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Disgraced and discredited SPLC hate mongers lobbying against anti-sanctuary legislation in Georgia HB1083

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SPLC Action Fund logo
 *We note that it seems the Southern Poverty Law Center and it’s lobbyists here in Georgia have copied much of the Dustin Inman Society’s action alert urging law and order Georgians to call key House leaders to urge passage of HB1083. You can see that noon-ish alert here. Too funny. The SPLC alert from this evening pasted below, but we added a link.

 

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We urgently need your help today to help defeat an anti-immigrant bill moving through the Georgia House of Representatives.

Republicans in the House are working with several known anti-immigrant hate groups monitored by the SPLC, including the notorious Federation for American Immigration Reform, to push forward an anti-sanctuary policy. The legislation – House Bill 1083 – mandates that counties, cities and towns across Georgia must collude with federal immigration enforcement.

Under this reckless and irresponsible scheme, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will be able to request that local law enforcement arrest and detain members of our communities solely on the suspicion that they are undocumented. Similar policy in Georgia and other parts of the country has proven ineffective and costly. But the one thing we can be sure of is that H.B. 1083 will allow local law enforcement to detain and lock up immigrants who are vital members of our community.

Will you take a moment now to call key members of the Rules Committee and tell them to kill this dangerous anti-immigrant bill?

Here are their numbers:

Chairman Richard Smith: 404-656-511
Vice-Chairman Matt Hatchett: 404-656-525
Speaker David Ralston: 404-656-500

And here’s a sample script:

Hello, my name is ________ and I’m a resident of ________, Georgia. I’m calling today to ask that Representative ________ kill House Bill 1083. This bill will harm valued immigrant members and families of our Georgia community. These polices are costly and ineffective and will undoubtably hurt our local economy.

Across the state, a coalition of immigrant rights activists are calling on the Rules Committee to ensure we kill this bill.

Join them now by taking a minute to call Chairman Smith (404-)Vice-Chairman Hatchett (404-) and Speaker Ralston (404-656).

With your help, we can stop this unnecessary and hateful bill in its tracks.

Thank you,
SPLC Action Georgia

Kemp contacts House members on HB444 – continuing to allow illegal aliens to receive no-cost college seats #DualEnrollment

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House members work during the House’s session on the final day of the 2015 legislative session,. Photo from WABE.com
Photo/Branden Camp)

HB444 billed as ‘reform’ to dual enrollment program but does not change lack of screening for illegals

 *UPDATE – 8:50 PM. I  was informed about 5:30 this evening that although it wasn’t on the Rules calendar, while I was writing the below column, House leadership put the HB444 bill on members desks and held a surprise vote today. This was done because we were shining way too much light on the DE program and the bill. Too many House Reps were starting to ask questions. They voted about 12:30-ish I am told. The bill passed (they agreed to senate version).

Never let it be said that Gov Kemp and Speaker Ralston won’t work together.

“They shoved it down our throats. If I had known all this, I never would have voted to agree” one GOP Rep told me this evening. 

__*UPDATED with vote records March 6, 2020 10:48AM. See bottom of column.

Spoiler alert to this post: While it is billed as a way to produce a more educated workforce, the Georgia dual enrollment program allows high school students to attend public universities at zero tuition cost. It has no verification system to keep illegal aliens out of the taxpayer-funded system. And, unless they have the Obama DACA amnesty, which provides a work permit, illegal aliens are not eligible to work anywhere in the United States.

It seems that Gov. Kemp’s office is quite anxious to see his dual enrollment “reform” bill (HB444) passed and is contacting House members to gauge support. A note from Kemp’s Deputy Director of External Affairs, Stuart Wilkinson, to House members (apparently only GOP members) illustrates the urgency and interest. Delivered to members yesterday, this came to us from several pro-enforcement lawmakers:

“Good Afternoon,

We understand that HB 444, the Governor’s dual enrollment bill, will be called for an agree this week. The Governor hopes he can count on your support with a YES vote. Please let us know if there are any issues you want to discuss or are not able to vote YES.

Thanks,

Stuart Wilkinson”

The dual enrollment program (DE) allows high school students to attend public-funded college classes in the taxpayer-funded USG system at zero tuition cost to the student.  Zero cost is a much better benefit than the reduced rate of instate tuition!

With stated goal of reducing costs of DE, HB444 was introduced by a Kemp floor leader and passed last year in the House and then was amended and passed by the state senate earlier this year– handled by a Kemp floor leader.

The liberal AJC did a good job of explaining DE and Kemp’s intent in his reform move here, but they did not include any of the obvious pertinent information on illegal alien students. Neither did they do a story when I asked how many illegal alien high school students are right now receiving a totally free ride in USG classroom seats.

AJC:

“Georgia House Bill 444 would significantly change the state’s popular dual enrollment program that allows high school students to take state-funded college courses.

Supporters of the bill say the program’s costs have skyrocketed in recent years and changes are necessary to make it sustainable. About 52,000 students are currently enrolled in the program.

Critics say the changes will limit education opportunities for many low-income and rural students.

Here are five things to know about the dual enrollment program and proposed legislation, according to information in the bill and its sponsor, state Rep. Bert Reeves, R-Marietta.”

Please read the rest here.

And note that there is no change to the fact that there is no verification to exclude illegals.

As Gov. Kemp’s staffer tells House members in his note yesterday, HB444 will see a call to agree with the senate changes this week, which will send the bill to Gov Kemp’s desk for signing.

Ga. Gov. Brian Kemp. Photo CNN.com

Nothing in the original DE program, the Kemp House bill from last year or the senate changes this year includes any requirement that illegal aliens be screened out of the free (taxpayer-funded) college courses.

Not so after high school graduation. See the USG verification system to insure illegal aliens do not receive reduced tuition rates for those applicants here.

Gov. Kemp’s office phone number is 404-656-1776. He is knowingly allowing illegal aliens in high school to obtain a no-cost college education – and Georgia citizens are being billed.

We hope you ask your own Rep how they are going to vote on HB 444 – and how they voted on it last year.

We will post all voting records next week.

Vote records as promised. Pasted from the General Assembly website.

 

Mar/03/2020 – House Vote #521Yea(103) Nay(67) NV(1)

Excu (excused) (9)

Jan/28/2020 – Senate Vote #441Yea(34) Nay(18) NV(2)

Exc(2)

Mar/07/2019 – House Vote #181Yea(99) Nay(72) NV(4)

Exc(5)

 

 

 

 

AJC inventing “facts” on state legislation again – HB960 and “illegal alien”

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Photo: Poynter’s job online

UPDATE: Watching everyday, we were unable to find any correction on this in the liberal AJC. 12March2020

A Tuesday, Feb 25, 2020 AJC print version blurb (Removal of “illegal alien” language from state law sought” – page B7- Metro) on pending legislation in Georgia tells readers that HB960 “would replace the term with “unauthorized immigrant.” Actually reading the bill tells a different story.

The bill is another attempt to erase the all-too-accurate “illegal alien” and substitute the mindless “undocumented…” In this case the hope is to strike “illegal alien” from state law and substitute “undocumented person.”

We can’t find the term “unauthorized immigrant” anywhere in the bill.

AJC reporter Amanda Coyne should be asked to explain how she got it so wrong. Why? Because this is not the first time the AJC has run false goop about illegal immigration legislation and because people, including this writer, will never again believe anything Coyne is allowed to put in print without verifying it themselves.

Neither is the AJC piece complete. The bill also has language that eliminates the word “alien” from the code and inserts “person.” As in “we’re all just people…why do we need immigration laws…?” And it changes “illegal” to “undocumented.”

Here is a snippet from HB 960, lines 19-23:

“19  (b) A person who, while committing another criminal offense, knowingly and intentionally

20  transports or moves an illegal alien undocumented person in a motor vehicle for the

21  purpose of furthering the illegal undocumented presence of the alien person in the United

22  States shall be guilty of the offense of transporting or moving an illegal alien

23  undocumented person.”

We’ll take the time to review other Amanda Coyne yarns later. For now, we are sending a request for a correction to the AJC leadership. But we are not holding our breath.

I don’t see the story online. See photo below. You can see the text of the bill for yourself here. 

AJC story in print version, Feb 25, 2020.

 

 

Michelle Malkin’s Twitter List of Recent Outsourcers/Offshorers

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Michelle Malkin. Photo: The Hill.com

From ProtectUSWorkers.com

Leave it to the Queen of the fight for human rights, MICHELLE MALKIN, to blast several tweets calling out “some” of the latest outsourcing/offshoring companies. I say “some” because so many companies are able to conduct this awful business model under the radar. Also, this is merely “some” because there are so many companies that have done this (once, twice and sometimes multiple times) over the past thirty years that are not included on this list.

But how can so many American workers get fired, many forced to train foreign visa holders to do their jobs, and the jobs go to foreign visa holders in and out of the United States?
1. Terrible American immigration and business laws.
2. Greedy business owners and investors who place money over people.
3. Consistently terrible politicians on this issue because they are bought or uneducated.
4. Lying politicians who pretend they will help but do not help at all.
5. The fake “we need more foreign workers” slogan from the billionaires who benefit from this business model.
6. The one that hurts the most: the millions of terrified American workers who refuse to stand up against their termination, and forced training of foreign visa holders, because of a false self preservation sold to them by the billionaires who benefit from this business model.
7. The everyday American people who just have not learned, or just do not care because it does not yet touch them personally, who do not stand up for those who are victims.

Maybe this incredible list will help Americans stand strong and stand together to fight against this awful, greedy business model. Maybe, this is a stretch, but, maybe, a politician will use this information to make a change in the government to stop this parasite that is killing our middle class.

1. Wayfair. 550 US workers terminated February 2020.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/02/13/business/layoffs-underway-wayfair/

2. Tripadvisor. Laid off 200 American workers January 2020.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-23/tripadvisor-cuts-hundreds-of-jobs-after-google-competition-bites

3. LogMeln. Canned 300 American workers January 2020.
https://www.wcvb.com/article/boston-based-logmein-laying-off-8-of-workforce/31037817

4. Silicon Valley companies Zume Pizza, VMWare, Shutterfly, Intel, Comcast, Xilinx, 23andMe & NortonLifeLock will lay off more than 1,000 US tech workers in February and March of 2020.

5. AT&T fired nearly 3000-5000 American jobs in the past several months. This is only the latest round for this company who loves this get-rich-quick business model.
https://www.axios.com/trump-att-outsourcing-h1b-visa-foreign-workers-1f26cd20-664a-4b5f-a2e3-361c8d2af502.html

 

Much more here.

Trump doing the job Brian Kemp will not do: AJC letter to the editor today

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Candidate Brian Kemp in his big truck – in case he rounds up criminal illegals. Image: The Hill, 2018

From today’s Atlanta Journal Constitution

Readers write.

Trump is doing job Kemp promised to do

President Trump is (reportedly) sending special operations agents of the Border Patrol to assist Immigration Customs and Enforcement in sanctuary cities — including Atlanta. This move by Washington brilliantly illustrates a failure to launch by Gov. Brian Kemp. Kemp, of the “big truck in case I need it to round up criminal illegals” fame of the 2018 campaign also promised to end sanctuary cities, and to “track and deport” with creation of a database of criminal aliens. The Dustin Inman Society is offering a reward for information leading to the discovery of any quote, quip, remark, utterance, legislation or order from Kemp on illegal immigration since he won the election.

Trump is doing the job Kemp will not do in Georgia. His record shows Kemp is merely another business-first politician who has turned his back on pro-enforcement voters who trusted him on illegal immigration. It was the “Big Truck Trick.” And it will be long remembered.

D.A. KING, PRESIDENT, THE DUSTIN INMAN SOCIETY

Here.

Pitching a story and pleading for help – from Gov. Brian Kemp’s Georgiafornia

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Image: Dustin inman Society

Pitching a story and pleading for help

 #BigTruckTrick

Media blackout in Georgia

 

18 Feb 2020

 After campaigning on a promise to “track and deport” criminal aliens and keeping his ‘Big Truck’ for “rounding up criminal illegals” and a solid pledge on ending sanctuary jurisdictions while citing Kate Steinle and other victims, Georgia’s establishment Republican Gov. Brian Kemp has been totally mute on any part of illegal immigration since Election Day, 2018.

Image: Brian Kemp -National Review/Reuters

This, despite a growing unease by the pro-enforcement, independent voters. Here is my Brian Kemp file that includes letters to the editor and other information. The liberal media here in Georgia, including the AP and AJC have watched this happen without so much as a single note of Kemp’s betrayal on illegal immigration in a state that is home to more illegal aliens than green card holders — and more than Arizona (DHS).

Also despite the known rapes and murders committed by illegal aliens in Metro Atlanta, Kemp is still silent. He does not speak up to support the sheriffs who are fighting the corporate-funded anti-enforcement leftists in the full scale assault on 287(g)/. “Chinga La Migra!”

Add to that the fact that state law requires GA Dept. of Public Safety to have a 287(g) agreement and to train ten new officers each year in that program. Under Kemp, DPS is not 287(g) authorized.

While cutting the budget by $200 mil this year, he will not consider a $100 million annual new revenue stream because it effects black market labor in our Big Ag industry.

Now, POTUS announces his intent to send Border Patrol Agents to Atlanta to help with the sanctuary city crisis while Kemp remains silent. *Stats on criminal aliens in our prison system. POTUS endorsed Kemp – largely due to his announced “tough on criminal illegals” claim. It is obvious that President Trump is doing the job Gov Kemp will not do.

Because Republican-ruled Georgia is about where California was around the late 1990’s on this and the political corruption involved, we have taken to calling our once conservative state “Georgiafornia.”

BTW”: Georgia’s governor has a “do not call me policy.” We are pleading with a national news outlet to expose this dangerous and defiant rot. And Kemp is pushing legislation through that will “reform” the dual enrollment program in our schools in an effort to educate more workers – but he refuses to insert any verification system to filter out illegal aliens who are obviously not eligible to work.

Tom Homan, D.A. King. Feb 8, 2020. Photo: Courtesy FetchYourNews.com

We held an event here Feb 8 that featured former Acting ICE Director Tom Homan as keynote speaker and when he learned of the above and verified it with his active Georgia-resident ICE Agent friends, he took some verbal swings at Kemp on Fox and Friends and at our event. Please see photo here.

Again, despite all of this, the GA media is silent. Most Georgians are unaware of any of this.

We are pleading for help from the outside world. I have been blacklisted by the media here since the amnesty fight of 2013 and a front page profile in NY Times and a resulting interview/trial on Univision with Jorge Ramos. Local agenda-reporters went bats over that one.

D.A. King

@DAKDIS

Marietta, GA

ImmigrationPoliticsGA.com

 

 

On Gov Kemp’s HB444 – zero verification to exclude high-school illegal aliens from taxpayer-funded college seats (raw notes)

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Image: The Dustin Inman Society

More here.

HB444 House sponsors: (original version here)
(1) Reeves, Bert 34th(2) Lott, Jodi 122nd(3) Rogers, Terry 10th

(4) LaRiccia, Dominic 169th(5) Knight, David 130th

Sponsored In Senate By

Strickland, Brian 17th

*See Gov Kemp’s floor leaders here.

HB444 Senate substitute   

Lines 55-63 here as passed by the Republican – ruled state senate on January 28, 2020.

‘Eligible high school student’ means a student entering ninth, tenth, eleventh, or twelfth grade at an eligible high school. who is:

 (A) Entering or enrolled in eleventh or twelfth grade at an eligible high school taking any eligible dual credit course at any eligible postsecondary institution; or
(B) Entering or enrolled in tenth grade at an eligible high school when such student:

 Is enrolled in an eligible CTAE course at an institution within the Technical College System of Georgia;
(ii) Has obtained prior to the beginning of the term of dual enrollment coursework an SAT or ACT test score that would meet the assessment requirements of a Zell Miller Scholar pursuant to division (27)(A)(i) of Code Section 20-3-519 and is taking eligible core courses at any eligible postsecondary institution; or
(iii) Was enrolled as a ninth grader in one or more dual credit courses at an eligible postsecondary institution for which payment was made under this part on or before June 30, 2020.

Lines 17- 22:

“This Code section shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Move on When Ready Act.’ ‘Dual Enrollment Act.’ The purpose of the Dual Enrollment program is to promote and increase access to postsecondary educational opportunities for Georgia high school students while increasing   high school graduation rates, preparing a skilled workforce, and decreasing time and cost to postsecondary credential completion.”

Senate Vote record here. (January 28, 2020)

House vote record (2019) here.

Jerry Gonzalez, corporate-funded GALEO leader on anti-sanctuary bill: “… a distraction and fear mongering…”

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Jerry Gonzalez, GALEO. Image: Access WDUN.com

 Coca-Cola and Georgia Power regular GALEO supporters

Longtime enemy of immigration enforcement, Jerry Gonzalez, was quoted by Capitol-Beat News Service remarking on public safety legislation introduced yesterday by state Rep Phillip Singleton (R- Sharpsburg). Singleton’s bill is aimed at “sanctuary” policies for illegal aliens by local governments in Georgia.

From the report:

“Local Latino advocates panned the bill Wednesday, calling it a threat Georgia’s huge immigrant workforce that drives the state’s poultry, carpet and hospitality industries.

Jerry Gonzalez, executive director of the nonprofit Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO), said the measure would make Georgia less safe. “Georgia does not need this legislation, and it is simply aimed as a distraction and fear mongering during an election year,” Gonzalez said.

The entire Capitol-Beat story is available here.

Gonzalez is a former MALDEF lobbyist and Democrat fundraiser known to verbally attack female legislators who take a pro-enforcement position on immigration.

MALDEF was co-founded by anti-borders activist Mario Guerra Obledo who was best known for his 1998, on-air quote concerning California’s political future. “California is going to become a Hispanic state and if anyone doesn’t like it they should leave. They ought to go back to Europe,” said Mario Guerra Obledo, co-founder of MALDEF, on the Tom Likus radio show.

GALEO counts Georgia Power, Coca-Cola and Telemundo as financial supporters.

IPG will keep readers informed on Rep Singleton’s immigration enforcement bill.

Read the initial version of HB915 here.

Public Charge Inadmissibility Final Rule: Revised Forms and Updated Policy Manual Guidance – from USCIS

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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has published revised forms consistent with the final rule on the public charge ground of inadmissibility, which the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including USCIS, will implement on Feb. 24, 2020. Beginning Feb. 24, 2020, applicants and petitioners must use new editions of the following forms below (except in Illinois, where the rule remains enjoined by a federal court):

In addition, except in Illinois, applicants for adjustment of status subject to the public charge ground of inadmissibility and the Final Rule will be required to submit Form I-944, Declaration of Self Sufficiency. Certain applicants whom USCIS invites to submit a public charge bond will use the new Form I-945, Public Charge Bond, for that purpose, and the new Form I-356, Request for Cancellation of Public Charge Bond, to request cancellation of a public charge bond.

Certain classes of aliens (such as refugees, asylees, petitioners under the federal Violence Against Women Act, and certain T and U visa applicants) are exempt from the public charge ground of inadmissibility and therefore are not subject to the Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds final rule. For more information about the classes of aliens who are exempt from the final rule, please see the USCIS Policy Manual.

Reporting Information About Benefits

The final rule requires aliens to report certain information related to public benefits. Instructions for Form I-944 require aliens subject to the public charge ground of inadmissibility to report and submit information about whether the alien applied for, was certified or approved to receive, or received certain non-cash public benefits on or after Oct. 15, 2019.

Instructions for Forms I-129, I-129CW, and I-539 require the petitioner or alien to report whether the alien received public benefits since obtaining the nonimmigrant status the alien seeks to extend or change.

Due to litigation-related delays in the rule’s implementation, USCIS is applying all references to Oct. 15, 2019, as though they refer to Feb. 24, 2020. Petitioners and applicants should do the same. In other words, aliens do not need to report the application, certification or approval to receive, or receipt of certain non-cash public benefits on the Form I-944 before Feb. 24, 2020. Similarly, petitioners and aliens do not need to report an alien’s receipt of any public benefits on Forms I-129, I-129CW, and I-539 if the benefits were received before Feb. 24, 2020.

Postmarks and Submission Dates for Forms

USCIS will accept the current edition of these forms if they are postmarked (or submitted electronically, if applicable) before Feb. 24, 2020. We will not accept them if they are postmarked on or after Feb. 24, 2020, except in Illinois. For applications and petitions that are sent by commercial courier (such as UPS, FedEx or DHL), the postmark date is the date reflected on the courier receipt.

Illinois Residents

​​USCIS is prohibited from implementing the final rule in Illinois, where it remains enjoined by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. If the injunction in Illinois is lifted, USCIS will provide additional public guidance. If you are applying for immigration benefits and live in Illinois, or are a petitioning employer in Illinois, please review the information on our website about how Illinois residents may access forms and apply in light of the injunction.

Further Information

USCIS has also published guidance based on the final rule in the Policy Manual. For additional information, see the Policy Alert.

For more information about the final rule, see the Final Rule on Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility webpage.