‘Yep, I Just Said That’: GA Gov. Candidate Brian Kemp’s Ad Said He’d ‘Round Up’ Illegal Aliens In His Truck | Image: Fox News Insider
“Offense of aggravated identity fraud”
(a) A person commits the offense of aggravated identity fraud when he or she willfully and fraudulently uses any counterfeit or fictitious identifying information concerning a real, fictitious, or deceased person with intent to use such counterfeit or fictitious identifying information for the purpose of obtaining employment.”
The law says that a first offense “shall be punishable by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than 15 years, a fine not to exceed $250,000.00, or both…”
*The below guest column was posted on the subscription website, Insider Advantage Georgia today
Illegal Alien Employer Arrest an Enforcement Opportunity for Kemp
The news that a Mexican illegal alien amassed a large fortune by illegally operating a construction company while employing other illegal aliens and living in a Bartow County compound — complete with a security wall and armed guards – presents a golden opportunity for Gov. Brian Kemp. That is, if the new governor wants to make clear his determination to fight illegal immigration.
It cannot be said enough: The chief cause of illegal immigration is illegal employment. Reduce the former and see less of the latter. Fewer illegal aliens equals fewer crimes committed by illegal aliens. It seems obvious.
As the anti-enforcement Georgia Budget and Policy Institute was kind enough to remind us last summer, Georgia is home to more illegal aliens than Lawful Permanent Residents (green card holders). Only the most politically blind and naïve still hold out hope that congress will accomplish anything meaningful on ending the illegal immigration crisis.
The logical conclusion is that state and local governments should use all available tools to make Georgia as inhospitable as possible to illegal employers and illegal aliens. That would include unapologetic enforcement of state laws already in place.
Which brings us back to the governor and Juan Antonio Perez, the illegal alien recently busted by the feds and who reportedly had somewhere around 200 employees “almost all of them here illegally.”
Kemp should consider having the GBI obtain the employment records from all of the companies operated by Perez, if he has any. Including the I-9 forms. The I-9 form is the outdated, 20th century paper device used to collect and record identity verification documents presented by new employees to the employer.
It is impossible for an illegal alien to complete the I-9 process without use of false or stolen ID. Georgia has a state law for that.
Intended to severely punish ID fraud in the process of obtaining employment, Georgia’s “Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act of 2011” (HB 87) put OCGA 16-9-121.1 in place.
“Offense of aggravated identity fraud”…read the rest here.
PSA: Governor Kemp can be contacted by email at Brian.Kemp (@) georgia.gov and Georgians can leave a message with his staff at the Capitol by calling 404-656-1776
Created in 2011 via HB87, and dubbed a “parody of a kangaroo court” by this writer, the controversial but obscure IERB has been abolished by the General Assembly.
Archived tracking of the IERB can be seen here on the Dustin Inman Society blog.
A more detailed story on the apparent demise of the IERB from the Decaturish.com news outlet can be seen here.
Maybe voters who live in the Georgia 11th District can get some answers from Congressman Barry Loudermilk. We get silence. Contact info here.
Georgia Congressman Barry Loudermilk. Image: GovTrack.us
The below email was sent to Georgia Congressman Barry Loudermilk’s Washington D.C. office (Brandon Cockerham press staffer Brandon.Cockerham@mail.house.gov)on March 13, 2019. It was sent again the next day and I posted a Tweet to the congressman alerting his office to the email.
No response has been received.
My email is below. I have added some links to educate the reader.
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March 13, 2019
Brandon,
I write for several news outlets, including Breitbart News, Insider Advantage Georgia many Georgia newspapers and on my own website, Immigration Politics Georgia (ImmigrationPoliticsGA.com). I am doing a report on Rep Loudermilk’s position on immigration, illegal immigration, DACA and the current effort in congress to legalize a group of illegal aliens with DACA, TPS and DED. Below I include some background and a few questions to help insure accuracy and balance in my reports. I will be grateful for your response. My deadline is Friday, 4:00 PM. I expect my piece to appear in multiple outlets and to be distributed at the Georgia state Republican Convention.
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I notice that on the congressman’s “issues” page he has detailed an explanation of the DACA executive amnesty and apparently says that no federal law clearly addresses visa overstays. Also that “we need to consider a system to allow the DACA individuals to apply for renewable contingent nonimmigrant legal (CNS) status, which would allow them to stay in the country, but would not automatically grant them U.S. citizenship.”
Congressman Loudermilk recently spoke to the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and has been quoted by several people in attendance as saying (about DACA recipients) that he and many of his colleagues “want them to stay and apply for citizenship.”
Screen shot of a post on Twitter feed of FWDus State Director for Georgia, Sam Aguilar
On the issues page of his official website, Congressman Loudermilk refers to “the vagueness of our laws” while saying “they not be given blanket amnesty” in reference to DACA recipients.
“Issue: There are currently about 1.8 million on, or eligible for, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in the U.S. Those identified as DACA/DACA eligible were minors when they were brought to the U.S. by their parents. While some of the parents came across the border illegally, some of the parents came legally on visas, but remained after their visas expired. This is a unique problem that current law does not clearly address.
Solution: We must change the law to clearly address the DACA situation, otherwise the courts will ultimately make the decision. We need to consider a system to allow the DACA individuals to apply for renewable contingent nonimmigrant legal (CNS) status, which would allow them to stay in the country, but would not automatically grant them U.S. citizenship.
DACA Fines/Fees
Issue: Although DACA recipients are technically considered to be legally in the country – due to the vagueness of our laws, they should not be given blanket amnesty
Solution: Any program that addresses DACA must require all applicants to pay a fine/fee to apply. And, these fees should go to funding enhanced border security.”
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QUESTIONS:
Q: Is the congressman aware that 8 USC 1227 provides for removal of aliens who remain in the U.S. longer than authorized and who are inadmissable? Can you please explain the position that the laws on visa overstays/unlawful presence are “vague?”
Q: Will you please cite or explain the “contingent nonimmigrant legal status” (CNS)” – which would allow them to stay in the country, but would not automatically grant them U.S. citizenship.” Is this a federal immigration status of which I am not aware? Is this a legalization/amnesty proposal from the congressman that he has dubbed “CNS?”
Can you please explain the statement that“DACA recipients are technically considered to be legally in the country?”
Q: Does the congressman’s reported remarks to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce audience in Atlanta confirm his support for legalization and a path to U.S. citizenship for the current DACA recipients? If so, does he foresee the same support for the future legalization and path to U.S. citizenship of the tens of thousands of illegal alien children whose parents have overstayed temporary visas and who have been illegally brought over our borders in the years since 2012, today and next week?
Thank you in advance, please feel free to contact me with any questions or clarification.
The United States Penitentiary, Tucson (Image courtesy of U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons)
“The illegal immigrant crime rate in this country should be zero.” He added, “Every crime committed by an illegal alien is, by definition, a crime that should have been prevented. It is outrageous that tens of thousands of Americans are dying every year because of the drugs and violence brought over our borders illegally and that taxpayers have been forced, year after year, to pay millions of dollars to incarcerate tens of thousands of illegal aliens.” Then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
According to a new report, criminal aliens currently make up nearly 20 percent of the population in the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) system — a total of 34,776.
David Olen Cross, a Salem, Ore., crime and immigration researcher, looked at the number of foreign nationals in the U.S. BOP system based on the most recent federal report. As of March 30, 2019, there were 179,761 inmates incarcerated in federal prisons across the U.S. Their countries of origin, according to the report, are:
Mexico 21,668 inmates, 12.1 percent;
Colombia 1,633 inmates, 0.9 percent;
Dominican Republic 1,425 inmates, 0.8 percent;
Cuba 1,169 inmates, 0.7 percent;
Other/unknown countries 8,881 inmates, 4.9 percent;
United States 144,985 inmates, 80.7 percent;
You can read the rest of the story from PJ Media here.
UAE Doubles Down on Designation of CAIR as Terrorists | Image: Clarion Project Clarion Project … the United Arab Emirates is standing by its decision to designate the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Muslim American Society (MAS) …
Editor’s note: CAIR is active in lobbying against state legislation related to illegal immigration in the Georgia Capitol, including 2019’s HB202.
Robert Spencer in Frontpage magazine: “So long, everybody. If I’m shut out of all platforms over the next few days, you’ll know why.”
March 18, 2019
Frontpage magazine
Calling for or justifying a massacre of innocent people is one thing. But that “failing to address far-right extremism on their platforms” is quite another. For years now, Leftists and Islamic supremacists have insisted that opposing jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women and others constitutes “far-right extremism.” So it is likely that those who will be shut down will not be limited solely to people such as this “24-year-old from Oldham” who was “making reference and support for the terrible events.” It will include foes of jihad terror.
My friends, it could be time for me to be saying goodbye. Leftist and Islamic groups have been trying for years to silence all criticism of jihad terror and Sharia oppression of women and others, and in the New Zealand massacre they see the best chance in a long time to move in for the kill. I (along with other foes of jihad terror) could be banned from everything and rendered a non-person, a la Alex Jones, any day now.
This is no exaggeration. Meeting in Istanbul, the International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS) has called on non-Muslim countries to ban “Islamophobia,” which means criticism of Islam, including analysis of the motivating ideology fueling jihad terror. IUMS President Ahmed al-Raisouni said Friday: “IUMS calls on non-Muslim countries to ban the spread of hatred against Islam and Muslims.”
Since analysis of the motivating ideology behind jihad terror is routinely smeared as “hatred of Islam and Muslims,” this will likely outlaw all such analysis and make opposition to jihad terror effectively impossible.
And these bans are very likely coming. In America, they won’t take the form of actual laws forbidding criticism of Islam (although remember that Tom Perez, the current head of the Democratic National Committee, refused to rule out the implementation of such laws a few years ago, when he was Assistant Attorney General in the Obama administration). They’re more likely to take the form of a complete deplatforming. We will be able to speak, but no one will be able to hear us, as we won’t be allowed on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and the rest.
IUMS was not alone. Saudi King Salman tweeted: “The heinous massacre that targeted worshippers in the mosque in New Zealand is a terrorist act, and it reaffirms the responsibility of the international community in combating hate speech and terrorism that is not condoned by religions or the values of tolerance.” Apparently terrorism that is condoned by religions is fine with him, as in “strike terror in the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an 8:60). But by “hate speech” he almost certainly means honest discussion of how Islamic jihadis use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence.
Domestically, the call for censorship came from the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has for years been trying to shut down all opposition to jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women, gays, and others. They have succeeded in fooling many people into thinking that it is “bigotry” and “racism” to oppose jihad terror, and have made those who discuss the motivating ideology behind jihad terror toxic in the public square. Now Hamas-linked CAIR is attempting to use the New Zealand massacre to achieve total victory: the complete closure of all media platforms to foes of jihad terror and Sharia oppression… Read more here.
DACA recipients are “inadmissible and thus removable” under federal law
Ruling likely will lead to additional legal action on public benefits in Georgia
Illegal aliens who have been awarded deferred action on deportation proceedings through the DACA amnesty by both the Obama and Trump administrations are illegal aliens and do not have “lawful presence” says the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. The decision was handed down March 6, 2019.
The ruling was in response to a suit brought by several illegal aliens in Georgia who are challenging the Board of Regents policy that requires lawful presence for instate tuition purposes and admittance to some USG universities.
According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Georgia is home to more illegal aliens than is Arizona. Statistics from the Washington DC – based Migration Policy Institute highlighted by the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute indicate that Georgia has more illegal aliens than green card holders.
Image: GBPI.org
A group of DACA recipients sued the leaders of the Georgia higher education system in 2016, which bars aliens who are not “lawfully present” from enrolling in some Georgia colleges and universities, even if they would academically qualify for admission. “The students argued that they were lawfully present under federal law, which preempted state law. They also claimed that the admissions bar violated their right to equal protection, as Georgia treats aliens who are paroled into the U.S. or granted asylum as “lawfully present,” reported the Immigration Reform Law Institute.
The Eleventh Circuit rejected all of the students’ claims. The court noted that “lawfully present” is not a standalone immigration classification, and it is not defined anywhere in the (Immigration and Nationality) Act” *(opinion here).
The ruling is consistent with an official October 2017 statement to this writer from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that “current law does not grant any legal status for the class of individuals who are current recipients of DACA. Recipients of DACA are currently unlawfully present in the U.S. with their removal deferred.”
Decision may lead to additional legal action on access to public benefits
The court’s decision likely portends more legal action. Georgia’s public benefits law, OCGA 50-36-1, requires “lawful presence” for non-citizens to access a host of public benefits, including drivers licenses, official ID Cards, health benefits, food stamps, insurance licenses and unemployment benefits. While it goes largely unreported by the Georgia media, various official agencies have been quietly issuing these benefits to DACA recipients since 2012 based on the applicant’s oath on affidavits that they are a “qualified alien.”
The monetary cost to Georgia taxpayers for benefits to the illegal aliens with deferred action on deportation, both in and outside of DACA is unknown.
Updated, 4:50PM March 8, 2019. Updated July 26, 2020 with addition of link to affidavit. Updated July 30, 2020 with link to “qualified alien.”
Fast Fact: In a state with more illegal aliens than Arizona: Georgia’s Republican state senators send out an issues poll with no option for illegal immigration.
What you think matters. Please complete this survey.
1.
Are you in favor of setting up a process in Georgia that allows the growing of the cannabis plant that produces medical marijuana?
Favor
Oppose
Undecided
2.
Do you favor taxing streaming services to extend broadband to rural areas of the state?
Favor
Oppose
Undecided
3.
Do you favor voting machines that produce a printed paper ballot or a paper ballot that the voter fills out?
Printed ballot
Voter-filled ballot
Undecided
4.
Would you favor the licensing of the growing of hemp, recently legalized by federal farm bill?
Favor
Oppose
Undecided
5.
Do you support the exemption of military retirement income from state income taxes? (All citizens 65 and older are presently exempt up to $65,000 per spouse)
Favor
Oppose
Undecided
6.
Would you be in favor of changing the definition of “unemployed” to allow federal government employees to collect unemployment benefits in the event of a government shutdown?
Favor
Oppose
Undecided
7.
Would you favor changing the classification of possession of a small amount (less than one ounce) of marijuana from a misdemeanor to a fine offense in a municipal court?
Favor
Oppose
Undecided
8.
Do you favor legalizing horseracing in Georgia?
Favor
Oppose
Undecided
9.
Do you favor raising the mandatory age of school attendance from 16 to 17 years old?
Favor
Oppose
Undecided
10.
Do you favor the State of Georgia ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)?
Favor
Oppose
Undecided
11.
Do you favor the State of Georgia ratifying the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA)?
“The new governor has not taken action on illegal immigration despite his campaign promises, said King. “This would be an ideal time for Governor [Brian] Kemp to speak up in favor of transparency about the cost of illegal immigration…”
Breitbart News has taken notice of the fact that the Republican Rules Committee has so far not allowed HB202 to see a vote in the full House.
The below report was posted this yesterday. *The Dustin Inman Society has put out an action alert with contact info for the Republican Chairman of the Gold Dome committee where the bill is being held captive. HERE.
Breitbart News
Georgia Establishment Legislators Try to Hide Migrant Crime from Voters
By Neil Munro
March 1, 2019
Republican and Democratic legislators in Georgia are trying to block good-government legislation that would help Georgia voters learn the number of criminal illegal aliens in their state.
The draft legislation would require state officials to provide quarterly reports on the number of deportable illegal migrants and of non-citizens who are held in detention. But it must pass the Georgia House’s rules committee and the House floor before midnight March 7.
The bill, HB 202, was promoted in a February 28 hearing by GOP state Rep. Jesse Petrea. But the GOP chairman of the rules committee quickly signaled his opposition to the legislation. “Why do we need this?” chairman Jay Powell challenged Petrea.
In response, Petrea criticized “the inability by both parties in Congress to do anything to deal with this [illegal migration] problem,” adding:
What we can do is make the people we represent recognize the degree to which the issue impacts their lives daily … There are 1,505 violent and sex offenders in Georgia correctional facilities [on the list] who murdered, raped, killed, kidnapped, child-molested Georgia citizens … So the people can look at that list and have complete transparency and they can say “That is a big deal,” or they may say “That is not a big deal.” But right now, that data is not available to them … All I want is for that data to be transparent and posted on the web site. And the people can make up their own minds.
“1,505 inmates is a lot of money on our budget and it is a lot of human tragedy,” Petrea added.
Three Democrats joined in opposition to the bill.
Rep. Robert Trammell suggested the release of the statistics would “inflame public opinion against a group based on their citizenship or non-citizenship status.” READ THE REST HERE.
Estimates of the Illegal Alien Population Residing in the United States: January 2015 (latest official figures)
Bryan Baker
DEFINITIONS
Legal Residents
The legally resident immigrant population as defined for these estimates includes persons granted lawful permanent residence, persons granted asylum, persons admitted as refugees, and persons admitted as nonimmigrants under classes of admission associated with residence (e.g., students and temporary workers, as opposed to tourists) and with authorized periods of admission ending after January 1, 2015.
Illegal Alien Residents
The resident illegal alien population is defined as all foreign- born non-citizens who are not legal residents (see above). Most illegal aliens either entered the United States without
1 The Department of Homeland Security refers to foreign-born non-citizens unlawfully present in the United States as “illegal aliens.” Previous versions of this report used the term “unauthorized immigrants” to refer to this population.
2 Previous editions of this report are available at:https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics.
3 The estimates for Jan. 2013 and Jan. 2014 have been revised; see Appendix 2 for details and updated estimates.
inspection or were admitted temporarily and remained past the date they were required to depart. Persons who are beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status (TPS), Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) or other forms of prosecutorial discretion, or who are residing in the United States while awaiting removal proceedings in immigration court are included among the illegal alien population estimates. Illegal aliens applying for adjustment to LPR status under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) are considered to be part of the resident illegal alien population until they have been granted lawful permanent residence. Here.
Speakers sign-up sheet for House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee, Feb 25, 2019 Image; Dustin Inman Society
House Rules Committee holding incarceration cost transparency bill prisoner
D.A. King
For many watchers it has long been assumed that the Republicans who run the Gold Dome would rather taxpayers not have any official hard data on any part of the cost of illegal immigration. Now, with crossover day looming, the House Rules Committee with South Georgia Rep. Jay Powell (R-Camilla) as chairman seems poised to prove that assumption.
House Rules Chairman Jay Powell
In a red-ish state that is home to more illegal aliens than green card holders, we may never be allowed to know the cost of state incarceration of the illegal aliens.
HB 202 from Rep Jesse Petrea (R- Savannah) is a simple and long-overdue one-pager that would require the Georgia Department of Corrections to publish a public, quarterly report on the number of non-citizens in the prison system, the number of that group who already are subjects of ICE detainers, the home nations and crimes committed along with the percentage of the entire prison population these aliens represent.
All concerned should note that ICE detainers could only be issued if federal authorities have already had contact with illegal aliens who are serving state time. The current version of the bill is a step back from original language that would have required immigration status, if known, of all aliens in the system. The data the now weakened legislation produced would not be an indicator of the entire cost of incarcerating all illegal aliens in the state. But it is apparently still too much information for the House Rules Committee.
A letter of endorsement to Rep Petrea from Mr. Robert Trent, a now retired Senior ICE enforcement agent in Brunswick, notes that because the DOC is using the federal 287 (g) program in addition to the Secure Communities system to collect fingerprints from prisoners, they have more than enough tools to gather information on the immigration status for allprisoners. These databases can also alert ICE to legal immigrants who may be deportable.
This writer testified in support of the bill in the House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee earlier this week and watched with pleasant surprise to see that there were more pro-enforcement Americans – including several immigrants – signed up to speak in favor of Petrea’s legislation than there were corporate-funded leftists opposed to the bill… Read the rest here.
