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Carrollton (Ga.) Star News – 5/11
(1) D.A. King
The Washington (D.C.) Times – 5/12
(2) M.L. Pinkard
Montgomery County Gazette – 5/14
(3) Al Eisner
Washington (D.C.) Examiner -5/15
(4) Al Eisner
Citizen-Times (N.C.) – 5/19
(5) Tom Shuford
Atlanta Journal-Constitution – 5/19
(6) D.A. King
Daily Herald (Ill.) – 5/20
(7) Flo Brinacombe
Beverly Hills (Calif.) Courier – 5/23
(8) Mark A. Mendlovitz
Detroit Free Press – 5/24
(9) Bob Allan
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Rocky Mountain News (Colo.) – 5/8
(10) Gordon J. Johnson
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Carrollton (Ga.)Star News – 5/11
Illegal immigration in my nation
D.A. King
Guest columnist
A recent news report in the Carrollton Times Georgian on a rally staged by and for people in my nation illegally has caused this long-time American to take a few moments out of his day to reply with a more pro-American side of the May Day march. And a few words on illegal immigration in general.
First: Readers can only hope that all ‘journalists’ connected with the publication of the one- sided promo piece for criminal immigration activity take a long hard look at the Code of Ethics from the Society of Professional Journalists.
Respectfully, the section concerning bias, fairness and balance in news reporting should be studied in depth.
From someone who has spent the last eight years studying the illegal immigration and illegal employment crisis created by the reality that the federal government has refused to secure American borders in a war on terror, a couple of facts:
It is a federal crime to transport, assist, shelter, harbor or to hire an illegal. Illegal employers should be made to march and stage rallies to demand the “right” to ignore the laws of the land along with their black-market laborers.
There is no universal civil right to live and work in the United States. We as a nation take in well over a million real, legal, immigrants every year - more than any nation on the planet. We can’t take in everyone – that’s called “open borders.”
We don’t have anything to apologize for - and sneaking into the U.S. to steal an American’s identity or creating fraudulent ID to steal an American job while illegally lowering American wages does not make one an “immigrant.”
The term is “illegal alien”. ”. Immigrants come legally. A quick and fool-proof method of telling the difference: Immigrants do not require amnesty.
Our government says we have to pay our taxes to educate illegal alien children and provide the victims of geography with free medical care - but not that we must remain silent and allow the open borders, radical left to trample the rule of law upon which our Republic was founded.
Another one: When a participant in a march demanding amnesty for illegal aliens is speaking in a foreign language, using a candidate for office from the Socialist Workers Party – Eleanor Garc’a – as a translator is not an efficient way of hiding the leftist agenda of those who regard borders as human rights violations and our nation as little more than an address.
Most Americans proved they demand defined, defended borders and a common and official language last summer when they defeated the Ted Kennedy and John McCain sponsored attempt to repeat the one-time amnesty of 1986.
Legalization is not the answer. It‘s enforcement that stops criminal activity.
On language: It was a coalition of the Chamber of Commerce and the ACLU types who defeated Rep. Tim Bearden’s HR 413 in the Georgia legislature this year that would have allowed Georgians to vote in November on making English the constitutionally official language of government in Georgia.
English as official is “anti-immigrant”, according to Bearden’s opponents.
Most Americans have had enough of the nonsense myth that there are “jobs Americans will not do” or that illegal aliens marching in American streets demanding citizenship somehow represents “equal rights under the law”.
Most of us also take a dim view of the vile comparison of illegal aliens and their mindless demands to the cause of Americans struggling for the civil rights due them as citizens under their own constitution.
Many of us think Barbara Jordan, the first black woman elected to Congress from the deep south, put it very well more than a decade ago. We live in fervent hope that we can elect leaders who share her courage and honesty.
In 1995, as the Bill Clinton appointed Chairwoman of the Commission on Immigration Reform, Jordan, a presidential Medal of Freedom winner, testified to a Congressional hearing on how to gain credibility on immigration policy: “Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave. Deportation is crucial. Employer sanctions can work”.
To begin to solve the undeniable illegal immigration problem, we should ignore the open borders lobby and heed the words of Barbara Jordan.
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King is president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society, a coalition actively opposed to illegal immigration and illegal employment. He has appeared on numerous national television and radio networks as an authority on the issue.
On the Web:
www.TheDustinInmanSociety.org
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The Washington (D.C.) Times – 5/12
The legal path
Mr. McCain -- who echoes the Bush cadre's twin goals of endless war in the Middle East via permanent U.S. occupation, and a de facto union with Central and South America using the North American Free Trade Agreement, Central American Free Trade Agreement and Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America -- is no maverick. His aims dovetail intimately with those of one-world elitists pushing to equalize assets among global populations.
They feed Americans cheaper, suspect food from China, they back purportedly smarter legal workers from India, and supposedly harder-working illegal Mexicans, while foreign countries take over U.S. infrastructure at taxpaying citizen expense as the federal deficit topped $9,364 trillion May 8, against our deeply devaluated dollar.
He's also solidly in sync with minority Hispanic factions through his Outreach Director Juan Hernandez, a former Vicente Fox employee and avowed Mexico-first dual citizen.
Mr. McCain would love to forget the American majority that overwhelmingly opposes perpetuating war and at-will disregards for our highest national and international laws.
The American majority wants less immigration; legal paths to citizenship already exist; and constitutionalist Ron Paul adheres to the law.
Imagine that.
ML Pinkard
Lafayette, Calif.
(3)
Washington (D.C.) Examiner - 5/14
High taxes hurt local economy
Re: “Montgomery County lost 5,000 jobs last year because of high taxes,” April 22
The state of the economy in Montgomery County is on a downslide, and the loss of more than 5,000 jobs in Montgomery County this past year is only a clear indication of that. The reason for that is the high taxes that Montgomery County imposes on its citizens and small businesses, which caused the loss of so many jobs here.
The county’s liberal policies continue to encourage illegal immigrants to migrate here, and while the county is overtaxing its hard-working citizens, it provides benefits to illegal immigrants.
When the county cuts services, it makes wrong choices. It cuts police services, such as a recommendation to eliminate all community outreach police services. The right thing to do would be crack down on illegal immigrants and deny them benefits and reduce taxes instead of the constant unnecessary increases.
The county is going in the wrong direction, and soon citizens will start moving out of the county because of the excessive taxes that the county imposes on them.
Al Eisner
Wheaton, Md.
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Note: A slightly modified version of this letter also appeared in the May 15 edition of the Montgomery County (Md.) Gazette.
(5)
Citizen-Times (N.C.) – 5/19
Gov. Easley should not reward illegal behavior
Admitting illegal immigrants to community colleges, as Gov. Mike Easley urges, would ratchet up pressure to take the next logical step: putting these students on a path to citizenship. On reaching age 21, they could then petition for legal status for their illegal alien parents.
Legalization of students not only would ultimately reward the parents for their illegal behavior, but also would put into motion chain migration of extended family — thanks to the “family reunification” provisions of the 1965 Immigration Act.
Many educated foreigners are waiting patiently for permission to migrate to the United States. Who deserves our favor — those who respect American law or those who have demonstrated contempt for it?
Tom Shuford
Lenoir, N.C.
(6)
Atlanta Journal-Constitution – 5/19
Federal database assures a legal work force
By D.A. King
While political candidates promise “more jobs for Americans”, we shouldn’t dismiss the tools made available by the federal government to attempt to ensure that those precious jobs do not go to black-market, taxpayer subsidized labor.
It is a federal crime to knowingly hire an illegal alien.
With a better chance of being struck by lightning than being sanctioned for violating the law, far too many employers disregard it.
Far too many who will settle for nothing less than a repeat of the failed “one time” illegal alien legalization scam of 1986 as the solution to the current illegal immigration and illegal employment crisis misrepresent the effectiveness of an electronic federal data base – E-Verify - that serves to verify employment information provided by workers.
With documented cases of multiple employees working in the same building using a common Social Security number - either false or stolen from Americans - use of the instantaneous E-Verify electronic system has proven to be far too effective for the open borders gang.
Originally known as the Basic Pilot program and presented as a mandatory method of verifying work eligibility, E-Verify is presently a voluntary system that should be expanded, better funded and made mandatory with the goal of eliminating the magnet that draws illegals to our nation. Few will be surprised to learn that it was a coalition of the business community and the far left ethnic lobby that was successful in making use of the system voluntary.
That relatively few employers have chosen to use the no-cost tool provides alarming, but unsurprising, insight into the intent of those who have not enrolled in the program.
When used to verify work eligibility of newly hired employees, a false negative response does not result in termination of the employee until completion of a lengthy and thorough appeal process. Using scare tactics about Americans losing jobs because of E-Verify is at best, unproductive.
Participating employers have successfully matched more than 90 percent of new hires to Department of Homeland Security and Social Security Administration database information. Of those who do not match, less than 2 percent contest the result.
This is obvious evidence of the effectiveness of the E-Verify tool and the immigration status of those who then look for illegal employment where the program is not in place.
It is irresponsible to not make it clear that the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act which began to go into effect in July of 2007 requires not only most, and in 2009, all, public contractors in Georgia to use E-Verify. Also all public employers – the state and county and municipal governments - have to do the same.
Voters in coming local elections should know that as of May 1, more than 60 of Georgia’s 159 counties were in violation of state law by not having enrolled in the E-Verify system. Far too many municipal governments show the same disregard for the rule of law as well.
The Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act is merely a state law that essentially mandates that in Georgia, we use available tools to comply with federal law.
No law can work unless it is enforced. Georgians should be asking a lot of questions of their local governments about compliance and question all resistance to and criticism of the best tools we have to insure that American jobs - and tax dollars - go only to those who obey American laws.
D.A. King is president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society, which is actively opposed to illegal immigration and illegal employment. The Dustin Inman Society is enrolled in the E-Verify system.
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Daily Herald (Ill.) – 5/20
"Many politicians favor amnesty"
Sen. McCain is not the only elected official who wants to grant amnesty to all illegal aliens living in the U.S.
Senators Obama, Clinton, Durbin, Kennedy, Reid and countless others are also for this. Also, Obama wants to give drivers licenses to illegals, while only four states are doing this.
That is why the American people must call, write, email, and fax our elected officials and let them know we do not want amnesty of any kind for people who have crossed our borders illegally, or stayed here when their visas have expired.
We did this last summer when they tried to shove the Kennedy-McCain amnesty bill and the Dream Act down our throats and we can do this again. I was appalled when I read what they wanted to give these illegal aliens.
I thought our senators and representatives were supposed to represent the American citizens.
If we do not let our elected officials know how we feel, they will just do whatever they want.
Flo Brinacombe
Schaumburg, Ill.
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Beverly Hills (Calif.) Courier – 5/23
I used to have a fairly high opinion of Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
Not so anymore.
Recently, I made a personal trip to her West LA office to attempt to speak with one of her staff members regarding her pending attempt to plant the unpopular “AgJobs” amendment into the Iraq Supplemental Spending Bill. The immigration-related bill, a favorite of big agribusiness, has failed to muster support on its own, and even Democrat senators have sharply attacked it, including Ben Nelson,
Robert Byrd, and Byron Dorgan.
Her tactic was to force it down the American people's throats by attaching it to “must-pass” legislation like the Iraq War bill.
When I got to her field office, I was immediately treated with suspicion by the staffer sitting behind a glass enclosure. I asked politely to sit down with him to discuss my concerns, either in one of the offices or out in the waiting room. He refused. When I asked for an explanation, he said: “that's the way we run this office.” He then told me I could talk to him through the closed glass window, which I proceeded to do, because I had no other way to communicate.
To add insult to injury, he spent much of the time staring at a computer screen, paying only partial attention to what I had to say, and took no notes. He obviously could not have cared less.
I have no doubt that had I been a lobbyist for Big Agri-business, a member of the immigration lawyers bar, or a so-called “(illegal)
immigrants' rights” activist, I would have been welcomed with open arms.
Unfortunately, I'm only a concerned citizen, and for Sen. Feinstein’s staff, that just isn't enough to get their attention.
Mark A. Mendlovitz, Ph.D.
Beverly Hills, Calif.
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Detroit Free Press – 5/24
"No need to fear E-Verify"
The May 19 article "Are you eligible to work? Plan would keep track," describes E-Verify, an effective method to verify the validity of Social Security numbers. E-Verify makes smart business sense because it ensures all new hires have a legal right to work in our nation. U.S. citizens do not need to fear E-Verify because there has never been an American citizen who lost his job due to this program.
Bob Allan
Rochester Hills, Mich.
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Rocky Mountain News (Colo.) – 5/8
A Kerry-like Udall
It is interesting that U.S. Rep. Mark Udall co-sponsored the Secure America Through Verification and Enforcement Act (H.R. 4088) but has failed to sign the discharge petition that would enable Congress to vote on it. I guess there must be some in Congress who do not really believe in democracy and would prefer to play political games.
This reminds me of Sen. John Kerry's foolish remark that he had voted for some bill before he voted against it. I hope Colorado voters will not be tricked by Udall's charade.
I urge Udall to sign the discharge petition now so we can see if democracy works when it comes to a really critical piece of legislation designed to deal with the illegal alien problem.
Gordon J. Johnson
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