“When I got to the Capitol, I quickly realized it wasn’t as advertised,” stated Pullin. “The Republican leadership was more interested in growing government and maintaining power than focusing on liberty and small-government policies. Leadership would routinely partner with Democrats to push through big government policies, and showed no interest in unconstitutional gun laws, civil asset forfeiture, cannabis laws, lack of ballot access, or school choice. There is basically zero difference between Republicans and Democrats in Atlanta.” Former Rep Ken Pullin.
Having been a reluctant denizen of the Georgia state Capitol since 2004, I couldn’t agree with Mr. Pullin more on his description of the sewer under the Gold Dome. On open borders Libertarians, not so much.
The below is pasted from the AJC’s Political Insider blog from this morning – which doesn’t happen often here.
AJC:
“Ken Pullin, a former GOP state Representative from Zebulon, has switched parties from Republican to Libertarian.
A former state rep’s party affiliation may not be front-page news, but the statement Pullin released when he made his switch caught our eyes, especially for his harsh words about his old party.
“When I got to the Capitol, I quickly realized it wasn’t as advertised,” Pullin said. “The Republican leadership was more interested in growing government and maintaining power than focusing on liberty and small-government policies. Leadership would routinely partner with Democrats to push through big government policies, and showed no interest in unconstitutional gun laws, civil asset forfeiture, cannabis laws, lack of ballot access, or school choice. There is basically zero difference between Republicans and Democrats in Atlanta.”
During his single House term, Pullin introduced legislation to block “red-flag” laws, which would take guns away from a person a judge deems to be a threat to himself or others. He also signed a resolution calling on House Speaker David Ralston to resign from office.”
Sen. Tuberville, Rep Carter. Photo: Yellowhammernews.com
If Biden won’t enforce U.S. immigration law, states and local governments should
OPINION,
Sen. Tommy Tuberville and Rep Buddy Carter
YellowhammerNews.com
“…it’s as if the administration’s open border policies are welcoming a city bigger than the population of Montgomery, Alabama, or Savannah, Georgia, every single month with no end in sight.
If you need something done right, then do it yourself, as the old saying goes. But when it comes to enforcing U.S. immigration laws, state and local enforcement are prevented from doing it themselves, even while federal law enforcement officers are directed not to take certain enforcement actions — a policy established by the Biden administration in January 2021. With a rapidly deteriorating border, it’s long past time that changed.
The crisis on our southern border worsens by the day. Since President Joe Biden’s inauguration, at least 1 million illegal immigrants have been apprehended entering the country: an average of almost 200,000 per month, according to Customs and Border Protection. To put that number into perspective, it’s as if the administration’s open border policies are welcoming a city bigger than the population of Montgomery, Alabama, or Savannah, Georgia, every single month with no end in sight.
At Biden’s directive, arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement dropped by almost 50% in the first five months of his term despite the record-high illegal border crossings. At least 50,000 illegal immigrants have been released into the United States without a court date. And while the Biden administration urges American citizens to wear masks regardless of vaccination status, it continues to release COVID-positive illegal immigrants into the country
Biden has shown little interest in fixing the situation himself. His chosen point person for the crisis, Vice President Kamala Harris, has been an unmitigated disaster , making a single trip to the border and being hundreds of miles away from the highest level of illegal crossings.
If the federal government won’t secure the border, then state and local law enforcement should be empowered to do so. Our bill, the Empowering Law Enforcement Act, does just that.
Under current law, state and local law enforcement must have a preexisting agreement with ICE to detain an illegal immigrant. But the ELEA would grant state and local law enforcement inherent immigration enforcement authority to investigate, identify, apprehend, arrest, detain, or transfer an illegal immigrant into federal custody. This bill would give the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security flexibility on how long a criminal migrant may be detained, extending the 180-day period to ensure violent criminals are not released into U.S. communities. The legislation also reimburses state and local authorities for related incarceration and transportation costs.
The ELEA is about common sense. We’ve got thousands of law enforcement officers ready to step up and enforce the law…read the rest here.
Billy & Kathy Inman Circa 2011. Photo: Inman family
ILLEGAL-ALIEN-CAUSED ACCIDENT CLAIMS LAST FAMILY MEMBER FOLLOWING DEVASTATING INJURIES
“With Kathy’s passing the last of the once happy, working class Inman family is gone. While it was an illegal alien who killed young Dustin and put Kathy in a wheelchair for 21 miserable years, it was the Establishment system that ruined the Inmans’.” – D.A. King
By Sharon Rondeau
ThePostandMail.com (Aug. 26, 2021) — The Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society, named for a 16-year-old killed by an illegal-alien driver in June 2000, announced Thursday afternoon that the last surviving member of the Inman family, Kathy Inman, passed away this morning.
Kathy was confined to a wheelchair with seizures, dystonia and other medical complications after the crash which killed her son Dustin and the family dog, rendered her disabled for life and put her husband, Billy, and her in the hospital, unable to attend Dustin’s funeral.
The perpetrator, Gonzalo Harrell-Gonzalez, escaped authorities and, according to Billy in a June 2017 interview, escaped to Mexico, where he cannot be extradited. On the occasion of the 17-year mark following his son’s murder, Billy sent his thoughts to DA King, founder of the Inman Society:
Hey folks this is Billy Inman. This Father’s Day weekend marks seventeen years since the tragic day we lost our son Dustin who would have been 33 years old now.
His Mom, my wife Kathy, is in the shape she is today – in constant pain in a wheelchair and dealing with doctors every week – because an illegal alien Gonzalo Harrell-Gonzalez (an “everyday illegal alien”) slammed into our car at an estimated 62 mile an hour and still hasn’t been held accountable for the horrific pain he caused our family.
Our government knows where Gonzalo is but they say there’s nothing they can do about it because he’s in Mexico. (note: here is a letter from DOJ to the Inman family) But it happened here and I want to thank President Trump for what he has done on illegal immigration and I believe that’s what got him elected. I got to meet him back in October. I feel he wants the best for America and his handshake truly has meant the world to me.
We have been invited to Washington several times but Kathy’s condition caused by the illegal alien forced us to cancel three times. In April, the government flew us to Washington for the opening of the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) which is an official an advocate to help victims of illegal aliens created by President Trump.
I truly hope something will be done so that you won’t have to go through what my family has. It’s not right. Our thanks to President Trump and all who have helped battle this problem.
This shouldn’t be a sanctuary for illegal aliens and those who have fled the U.S. for the crimes they have committed should be brought back for justice.
Billy Inman, Dustin’s Dad
Woodstock, Ga. June, 2017
In June, the Biden regime shut down VOICE and replaced it with “The Victims Engagement and Services Line.”
On Thursday The Inman Society posted a photo of the three prior to the devastating collision on Fathers’ Day weekend 2000, when the family was traveling to a fishing destination to engage in one of Dustin’s favorite pastimes.
Dustin, Kathy and Billy Inman, 2000.
As The Post & Email reported, Bill Inman passed away in June 2019 at the age of 55 from a sudden heart attack. In March of last year, Mary Ann Mendoza, whose police-officer son Brandon was killed in 2014 by an inebriated illegal alien, asked for prayers for Kathy, who had suffered a serious medical event and was hospitalized.
In a statement to The Post & Email, King wrote: “With Kathy’s passing the last of the once happy, working class Inman family is gone. While it was an illegal alien who killed young Dustin and put Kathy in a wheelchair for miserable 21 years, it was… ->please read the rest of the excellent piece here at the Post and Mail website.
Request for pro-American voice in committee upcoming meeting to Rep. Wes Cantrell
Sent 1:26 PM, August 23, 2021
Chairman Cantrell,
Along with one of your constituents, I attended the Special Study Committee on Innovative Ways to Maximize Global Talent meeting at Georgia Piedmont Technical College last week. I am of the opinion that your committee is getting not only an incomplete and inaccurate education, but one that is decidedly one-sided. It seems to be openly agenda-driven. Many Georgians, including this one, assume that a legislative committee such as yours would strive to include educated voices that may vary in sources of facts on immigration in general but certainly on what may be regarded as “barriers” to economic participation of foreign born reside
What we saw at your first meeting was corporate-funded activist groups that present the term “immigrant” as applying to the millions who have joined the American family according to American laws as well as the millions who are present in the U.S. and Georgia in violation of our very liberal laws.
This is a base insult to the trusting immigrants who are watching your committee process.
As someone who has assisted state legislators with the research, drafting, and presentation of immigration related legislation under the Gold Dome since 2005, I am well-versed in the intent and need of existing laws that may be confused with “out-dated” barriers to insuring foreign nationals are able to contribute to the Georgia economy. For your education, I link a reference to an Associated Press profile that will help you validate my experience and involvement (HB 87, 2011) and another one from a 2013 front page New York Times profile.
If it helps you make a decision on allowing me to educate your committee and the public, my adopted sister is an immigrant as are several of the members of the board of advisors on the Dustin Inman Society of which I am president and founder. We defend immigrants from shameless intentional context association with illegal aliens.
I am writing with my formal request to be included as a pro-American immigration authority in either one or both of your upcoming study committee meetings.
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