Center for Immigration Studies

Andrew Arthur September 8, 2021

On September 7, the Biden administration filed a spending request with Congress to cover its ongoing needs as the fiscal year ends and provide “urgent” funding for a grab-bag of projects. Among the items in that “continuing resolution” (CR) is authority to give green cards to Afghan nationals resettled here under “Operation Allies Welcome”. (My colleague Rob Law has also written about this.) The proposal includes — somewhat disturbingly given the fact that it came four days before the 20th anniversary of September 11th — a waiver of the terrorism grounds of removal.

The federal government operates on a fiscal year schedule, which runs from October 1 to September 30. Congress is supposed to pass appropriations bills for the various departments and agencies in advance of that October 1 date, but has failed to do so since 1997.

There are six main components in CRs (coverage, duration, funding rate, new activities, anomalies, and legislative provisions), but the latter two are the most significant in the Biden proposal.

As the Congressional Research Service (CRS) explains, “the duration and amount of funds in the CR, and purposes for which they may be used for specified activities, may be adjusted through anomalies.”

It continues: “Anomalies may also designate a specific amount or rate of budget authority for certain accounts or activities that is different than the funding rate provided for the remainder of activities in the CR.” That is, anomalies give the administration authority to move money around from one spending account to another.

By my count, there are 59 separate anomalies in the Biden administration’s proposed CR, including 11 that relate to Afghan resettlement. There are several others that relate to immigration-enforcement spending, which I will discuss in my next post.

Then, there is the big legislative proposal: Green cards for resettled Afghans.

Appropriations bills are not supposed to be vehicles for big legislative proposals. In Congress, there are “authorizing” committees that have (or are supposed to have) expertise in the finer parts of various areas (like defense and immigration) to authorize specific programs. Then, there are the appropriations committees (one for the House and Senate, respectively), whose job it is to write the checks.

CRS explains that substantive legislative proposals sneak into appropriations bills because “they are often widely considered to be must-pass measures to prevent funding gaps.” You can oppose a mass amnesty in this appropriations bill if you want, but that means that grandma won’t get her Social Security check and the Smiths will have to cancel their trip to the Grand Canyon.

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has been stretching (to be kind) the limited parole authority Congress gave him in section 212(d)(5)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to allow tens of thousands of Afghans into the United States following the administration’s “botched” exit from the country (some 50,000 Afghans are expected, but such estimates inevitably skew low).

As even the Washington Post admits, many of them have “minimal identification and did not appear to have worked closely with the United States”. Mayorkas promises to “use multiple databases and a multilayered approach” to vet those Afghans, but such vetting is only as good as the “minimal identification” documents those parolees present and whatever information intelligence agencies have.

I was the acting chief of the former INS’s national security law division, and the staff director for the National Security Subcommittee at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, so I know a few things about vetting aliens. It is an “exclusionary” system — it does not identify the “good guys”; at best, it can only hope to identify some of the bad ones.

If you read the final report of the 9/11 Commission, you will see that vetting failures and a lack of intelligence sharing among U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies were largely to blame for the fact that the 19 hijackers (all of whom were foreign nationals on various nonimmigrant visas) were in the United States to begin with.

In the case of the Afghans being resettled in the United States who have minimal documentation and few if any ties to the U.S. government, that should be a red flag. The Biden CR compounds that.

It would immediately provide any Afghan national paroled into the United States who passes that exclusionary background check with the same resettlement funding as refugees (although they would not count under the refugee cap), make them eligible for driver’s licenses (which you need to board an airliner or enter a government building), and give them access to welfare programs.

Oh, and it gives the same benefits to their spouses and children, or to their parents if they are children and arrived unaccompanied, who are paroled or admitted to this country in the future.

Here’s the second red flag: It gives DHS the ability to run new background checks on any alien who is paroled and given these benefits. If the first background check were so good at spotting the bad guys, why would you need to run a second, third, or fourth one after you gave them cash and driver’s licenses?

To ask the question is to answer it: The Biden administration knows that its vetting of most Afghan refugees will be questionable, at best. But it gets worse.

That’s because one year after those aliens arrive here (not one year after the first background check is completed and they are given this special status), they would be eligible to apply for green cards, or more precisely apply for adjustment of status under section 245 of the INA.

Note that to adjust status under section 245 of the INA, an alien must be “admissible to the United States”, that is, not inadmissible under any of the grounds of inadmissibility under section 212(a) of the INA.

The Biden CR would just throw out three of those grounds of inadmissibility, specifically the ones that exclude aliens who will become “public charges”, the ones whose employment will adversely affect the wages and working conditions of U.S. workers who are already here (both citizens and lawful aliens), and that pesky one that actually requires aliens to have visas to get green cards.

But wait, there’s more. Because the legislative proposal in the CR would also allow the DHS secretary to waive any other ground of inadmissibility “on a case-by-case basis for humanitarian purposes, to assure family unity, or when it is otherwise in the public interest”. Who would benefit from such waivers?

Aliens who are inadmissible because they “have a communicable disease of public health significance”, as well as criminals (including drug traffickers, child molesters, and murderers), to name two categories.

And those who have “engaged in a terrorist activity” or who the U.S. government “knows, or has reasonable ground to believe, is engaged in or is likely to engage after entry in any terrorist activity”, to name a third….

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 “There Is Nothing More Permanent Than Temporary Foreign Workers”

Phillip Martin – professor of agricultural and resource economics at the University of California, Davis.

 

Transcript by Rev.com

The Erick Erickson Show, Tuesday, 8-10-21

Erick Erickson: (00:00)
“…973-7425. Nationwide from my flagship station, WSB in Atlanta, Georgia. I, listen real quick, and this is totally a personal thing. Um, I, uh, if you were here yesterday you know I’ve got a new roof on the house. Uh, they actually, the, those guys, I just, I, I, I want to say this and I want, I want it on the record here. So I went with a company in Atlanta, uh, called First National Roofing. Um, I’m gonna wind up doing some ads for them, um, because I was just thoroughly impressed. Uh, you know, I, I didn’t realize that we’ve got a lot of roofers. In fact, we had a roofer work on our house a couple of years ago, and did not do a great job. Uh, it, it was sufficient, but it wasn’t great. It wasn’t long lasting work. I knew we needed a new roof, um, and, uh, just, kind of I knew roofs are expensive.

Erick Erickson: (00:53)
Um, but that guy’s not in business anymore. I, I mean I wouldn’t go back to him, but it’s kind of striking, uh, that most roofers are out of business within five years, you know. You see the guys who have the giant pick-up trucks and they got the wraps all around their truck advertising the roofing and, uh, they’re out of business within five years typically. And when I started looking for a roofer, like I, if they’re gonna give me a 10, 15 year warranty on my roof, I want a roofer that’s gonna be around if something happens to the roof. And so I went with First National in Atlanta because they’ve been around for 12, 13 years now so they’re probably gonna be around if something happens with the roof.

Erick Erickson: (01:28)
But I, you know, I just gotta tell you, those guys who put on my roof, they showed up at my house yesterday at seven o’clock in the morning. They did not leave until after eight o’clock last night. They had to come back today to finish up some work on the back of the house. And I just went out on commercial break. And literally you cannot tell that I had anything to … Oh the, the roof looks brand new, but there is not a stray shingle on the ground, there is nothing. The dumpster’s still here, that’s it. Uh, they had, I mean my, my yard looks better than it did before they showed up. They have raked everything. They have picked up everything.

Erick Erickson: (02:12)
I am just stunned by … I’ve never had a roof. I’ve never had to deal with having a roof put on a house. Uh, and I, uh, th- those guys, they, I mean they poured sweat all over the roof of this house putting it on and there is, I mean I cannot find, uh, with the exception of that dumpster, there is not any evidence that I’ve had any work done on my house in the yard at all. I am floored. It just, uh, my, my driveway is cleaner now than before they got there. Uh, you need to put a roof on it, the- they, I don’t even need lawn manning with the, just it’s, it’s remarkable. I’m just so, so thank you to them. Um, I- I just, I’m, those guys …

–> Erick Erickson: (02:50)
Let me get to what I want to say instead of dancing around. Um, they were, every one of them Hispanic. And they worked harder than anyone I have seen work. And I think that we need to do as a nation what we can do to ensure that people like that come to this country. And it’s appalling to me the number of people who want to sneak across the border and get ahead of all the people standing in line to do it the right way. When I think we need to make the way to get here legally as efficient as possible.

Erick Erickson: (03:36)
Back in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s in this country, particularly in World War II and thereafter, when American men were spread out around the world, our government came up with a migrant worker program where it was very easy for someone to come into this country. They could then apply when they got here for the migrant worker program, and they would be here for several months during cooler weather or warmer weather to either work as day laborers for houses in maintenance and building and construction (note from dak – not exactly), work in the fields picking crops and then would go home, and they would do it every year.

Erick Erickson: (04:17)
Then labor unions decided that, uh, that was harming unionized work forces. And in the Johnson administration, they got rid of the migrant worker, temporary migrant worker program, that Central and, and South American workers were taken advantage of to come here and pick the crops because it’s not jobs Americans will do. It’s jobs Americans don’t want to do at that price point, if we’re honest about it.

Erick Erickson: (04:40)
If you paid me $1000 an hour to go pick peaches in south Georgia, hell yeah, I’m gonna go pick peaches in south Georgia for $1000 an hour. But you’re never gonna sell peaches if you’re having to pay the workers $1000 an hour. But you know, in some countries, minimum wage in this country is a hell of a lot of money for them back home. And they come here and they pick crops and they go home, except we’ve made it so difficult in some cases, they can’t go home, so they stay here because they don’t want to have to leave and then try to come back. And the work ethic is remarkable and admirable and we should want people like that here and make it as easy as the, as possible for them to come. We have a labor shortage in this country right now. There are not enough Americans to do the jobs that need to be done.

Erick Erickson: (05:30)
And I’m telling you, I have just witnessed a day and a half of these 10 men busting their butts on my roof, putting a brand new roof on, going above and beyond doing stuff. They ha- my yard looks better than it did. And the craziest thing I have seen is they have these magnetic rakes and they have gone all around the house. Uh, can’t find a single nail. I’ll go look again after the show, but I mean, they, they, they use these ra- they, they brush it over the, the lawn and, and even the concrete to get all the, the, the nails up, and it’s just, it’s remarkable.

Erick Erickson: (06:03)
I, and I’m just, I, I’m looking at this and I’m thinking, we have a labor shortage in this country, and a lot of it in the service and the construction industry, and it is just mind numbing to me that the federal government knows there are people who would love to come into this country, work temporarily, send the money home and then leave when the job is done. And they can’t figure out a way on a bipartisan basis to make this hap- to go back to what we used to do in this country, back during the glory days, so to speak, when we would allow this. Uh, th- those guys, I, I, I, I gave them all 20 bucks. Um, I know they’re getting paid, but my wife and I, we’re just, we, we were totally impressed with the quality of the workmanship, the diligence, everything with these people. And we need people like that in this country.

Erick Erickson: (06:56)
We, we genuinely need people like that if there are jobs that Americans won’t do without us paying so much that none of us could afford the work. I just, I’m, I, I stand amazed at, at, at what they did. I really do. And again, I, I’ve, I’ve never had to deal with having a, a roof put on and I spent so much time doing research and settled on this particular company. And the workers are just, I mean gosh, you couldn’t ask for, for harder, better workers and the amount of diligence. I literally, I, and I’ll- I’ll get off this and get onto other stuff. I don’t want to bore y’all. I just, I went out because there was, there were little pieces of shingle all over, and

Erick Erickson: (07:31)
I know they stopped hammering right before the show went on. Um, they, it, probably around actually 11 o’clock, they seemed to be done with the roof. And they were picking their stuff up, but I, I cannot find a scrap of shingle in my yard. It is remarkable. So, I thank them. Now, I will move onto other stuff, uh, because I told you we’ve got to talk abour marijuana, and we’ve got to talk about marijuana.

 

 

 

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Why do you think we call it  #Georgiafornia?  

At least one Republican candidate to re-take the congressional seat in Georgia’s 6th District has obviously decided that immigration, borders, enforcement, amnesty, American workers and the Biden regime’s intake of a reported million or so illegal aliens in about six months is not a campaign issue.

We give you Jake Evans. He will likely continue to advance in Georgia Republican politics.

Below is a transcript of the July 13, 2021 Erick Erickson radio interview (S10 EP116 HOUR 3) with Republican Jake Evans who had officially announced his candidacy for Congress, GA- 06 the same day. Evans sent out an email announcement the next morning boasting of a one-day collection of $100,000 in campaign collections. Jake Evans is the son of the influential Georgia Republican shaker and mover, Randy Evans. 

Law.com Daily Report:

“After serving as U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg since 2018, trial lawyer and Republican heavy-hitter Randy Evans is returning to full-time law practice as a partner at Squire Patton Boggs, where he will work from the firm’s Atlanta and Washington, D.C., offices.”

Please let us know if we overlooked any mention of immigration, Biden’s use of U.S. military to distribute future Democrat voters or that Republican-ruled Georgia is host to more illegal aliens than Arizona and more illegals than green card holders?

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Update: July 20, 2021 6:25 AM.

Here is Jake Evans on the Martha Zoller Show, from July 16. Still no immigration/amnesty mention.

A Jake Evans, Atlanta Young Republican interview in the New Yorker, January, 2018 tells us he was a Marco Rubio supporter in the 2016 presidential primary.

Relevant and interesting from a June 21, 2018  NPR report “Young Republicans Aim To Attract Newcomers To The Party” (NICK CARLSON): “We don’t start with the Pledge of Allegiance or with a prayer or anything like that. It usually is just turn the music off, thanking them for coming.”

From the “not-exactly-a-shocker department,” Newt Gingrich has endorsed Jake Evans – with a video.

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Erick Erickson (host)… [inaudible 00:00:00] conversationalists everywhere. It’s Erick Erickson here, the Erick Erickson Show from my flagship station, WSB in Atlanta, across the fruited plane. The phone number is (877) 97-ERICK, (877) 973-7425. So one of the most hotly contested congressional races in the United States of America is going to take place very close to where I am. The sixth congressional district of Georgia is a district that had been Republican. Uh, Jon Ossoff tried to take it several years ago, lost to Karen Handel in a special election. The Democrats captured it in 2018, and we’re barely able to hang onto it in 2020. Redistricting is upon us. Rumors are afoot, the district will be made a little more Republican. It’s the sort of seat Republicans have to take nationwide in order to beat Nancy Pelosi and take back the House of Representatives.

There are a number of people running in this seat. Uh, one of them announced today, Jake Evans, who joins me by phone. Welcome.

Jake Evans: Hi. Good to be here, Erick. Good to be here.

Erick Erickson: uh, uh, tell us, uh, first of all, I mean, the, the, the big picture here of why you’re running.

Jake Evans, absolutely. Uh, well, i- for those who don’t know me, my name is Jake Evans. I, I am very blessed to grow up in, in Georgia politics. Um, and this year I was very blessed to marry a beautiful bride. We got married in March. Uh, and as we are, we live in Cobb County, we look at the future, uh, we look at a very endangered America. We look at an America where Joe Biden is trying to make America like the rest of the world, like the socialist countries of the world, and we should be making Ameri- the rest of the world like America. Uh, and that is something that is very, very disturbing to me. I could stand by, but we’re not gonna stand by. It’s time to stand up and fight for the future of our country and for our children to have the opportunity to pursue the American dream, uh, just like we did.

Uh, and so I feel a calling, and it’s time to put myself forward in what will be a very difficult fight. As you said earlier, the sixth congressional district is a battleground district, but it is a district that is not represented by the proper person, and that is Lucy McBath, uh, who has consistently tried to erase our culture, our values, our American identity, said that we are inherently racist country, and that’s something that I don’t think anyone in the sixth district or more generally Americans, uh, should stand up for or put up with. And so, what I am going to do is I’m going to deliver a bold conservative value campaign about big ideas, uh, that sells to the American people and delivers to the American people.

And so I have generated what I call an acronym, which is SELL. Number one, security. Uh, we’ve got to protect domestic security, which is we need to s- protect, uh, our local law enforcement. National security, we need to support our troops abroad and we need to provide them, uh, with the supplies they need to keep us safe at home. And I, I will fully, uh, put forward, uh, Reagan’s motto, which is pe- peace by strength. And we need to protect our family, our communities. Families are the bedrock of the United States of America, and it’s something that we have to make sure our children are growing up in two person households, which is one of the number one indicators for success.

Uh, the E in SELL is for education. Uh, I’m a big proponent of free market principles, and we need to inject free market principles via school choice, and return the choice of schools to American families and away from the federal government, and we need to eradicate critical race theory, which divides children at four, five, six years old. It’s something that we can’t withstand, uh, to allow to go forward because we need a united America, united children because if we look at the aggressive China, and the, as they become more strengthened, our future generations have to be educated.

My first L is for liberty, economic liberty, personal liberty, religious liberty. We need to protect the liberties that this country was founded on. And last is L, limited government, limited regulation, limited government intrusion. These are the foundational principles which enable the United States of America to be the best country on earth, uh, that create create- creativity, uh, economic ingenuity, and that’s what distinguishes us from the rest of our peers. So, we have a very bold conservative big idea campaign, and we are fully prepared to what I say usher in the great contract to retake America.

Erick Erickson: Well, let me e- go back to something you said, uh, about Lucy McBath, and I don’t know that this in- uh, amazingly I think if a Republican had said something like this, it would be national news and we’d still be talking about it. But she was caught on tape off record speaking candidly, as all politicians do off the record, and said she did think that this country is founded in racism. I, I was-

Mm-hmm (affirmative).

… I, I’m kind of shocked that she said this at a donor group. I realize it’s what a lot of progressive think these days, but, uh, for her to say it as a candidate in that district is something.

Jake Evans: I, no you’re exactly right, Erick. Um, and, you know, what the liberals currently do is their only tool to invigorate their base, uh, and harm our base is divide and conquer, is to divide and conquer. And the way they do that is they consistently bring up race when race is not an issue. Uh, and her goal is she knows the only way she can beat the Republican party or a part- a party that consistently beats the Democrats on ideas, on policy, on results is to divide us. Uh, and we can’t succumb to that.

But the, the greatest country on earth is something that we have to protect. Uh, it’s something that we cannot and should not be ashamed of. Have we overcome adversity? Yes. But I will guarantee you, every individual at some point has made mistakes and they’ve overcame those mistakes and they’ve become better, and that’s exactly what this country has become and is today.

Erick Erickson: Now Jake, a, a, a lot of folks who run for Congress, uh, start talking about the national big picture stuff, but also all politics is local, and there are a lot of issues the sixth congressional district, for those listening, uh, who, who don’t know where it is, it’s the northern metro area of Atlanta, uh, it is, uh, an increasingly populated area. It, I think that area of the state now is listed as number eight in the nation for worst traffic. Uh, you’ve got, uh, a massive number of schools there, but some of which are going down the critical theory path.

Mm-hmm (affirmative).

I mean, uh, i- in the all politics is local thing, what, what do you see in the sixth congressional district as kind of the, the big issues that voters need to know?

Jake Evans: Mm-hmm (affirmative). The big issues are education, there’s crime. Uh, people move to the sixth congressional district, and as you just said, Erick, we’ve got east Cobb, some of the best schools in the state of Georgia, we’ve got north Fulton, some of the best schools in the state of Georgia, uh, and people move to east Cobb because they want to raise a family, and they want to raise a family in a safe suburb, uh, and we have to maintain that and work for the sixth district to, to maintain its distinguishing characteristics. And the, how do we do that? As I said earlier, security. We have to support our law enforcement with- with being a law, uh, a police officer is one of the hardest jobs that exist. You are putting your life on the line.

Jake Evans: , my, my cousin is actually- actually a deputy sheriff and I was talking to him about this back whenever all the BLM stuff was going on. And he gave me a great analogy, which kind of touched me, which he said, “If I’m driving down the interstate and someone commits a crime, and I can pull that person over and- or I can let them go. If I pull them over and they flee or they attempt to in any way be threatening, I have to worry about baseless accusations that I was doing it for racis- racist motives,” which they weren’t. He has to worry about, uh, the person in any- any way coming at him. And we live in a world where a lot of police officers say, “You know what? I’m just gonna let this person go.”

Erick Erickson: -hmm (affirmative).

Jake Evans: And that has created the massive crime wave that we have throughout Georg- throughout Atlanta, uh, and it, it is bleeding throughout our communities, and we have to stop it. We’re a country based upon law and order, and if we let that be eroded, uh, then our whole community and the basis upon which this country is founded- founded will equally be eroded. We can’t let that happen.

Erick Erickson: Now, this district, how do you see redistricting shaping up? Because you- you, Meagan Hanson and the others who are, are jumping into this, you’re, you’re kind of flying blind in that you’ve got David Ralston saying, uh, they’re not even gonna start drawing the maps until frost is on the pumpkins, which means that maybe-

Jake Evans: Yeah.

Erick Erickson: … the end of October, probably beginning of November. And then you’ve got, what a primary that jumps out at you in March or, or May. Uh, so how do you see this shaping up?

Jake Evans:Mm-hmm (affirmative). And there is a lot of uncertainty, but I am in this race not for political opportunism. I’m not in this race, uh, in hopes that I’m gonna get an easy, uh, district. I’m in this race to deliver for the people in the sixth district, because the people of the sixth district demand and deserve good and proper representation that’s gonna deliver results, that’s gonna keep the sixth district, which is one of the best districts in the country, in my opinion, uh, that way. And if we don’t fight the liberal attack on America, the liberal attack on the values that made America the greatest country on earth, we’re gonna lose this fight. And I’m not gonna let that happen under my watch, uh, so I’m not gonna stand by. I’m gonna stand up and I’m gonna deliver for the people in the sixth district.

Erick Erickson: Jake, listen, uh, I appreciate you stopping by, and good luck to you on the campaign trail. Uh, you, you got a, a, it is a very odd district, right, and I don’t mean that in a pejorative way. It’s, it’s you got parts of DeKalb County, northern DeKalb, you’ve got northern Fulton, you’ve got the parts of Cobb and you’ve got, uh, what is it? Um, there, are there parts of Gwinnett in there? Is it just Fulton in there? It just, it’s, it’s, it’s a very-

Yeah.

… expansive compact district-

Mm-hmm (affirmative).

… but a bunch of people in it.

Erick Erickson: That’s right, yeah. You know, it’s east Cobb, uh, north Fulton and it goes into, uh, DeKalb. N- none of Gwinnett, but it, it is a very, very expansive district. And uh, you know, it’s a very diverse district, uh, for- from an economic, racial standpoint, but I, I’m honored for the opportunity to put myself forward and, and try to fight for the people of the sixth and deliver for them.

Well Jake, listen, thank you very much for stopping by, and best of luck to you out there. Um, i- yeah, I’m, I’m pulling up the map, but yeah it’s, it’s, the district, um, it runs, that portion of, for those of you familiar with this area of the state of Georgia, it, it runs on the border of Fulton and Gwinnett County there just north of Berkeley Lake and Duluth. Uh, it covers Milton, the cities of Milton and Alpharetta and Roswell, Mountain Park, uh, parts of Cobb County, Sandy Springs, Dunwoody, Doraville, uh, and it is right there, uh, around 285 on the north side of the city. There are gonna be a number of people who vie for this.

The complicating factor for all of these candidates is that redistricting hasn’t happened. Now, I, I’ve got some well placed sources in the legislature who tell me they’re still looking at some of the dynamics here because you’ve got, uh, the Supreme Court decision on voting rights that just came out, uh, and how do you shape up these districts, because you can’t dilute, uh, the minority districts. And the question is, do you draw the sixth and seventh in together and sacrifice it and make it a Democratic district, and then force McBath and Carolyn Bourdeaux to fight each other, or, uh, do you make the seventh more Democrat, racially diverse with Gwinnett County and DeKalb County and then make, uh, the sixth congressional district a little more white? It’s already a majority white. So that protects them, uh, there without any claims of racism. There are a lot of different ways the Republicans can look at this in the state of Georgia, and every state right now is having this.

Now, I bring up-

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Governor defiant in silence on misery of trusting Georgians

This essay originally ran on the subscription news outlet Insider Advantage Georgia -June 16, 2021

 D.A. King

That Governor Brian Kemp has a reelection problem is not news. The fact that much of it concerns Georgia’s illegal immigration crisis and Kemp’s broken promises on that topic will likely never be in “the news.”

As noted by the liberal AJC at the time, Kemp’s first TV ad in the 2018 Republican gubernatorial primary cited Americans who had been killed by illegal aliens and portrayed him as “tough on illegal immigration.”

During that summer Kemp went on to pledge to end sanctuary policies in Georgia and to create a registry of criminal aliens. Many observers, including this one, attribute then-President Trump’s final decision to endorse Kemp in the primary to his pro-enforcement claims on illegal immigration.

“As governor, conservative businessman Brian Kemp will create a comprehensive database to track criminal aliens in Georgia.  He will also update Georgia law to streamline deportations from our jails and prisons” went the detailed promise Kemp made on his 2018 campaign website.  It should be noted that the same page has now been edited to reflect this same but considerably less vocal pledge on the 2022 campaign website. Update Dec. 3, 2021: We see that the “Track & Deport Plan” has been deleted from the 2022 campaign site. We found the old page on the Wayback Machine site and have updated the link in the next sentence.  It’s part of the Brian Kemp “Track and Deport Plan.” Never mind that governors have no authority to deport anyone.

Note that the “watchdog media” is silent on the fact that Kemp has not so much as commented on these campaign promises since the 2018 primary.

One can only imagine the howls of outrage from Georgia’s agenda-driven press if Kemp had pledged to push legislation to give illegal aliens instate tuition and then silently betrayed that promise.

Perhaps the Kemp TV ad from 2018 that best illustrates his apparent contempt for GOP voter’s intelligence and memory was the now famous TV hit in which he told us “I got a big truck in case I need to round up criminal illegals and take ‘em home myself. Yep, I just said that.” In total, we refer to Kemp’s empty promises on illegal immigration in Georgia as “the Big Truck Trick.”

 Twenty-one years ago today: A Georgia family destroyed

Today marks the twenty-first anniversary of sixteen year-old Dustin Inman’s death by illegal immigration. Last week was the second anniversary of Dustin’s dad, Billy Inman’s heart stopping. Earlier this month Kathy Inman, Dustin’s mom, had to be moved from her family home in Woodstock to a nursing home. Update, Dec. 3, 2021: Kathy Inman died in the nursing home on August 26, 2021 as a direct result of the injuries sustained in the 2000 crash. Both Billy and Kathy passed in their mid-fifties.

Dustin was killed when an illegal alien plowed into the back of the Inman family car stopped at red light in Ellijay. The working class American family was on their way to the N. Georgia Mountains for a much-anticipated Father’s Day weekend of camping, fishing and fun. The force of the horrible crash put Billy and Kathy in lengthy comas. When they woke up they were informed their only child was gone forever. And because of the brain and spinal injuries to Kathy inflicted in the crash, she would spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. Then came news the illegal alien who caused this horror-show nightmare had escaped local police custody and was likely back in his native Mexico – and that he had been released after contact with local law enforcement multiple times before killing Dustin.

Most of us who knew Billy Inman understand the real cause of his death was heartbreak at losing his “best buddy” and exhaustion from nineteen years of lovingly caring for Kathy while ceaselessly working to find Dustin’s killer. The Inman family was destroyed because an illegal alien was allowed to cross our border, given a job and repeatedly sent on his way by American law enforcement.

Kemp didn’t cite Dustin Inman or the Inman family in his examples of victims of illegal aliens. That did not go unnoticed by Billy Inman before his death.

Reflecting the outrage and sentiment of many conservative independent voters, retired federal immigration agent and pro-enforcement conservative Robert Trent has distributed an open letter expressing his own anger at Kemp’s “Big Truck Trick.” From the Georgia coast Trent, former number two at Brunswick’s Federal Law  Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), says he may not vote for Kemp in 2022. He is not alone. Trent’s letter is worth a read. So is Kemp’s reply.

Gov. Kemp won the 2018 General Election with a thin margin of 54,723 votes out of 3,939,328 cast. After such adamant and clear pro-enforcement campaign promises, what must the level of arrogance and commitment to the special interest groups that oppose immigration enforcement be to risk a loss to the Democrats in 2022 by ignoring those promises and the safety of trusting Georgians?

 

D.A. King is president of the Dustin Inman Society and proprietor of ImmigrationPoliticsGA.com. He is not a member of any political party.

 

 

 

 

 

Kathy Inman is struggling years after an illegal alien killed her only child and the death of her husband

Dustin Inman’s mom, Woodstock Georgia widow needs help to remain in her home

 

Life has been a nightmare for Woodstock’s Kathy Inman since an illegal alien separated her family forever on Father’s Day weekend, 2000.

While on their way to the North Georgia Mountains for a long-planned camping and fishing trip, a speeding car driven by an illegal alien crashed into their family vehicle in Ellijay, GA. When Billy and Kathy woke up from their comas weeks later, they were told their only child, Dustin Inman, had been killed in the crash. Dustin had been buried. They missed the funeral.

Kathy learned she would send the rest of her life in a wheel chair because of the spinal and brain injuries incurred in the crash.

The illegal alien driver escaped custody and is living in Mexico. He is wanted by ICE.

Related: Who was Dustin Inman?

In dedication that amazed us all, Billy Inman worked his job as a delivery driver and took care of Kathy in their home after the needless tragedy until his death at age fifty-five in 2019. Billy was immensely proud that he and Kathy were able to travel to Washington D.C. and speak to Trump-era officials on behalf of other victims of illegal immigration. They were invited guests at the official launch of the Trump administration’s Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement Office (VOICE) in Washington, D.C.

Kathy now requires care day and night to remain in her home. According to family members, she is nearly out of money to pay for the home care. Kathy is understandably horrified at the alternative to staying in her own home.

Kathy Inman’s sister Leigh Kelly has set up a ‘GoFundMe’ account for donations from people who are able to help Kathy stay at home.

Illegal aliens have an easier time with donations

We hear a lot in the news about the plight of victims of borders who are today’s protected class. We see the corporate-funded, anti-enforcement ad campaigns telling us “Families Belong Together.” A quick Goggle search shows a large number of GoFundMe accounts set up to benefit illegal aliens. Here is one that brought in  $774, 432 for illegal “migrants” who were separated from their families because of borders and immigration enforcement.

I am told Kathy’s care is costing nearly $10,000 a month. Her family will never be together again.

We doubt we can raise as much money for Kathy Inman as anti-borders liberals give to illegal aliens. But we are hoping that Americans who are able will contribute and/or pass on this plea to help Kathy Inman stay in her home in Woodstock, Georgia.

Americans are victims of illegal immigration too.

Help Kathy stay at home here.