks. When you have both collectively addressed that to all sides’ adequate satisfaction it will then be addressed.”

Read the entire write-up here.

Letter to the editor from retired immigration enforcement agent Bob Trent: Stop no-cost college courses for the undocumented

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Opinion

Peters to the editor

It looks like pro-enforcement immigration activists may be out in front of the “watchdog media” on crucial matters relevant to illegal immigration in Georgia and our tax dollars. Georgia activist D.A. King has been asking a question on his ImmigrationPoliticsGA.com blog for at least three years about the dual enrollment program pushed by Kemp and Republican legislators.

It’s an easy enough question: Where in the law regulating the program is the provision that says illegal aliens are not eligible for the no-cost college course seats awarded to high school students? And where is the language that spells out a verification program for this important exclusion? I find neither.

The U.S. Supreme Court decision Plyer v. Doe requires U.S. public schools to educate the illegals K-12. It does not make them eligible for no-cost post secondary education. The tutorials on various state websites make it clear that a Social Security number is not necessary to enter the dual enrollment program.

While conservative Republicans wage an annual battle under the Gold Dome to stop other Republicans from changing state law so as to award in-state college tuition to Georgia’s “undocumented” foreign high school grads, it looks like we are paying for zero-cost college tuition as well as fees and books for the illegal aliens who haven’t yet graduated our tax-funded high schools. King has a valid question.

As a retired Border Patrol agent and a special agent, to me, this seems like a topic ripe for in-depth investigative journalism.

Robert M. Trent

St. Marys

Here.

 

The AJC and Bill Nigut do some history revision on DACA

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The former  enforcer for the anti-enforcement ADL in the Southeast, Bill Nigut, now works for the leftist Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper here. Nigut is base progressive and a true hack. He is also an arrogant coward.

Today’s emailed afternoon AJC political blog newsletter (“Politically Georgia P.M. Update”) brought a column by Nigut titled “Opinion: The thorny history of immigration reform” in which he tells readers all about the need for another amnesty. Along the way he allows that

“In 2012 President Obama created DACA through an executive order. But its promise of giving permanent status to millions of young immigrants has faced endless legal challenges and partisan attacks ever since.”

Bill Nigut, foreground.

Oy.

It is not difficult to highlight the hard left’s daily misinformation – particularly on immigration matters – and Nigut’s attempt here is no exception. Obama, after repeatedly noting that as president he had no authority go around congress or to impose the now proven illegal DACA scheme was at least repeatedly clear that is was never intended to create a permanent status  for the illegal aliens who benefitted: Here is part of what Zero said:

“Effective immediately, the Department of Homeland Security is taking steps to lift the shadow of deportation from these young people.  Over the next few months, eligible individuals who do not present a risk to national security or public safety will be able to request temporary relief from deportation proceedings and apply for work authorization.

Now, let’s be clear — this is not amnesty, this is not immunity.  This is not a path to citizenship.  It’s not a permanent fix.  This is a temporary stopgap measure that lets us focus our resources wisely while giving a degree of relief and hope to talented, driven, patriotic young people…”

You can read the entire Obama 2012 DACA roll out speech  here.

And will somebody tell Nigut and his AJC editors that DACA was not created by Executive Order? EOs are all numbered. Maybe get Nigut to reveal the number of that elusive DACA Executive Order?

Nigut’s afternoon missive on immigration, DACA and amnesty can be seen here.  We predict there will be no correction or history of a re-write. This is all common practice for the AJC.

 

How to create fake (“pseudo”) SSNs to find more workers, brought to us by an official State of Ohio Website – and the Feds #SB379 (2022)

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I am using this as part of a soon-to come write up of a similar but larger state-sponsored workers operation here in Georgia. This is merely a partial preview. Believe it or not.

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From the jfs.ohio.gov website

“An official State of Ohio site”

“Updated Guidance on the Use of Social Security Numbers (SSN) Memo

Customers of the OhioMeansJobs center sometimes do not have an SSN or do not wish to provide their SSN to be put into a computer system. Please note Workforce Investment and Opportunities Act (WIOA) program staff are not allowed to make a person disclose the SSN to be a part of the program.

Suppose a customer is self-registering through the County Finance Information System-OhioMeansJobs App (CFIS Kiosk) or is being entered into Ohio’s case management system and has no SSN or chooses not to give one. In that case, OhioMeansJobs center staff must create a pseudo-nine-digit SSN, a temporary number to register the person. The pseudo number will remain in the case management system until the person provides a social security number.

The formula for a pseudo number is as follows.

  • 99 for the first two digits
  • Use two digits for the month of the job seeker’s birth
  • Two digits for the job seeker’s day of birth
  • Use the last two digits of the job seeker’s year of birth
  • Use a “0” for the last digit

If the system finds a duplicate with the pseudo number, move on to the next number until no duplicates are found. For example, a job seeker with a birth date of July 1, 1968, would have a temporary SSN of 990-70-1680. If this is a duplicate, you would then try 990-70-1681.

The pseudo-SSN formula may also be used when signing up a person for WIOA-funded (participating) services.

While a person is not required to provide an SSN to get into the program, WIOA does not allow exclusions from reporting on performance due to a lack of an SSN. If a participant is enrolled in WIOA services and will not or cannot provide an SSN, wage data must be collected during a person’s first four full quarters after exit.

Please get in touch with OWDPOLICY@jfs.ohio.gov if you have any questions about this guidance.”

–>See for yourself.