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Complaint sent to Carroll County Sheriff Terry Langley: Carroll County government illegally administering public benefits

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The below compliant was emailed to Carroll County Sheriff Terry Langley today about 1:00 PM.

* Update to compliant here.

3 October 2022

To:

Carroll County Sheriff Terry Langley

1000 Newnan Rd.

Carrollton, GA. 30116

770-830-5942

Re: Complaint and request for investigation – Carroll County government officials’ violations of OCGA 50-36-1, OCGA 50-36-2, OCGA 36-60-6

Dear Sheriff Langley,

Please regard this letter as my official request for an investigation by your office into my well-researched and educated allegation that multiple elected and appointed officials in Carroll County government are and have been knowingly violating various state laws intended to address illegal immigration in Georgia. Separately, I also request that you forward my complaint to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for action.

Using open records requests and viewing the documents made available to the public on the official Carroll County website for the purpose of the administration of “occupational tax licenses” aka business licenses. By either or both labels these county registrations are “public benefits” under state law and are included in detailed and clear mandates for processing and issuance.

Early this year I determined that Carroll County government is operating an illegal system in that function of county government. After notifying a County Commissioner of the non-compliance by phone and later taking a call from a man who said he was county legaI employee, I saw no correction in the system several months later. I then emailed a “heads up” letter to the entire county commission and several other Carroll County officials. Days later I received a lengthy reply that included a pledge to have someone get in touch with me again. That reply was copied to the same officials to whom I sent my original letter. I am of the opinion that I have done all I can as a private citizen to urge compliance with the law on this matter.

The system of administrating public benefits is admittedly rather dry and boring but was put in place over the course of several years of committee hearings and vetting by the General Assembly and then signed into law by Georgia’s governor. Those of us who worked to create these laws like to think they will see as much enforcement as our no-smoking laws.

The system of applications, affidavits, ID presentation and processing for public benefits – including occupational tax/business licenses required by state is readily accessed by a careful reading of the laws. The system in place and the forms and affidavits used by Carroll County are available on the county website. I have taken a great deal of my own time to post all of this on my own website as well as the email correspondence I describe.

To assist the requested investigation by your office and the GBI, I insert below links to this evidence and I am emailing the August response to my open records request to you from Carroll County separately with the subject line “additional evidence, Carroll County government complaint.”

  • My emailed letter and response from a Carrol County commissioner (please note all recipients and note the timeline order is inverted) HERE.
  • Carroll County SAVE affidavit (OCGA 50-36-1 & OCGA 50-36-2) in use as compared to the legally required documents HERE.
  • Carroll County E-Verify affidavit (OCGA 36-60-6)as compared to the legally required documents HERE
  • My original open records request HERE.
  • Response from Carroll County to my follow up request for additional information HERE.

Again, please see my separate email for the response to my original open records request with attachments showing copies of forms and affidavits in use in Carroll County.

I do not envy the investigator charged with learning these laws or this system Please feel free to contact me with any questions or directions. I was heavily involved with the drafting and passage of all of these laws.

A personal note: My maternal grandfather was a Detroit Police Academy graduate, class of 1928 and served as a Detroit police officer for nearly thirty years. I admire and respect all that you and your deputies and staff do and am grateful for your service to the community.

Very Respectfully,

D.A. King

Marietta, GA. 30066

Initial responses from OIG on complaints filed against Gov Brian Kemp, Gwinnett Sheriff Keybo Taylor & Cobb Sheriff Craig Owens * Updated

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On Sept. 7, we received three emailed responses from the OIG on the complaints we filed the day before. Two of them, presumably for the two sheriffs (the responses did not include complaint numbers), told me to contact the Georgia Dept. of Corrections for an investigation of the violation of state law by the the sheriffs. It is my understanding that Georgia sheriffs hold independent, constitutional, executive branch offices.

The third reply, apparently to the complaint against Kemp, says he may see an investigation.

I paste the OIG responses to the Kemp complaint below and below that the OIG response letter to the sheriff-related complaints then the letter I sent back to them today asking for reconsideration on the response regarding the sheriffs:

Response from OIG to the complaint against Kemp (I assume):

“Thank you for contacting the Office of the State Inspector General (OIG). This email acknowledges receipt of your complaint sent on September 6, 2022. Pursuant to Executive Order 01.13.03.02, the duties of the OIG include the investigation of fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption in the executive branch. Allegations involving county government matters, private industry concerns, personnel/management issues, and local law enforcement agencies typically fall outside our jurisdiction.

 OIG will review your complaint to determine whether sufficient grounds exist to open an investigation. If so, we will contact you. Thank you.

 Office of the State Inspector General

State of Georgia”

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OIG response to complaints against the sheriffs:

“Thank you for contacting the Office of the State Inspector General (OIG). This email acknowledges receipt of your complaint sent on September 6, 2022. Pursuant to Executive Order 01.13.03.02, the duties of the OIG include the investigation of fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption in the executive branch. Allegations involving county government matters, private industry concerns, personnel/management issues, and local law enforcement agencies typically fall outside our jurisdiction.

After reviewing your complaint, OIG does not believe this matter would fall under our jurisdiction. However, below is the website link to the Department of Corrections (DOC). DOC – Internal Affairs is the best agency to assist in this matter. Thank you.”

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My reply:

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September 9, 2022

The Honorable Mr. Scott McAfee

Inspector General, Georgia

2 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive SW,

1102 West Tower
Atlanta, GA 30334

Re; Sept. 7, 2022 response from your office to my complaints filed against two Georgia sheriffs

Complaint #ED7975F150  & Complaint #D06D828771

Dear Mr. McAfee,

After more than a year of collecting responses to public records requests, media coverage and verified information on the public admissions of two Georgia sheriffs to violation of state law (OCGA 42-4-14), I filed complaints with your office in hopes of an enthusiastic investigation. I was quite surprised to receive responses suggesting that my allegations somehow fall outside of your jurisdiction. I paste that reply in full below:

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“Thank you for contacting the Office of the State Inspector General (OIG). This email acknowledges receipt of your complaint sent on September 6, 2022. Pursuant to Executive Order 01.13.03.02, the duties of the OIG include the investigation of fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption in the executive branch. Allegations involving county government matters, private industry concerns, personnel/management issues, and local law enforcement agencies typically fall outside our jurisdiction.

After reviewing your complaint, OIG does not believe this matter would fall under our jurisdiction. However, below is the website link to the Department of Corrections (DOC). DOC – Internal Affairs is the best agency to assist in this matter. Thank you.”

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Gwinnett Sheriff Keybo Taylor and Cobb Sheriff Craig Owens operate within the executive branch of government. I respectfully submit an opinion (Unofficial Opinion U2018-3 OCTOBER 11, 2018) from the Attorney General’s office on that matter which reads in part: “A review of the statutory duties of a sheriff makes clear that both the sheriff and his or her deputies, which are authorized and appointed pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 15‑16‑23, are performing executive, and to some extent, judicial state functions.[1]…”

The explanation of your duties and jurisdiction (“what we do”) displayed on the official OIG website reads: “The State of Georgia Office of the Inspector General promotes transparency and accountability in state government. OIG diligently investigates fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption in the executive branch. We work to promote effective controls, improve agency policies and procedures, and identify opportunities for efficiency.”

“The office of the Sheriff in Georgia is considered to be both a constitutional and county office. The constitutionality of the office stems from the common law, from the constitutional provisions extended to certain offices in existence when the first Georgia constitution was ratified, and because the Sheriff is listed in the Georgia Constitution of 1983 as one of four independently elected county officers” (Hart County Sheriff’s Office).

I respectfully urge you to reconsider the premise presented in your reply to my request that I approach the Dept. of Corrections for an investigation or that DOC somehow has any jurisdiction over the sheriffs or power to investigate their violation of state law in this scenario.

I am in hopes the reply was sent without your input or direct knowledge by an inexperienced staffer.

Please regard this letter as my request for reconsideration of my original request for an investigation and a follow-up response from your office. I am posting all correspondence on this matter for public education.

Please feel free to contact me for any questions.

Thank you,

D.A. King

President, the Dustin Inman Society (NewDustinInmanSociety.org)

Proprietor, ImmigrationPolitcsGA.com

Marietta, GA. 30066

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One of two identical replies from OIG – apparently for the two sheriffs.
OIG reply to Kemp complaint.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fast Fact: Cobb County (GA) Sheriff Craig Owens invited a mariachi band to celebrate his announcement to drop lifesaving 287(g) program

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“Bold, necessary, and overdue”: Sheriff Owens declares end to 287(g) immigration enforcement

Marietta Daily Journal

January 19, 2021

“At the announcement, Owens was flanked by his newly selected command staff, and invited a number of community leaders and public officials to speak. Among them were Commission Chairwoman Lisa Cupid, who called Owens’ decision “bold, necessary, and overdue,” and Cobb’s new District Attorney, Flynn Broady.”

MARIETTA — Less than a month into his tenure in office, (Democrat) Cobb County Sheriff Craig Owens has fulfilled a major campaign promise by ending his office’s involvement in immigration enforcement.

Effective immediately, Owens announced at a press conference Tuesday morning, the sheriff’s office will no longer partner with U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) under the controversial program known as 287(g). The announcement was made before a packed audience of community members, many of whom held signs reading, “287 Gone / Thank you Craig Owens.”

Declaring “a new era in Cobb County,” Owens said the measure is part of his broader commitment to “truth, trust and transparency.” He was also adamant that by ending the program, the sheriff’s office and Cobb’s various police departments will be able to do their work more, not less, effectively.

“Us ending this program does not mean Cobb County is a free for all,” Owens said. “I can almost guarantee you that police chiefs will continue to do the excellent work that they do around Cobb County.”

Immigration enforcement reform was one of Owens’ top priorities coming into office, and distinguished him from his opponent Neil Warren, a Republican incumbent who had held office since 2003. Owens became the second metro area sheriff to end involvement with 287(g) this month, after newly elected Gwinnett Sheriff Keybo Taylor.

The 287(g) program was first implemented in Cobb in 2007, as Warren claimed to be the first sheriff in Georgia to work with ICE. Under Warren’s command, the sheriff’s office would check with other local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies (including ICE) after arresting an individual to determine if they were “wanted.” In the case of ICE, the sheriff’s office turned individuals over to ICE custody after their local charges were cleared.

Warren touted the program as a success, saying in an interview with the MDJ last year that cooperation with ICE resulted in a 50% decrease in foreign nationals entering the county jail. Between 2008 and 2018, the Cobb Sheriff’s Office transferred nearly 12,000 people to ICE custody.

At the announcement, Owens was flanked by his newly selected command staff, and invited a number of community leaders and public officials to speak. Among them were Commission Chairwoman Lisa Cupid, who called Owens’ decision “bold, necessary, and overdue,” and Cobb’s new District Attorney, Flynn Broady.

“This is the day after Martin Luther King Day, and Martin Luther King said, ‘It’s always the right time to do the right thing.’ So I think you’re doing the right thing, Sheriff Owens,” Broady said.

“This is going to make our community safer … so continue to support us. Continue to know that everything we’re doing is working for the best interest of our entire community.”

Other speakers included Ben Williams, president of Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s Cobb chapter; Javier Diaz de Leon, consul general of Mexico; and Andrea Young, executive director of the ACLU of Georgia, all of whom praised Owens for ending the program. Owens also introduced a new community liaison, Carlos Garcia, formerly executive director of the Pro-Immigrant Alliance.

“You have fulfilled that campaign promise – the promise of a new Cobb County,” said Garcia, who endorsed Owens during his election campaign last year. “There were so many nights … my phone would not stop ringing. Those families being separated, children being separated from their parents.

“Today is a new day. And the most important word today is, thank you.”

After the event, Viridiana Fuentes and Jorge Bello called the announcement a “huge success for organizing.” They’re both activists with the progressive group “La Gente de Cobb” (The People of Cobb), and said that while ending the sheriff’s involvement with immigration enforcement was a victory, it would take time to earn the respect of Cobb’s immigrant community.

“I grew up in Douglas County … and a majority of my family worked in the Cobb area,” said Bello, who now lives in Atlanta. “Every time they would come through here — I know personally, myself, I felt discriminated against (and) pulled over more often than anywhere else.”

“I went through a situation where I didn’t want to call the cops when I was ten, because I was afraid they were going to take our parents away,” Fuentes said. She was raised in Cobb, and still lives in the county.

“We have so many things to do, because that whole building trust is going to take a long time.”

Owens acknowledged as much in his own remarks, recalling times when major crime investigations were hindered because immigrant residents were unwilling to approach the sheriff’s office, and cited that erosion of trust as a major reason for pulling out of the program.

“They had a saying when I was in Precinct 2. If you see brown,” Owens said, referring to the sheriff’s uniforms, “you run. If you see blue, you stay and talk.”

Bello said he will continue to advocate for concerns he has about law enforcement in immigrant communities, such as ensuring individuals detained since Owens took office, but before the program’s official termination, don’t end up in custody of immigration officials. Owens said during the press conference that he would look into the matter, and more information would be forthcoming.

But as the event ended, and a mariachi band began to play, the mood in the room was decidedly celebratory. The new sheriff even took to the floor and waltzed for a moment, reveling in his audience’s approval.

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Note this MDJ news story also ran in the MDJ-owned Rome Tribune.

 

 

Letter to the editor sent to the liberal AJC this week: Keeping illegal immigration out of the 2022 election equation

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Image: Twitter/AJC.

Sent to the liberal AJC June 30, 2022. It will never see print as I have been blacklisted cancelled.

Dear editor,

Stacey Abrams, runner-up in the 2018 Georgia contest for governor and current Democrat candidate, is Founder of the New Georgia Project, a far-left 501c 3 effort open about its advocacy for race-and ethnicity-based identity politics. In 2019 NGP distributed pre-addressed, voter information-gathering post cards featuring the demand to “keep ICE out of our communities” at an anti-enforcement forum in Georgia’s Gwinnett County. The goal (eventually successful) was to end the life-saving 287(g) partnership between the Gwinnett Sheriff’s office and ICE.

Gov Kemp is campaigning against Abrams with charges that she supports “defunding the police.” Media coverage — including in the AJC — features her denials of holding that position.

We note that nobody, including Kemp, has mentioned Abrams documented anti-enforcement stance on Georgia’s illegal immigration crisis or her demand that dangerous criminal illegals be released from Georgia jails without notifying the feds.

We think the disgraceful silence from all concerned is intended to keep illegal immigration out of the election equation in a state with more illegals than Arizona.

D.A. KING

PRESIDENT, THE DUSTIN INMAN SOCIETY, FOR THE BOARD

MARIETTA

Georgia law requires all jailers to report incarcerated illegal aliens to DHS – but it’s not enforced *Repost from Jan 2021 OCGA 42-4-14

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“Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.” Thomas Sowell 2017

Note: A version of hit essay was originally posted on the subscription news and opinion site, InsiderAdvantage.com (now James Magazine Online) January 26, 2021.

 

In 2011, Aurelio Mayo Perez, an illegal alien, was booked into the Cobb County jail for no driver’s license but released due to an immigration enforcement reduction edict from then-President Barack Obama. Two years later, Mayo Perez was charged with aggravated child molestation and rape. The name of the ten-year old girl he was convicted of repeatedly molesting is not available.

Last week, newly sworn Cobb County Sheriff Craig Owens held an elaborate press conference packed with invited anti-enforcement activists and proudly announced his termination of the 287(g) program. The Marietta Daily Journal described the event’s big finish with “…as the event ended, and a mariachi band began to play, the mood in the room was decidedly celebratory. The new sheriff even took to the floor and waltzed for a moment, reveling in his audience’s approval.”  Cobb County Deputy Sheriff Loren Lilly – killed by an unlicensed illegal alien driver in a 2007 traffic crash – was unable to attend.

Cobb County Sheriff, Craig Owens. Photo: Project Q.

Democrat Commission Chairwoman Lisa Cupid pronounced Owens’ decision “bold, necessary, and overdue.” Cobb’s new District Attorney, Flynn Broady weighed in with “this is going to make our community safer.” We recommend reading the entire MDJ report

Created by congress in 1996, and signed into law by Bill Clinton, the voluntary 287(g) program is a tool used to expand the authority of local law enforcement to locate and report to ICE illegal aliens, usually in county jails. It’s a deterrent. Then-Senator Joe Biden voted in favor of passage.

The liberal Atlanta Journal Constitution reports Owens claims “the program morphed into one that profiled immigrants through traffic stops, which resulted in them being deported on misdemeanor charges.” While Sheriff Owens – a former Cobb County policeman – is certainly free to smear his fellow law enforcement officers with accusations of profiling, he should understand that it’s illegal aliens who are deported and that removal is the punishment for illegal immigration, not traffic violations.

Jose Alfaro-Contraras, an illegal alien from El Salvador, was one of the gunmen in an April, 2015 armed robbery of the owner of a check-cashing store in Duluth. A year earlier, Alfaro-Contraras had been in the Gwinnett County jail on a shoplifting charge. He was released because “minor crime.”

The above examples are taken from a 2017 report “Jail records reveal immigrants not deported after minor crimes later commit worse ones” from Atlanta’s Fox Five TV News investigative reporter Randy Travis.

Related: According to the anti-enforcement Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, Georgia is home to more illegal aliens than green card holders.

In metro -Atlanta’s Gwinnett County, on his first day in office, Sheriff Keybo Taylor made his enforcement policy clear when he quit the 287(g) program: “What we will not be doing is notifying ICE of anybody’s immigration status in the jail or any of our facilities…” said Taylor at his own presser. He told a local NPR interviewer 287(g) is slanted towards “people of color.”

“So basically, what that program started to do was target, uh, you know, people of color that were in this country that’s undocumented, so, you know, it became, you know, a racist issue for me…”,

Gwinnett County Sheriff Keybo Taylor. Photo: Gwinnett Daily Post.

He says he would rather focus on gang members. I was curious, so I checked with experts on gangs in Gwinnett and the skin color concern Taylor expressed. But on that topic Sheriff Taylor apparently does have concerns about borders “…crime and criminals…they don’t, they do not respect borders, so, you know, it’s nothing to come from Atlanta to Gwinnett County…” says Taylor. Indeed.

In print and radio interviews, both sheriffs have done a remarkable job of learning and adhering to the anti-287(g) talking points distributed by the far-left. Below are some of those tips from a 2008 ACLU ‘toolkit.’

‘How to oppose 287(g) agreements in your state or locality’

*Always describe how police enforcement of immigration laws endangers public safety for everyone.

*Assert that local police of immigration laws will result in widespread racial profiling.

*Assert that immigration enforcement is the responsibility of the federal government.

*Assert that police resources are stretched thin already.

Georgia law as a ‘Plan B’ plan to address anti-enforcement sheriffs

Attention Georgia prosecutors, including Flynn Broady: Independent of 287(g), longstanding (2006) state law (OCGA 42-4-14) requires jailers to check the immigration status of incoming foreign prisoners. “If the foreign national is determined to be an illegal alien, the keeper of the jail or other officer shall notify the United States Department of Homeland Security, or other office or agency designated for notification by the federal government.”

Cobb County District Attorney, Flynn Broady. Photo: CobbCounty Courier.

The AJC – again

 In an entirely unbalanced, celebratory report on Cobb County Sheriff Craig Owens ending 287(g) the AJC recently told readers as a statement of fact “the program originally began to remove terrorists, as well as other violent criminals, from neighborhoods across the country.” But, as was noted here in December, the law establishing 287(g) program never limited it to applying only to terrorists or illegal aliens who were arrested for violent crimes.

The liberal AJC has not covered the fact that the above law is not enforced.

D.A. King is president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society.

In which Savannah Morning News editor Adam Van Zimmer refers to former U.S. Senator David Perdue as a “rube” – and I reply. An exchange #Book

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A Kemp-Perdue primary? Why Georgia Republicans are sabotaging own 2022 election chance

Former President Donald Trump’s vendetta against Georgia’s governor could lead to 2022 primary challenge from former U.S. Sen. David Perdue, dooming GOP hopes of winning the governorship again

Adam Van Brimmer
Adam Van Brimmer
November 10 2021
Savannah Morning News

This is a column by Opinion Editor Adam Van Brimmer.

Georgia Republicans set a new standard for self-destructive political behavior in the 2020 election and runoffs.

The saboteurs seem intent on further undermining their party in 2022.

Word is that David Perdue is the rube meant to challenge election scapegoat Brian Kemp in the 2022 Republican gubernatorial primary. This is the same David Perdue who, just 10 months ago, lost to a little known political newcomer, Jon Ossoff, in a U.S. Senate runoff.

Somewhere, Stacey Abrams’ interior designer is finalizing redecorating plans for the Georgia governor’s mansion.

How Joe Biden turned Georgia purple:A closer look at the 2020 campaign in a battleground state

Georgia’s once-vaunted Republican political machine is seizing up like a turbo-charged engine without oil. Former President Donald Trump’s “rigged election” nonsense disenfranchised tens of thousands of GOP voters ahead of the January runoffs. The cost was two Senate seats and majority control of the chamber.

Read the rest here.

Read my first reply here.

The reply from Mr.Van Brimmer: “Thanks for the submission. Please cut to 250 words and resubmit for consideration as a letter. Please know that because you live outside our coverage area I cannot guarantee publication as local readers get preference.”

Me, in an email reply: “How many words for guest column?”

Mr. Van Brimmer, Nov 12: “Good morning. I do not solicit guest columns. We print community voices op-eds, but as you do not reside in our community, that’s not appropriate. Again. please trim your piece to 250 words or less and submit as a letter to the editor for consideration.”

My second (edited into an LTE reply (Nov 12 subject line “250 on the nose and I put my money line in as headline. Thanks for your consideration.”)

“Kemp seems to be taking a Joe Biden position on illegal immigration in Georgia.

Thousands of resentful pro-enforcement independent voters have memories that go all the way back to 2018. Kemp ran largely on illegal immigration.

We will not vote for Kemp again because of his defiant refusal to even mention his campaign promise on illegal immigration and what he termed “criminal illegals” – the politically protected “undocumented workers” who are murdering, raping, kidnapping and molesting innocent Georgians.

Candidate Kemp promised to create a registry of illegal aliens who have committed additional crimes and to see state legislation passed to address sanctuary cities. He told us he has a “big truck” in case he has to deport criminal illegals himself. But since then – and while he makes well-publicized trips to Texas – Kemp has remained as silent as thirty pieces of silver on the issue as applied to Georgia.

Georgians are being murdered, raped, kidnapped and molested by illegal aliens while the liberal media sits on these stories. Despite a 2006 state law in place (OCGA 42-4-14) requiring all jailers to check immigration status of incoming prisoners and to report illegal aliens to ICE, we watch here as at least two metro Atlanta-area sheriffs boast that they will not comply and other jailers are in silent violation.

We won’t vote for Kemp because of the betrayal factor and because we see Georgia inching ever closer to becoming the California of the East – “Georgiafornia.” We would welcome the introduction of a proven pro-enforcement, genuine conservative Republican candidate for Georgia governor – Trump or no Trump.

D.A. King

Marietta

King is president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society and a nationally recognized authority on illegal immigration.

Another email response from Mr. Van Brimmer “OK but … headlines need to fit in two decks in the narrow column. Usually 4-6 words depending on how long the words are.”

My reply:” Up to you. Thanks. How about “Kemp defiant on 2018 campaign pledge.”

Me again in separate email minutes later (in drive-thru at bank) “Maybe you’ll have room to insert money line into letter body….” I then sent him two memes we use to quote candidate Kemp on “criminal illegals”

Mr. Van Brimmer replies:

“Mr. King. You are testing my patience. Let me make one thing very clear – you submit a letter that fits the guidelines, and if you want a special headline, you submit that headline that fits the guidelines. If you are not comfortable with that, you can always publish your response yourself on social media. As you are out of market and according to our circ department are not a subscriber, the only reason I will publish your piece is because it is a direct response to something we published and we value alternative views on local (state in this case) issues.

Put bluntly, neither I nor my editorial assistant exist to cater to your demands.
Thanks.”
I have not heard from Mr. Van Zimmer since I sent him the below reply and I cannot see that he ran my letter.
Me:

“Oh.

I hope you run my letter.
I was trying to suggest a headline. Not make a demand.
Next time I am in town maybe we can have lunch.
Have a nice weekend.
dak”

 

 

 

Guest column submitted to Savannah Morning News opinion editor Adam Van Brimmer Nov 11, 2021

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The below submission was rejected by the newspaper.

Illegal immigration: Perdue not a ”rube” and Kemp not pro-enforcement

 D.A. King

Savannah Morning News opinion Editor Adam Van Brimmer recently used the term “rube” to describe former U.S. Senator David Perdue in a piece offering the opinion that there should be no viable primary challenge to Gov. Kemp. Merriam Webster offers a long list of synonyms for “rube” which include “bumpkin,” “hick,” “hayseed,” and “yokel,” to list a few.

Adam Van Brimmer

It appears Van Brimmer is looking up while talking down. While we see no justification for that self-confidence, we do get a clear picture of Van Brimmer’s world view in the attack on Sen. Perdue.

“Perdue’s entry would undermine a year’s worth of effort to unite Georgia Republicans behind Kemp. The governor has spent much of his term appeasing the base with anti-abortion, anti-defund the police and anti-voting legislation and seizing on other opportunities to show he’s still a pickup-driving, chainsaw-brandishing, shotgun-loving conservative no matter what Trump says” writes Van Brimmer.

Whatever Van Brimmer’s opinion of protecting the unborn, election security, the Second Amendment and conservatives driving pick-up trucks, the truth is that thousands of resentful independent voters have memories that go all the way back to 2018. Kemp ran largely on illegal immigration. We will not vote for Kemp again because of his defiant refusal to so much as mention his campaign promise on illegal immigration and what he termed “criminal illegals” – the politically protected “undocumented workers” who are murdering, raping, kidnapping and molesting innocent Georgians.

Candidate Kemp promised to create a registry of illegal aliens who have committed additional crimes and to see state legislation passed to address sanctuary cities. He told us he has a “big truck” in case he has to deport criminal illegals himself. But since then – and while he makes well-publicized trips to Texas – Kemp has remained as silent as a bag of silver coins on the issue as applied to Georgia.

Georgians are being murdered, raped, kidnapped and molested by illegal aliens while the liberal media sits on these stories. Despite a 2006 state law in place (OCGA 42-4-14) requiring all jailers to check immigration status of incoming prisoners and to report illegal aliens to ICE, we watch here as at least two metro Atlanta-area sheriffs boast that they will not comply and other sheriffs act in silent violation.

It’s a fact avoided by reporters and opinion writers, but according to the feds Georgia is home to more illegal aliens than Arizona. Most people are unaware that more illegal aliens than green card holders live in the Peach State. From here in metro-Atlanta we watch as illegal aliens are actually employed by billionaire leftists as registered lobbyists under the Gold Dome.

Gov. Kemp seems to be taking a Joe Biden position on illegal immigration in Georgia.

We won’t vote for Kemp because of the betrayal factor and because we see Georgia inching ever closer to becoming the California of the East – “Georgiafornia.” We would welcome the introduction of a proven pro-enforcement, genuine conservative Republican candidate for Georgia governor – Trump or no Trump.

We have seen the real Chamber-of-Commerce, anything for a buck, “number-one-for- business” Brian Kemp and we reject the attacks referring to Sen. Perdue as a yokel.

Run, Senator Perdue, run!

D.A. King

Marietta

King is president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society and a nationally recognized authority on illegal immigration.

 

 

Letter to Georgia Piedmont Technical College President Dr. Tavarez Holston – Re: Georgia driving and ID credentials used as validation of ‘lawful presence’ * Updated #DACA

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“Georgia issues drivers licenses to illegal aliens. Illegal aliens do not have ‘lawful presence.’”

 

*Update: Several days after we sent the below letter we received a phone call from a high-ranking official at TCSG acknowledging the errors and informing us that the related website (s) were being corrected and that no illegal aliens had been granted admission to any TSCG school.

20 August 2021

Dr. Tavarez Holston
President – Georgia Piedmont Technical College 

495 North Indian Creek Drive
Clarkston, GA 30021

Re: Your use of Georgia driving and ID credentials as validation of ‘lawful presence’ for instate tuition purposes.

Dr. Holston,

It is my educated opinion that there exists a serious flaw in your system for allowing students to validate ‘lawful presence’ for purposes of receiving instate tuition. I intend to see this apparent breach of security and compliance corrected and that any student who is not eligible for instate tuition and is currently paying that rate is charged the out-of-state scale. I assume this will require an audit of your past records.

On your ‘new student’ page at the school’s website you have a section on ‘Provide Verification of Lawful Presence in the United States’ that clearly allows students to present a Georgia drivers license and/or a ID card as “validation” of lawful presence:

“Effective January 1, 2012, all students applying for in-state tuition must provide validation of lawful presence in the United States. The following documents will serve as proof of lawful presence in the United States and documentation will be required before you are eligible for consideration of in-state tuition:

  • A current Driver’s License issued by the State of Georgia after January 1, 2008
  • A current ID issued by the State of Georgia after January 1, 2008…”

Georgia issues drivers licenses to illegal aliens. Illegal aliens do not have ‘lawful presence.’

As one example, reports from DDS tell us more than 20,000 illegal aliens who are recipients of the illegal DACA program have been issued these driving and ID credentials. States are fully within their rights to issue drivers licenses and ID Cards to whomever they choose, but these documents in no way demonstrate, validate, prove or indicate ‘lawful presence.’

As someone who has worked on the illegal immigration crisis in the Georgia Capitol since 2004, I am appalled but not surprised to see this “validation” practice in a taxpayer-funded college.

I am sending this letter electronically so as to more efficiently provide your office with needed information for your education.

Directed only at the aforementioned DACA recipients, here are some quotes from other educated sources, which I hope will expand on my claim. To be clear: Deferred action on deportation does indeed make an illegal alien eligible for a Georgia driving and or ID credential. It does not in any way bestow or validate ‘lawful presence.’

* The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against DACA recipient student’s claims of ‘lawful presence’ in Georgia in 2019. On page 26 of the March 2019 11th Circuit opinion the court wrote: “As explained above, appellants are not lawfully present in the United States.”
* “As DACA recipients, they simply were given a reprieve from potential removal; that does not mean they are in any way ‘lawfully present under the (INA) act.” (11th circuit court in the same opinion as above).

* “We have continuously and clearly taken the position in ongoing legal cases that DACA does not confer legal status…”  Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr to WABE News, July, 2017.

* “Illegal immigrants who are granted permission to stay in the country under an Obama administration policy that was announced in June will be eligible for drivers’ licenses in Georgia the state’s attorney general wrote in a letter to the governor.” The Associated Press (writer Kate Brumback) 2012, via the Augusta Chronicle.

In the interest of space and time I will limit my citations to the above for the present time.

It is my contention that if your institution has awarded instate tuition rates to DACA recipients because they were deemed “lawfully present,” you are acting in conflict with state law. I urge you to remove the instructions to students cited above and to adjust your policy and correct any incorrect tuition rates now being granted.

I trust you will regard this heads up as the well-intentioned effort from a concerned taxpayer it is meant to be. I respectfully assure you we will follow up on this very disturbing matter. Please call on me if I can be of any further assistance.

I would be grateful for a reply.

Sincerely,

D.A. King

President, the Dustin Inman Society – for the board

Marietta, GA. 30066

 

Cc: Greg Dozier

Commissioner, Technical College System of Georgia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ga. Law: Jailers must report incarcerated illegal aliens to feds – from Insider Advantage Georgia (file copy: Re: OCGA 42-4-14)

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In 2011, Aurelio Mayo Perez, an illegal alien, was booked into the Cobb County jail for no driver’s license but released due to an immigration enforcement reduction edict from then-President Barack Obama. Two years later, Mayo Perez was charged with aggravated child molestation and rape. The name of the ten-year old girl he was convicted of repeatedly molesting is not available.

Sheriffs Craig Owens, Cobb County (L) and Keebo Taylor, Gwinnett County (R). Photo WSB TV/Twitter

Last week, newly sworn Cobb County Sheriff Craig Owens held an elaborate press conference packed with invited anti-enforcement activists and proudly announced his termination of the 287(g) program. The Marietta Daily Journal described the event’s big finish with “…as the event ended, and a mariachi band began to play, the mood in the room was decidedly celebratory. The new sheriff even took to the floor and waltzed for a moment, reveling in his audience’s approval.”

Cobb County Deputy Sheriff Loren Lilly – killed in a 2007 traffic crash by an unlicensed illegal alien driver – was unable to attend.

Democrat Commission Chairwoman Lisa Cupid pronounced Owens’ decision “bold, necessary, and overdue.” Cobb’s new District Attorney, Flynn Broady weighed in with “this is going to make our community safer.” We recommend reading the entire MDJ report

Created by congress in 1996, and signed into law by Bill Clinton, the voluntary 287(g) program is a tool used to expand the authority of local law enforcement to locate and report illegal aliens to ICE illegal aliens in county jails. It’s a deterrent. Then-Senator Joe Biden voted in favor of passage.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports Owens claims “the program morphed into one that profiled immigrants through traffic stops, which resulted in them being deported on misdemeanor charges.” While Sheriff Owens – a former Cobb County policeman – is certainly free to smear his fellow law enforcement officers with accusations of profiling, he should understand that it’s illegal aliens who are deported and that removal is the punishment for illegal immigration, not traffic violations.

Jose Alfaro-Contraras, an illegal alien from El Salvador, was one of the gunmen in an April, 2015 armed robbery of the owner of a check-cashing store in Duluth. A year earlier, Alfaro-Contraras had been in the Gwinnett County jail on a shoplifting charge. He was released because “minor crime.”

The above examples are taken from a 2017 report “Jail records reveal immigrants not deported after minor crimes later commit worse ones” from Atlanta’s Fox Five TV News investigative reporter Randy Travis.

In Gwinnett, on his first day in office, Sheriff Keybo Taylor made his enforcement policy clear when he quit the 287(g) program: “What we will not be doing is notifying ICE of anybody’s immigration status in the jail or any of our facilities…” said Taylor at his own presser. He told a local NPR interviewer 287(g) is slanted towards “people of color.”

Gwinnett County, Georgia Sheriff Kebo Taylor and state law. Photo (Dustin Inman Society) not part of original IAG post.

“So basically, what that program started to do was target, uh, you know, people of color that were in this country that’s undocumented, so, you know, it became, you know, a racist issue for me…”,

He says he would rather focus on gang members. I was curious, so I checked with experts on gangs in Gwinnett and the skin color concern Taylor expressed. But on that topic Sheriff Taylor does have concerns about borders “…crime and criminals…they don’t, they do not respect borders, so, you know, it’s nothing to come from Atlanta to Gwinnett County…” says Taylor. Indeed.

In print and radio interviews, both sheriffs have done a remarkable job of learning and adhering to the anti-287(g) talking points distributed by the far-left. Below are some of those tips from a 2008 ACLU ‘toolkit.’

‘How to oppose 287(g) agreements in your state or locality’

*Always describe how police enforcement of immigration laws endangers public safety for everyone.

*Assert that local police of immigration laws will result in widespread racial profiling.

*Assert that immigration enforcement is the responsibility of the federal government.

*Assert that police resources are stretched thin already.

Is long-standing Ga. law being enforced?

Attention Georgia prosecutors, including Flynn Broady: Independent of 287(g), longstanding (2006) state law (OCGA 42-4-14) requires jailers to check the immigration status of incoming foreign prisoners. “If the foreign national is determined to be an illegal alien, the keeper of the jail or other officer shall notify the United States Department of Homeland Security, or other office or agency designated for notification by the federal government.”

D.A. King is president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society.

Another letter to the editor we didn’t see printed in the liberal AJC – Re: Brian Kemp

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The below letter to the editor was sent more than two weeks ago. Seems a shame to not post it.

Dear editor,

For those who believed his 2018 promises on illegal immigration, a recent AJC story on Gov. Kemp and his reelection campaign strategy contains an amusing quote. “One of the things that happened in ’18 was I got defined as someone I wasn’t, and the way I was defined turned out to be false.” “That’s not going to happen this time because people know where I stand.”

So far it appears the Georgia media has chosen not to mention Kemp’s defiant betrayal of his detailed and clear 2018  pledge “as governor, conservative businessman Brian Kemp will create a comprehensive database to track criminal aliens in Georgia.  He will also update Georgia law to streamline deportations from our jails and prisons.” And the now infamous “I’ve got a big truck in case I need to round up criminal illegals and take them home myself.”

Kemp has not mentioned any of this since he won the election. Pro-enforcement independent voters now know exactly where he stands. We call it the ‘Big Truck Trick.’

D.A. King

Marietta

King is president of the Dustin Inman Society