D.A. King
Put this long-time American down as firmly supportive of all U.S. universities properly educating students on immigration. As someone who has been studying "immigration" for nearly a decade, I can say without equivocation that there is plenty to learn.
Heck, if I had known about the extravaganza, I would have tried to find the $55 registration fee and attend. The last time KSU hosted a large event on "immigration," many citizens got their first exposure to former-Mexican president Vicente Fox's - and the Wall Street Journal's - plan for open borders in North America and an "American Union" based on the EU. It was a hoot.
The list of speakers in the online flyer for the latest shindig - if anyone else has stumbled on it - should create questions on what may get left out of the "research" and "promotion of understanding." It's a veritable who's-who of the anti-enforcement, amnesty-again mouthpieces.
The presenters who will provide insight for the promised "White Paper" to be produced from the KSU event include two from the liberal and pro-legalization Brookings Institution, the Consul General of Mexico in Atlanta, the Atlanta Consul General of Guatemala, Mexican citizen Adelina Nichols of the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights ("Stop the raids and deportations!") who in 2003 brought in two speakers from the Socialist Workers Party - including one of the party's leaders, R ger Calero - to advise a meeting of "Georgians for Safer Roads," (an organization founded by the perpetually angry, anti-enforcement extremist Jerry Gonzalez of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials). The goal then was Georgia driver's licenses for illegal aliens. Or just plain "immigrants" in the shameful Newspeak of the open borders crowd.
Another notable speaker who is scheduled to join Comrade Nichols in presenting a segment titled "Teaching and working on Immigration Issues and Rights in Georgia" is the ACLU's Azadeh Shahshahani, who also heads the Georgia Detention Watch. GDW's stated objective? "We are dedicated to stopping the proliferation of 287(g) Agreements between localities and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials as well as other attempts at local enforcement of immigration laws in Georgia." There is a pattern here.
It is worth the trouble to go online and read the KSU conference "schedule of activities" for other headings for oh-so-enlightened presentations. My favorite title is "Mayans, Mexicans, Public Policy, Applied Anthropology and the limits of Highway Safety in the Suburbs." (Alan LeBaron, a KSU professor). I am not making any of this up ... honest.
It is unlikely that the late immigration expert Barbara Jordan (D-Texas) will be quoted. Or noted. "It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest," said the first black woman elected to Congress from the Deep South.
Jordan, who was appointed to head then-president Bill Clinton's Commission on Immigration Reform - and was awarded a 1994 Presidential Medal of Freedom - also testified to Congress on what it would take to gain credibility on immigration policy: "Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave - deportation is crucial."
On the criminal employers who lure illegals into our republic, Jordan recommended mandatory electronic verification of legal employment eligibility. "Employer sanctions can work," she said.
Woe unto Jordan were she alive today and were so openly pro-enforcement.
Something else I am guessing won't be echoing off the walls at KSU's secretive conference: Immigration must be sustainable, and unless we enforce immigration laws, we have defacto open borders. At more than a million each year, the United States takes in more real, legal immigrants than any nation on the planet. We have nothing to apologize for. As Jordan noted, immigration should benefit America and Americans, not serve as a pressure-relief valve for failing Third-World nations that unashamedly enforce their own immigration laws.
There is much more to being an immigrant - and an American - than escaping capture at our borders. And there is no universal civil right to migrate to the United States of America.
D.A. King is president of the Cobb-based Dustin Inman Society and a nationally recognized authority on illegal immigration. www.TheDustinInmanSociety.org
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Stop the racism!
"There is much more to being an immigrant - and an American - than escaping capture at our borders. And there is no universal civil right to migrate to the United States of America."
I am a liberal but not liberal on enforcing immigration laws. It is astounding to me that someone thinks it is bad for local law enforcement to cooperate with national law enforcement! I think all employers should be required to use the federal program that verifies social security numbers - if the program is not perfect, fix it until it is good enough. I am in favor of deporting illegal aliens and heavy penalties, including mandatory jail time, for employers who hire illegal aliens. I am in favor of closing the borders and paying the taxes necessary to put up fences, patrol the borders, incarcerate those who illegally cross the borders, and then send them back from whence they came.
But.... but I think we need to deal with the fact that there are people here now who have lived here for 10 years, 20 years, and who have worked, paid taxes, never been in trouble with the law and whose children are integrated into our communities. There are former members of our armed services who face deportation, or their wives or children do. There are policement and firemen who grew up here who face deportation along with their parents and siblings.
If we get serious about closing the borders, we can afford another round of amnesty. If we don't get serious about closing the borders, we will never solve the problem. So far, neither Republicans nor Democrats have actually done anything to deal with the open border problem. Lots of rhetoric, but little action.
We must take back our colleges if we hope to have America-loving young people. Let's start with KSU. We all should thank God for Mr. King and his knowledge and willingness to be called names by the crazy and hateful people who are way out there on the Obama left. Thank you Mr. King, and thank you to the MDJ editors for publishing this terrific and educational, fact-filled column.
I just went to King's website and signed up for his email list. He needs help. So does America.
Yo, MDJ: Get rid of the insipid and mindless screwball Bill Press and let King write every week. It is an easy decision.
I look forward to the insults King will draw for being "too patriotic" and too educated.
I cannot understand why the leaders of KSU ever thought this conference could remain secret. Peeeeuuuwww.
DAN PAPP MUST GO.
Yes, we do. Yes, we can - bring to light this Socialist ideology and reject it. Hold the conference at Emory if you want, but KSU is a taxpayer funded university and this conference should be stopped.