D.A. King
Columnist
Columnist
The way the system is supposed to work is that voters decide what the important issues are, not the reverse. Honest.
Having spent considerable time inspecting campaign websites and listening to candidates for office this year, an alarming but predictable pattern has emerged. In a state with a very serious illegal immigration problem, that topic is absent from the majority of stump speeches and “issues” pages on most “elect me” websites.
Let’s make it clear: The main cause of illegal immigration is illegal employment. Many state and local politicians get quite uncomfortable when forced to pick a side on either subject.
Why — beside the fact that Republicans are allegedly conservatives and conservatives traditionally value and defend the rule of law upon which our republic was founded — should each and every GOP voter demand a complete run-down of their candidate’s position and promises on illegal immigration in the Peach State?
Some pesky facts: Gov. Nathan Deal — before he too went silent on the crisis — cited an estimate of the cost to Georgia taxpayers for education, health care and incarceration for illegal aliens (the legal and accurate description of non-citizens present in the USA in violation of our immigration laws) and their children at $2.4 billion. Each year.
Let’s be equally clear on a no-brainer piece of info: Illegal immigration is not somehow a separate issue from “jobs! jobs! jobs!”, health care, education, taxes, quality of life, honestly operated businesses of any size or ethics in government. Or common language. Or the Rule of Law.
Please let this sink in: According to the United States Department of Homeland Security, Georgia ranks number six in the nation in the number of illegal aliens.
Each and every illegal alien takes either a job or a service. Or both. The Georgia Department of Labor puts Georgia’s unemployment rate at about 9 percent. According to the Pew Hispanic Center 7 percent of Georgia’s workforce is made up of black-market labor.
English is an optional language in the Peach State.
Another glaring indicator that we have a problem: In March, about 5,000 angry and resentful illegal aliens marched on the Georgia Capitol demanding — in a foreign language — an end to any enforcement of American immigration laws, legalization and the right to vote. There were no arrests. They might have caused a scene.
Until 2012, Georgia successfully passed illegal immigration enforcement legislation every year since 2005.
Voters should be asking why the logical process skipped last session. And they should be demanding action and carefully recording the needed pledges of job protection and enforcement action from candidates.
Here is another fact from a long-time denizen of the Gold Dome and local county commission chambers: The real and most powerful opponents of illegal immigration enforcement are not the ACLU and the rest of the far-left, open borders mob. The main challenge to state enforcement legislation comes from the Chamber of Commerce of Georgia. And the Association County Commissioners of Georgia and the Georgia Municipal Association. And the agriculture industry.
Did I mention that many politicians get uncomfortable when made to pick a side on illegal immigration enforcement?
At more than a million each year, the U.S. takes in more legal immigration than any other nation on the planet. We have nothing to apologize for — unless it is to the millions of unemployed Americans, including previous waves of legal immigrants, who are struggling to find a job.
We also have an agriculture visa that allows that industry to access an unlimited number of legal, proud, foreign temporary workers looking for a better life. The concept that black-market, taxpayer subsidized labor is essential to Georgia farming and us getting onions in the spring is complete manure.
Unsolicited advice from someone who has been studying the organized crime of illegal immigration for a decade: If you don’t hear about what your candidates will do to deter illegal immigration in Georgia before the primary, you likely won’t see them do anything when the pressure comes from the well-funded anti-enforcement coalition lobbyists after the election.
Honest.
D.A. King of Marietta is president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society and a nationally recognized authority on illegal immigration.
I have been on top of this treason since I was a child and have studied it in depth. Almost every single "expert" on this topic FAILS to address the root cause of the problem, they go after the symptoms only.
Forget the churches, the politicians, the special interest groups, and the chamber of commerce. All of those are the easy targets, too easy.
If you want serious enforcement of existing laws, and we have plenty on the books to deal with this problem. Then go to the real root cause of the problem, and do it without fear or cowardice.
The answers can be found in a book, "The Culture of Critique".
If you refuse to read this or accept the truths this book lays out then you are all blowing smoke and cannot be taken seriously.
"Let’s be equally clear on a no-brainer piece of info: Illegal immigration is not somehow a separate issue from “jobs! jobs! jobs!”, health care, education, taxes, quality of life, honestly operated businesses of any size or ethics in government. Or common language. Or the Rule of Law."
Sadly, my own =experience is that most people do view Illegal Immigration separately from the economy when , indeed it is a huge part of it.
Estimates are that IAs have about 8 million jobs in the US. I didn't know (sarcasm on) that there were that many jobs that Americans won't do. (sarcasm off).
I actually have sat with folks in their twenties and they poo-poo the facts. Ironically, some of them are unemployed and cannot find a job.
A young friend in Alabama, finally, found a job in a poultry processing plant after the Alabama law kicked in and the IAs started to leave.. I fear the SCOTUS decision on the Arizona law will see them all return and our citizens back out of work.
If the Federal Government was doing its job and freeing this country of the illegal aliens, then the states wouldn’t be trying to take over. The states are bearing the costs of all these illegal aliens, not to mention the costs of deporting them. These illegal aliens are a very big burden to American taxpayers. Look at how many anchor babies the American taxpayers paid for at the cost of $4,500 per anchor. Last I heard, there were 4.3 million anchors that were handed a U.S. birth certificate like it was a piece of candy. The sooner we get rid of these illegal aliens, the better for all Americans. I’m not a republican, but I will be voting for one this time and pray to God he will get our immigration laws ENFORCED!
Chamber of Commerce candidate Brandon Beach has zero on his campaign site about illegal immigration and is funded by Russell Landscaping. Not exactly big proponents of protecting legal workers and fighting illegal immigration.
Mr. King has nailed it here again! Thanks to the paper for runing this important warning! Make King a regular writer!