The below ORR was sent via email at 8:58 AM today. *Update, August 30, 2023 10:36AM: No response from GADOL yet. Second reminder sent via email today.

*O.C.G.A. § 50-18-70(a), § 50-18-72(e)(2). Georgia.gov: “How long does an agency have to produce records? An agency must produce records responsive to a request within three business days absent exceptional circumstances.”

Ms. Elizabeth de Janis

The members of the media listed below were sent “news tip” emails during the month of *August, 2022 in an experiment to see if any of them would do a story on the documented violation of state law aimed at “criminal illegals” by two GA sheriffs.

The news tip was sent with the subject line “Short: The (Dem) sheriffs in both Cobb & Gwinnett counties (metro Atlanta) are in open violation of state law involving identifying & reporting illegal immigrants in their jails to the feds. The (GOP) “I will end sanctuary cities” governor and candidate for reelection refuses to prosecute despite sheriff’s admission in media reports.”

–> This is the post we sent.

*The information was sent to Randy Travis and Scott Stucky at Fox5 TV news in July. The tip was originally sent to MDJ publisher Otis Brumby last year in addition to this August.

With the exception of a mention in an August 26, 2022 Breitbart story by Neil Munro, we have not seen any news stories/coverage. We are grateful to Breitbart and Mr. Munro.

• Related: Code of ethics of the Society of Professional Journalists

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Randy Travis I-Team Fox5 TV news

Scott Stucky Fox5 News Director

Richard Belcher – WSB TV news

Richard Elliot –  WSB TV news

Suzanne Lake Nadell WSB-TV

Kate Brumback – Associated Press

Associated Press desk, Atlanta

Kritsine Johnson  – 11 Alive TV

Rebbeca Schram – CBS 46 TV

News@CBS46

Kim Saxon – CBS 46 TV news

Brian Kanziger – CBS 46 TV news

Tracy Green – CBS 46 TV news

JoshMorgan – CBS 46 news

Joe Cowan – WSB TV news

News@jacobsmedia.net

Newstip – WSBTV

Otis Brumby lll  – Marietta Daily Journal

Donna Lowrey – WABE (via Twitter)

Maya King – NY Times (via Twitter DM)

Axios Atlanta – (Dan Primack, contact form)

Julia Preston (via Twitter)

Jack Butler  – (NRO)

Judson Berger – NRO

Mark Wright  – NR

Caleb Sclinkard  – Macon Telegraph

News@Timesfreepress

Editor Times Courier

Rahul Bali – WABE (via Twitter)

Jill Nevels-Haun  – Georgia Group Senior Director of Content Gannett

Kevin Riley – Editor, AJC

LeRoy Chapman  – AJC

Susan Potter – AJC

Ken Foskett – AJC

Andre Jackson – AJC

Monica Richardson  – AJC

Mark Waligore – AJC

Bill Torpy – AJC

Greg Bluestein – AJC

Patricia Murphy – AJC

Todd Cline – Gwinnett Daily Post

Neil Munro – Breitbart News

Rose Scott – WABE News (via Twitter, Sept. 1)

Buddy Hughes, Managing editor, The Brunswick News (Sept. 8, 2022)

Richard Fausett, New York Times (Dec. 9, 2022)

Foreign language 2016 Youtube video produced by then-GA Sec of State Brian Kemp instructing non-English speakers “on voter registration, absentee voting by mail, advance in-person voting, and Election Day voting.”

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“The business lobby has huge sway over the state GOP, which has done very little to exclude a huge number of illegal migrants — perhaps 500,000 — from the state’s jobs, housing, and schools, said D.A. King, the founder of the Dustin Inman Society…”

Democrat-Linked Group Claims 96,000 Extra Immigrant Voters in Georgia

Neil Munro

26 August, 2022

A Democrat-backed group claims to have naturalized almost 100,000 legal immigrants in Georgia before the November elections.

“Over 96,000 newly naturalized Americans in the state, who naturalized between 2016 and 2020, could significantly influence the outcome of the 2022 midterm elections,’ said the press statement by National Partnership for New Americans (NPNA), the SEIU union, and various Georgia-based, pro-migration groups. It added:

This number exceeds over eight times the state’s November 2020 presidential election margin of victory and the 2021 Senate runoff election margin of 93,272 votes.

“We’re knocking on doors, we’re having conversations with community members, we are registering people at festivals,” Jerry Gonzalez, the CEO of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO) told 11Alivecom. “So the Latino electorate in Georgia is truly powerful, and it’s also outperforming the national low voter participation rate,” he added.

The naturalization includes many Indians, who are one of the most pro-diversity, pro-Democratic immigrant blocs. “The number of newly naturalized citizens originally from India, 11,188, is nearly equal to the margin of victory during the November 2020 presidential election,” the statement said.

Georgia used to be a solidly red state. However, the growing number of legal and illegal migrants recruited by businesses has allowed the Democrats to gain state seats and to win a national Senate majority in 2021 when Georgians elected two Democrat Senators.

Nationwide, Democrats are hoping to naturalize two million legal immigrants in time for the November election. The NPNA website says:

Naturalize Now. Vote Tomorrow! 

There are currently 9 million lawful permanent residents eligible to naturalize and become U.S. Citizens.”

Our campaign goal to Naturalize #2MillionBy2022 is a partnership among the country’s leading immigrant and refugee advocacy and service organizations, cities and counties and national advocacy organizations and unions.

From an ICE report on 287 (g) results:

Georgia – On Oct. 16, the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office 287(g) Program encountered a citizen of El Salvador charged with aggravated child molestation by sodomy, obscene contact with a child, use of computer service to seduce, solicit, lure or entice a child to commit an illegal act, and placed an immigration detainer and warrant on the subject. The subject entered the United States on an unknown date and location without inspection.

ICE publishes monthly report on enforcement actions due to cooperative agreements

Note: The incoming sheriffs in Gwinnett and cobb counties have promised the illegal alien lobby they will end the 287(g) agreements with ICE when they take office in January, 2021. We will try to track the consequences. We do not expect the same from the Associated Press or the liberal AJC.

WASHINGTON – A Honduran national charged with three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and a Guatemalan national charged with carjacking, aggravated assault and battery are examples of the most egregious cases of detainers placed in October by local law enforcement officials with delegated 287(g) authority from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as detailed in the latest monthly report. The 287(g) program, authorized by Congress, allows local law enforcement agencies to participate as an active partner in identifying criminal aliens in their custody, and placing ICE detainers on these individuals.

ICE’s 287(g) reports detail examples of enforcement actions made as a direct result of the cooperation agreements between state and local law enforcement partners and the federal agency.

The October report highlights action taken in cases involving significant threats to public safety:

Georgia – On Oct. 16, the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office 287(g) Program encountered a citizen of El Salvador charged with aggravated child molestation by sodomy, obscene contact with a child, use of computer service to seduce, solicit, lure or entice a child to commit an illegal act, and placed an immigration detainer and warrant on the subject. The subject entered the United States on an unknown date and location without inspection.

Maryland – On Oct. 15, the Harford County Sheriff’s Office 287(g) Program encountered a citizen of Turkey sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for the conviction of rape 2nd degree and assault 2nd degree, and placed an immigration detainer and warrant on the subject. The subject entered the United States as a crewman and adjusted status to that of a lawful permanent resident.

Under the 287(g) program, ICE has 77 jail enforcement model agreements in 21 states and 74 warrant service officer model agreements in 11 states.

ICE does not require law enforcement agencies to participate in 287(g). In fact, law enforcement agencies must request to participate in the 287(g) program and enter into a memorandum of agreement that defines the scope, duration and limitations of the delegation of authority. It also sets forth the training requirements, the terms of ICE supervision, and requires the partnering law enforcement agency to follow U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and ICE policies when its designated immigration officers perform delegated immigration enforcement functions.

The 287(g) program allows ICE to have a presence at local jails across the country. Through training and with oversight, local officers can screen those booked into local custody on criminal charges and process the immigration case for ICE supervisory review.

The goal of 287(g) is to enhance public safety by identifying aliens, lodging immigration detainers, and initiating removal proceedings by issuing charging documents on criminal and removable aliens booked into the jail facility.

Law enforcement agencies interested in becoming a partner under the 287(g) program are encouraged to email ERO287g@ice.dhs.gov for more information on how to apply. Here.