The below is from the “Straight Talk” radio show on WGIG, WTKS and iHeart radio Scott Ryfun host, Feb 20, 2024 Hour 3. The show goes from Savannah to Florida as well as the online coverage.

Low quality audio below. The poll being discussed is here.

Transcript by Rev.com

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Scott Ryfun host:

[inaudible 00:00:00] mentioned the, uh, the new poll that is out, came out this morning, commissioned by the Dustin Inman Society and the, uh, the head of the new Dustin Inman Society is with us this morning, D.A. King.

How are you, sir?

D.A. King:

I’m just fine, Scott. Thank you very much for having me on your radio broadcast.

Scott Ryfun host:

Absolutely, absolutely. Talk to us a little bit about this poll, um, Landmark poll that was put out, uh, surveying 500 Republican primary voters.

D.A. King:

  I will. Let me, let me kind of set this up with, with asking your radio audience to try to imagine the howling headlines in national and Georgia newspapers if the Republicans running the state of Georgia were to ignore or violate any of the federal laws that provide benefits to people in the country illegally.

Scott Ryfun host:

Sure, yes. They’d be screaming.

D.A. King:

That being said, um, most people don’t understand that the government of Georgia, led by governor Brian Kemp is in, it, it – I’m gonna be as polite if I can, ignoring a host of laws put in place on the state-level over the last 19 years that will make Georgia as unattractive to illegal immigration as possible. So, that, that, that kind of sets the stage.

What we’ve done is we have spent a lot of money, donor money and a lot of work and effort trying to create a p- a picture for the elected officials here in Georgia, not all of them, some of them are very good on the issue, trying to get people to recognize that most Republican voters in Georgia want the Georgia laws in place enforced so as to make us less attractive to the border rush that the Biden administration is conducting.

Scott Ryfun host:

Yeah, and it’s just that simple. I mean, when we look at these numbers, it’s not, it’s not close. I mean, it is, it is an overwhelming number of Republican voters, primary voters who we’re talking about, uh, make up the majority of the House and Senate in the state. Uh, they oppose a lot of these measures, uh, in, again, huge numbers.

D.A. King:

It is a huge majority. It is not, I,  I’m grateful for your going over the poll earlier. I listened and I, I’m, I’m like you. Ih- this is unsurprising, but we had to do this to try and perhaps jerk the attention of our legislature to illegal immigration in Georgia before we run into crossover today and then the end of the legislative session. So, so that said, please know that the House and the Senate leadership has, has moved a resolution through both chambers condemning the president, rightfully, condemning the border, um, crisis, rightfully, and, and, and, uh, making it clear that they don’t approve of what’s going on on illegal immigration on a national level and thanking the governor for sending more, um, 20 more National Guard troops to the border. That’s great and fine.

At the same time, people should realize that the House and the Senate are both considering, and the Senate has passed several laws, that actually dismantle in-place laws here in Georgia, um, th- th- aimed at illegal immigration and those are the ones that, that, th- that they’re not ignoring.

Uh, I’ll give you an example. We have, and it is dry and boring stuff, I know, but we have laws that I’ve worked very hard a long time ago in Georgia that say if you move to Georgia and you wanted to apply for an occupational license, that you have to go through a process to show the state on a, in a sworn affidavit under penalty of false swearing, that essentially, you are not an illegal alien.

Scott Ryfun host:

Hm.

D.A. King:

Well, the licensing process doesn’t take a long time but it takes longer than no licensing process which is what several bills, especially in the Senate, are aimed at and that is eliminating the licensing process which eliminates that verification of lawful presence that I just told you about.

Scott Ryfun host:

Mm-hmm.

D.A. King:

And it’s just almost impossible to get these guys to pay attention because they’re being told what to do by the special interest in the business community.

Scott Ryfun host:

Do, do, uh, do you have a tough time making them see the hypocrisy of being upset about the border, sending troops to the border, but yet allowing the results of a loose border to prosper freely in this state?

D.A. King:

I, I have a very difficult time. There were no, a generation of legislators years ago that would come to me for advice and guidance because I’m more educated on the issue that they are.

Scott Ryfun host:

Mm-hmm.

D.A. King:

Well- most, not all, most of the people running the gold dome right now from the top down do not want to talk about this at all and the answer to your question, do I have a hard time, yes, and I can tell you why. And that is because I am pretty much the only voice, uh, urging people running our government in Georgia to pay attention to illegal immigration in Georgia. So I’m grateful for your, for your time on the radio because I want to urge your conservative, Republican listeners who are in the car or at their home office or whatever, if you don’t get busy and help us make this point, you will not have the state that you really want in a couple of more years, whether or not the Dems take over sooner or later.

Scott Ryfun host:

Now, y- y- who, who is it that really, I mean, you talk about the special interests, who are the special interests?

D.A. King:

(laughs)

Scott Ryfun host:

I mean, I think we need to name some names here.

D.A. King:

Sure. I’m, I’m, I’m happy to say the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. There’s a, there’s a group called, um, BIG, Business Immigration and Georgia, run by a, a coaltion of the Georgia Chamber and a very far left refugee industry worker. You have, I don’t know if people know but ah- g- w- big Ag, agriculture (laughs) is a b- is the biggest industry in Georgia and believe it or not, there’s a lot of people working in agriculture who would like to use black market labor in a higher degree than they already are and they do not take kindly to laws that make Georgia unattractive to illegal immigration.

I, I, I’m speaking a little quicker than normal because I wanna make another point.

Scott Ryfun host:

Okay.

D.A. King:

I have been fighting in-state tuition for illegal aliens in that Gold Dome for the last, I think there’s five bills, I can’t even remember, five or six sessions, and invariably, some years it’s more than one bill, some years it’s just one bill, but there’s always a Republican sponsor behind a bill to give in-state tuition to people in the country illegally. Currently the effort is limited to DACA recipients who are illegal aliens, they are inadmissible and removable from these United States, all right?

So I’m down there like a moron fighting and, and w- and happily winning the in-state tuition battle, which it’s, it’s, it’s hard and you-

Scott Ryfun host:

Mm-hmm.

D.A. King:

… get called some names but at the same time, Georgia has in place something called Dual Enrollment. A dual enrollment program allows high school students to attend college classes without paying any tuition, no fees, no books. Georgia taxpayers paying every bit of that. And the student gets, I think it’s a terrific program for the most part, the student gets college credit for his college classes taken while he’s in high school and gets the high school credit for it.

Well, guess what? There is no exclusion in place to make sure that illegal alien high school students are not getting a completely free ride on this Dual Enrollment program by getting a college education while they’re in high school.

Scott Ryfun host:

Wow.

D.A. King:

I’m worried about in-state tuition after they graduate, the state is giving them free college education while they’re in high school.

Scott Ryfun host:

(laughs) Joke’s on you in that case. But, uh-

D.A. King:

Well, I, I, I hope not. So I’m, I’m here, I’m here to ask for some help. I’m-

Scott Ryfun host:

Okay.

D.A. King:

… I’m asking your listeners to pay attention, to make sure that when you go, if you’re a Republican and active, if you go to those meetings for the first Tuesday lunch at the Women’s Club or, or the Saturday breakfast, if you see a state-elected official, especially a Republican who is allowed to get out of the meeting without being asked directly, “What are you doing about illegal immigration in Georgia?” If people will start doing that, I will personally come to their house and was their car.

Scott Ryfun host:

All right, (laughs) that’s a fair deal. That is a fair deal, uh, and I’m sure you do a fine job. So, yeah, m- people, ask your legislators, what are they do- I mean, we had Jesse Petrea on last week and you know Jesse Petrea is right up there doing what he can do. Um-

D.A. King:

Th- th- that, that’s true and, and to that, sorry to interrupt, but-

Scott Ryfun host:

No, go ahead.

D.A. King:

… tomorrow, tomorrow we have a hearing in the House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee on Representative Jesse Petrea, a dear friend of mine. We worked together th- oh- on his bill, House Bill 1105, 1105, the Georgia Criminal Alien Track and Report Act, and that name might sound familiar if anybody can remember way back to 2018 gubernatorial primary probably a point for a, a, a different, a different show, but Jesse’s bill has its first vote tomorrow in committee. It’s in the Georgia, excuse me, the House Public Safety Committee. If you can call your representative folks in Radioland, please make sure that people that in the government to understand that we are paying attention and you want this bill passed. All it does is put penalties, criminal penalties into existing law on, um, laws that give sanctuary policies here in Georgia, we have two of them. One of them is 19 years old. I worked on this is 2006. There has never been anybody, um, fined or sanctioned for this in law enforcement who are, the, the b- more than half, excuse me, a little more, a little less than half of the jailers, jailer means sheriff in this state are ignoring the laws in place on, on laws against sanctuary policies in their jails.

Scott Ryfun host:

Wait, did you say half? I didn’t realize it was that widespread.

D.A. King:

There’s 159 using that, using that, there might be a few more jails, like, Smyrna has a jail and it’s not a county-

Scott Ryfun host:

Yeah.

D.A. King:

… but, really n- 159 counties, we’re using a number in committee that, that Jesse used the other day of 90 who say they’re in compliance. 90 of 159. These are county sheriffs, an independent constitutional office here in Georgia. People are not outraged enough because they don’t know about it.

Scott Ryfun host:

Yeah.

D.A. King:

But now that I’ve told them, if you’re not outraged now, folks, you know, y- y- just continue to talk about the border, the border, the border, because all that the, most of the elected officials under the gold dome want to talk about is the border, that way you’re not thinking about what they’re not doing here in Georgia.

Scott Ryfun host:

Wow, no, that’s, that’s a great point, great point, D.A.

Well, we’ve gotta wrap this up, but, uh, any, any final remarks?

D.A. King:

Yeah. Thanks a lot and, uh, people can go to our website, see the poll and, and please sign up for alerts so we can direct you on what phone calls to make to the legislature.

Scott Ryfun host:

All right, that’s newdustininmansociety.org. It is the latest blog post on that website. Uh, check it out for yourself. It won’t shock you but it will, it will bring some reality to you.

D.A., we appreciate it, thanks a bunch.

D.A. King:

Thank you, Scott.

Scott Ryfun host:

D.A. King, again, newdustininmansociety.org. We’ll be back with more straight talk after thi-

 

 

The below retyped letter was sent to the members of the Georgia Public Safety and Homeland Security committee last week in opposition to HB 1105, the “Georgia Criminal Alien Track and Report Act” by the “Project South Institute for the Elimination of Poverty and Genocide.” As an education on the politics of this group, the photo above features Project South’s Legal and Advocacy Director Azadeh Shahshahani at a 2016 street protest against immigration enforcement in Atlanta.

More on Shahshahani here.

The original letter is pasted on the bottom.

 

 

“Dear Members of the House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee,

My name is Priyanka Bhatt and I am a Senior Staff Attorney at a social justice organization called Project South: The Institute for Elimination of Poverty and Genocide. I am writing to urge you to vote NO on HB 1105 for many reasons.

First, the new code section 42-1-14.1 mandates jails to publish a public report about immigrants in their custody. However, many times people in jail are just waiting in pre-trial detention. Therefore, this bill ostracizes and target individuals including people who have merely just been booked and have not actually been convicted of anything thus creating a skewed number in the report published.

Second, booking officers in jails are not immigration agents. These officers have absolutely no training in immigration. Therefore, mandating them to be an enforcement arm for The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will not only create more work and liability for them, but it will also increase racial profiling in jail since officers will now have to identify who might be a “foreign national”.

Third, this bill mandates jails to hold individuals for DHS for up to 48 hours even if they otherwise would have been released. There are some courts that have found that to be a violation of the Fourth Amendment because detaining an individual after they could have been release would constitute as a new arrest where you would need probable cause.

Lastly, this bill also targets U.S. Citizens. 42-1-11.4 mandates the Department of Corrections to also publish public information on individuals who are citizens of this country but also happen to be citizens of another country. It does not matter if you are a citizen or not, this bill targets you simply because you are an immigrant. This shows the true interest of this bill: to further increase anti-immigrant hatred in the state of Georgia.

For all these reasons, I urge you to vote no on this bill.

Sincerely,

Priyanka Bhatt, Esq.

Project South

Senior Staff Attorney”

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