Martha Zoller asks Gov Brian Kemp about illegal immigration on the air, May 14, 2021 "laser focused"

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Georgia Gov Brian Kemp on illegal immigration (and the border), May 14, 2021 920-ish days after the 2018 campaign: “Well, we’re not seeing any impact right, right now. You know, we’re laser, laser focused on that issue, from our state government perspective.”

To keep up (and remember):

Candidate Brian Kemp’s 2018 “Track and Deport Plan” which included the creation of a public criminal alien database here.

Candidate Brian Kemp’s 2018 #BigTruckTrick TV ad here.

The Dustin Inman Society’s counter on how many days since Gov Kemp made these promises on illegal immigration in Georgia here.

Letter from a retired federal immigration agent and most of our Brian Kemp file here.

For those who have not caught on yet, the game has been to totally ignore the crisis. But now with Biden making it worse at the border, Kemp is still ignoring it in Georgia but hoping voters will focus on the border and forget his promises and not find out that that multiple state laws in place aimed at illegal immigration – some of which he voted for as state senator – are treated as optional. Just one example? Try this.

Just before 9:00 AM, and after I saw that Georgia Gov Brian Kemp was to be an on air guest at WDUN -AM radio, I sent out three tweets yesterday tagging Gov Kemp and radio host (and former Kemp administration staffer) Martha Zoller in hopes Martha would ask Kemp about his campaign pledges. That is not what happened, but she did bring up the border and asked Georgia’s governor if we were seeing “an impact” in Georgia and what we should do about it. Keep in mind that Georgia is already home to more illegal aliens than Arizona. In his bizarre response to Zoller, Kemp told Zoller Georgia is not seeing any impact and assured Zoller – and listeners that the state government over which he is Chief Executive is “laser focused” on “that issue.”

My Tweets below. Under that a transcript and audio of the relevant segment of the Martha Zoller Show yesterday morning – and a link to the podcast so you can hear the entire show. I called in later and made the mistake of allowing a pause in my remarks…the topic was again shifted to the border. BTW, who is the Biden supporter co-host?

Podcast here.

It’s the top of the 9:00AM show segment.

Start at 05:42-ish.

Transcript from Rev.com

Host, Martha Zoller: Well, you have a long history, uh, about, uh, immigration enfo- re- [00:06:00] enforcement. In 2006, you chaired the Public Safety Committee, when you were State Senator. Um, you’ve been to the border recently. We had a question that came in about your concerns, or what is going to happen related to I- illegal immigration, with all the people that are coming through the border and are part of this whole, um, catch-and-release, and this sort of thing. W- are we seeing an impact in Georgia, number one? And number two, what should we do about it?

Brian Kemp: Well, we’re not seeing any impact right, right now, [00:06:30] in Georgia. We’ve got our … You know, we’re laser, laser focused on that issue, from our state government perspective. But you know that’s gonna filter our way. I mean, it is, it is outrageous what’s going on at the border, and either the President and the Vice President … who’s in charge of the border crisis now … either doesn’t have a clue as to what’s going on, or they just don’t care.

Um, much different when I went down there just a few weeks ago, than when I was there in December. Um, just the, the message [00:07:00] that the Biden administration had, of, of inviting people to illegal en- illegally enter this country, is just … I mean, it’s a terrible policy. And why they cannot realize this … I mean, record number of apprehensions on the border. And I can promise you, Martha, if there was more people there policing, from a Border Patrols perspective, or other law enforcement, it would be even higher than it is.

I mean, these cartels have gone from not only smuggling drugs across, but they’re smuggling people [00:07:30] and, you know, goods, and, and other things. And, you know, they’re smart. And they know that if they’re close to getting caught, all they’ve got to do is start throwing people in the river that can’t swim, and the Border Patrol agents, or the Texas, uh, State Patrol, is going to have to go save those people. And while that distraction’s going on … And they cause these distract- distractions on purpose.

They’re floating a homemade barge with a, you know, a, a small, you know, compact pick-up full of drugs, across the river, and driving [00:08:00] it in- inland. And we know that those drugs and that contraband, uh, is going to end up in the State of Georgia at some point, or the … around the rest of the country. And that’s not to mention the, the human trafficking and other things that are going on, on, on the border. And it, it is … it’s just unbelievable, how different it is, and …

You know, we need all to continue to press the administration to take some action. I certainly have been doing that.

Host, Martha Zoller: Governor Bryan Camp, thanks so much for your time today. Good news yesterday about the masks. [00:08:30] It seems like we- we never have a week with a slow news week, but it’s going to be, uh, it’s going to be a great week. Thanks for being with us today.

Center for Immigration Studies

DREAMers’ are just the bait; “citizenship for all 11 million, or however many” illegal aliens there are here is the hoo

By Andrew R. Arthur on November 17, 2022

On November 16, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) held a press conference in front of the Capitol in which he called for amnesty for “DREAMers”, aliens brought illegally to the United States as children. As he did so, however, he pulled back the curtain on his end game – to “get a path to citizenship for all 11 million, or however many undocumented, there are here”. The DREAMers are the bait, while a full and total amnesty is the hook.

DREAMers, In Brief. Amnesty legislation for aliens who arrived in their youth has a long, but not particularly successful pedigree. Here’s a brief recap.

In August 2001, then-Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) introduced a bipartisan “DREAM Act”, which included 18 cosponsors. That bill would have granted amnesty to aliens unlawfully present for five years who entered under the age of 21, and who met certain work and educational requirements.

The timing of that bill could not have been worse, because less than six weeks later, the September 11 attacks showed how foolhardy such blanket amnesties were. Nonetheless, similar “DREAM Acts” were subsequently introduced in later Congresses.

One bears special note. In March 2009, Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) offered up the “DREAM Act of 2009” during the 111th Congress.

At that time, Barack Obama was president, Democrats held an overwhelming majority in the House, and from September 24, 2009 (when Democrat Paul Kirk was appointed to fill the seat of the late Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy) through February 4, 2010 (when Republican Scott Brown was elected to fill Kennedy’s seat), Democrats held a filibuster-proof majority of 60 seats in the Senate.

Obama’s fellow Democrats could have passed any bill they wanted – including and in particular the DREAM Act of 2009 – without any Republican votes at all. But that bill went nowhere. Cosponsor and then-Senate Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) did not even bring it up for a vote in committee.

That said, two Republican senators – Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) and Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) – were cosponsors of the DREAM Act of 2009, so they probably would have blocked a filibuster even during the months Democrats only controlled a measly 59 seats in the upper chamber.

Obama blamed Republicans for the failure to pass a DREAM Act, but the fault really lies with him and congressional Democrats alone – DREAM Act legislation simply was not a priority for a party that held a hammerlock on the legislative process.

The popularity of legislation to “protect” the DACA population has been a key talking point for years (I was the punching boy for Democrats at a House hearing on the issue in March 2019), but let’s face it – if it really were all that popular, it would have been a shoo-in in the 111th Congress.

DACA. The failure of DREAM Act legislation led to a program called “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” or DACA. It grants quasi-legal status to aliens who entered the United States while under the age of 16 before June 15, 2007, who are currently under the age of 41, who meet certain educational standards, and have not been convicted of certain crimes.

DACA was not created by Congress, or even by executive order or executive action (for what that is worth). It’s the product of a memo issued by then-DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano on June 15, 2012. In my considered legal opinion, Napolitano lacked the authority to create DACA (the Fifth Circuit ruled in October that the program is unlawful, but the Supreme Court has yet to weigh in), but in any event, it sets a bad precedent.

Want proof? Here’s what the editorial board of the Washington Post had to say when President Obama was considering expanding DACA to include parents of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents in 2014:

The president should think twice. Some of the same Democrats and pro-immigrant advocates urging him to protect millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation would be outraged if a Republican president took a similarly selective approach to enforcing the laws — say, those that guarantee voting rights or prohibit employment discrimination.

Obama ignored the Post editorial board and created something called Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA). DAPA proved to be a bridge too far for Texas and several other states, who successfully sued to block its implementation.

Despite all of this, DACA continues, and the Biden administration recently issued a new rule, effective October 31, “to preserve and fortify” the decade-old program.

A Sympathetic Population. The DACA population is admittedly sympathetic. The vast majority of the approximately 650,000 current DACA beneficiaries were removable a decade ago, but in the intervening years they have been living in a quasi-legal status thanks to some questionable administrative actions.

Even President Trump, in his 2018 State of the Union address, offered up a plan to legalize not just DACA recipients but also a total of 1.8 million “DACA-eligible” aliens – more or less the same individuals covered by the DREAM Act…. please read the rest here at the CIS website.