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We note that in her amnesty push today, Martha failed to correct her inaccurate “facts” on temporary visa holders in an amnesty push from last week.

Many thanks to my pal E.R. for taping Martha’s show today while I worked on the SPLC case. It seems Martha has turned a corner on any fear of a credibility problem.

I don’t have time today to cover all of the falsehoods in her monologue, to restate all of the now blatently dishonest representations of Brian Kemp’s 2018 campaign promises on “criminal illegals” or to comment on her comparison of pro-enforcement Americans like me to “bullies” (again) and to “pro-Palestinian activists.”

And no time to comment on yet another version of her “it’s-not-amnesty” amnesty push.

But I will soon. The Martha Zoller chapter is growing. Advice to Martha Zoller on holes and digging here.

Ick.

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• Related reading: Martha Zoller offers her opinion on the correct waiting period for amnesty eligibility.

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Audio below.

Beginning of The Martha Zoller Show,  9:00 AM Monday, Nov. 6, 2023

Announcer:

Hey, it’s 5:50 at FM 102.9 WDUN, always here, always local.

Announcer:

George, voters are just plain frustrated across the board. 76% of adults in this all stated the country is headed in the wrong direction. Only 23% less than a quarter of the country say that we’re headed on the right track. And the issues that are animating voter’s frustration, i- it’s almost unspeakably vast and broad, economy 74% of Americans say it’s very important to them personally, 69% say the same about inflation. Those are issues in our poll that tend to favor Republicans. Voters say they trust Republicans more than Democrats on those issues.

Republican radio show host Martha Zoller:

It is The Martha Zoller Show, so it’s been a fun weekend, uh, it really has. So I… It was really funny because I, uh, went and got my annual physical before I came in here and, of course, so it’s been, like, I’ve been dressed and undressed I can’t tell you how many times this morning, uh, since I got here getting ready for all of that. But everything’s good. There’s always, you know, the one or two things they want you to work on, but it’s annual physical time, what can I say. So it was great all week, I appreciate Dr. Sherry [inaudible 00:01:09], um, it’s great to have a old-school primary care doctor that still has paper charts that looks you in the eye, and, um, you know, takes care of you. So it’s really great.

You can join us on the phones at 770-535-2911.

Look, this is the last time that I’m going to, uh, talk about, uh, this particular issue. Maybe not the last time ever, but the last time. Um, I have a situation where, um, uh, my, uh… a guy I’ve known for years named D.A. King, for some reason has d- has latched onto me on social media as being like the person who can control, um, you know, what happens, you know, anytime anywhere as far as immigration is concerned. And I’m not really 100% why, sure why that’s the case.

Look, nobody’s really looking at these posts that he’s putting out, uh, uh, about me, and I don’t generally interact, but I’m just gonna say this, and, ’cause I know he listens. Anytime he wants to come in and talk about his immigration policies, he is welcome to do so. He has been a person that is involved in this, uh, issue for many years, and I have helped him with many of his causes. We are mostly on the same side. And this really couches a bigger problem that Republicans and Democrats have is that, uh, if you’re not with me 100% of the time, then you’re my enemy, okay?

So in this particular situation, where he and I have, um, parted ways, if you will, is over Governor Kemp’s, uh, handling of illegal immigration. If everybody remembers back to the 2018 election, there was that ad in the primary of Governor Kemp in his pickup truck and he said, if he was, if he had to he’d go around in his pickup truck and round up all the illegals. I didn’t like that ad, I was part of the group of people that was helping to pick ads. I did not pick that ad. I did pick the one of him sittin’ on the porch with the gun talking to Jake. I thought that was hysterical, a guy with three daughters, I thought it was really funny.

Um, so, um, he believes, DA King believes that Governor Kemp has not kept his promises related to illegal immigrants. But I don’t think anybody could have anticipated what would happen when Joe Biden took over, okay. And he opened up the borders. We didn’t have open borders in 2018 when Governor Kemp was elected the first time. We had, you know, immigrants coming back and forth but it wasn’t like it’s been for the last three and a half years. And what I said in defense of Governor Kemp was the situation changed and what Governor Kemp did was give Georgia National Guard to Texas to be able to help on the border, have worked with the Attorney General’s Office in other places to help with the problems that illegal immigration has caused because of this flow that nobody could’ve anticipated over the last three years.

And, and DA, because it is not a rounding up and deporting of all illegal immigrants in Georgia, he says Governor Kemp didn’t keep his promise. What I’m saying is that the pr- what had to be done to keep the promise changed because of the situation. Now, he also goes on to say that, you know, I’m for amnesty, which I am not. Uh, but I do think there are different levels of immigration problems that have been exacerbated by the fact we had two million a year comin’ in for the last three years, okay.

So here’s the thing of what we need to, there are, there’s legal immigration problems we need to fix and there are illegal immigration problems we need to fix, okay. So the legal immigration problems, I believe, can be fixed by the RAISE Act, which was introduced by Tom Cotton and David Purdue, that would lower the number of green cards that are given on an annual basis of by about four or 500,000. Take those four or 500,000 green cards and clear the backlog of legitimate immigrants that have followed the rules that are waiting for green cards. They’re waiting for an inordinate amount of time. Clean up the legal side of the immigration system and create a merit-based system much like what we do in, what they do in Canada where it’s merit-based, okay.

So, so clean up the legal immigration, stop having 14 categories for fiances, stop having all the kinds of problems we have related to this, and fix the legal immigration problem by clearing the backlog of, of green cards for H1B and H2-2A visa holders, okay. That would, you know, there’s a lot more to it than that, but in general, that’s what you need to do to fix the legal immigration problem.

Then on the illegal immigration problem, there are three categories, I believe, of illegal immigrants. There are the ones that’s coming in the last three years that are not asylum seekers, they’re just seeking better economic policies. And even though my good friend, Chand-Chandelle Summer thinks that’s a good enough reason to come here illegally, I do not. Those folks, supposedly, we got an app for that. And we know who they are and where they are and where they ended up, okay. We should be able to, to use the term round up, we should be able to get those people together fairly easily and get them out of here, send them back to their home countries, okay.

Secondly, you have illegal immigrants that are here for whatever reason in the most recent past. And then thirdly, you have people that have been livin’ here 20 years or so, and I don’t know what the number is, we gotta have that discussion, that of, of those folks they have gotten tax ID numbers, they’re filing taxes, they’re trying to do things the right way and I do think it matters if they were sold a b-bill of goods and fake paperwork thinking they were coming here legally, I think that matters, okay?

So I’m sorry that I’m not as cut and dry as DA would like me to be, but I believe that this is a complicated issue that has to be dealt with it in a compassionate and legal way, okay. So if that’s amnesty, then I’ll take that la-label, but I don’t think that makes me an amnesty seeker, I don’t think that makes me moderate, I don’t think that makes me any of these things that people want to put labels on me. I think what it makes me is a person who’s pragmatic looking at the situation and how are we gonna fix it.

And just talking about it and picking on people that are on the same side as you are doesn’t help, okay. I know a lot of elect officials do not have the-the guts to actually talk about the nuances of this situation because they’re afraid of the activists, but that is bullying, okay. It’s no different than the activists, the pro Palestinian activists that are trying to bully the Democratic party right now. And here’s the thing, the mainstream media is not covering this. They’re starting to cover it because they have to but they’re not covering it much because all they’ve been talking about is the narrative of Republicans fighting with each other, which this is a good example, me and D.A. King, okay?

But, there’s a lot of Democrats fighting with each other too. And there’s a big realignment, and the Democrats are terrified about the-the, um, polls that they’re seeing saying that black and Hispanic voters are considering voting Republican and that traditional Democratic numbers. But look, look this has been going on for a while. Wealthy people used to be Republican, now all the wealthy people are Democrat. This shift is happening. The problem is the average American is tired of somebody saying, you know, pattin’ them on the head and saying, “I know better than you do.”

There’s a woman, we’re going to play her audio later, where she basically says that the reason why black people are considering, and she’s a black legislator, the reason why black people are considering voting for Republicans is they just can’t understand that they’re going with their feelings, not with the truth. So thei-what-what is she actually saying when she says that? We’ll think about all that, we’ll talk about all of that, you’ll join us on the phones at 770-535-2911. We’ll be back….

End of opening monologue and Martha’s ‘spin’ on amnesty and Kemp’s campaign promises.

I must have a sixth sense. Martha started talking amnesty about 10 minutes after I tuned her in (about 10:30-ish AM) while I was working on enforcement legislation today. I wish I could listen everyday, as I am pretty sure she pushes another amnesty a lot more often than I have time to listen to her. Amazing.

I’ll point out more of the significant holes and inaccuracies in today’s goop later (for now, please see the * red asterisks in the transcript and corresponding links below).

*1 see here. *2 see here. *3 see here. *4 see here.

I trust Martha will air corrections to these inaccuracies.

In today’s episode of “Martha pushes amnesty-again” we learn that temporary visa holders (H1B info here) are apparently victims of the system, amnesty should be done on a “case-by-case basis”, not include any of the illegals Biden invited in, and the way I heard it, we should consider amnesty for illegals who have legal immigrants or U.S. citizens in the family (putting new worth to anchor babies). And that Martha thinks that if an illegal alien obtains an ITIN, that somehow indicates the illegal paid (income) taxes. It doesn’t.

Amnesty is not about “paying taxes”…but nice try, Martha. Yikes.

There is a lot more. Martha seems to change her mind quite often on amnesty. Here is another example. 

• Related reading from the New York Times: 1986 AMNESTY LAW IS SEEN AS FAILING TO SLOW ALIEN TIDE.

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Audio in two parts below.

Transcript of part of The Martha Zoller Show today on WDUN radio, Gainesville:

Martha Zoller Republican radio show host:

“[inaudible 00:00:00] the problems that we have. One, we have this six or seven million, maybe more, that have come in in the last three years that we know nothing about, and I would agree 100% that these folks, uh, that we need to make sure they go back to their home country. There is no doubt about that. They have not established a life here. Um, I don’t think we’re gonna have time to do asylum claims, and I, quite frankly, don’t think they have legitimate asylum claims. I think they are a function of bad management by the Biden Administration and negligence, okay? That’s, and I think I could be very clear about that.

When you go back to other folks, you have people that are victims of legal immigration, and those are people that are on H-1B and H-1A visas who are waiting inordinate amount of times to get their green cards, and because of that, they’re like indentured servants under the visa that they’re on. *1 They can’t change jobs.  *2 They can’t move. They can’t, uh, *3 their spouses can’t work. But yet, they have followed all the rules, they have filled out all the paperwork, they have done all the things that we have asked them to do to be legal immigrants and to get green cards and to have a path to citizenship, but we, the United States of America immigration system, are holding them up, okay? That’s another section. So, you’ve got the section they came in over, you know, al- over time that, over *4 the three years that need to be shipped back. Um, then you’ve got the folks that are here legally, have filed the paperwork, are waiting for things, are waiting inordinately for things, and it is our fault as a federal government that we are not doing the things we promised to do for these people that have filed the paper correct, paperwork correctly.

The third group is the mixed status family group, okay? They are people that have been here all levels of time. Uh, you know, they could’ve been here 20 years, 30 years, 40 years. They’ve could’ve been here 10 years. But, they have mixed status families. They have families that have illegal immigrants in them. They have families that have legal, um, immigrants. They have natural-born U.S. citizens in these families. I believe, and the last thing the DA pulled out, he pulled out just part of this instead of the whole explanation, that those need to be looked at case by case, okay, because I think that somebody, for example, maybe they’ve already filed for a tax ID number. They’re already filing income taxes. *They’re about a million of those out there that, and if they’ve already gotten a tax ID number, they’re filing taxes every year and they’re paying their taxes, I think that’s a different category than somebody who’s just here living off the lam.

So, it’s a complicated issue is what I’m saying, and I don’t think that because I’m willing to look at the nuances of what this issue is that, um, that I am somehow anti, um, immigration reform. I just think I’m looking at it a little more clearly. So, you can join us on the phones on that at 770-535-2911. I do believe, next to inflation, it’s the single biggest problem we have going into this election. Inflation and higher interest rates and the more that everything is costing us is the number one thing. The number two thing is this illegal immigration, and let me tell you something, the- the- the cost of this is great monetarily, but there’s a bigger cost involved in this three years of unfettered illegal immigration, and that is there are probably today a terror cell in this country that is planning to do something. We stopped one, uh, on the border. We stopped a guy with a, uh, explosive advi- device, and Border Patrol were able to get him and keep him from coming in the country, but how many of those are already here?

* And, I know there are gonna be people that when something like this happens, and it will, I hope it won’t be bad, uh, but they’re gonna blame, you know, people that were willing to look at the issue fairly, and we’re not gonna blame the right people. The terrorists are the people we need to blame every single time when a terrorist attack happens, okay? People didn’t do things to deserve to be a part of a terrorist attack, and we need to look at things importantly in that area.

Um, Paul from Gainesville said, “Why has the UGA administration been silent on the Mideast war and violent protests?” Well, Paul, they haven’t been silent about it. Uh, Jere Morehead put out a very strong statement right at the beginning, and they have been very clear about not allowing, um, uh, protests to get out of hand.

They have allowed peaceful protests, but they have not allowed the threatening of Jewish students on the University of Georgia campus. The University of Georgia and the University of Florida were the two universities that came out first and most strongly. I know there’s an article, I got sent the link myself, uh, that said UG, that UGA has said nothing about it. That’s not true. They said it very, very early and very, very strongly that they weren’t gonna put up with- with, um, with people intimidating folks on the campus. Uh, so I’ll see if I can l- I can find the actual statement, because I read it on the air when it came out, uh, when it came out a couple of months ago, I mean, a couple of weeks ago. Let’s take a break, and when we come back, we’ll talk more.

Announcer:

This week on [inaudible 00:05:32] time change safety checks, and most likely cars to be stolen, NASCAR-

minutes later, a caller: Richard:

Uh, whatever you want to call them that come across our border, uh, and, and I’m hearing numbers like five, six, seven, all the way up as high as 10,000,000 people, and as you know, they don’t have a green card, they can’t work, and the federal government has to be supplying them with food and housing and clothing.

Uh, where’s, where’s that in the budget? Where, where do they get the money for that?

Martha Zoller Republican radio show host:

Yeah, I think… Well, what’s happening is, is they are, and, the, the official numbers, okay? What the, the Department of Homeland Security will admit to, is it’s about 2.3 million for this last fiscal year, about two million for the year before that, and it was a little less than two million for the year before that.

So we see t- a steady increase of what they’ll admit to, okay? Then there’s this whole class called Gotaways, which could be any number, okay? But you’re right. Um, there are certain things the federal government provided for them and the budget, bu- the money came out of the, uh, border security budget, uh, and it was thin- for things like phones and transportation and that kinda thing, you know, there was a big hoopla that, that, that the state department was charging people to get ’em out of Israel but every day they’re flying people from the border to a city of their choice at no cost.

I mean there’s just this inconsistent way of dealing with things that’s just wrong. Then they’re pushing ’em all out into cities where, for example, uh, New York City is spending about $10,000,000 a day on housing, and that’s coming from the New York City taxpayers, uh, and so w- even though they’re spreading it around, taxes are taxes right? Right? You know. (laughs)

Richard:

That’s right.

Martha Zoller Republican radio show host:

I mean, y- taxes are money that they’re taking from you whether it’s state, local, or federal, that they’re taking from you that they have to have to run things, ’cause government has no money without you giving it to ’em, right?

Richard:

That’s right.

Martha Zoller Republican radio show host:

That’s right. So, it’s a big mess, and this is just at the feet of Joe Biden and the fact that he reversed everything that President Trump did. President Trump had gotten that number down to about 500 people a day. Okay, now it’s about 15,000 people a day, and, you know, it’s, it’s… He had also gotten all of the children who were, you know, because what’s happening is these children are being sent through, sent through by themselves. There’s also a whole lot of military aged men that are coming through by themselves.

It’s, it, I mean, I just cannot tell you, Richard, how scary this whole things is and, and, you know, just yesterday the border patrol, uh, encountered somebody and turned ’em away that had an explosive device.

So it’s just a matter of time, I d- I hate to scare people but it’s a matter of time.

Richard:

What is, what is, w- you know, the, the question that I keep asking, and I’ve even called, I’ve called my representative, what is the end game on this? Where, where does this all end, where does it, where does it w- they’re doing this on purpose and, d- but why? What, what, why are they doing this?

Martha Zoller Republican radio show host:

Well, I have to tell you, we’ll talk more about that. Um, Logan, is the music playing? Not yet. Got another minute, okay.

[inaudible 00:03:16].

Martha Zoller Republican radio show host:

… so we’ve got, you know, what the end game is, is, is to neutralize what it means to be an American. You know, if, if anybody can be an American then it doesn’t mean anything. And if citizenship doesn’t mean anything… And look, like I said before, there are people that have come here the right way that are waiting an ordinate amount of time because so many resources are being used on the people that are coming here illegally, and that’s just wrong. It’s just wrong.

Um, we’ve got to really straighten this stuff out, and we’re not gonna straighten it out by having more of the same with Joe Biden, and it’s time for republicans and independents and, and democrats that are considering this to get behind a republican candidate so that we can get Joe Biden outta office before he does anymore damage.

So… And when we come back we’re gonna be talking to Alan Dershowitz, one of my favorite people, he’s one of the th- one of the biggest-named lawyers in the world, and he is gonna be talking about-

Closing out her show with something like: You know, I have some fun with people like D.A. King and Dave the liberal…but we have free speech … and we do it (maybe “talk about it” together. I had turned my recorder off.

“…he had to change his tactics…” (due to the massive increase of illegal immigration at the border).

Republican radio show host and former Kemp staffer Martha Zoller on why Gov. Brian Kemp has ignored his 2018 campaign promise on illegal immigration in Georgia and the “criminal illegals” he focussed on then. – On the air, 10:55 AM Monday, August 28, 2023

• Related: There she goes again – again

Original audio on the bottom

Top of the show:

Announcer: “…Talkers 2023 Woman of the Year, Martha Zoller, on North Georgia News Talk AM 550 FM 102.9, WDUN. Always here, always local.”

President Biden:

“Now, even as we evolve our institutions and drive creative new partnerships, let me be clear, certain principles of our international system are sanct- sacrosanct.”

Martha Zoller:

“It is the Martha Zoller Show, and that is President Biden at the UN. There’s supposed to be a Security Council meeting today. He’s gonna be in New York for three days, and you know what he’s not doing? He’s not meeting with Mayor Eric Adams and he’s not taking a look at any of these migrant facilities, and he’s not dealing with the problems that people are having. In Staten Island, which is a borough of New York, there is an old Catholic school that the city of New York had bought with the promise of turning it into a school. Uh, the nuns had sold it. It was an old Catholic school that had been around forever. Guess what it is now. It’s a migrant facility.

And so, the parents that go to the PS, they call their public schools PS, goes to the PS school in that neighborhood and then there’s another, uh, private school in that neighborhood, that because of all the migrants that are there, the parents have to take diverted routes to get to their school that is open, they have to get there a half an hour earlier and stay a half an hour later than what they typically have done because of all these closed roads because they don’t want people driving right by this migrant facility. It’s a mess.

You know, we had about, um, you know… We had a couple of months at the dead of the summer where the Biden administration was touting how low the numbers are. But I think that was just because of the heat of the summer because we’re about to break records again for this fiscal year and the people are coming by the tens of thousands at the Darien Gap at c-… In Costa… At the border of Costa Rica, at other places where trains are being filled with people, where they’re standing in the trains. It’s not a train like you and I would travel on. They’re like cargo. They… These people are being treated like cargo. And they are cargo for the cartels. And this is 21st century slavery, and outside of Houston, there is a subdivision, for lack of a better word, that they allow people to buy cash property at high interest rates. It’s all illegal immigrants that, quote, “Own it.” But the minute you miss a payment… It’s like the mob, okay? The minute you miss a payment, you lose all the money you put into it, you lose the property, and then they can turn around sell it to somebody else, and they are.

Chip Roy of Texas is trying to figure out what’s behind this because it’s in his district, but it looks like it’s drug cartels that are in this. Every way they can figure out how to break our laws, they are doing it. And people in this country who call themselves immigration activists, who are against illegal immigration, are wasting time criticizing governors like Governor Kemp because they didn’t do exactly what they thought, and that my defense of that was that things are very different than they were four years ago as far as immigration goes. It has gone from the problems that we have had for years here with our Hispanic population primarily, where there were illegal immigrants mixed in with illegal immigrants, there were mixed status families, there were DACA kids, there were things that we understood that were happening. I’m not justifying any of it, but it was there.

Below: 2018 Kemp campaign TV ad

* Related: Sanctuary Georgia

We went through four years of Donald Trump and he got it pretty much under control where there was less than 500 people a day coming across the border illegally. Now it’s thousands of people a day. And we’re fighting with people that agree with us, and that’s why we’re not getting anything done. You know, we’ve got to look at the bigger picture here, and the bigger picture is that, uh, President Trump… I, I mean President Biden is not enforcing the laws of this country and he is not respecting the boundaries of this country, and for that, he should be impeached, okay? For that, he should be removed from office. Uh, but he’s not going to be, I don’t think. There aren’t enough votes in the Senate.

But I’ll go back to what I talked about yesterday. There are three things that could fix where we are right now and make life better for everybody. You open up every ability to produce oil. You open up more refinery space, build it if you have to, and that affects the prices of everything and it will do immediately because it is a commodity, it is a futures market, and if the futures look like they’re gonna have plenty of supply, the prices start to go down. And, you know, you Libs, you should love this because even though oil companies are in the middle of the pack as far as, as, um, uh, as far as profits go, they’ll have less profits if the prices go down, so you ought to be happy about that. And as a conservative, I’ll be happy that there’s more supply and the prices of everything will go down.

The second thing is we gotta go ou- all out on the border. We need to engage the Texas National Guard, the Arizona National Guard, th- the, uh, New Mexico National Guard, anybody else that wants to help, we engage them along with Border Patrol and we get this border secure and we get people… Drive people to come through the actual ports of entry and you turn people away if they haven’t followed the process appropriately. It’s very simple, and it doesn’t make us bad people, because as we- we’ve demonstrated over and over again, we immigrate more people legally than the rest of the world combined. We are not an anti-immigrant country.

And then we need to get on regular budget order. And if we do those three things, even though there’s a lot of other things we need to talk about…” (end of relevant talking points).