LTE - Retired Border Patrol/INS agent Robert Trent: Kemp fails to deliver on immigration promises

OPINION

Letters to the editor

March 24, 2022

Legislation advancing through the Arizona state legislature, introduced by Arizona State Rep. John Kavanaugh, would require the state to keep a record of crimes committed by illegal aliens. Essentially, the plan would require all superior court probation departments to keep a record of illegal alien criminals with identifying information and specifics on the crimes they committed.

This will no doubt be assailed as “anti-immigrant hate” by Democrats, but it should not worry the 400,000 or so “undocumented workers” who thrive here in Georgia. There is zero possibility of anything like this happening under Georgia’s GOP-ruled Gold Dome.

By order of the powerful special interests that profit from black-market labor, the entire topic of the organized crime of illegal immigration has been carefully set aside here in the Peach State where we host more illegals than Arizona.

As a proud retired immigration enforcement officer and former Border Patrol agent, I am one of the many pro-enforcement voters who can remember all the way back to 2018 when then candidate for Governor Brian Kemp made a long list of promises concerning “criminal illegals,” his “big truck” and detailed legislation aimed at Georgia’s sanctuary cities and counties. I am also old enough to see his arrogant and defiant refusal to so much as mention those promises since then.

Dustin Inman Society president D.A. King was interviewed by the Daily Signal’s Tyler O’Neil at the Heritage Foundation on September 22, 2023. The topic was our pending lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center in federal court. The entire interview is available below on Youtube. We hope you take time to watch (the video has a false start but is corrected several seconds in).

“The Southern Poverty Law Center is notorious for branding mainstream conservative and Christian organizations, such as the Alliance Defending Freedom and Moms for Liberty “hate groups” or “antigovernment extremist groups,” placing them on a map alongside chapters of the Ku Klux Klan.”