Many carried signs that said "UNDOCUMENTED AND UNAFRAID" and "WE WILL NOT LEAVE!" and "NO TO HB 87!" and "LEGALIZATION FOR ALL" and "WE WILL NOT COMPLY!" The Capitol grounds looked and sounded like the televised mass rallies that take place in chaotic Third World nations on the way to revolution.
The hated object of the angry, riotous protest was any enforcement of American immigration laws in general and HB 87, the Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act of 2011 authored by state Rep. Matt Ramsey, in particular. HB 87 is the most well written and most potentially effective state immigration enforcement bill in the nation.
The message, even though most of the day-long rally was conducted in a foreign language, was quite clear: "Your laws do not apply to us unless they benefit our presence in your country."
Speaker after speaker boasted of being in the U.S. illegally and assured the fearless mob that there is a human and civil right to ignore American borders and immigration and employment laws. Having escaped capture at our borders, apparently they are now all oppressed victims suffering persecution in America ... but entitled to U.S. citizenship. The defiant warning was repeated over and over again: "We will gain the right to vote and pay you back."
The organizers of the event, a mix of socialists, anarchists, local ethnic hustlers and the ACLU (but I repeat myself) appointed some of their own to work crowd control. This long-time American watched as curious American citizen observers were refused access to certain sections of public property - Georgia Capitol grounds - by these radicals. Capitol Police and State Patrol officers warned Americans to obey those orders.
In speeches, some well-known Democrats - including U.S. Rep. John Lewis of Atlanta - urged the mob on and assured them they were right and would be victorious. And that help was on the way. The rally was originally scheduled for May Day - the traditional socialist workers holiday. The Democratic legislators who are also trying to kill immigration enforcement in Georgia convinced the organizers to move it up in hopes that it would help snuff the legislation before the looming end of the legislative session.
There were no arrests by the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, charged with enforcement of our immigration laws. That might have caused a scene.
The goal of the rally was to kill HB 87.
Meanwhile, at the exact time that the fugitive would-be "new Americans" were gathered outside the Georgia Capitol, a group of about 20 agriculture business owners were being squired around the Capitol interior by a South Georgia lawmaker to offices of the senior Georgia government leadership.
Their mission was to assure continued access to taxpayer subsidized black-market labor so as to avoid use of the available federal guest worker H2A visa program that allows them to hire the legal, but more costly, farm workers who enter the U.S. lawfully under that numerically unlimited program.
The goal was to kill HB 87.
Over the last months inside the Gold Dome, during hearings on HB 87 one could see lobbyists paid by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, the ACLU, the Farm Bureau, the Georgia Agribusiness Council, the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials Inc., the Asian American Legal Advocacy Center of Georgia" ("E-Verify is bad for Asian business"), and many other far-left anti-enforcement groups obfuscate, fabricate, race-bait and misquote official statistics and "facts" to legislative committee members about immigration, federal laws, visas, and E-Verify while constantly denigrating the American worker and carefully explaining that we should continue to ignore federal law because enforcement would be "racial profiling" and the legal workers are "too expensive."
The goal was to kill HB 87.
A July 2010 Georgia Newspaper Partnership poll of Georgians showed that a large majority - 68 percent - supported an Arizona style immigration enforcement law here.
Right now, behind the scenes, it is the lieutenant governor of Georgia and the president pro tem of the Georgia Senate who are quietly standing between the people of Georgia and a Senate vote on HB 87.
For the majority of Georgia, the goal in the last full week of the legislative session should be to see HB 87 sent to Gov. Nathan Deal's desk for signature.
We should apologize to our grandfathers if we fail.
D.A. King is president of the Cobb-based Dustin Inman Society. On the web: www.TheDustinInmanSociety.org
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I'll bet you all favor miscegenation laws.
You so called farmers get paid to sit on your sorry butts and do nothing but receive our tax dollars. Why not grow more corn to supplement this ethenol money pit to hold down the cost of food. No you have the farm area senators (Chambliss) and reps. that you bribe so you can sit on your lazy butts and we pay u for it. You are obama's boys down on the farm and always will be. Keep it up and one day the tax payers are going to cut u off and you will struggle like the rest of us I hope. You all are not competent enough to compete in a competetive market as we have today. Farm subsides are union welfare programs. The chamber of commerce and galeo are both thieves.
If you folks don't get off your butts and start doing the things the majority want with HB 87 then you will be O.T.D. after the next election! Our elected officials must STOP catering to the illegals and quit running like a scared puppy with their tails between their legs when some of these illegal workers threaten that Georgia will shut down without them. Well, why don't you give them a chance to prove it! I'd bet you'd see the real Georgians come out of the woodwork to pick up the slack to get the jobs done once these people are gone. Let's give them a chance to prove we were wrong, if you don't then we will never know.
I know one was senator Hmabrick and another Republican even voted against it altogether with the Dems...a south Georgia senator Crosby. The Ga GOP is really being displayed with this issue.
All I can say is King, Tancredo, Savage, Beck, me & many others,.. tried to warn ys!
What Rich the genius means is that everybody should have the same amount of stuff and we should not have borders. Oh Rich!
"Now here’s where the canary analogy comes in. The crowd were supporting Cuevas because he’s Hispanic. Against the white American. A powerful sense of Hispanic identity, one that's hostile to white American identity, has now taken a powerful grip in the country. And as we know from this research, and from real life experience, social capital goes out the window when a country is composed of different closely knit racial or religious groupings."
Reagan Republican-- Your words are not the words that I would expect from a patriot. Have you forgotten your oath to protect America?? Is it void because you are retired? Did you have a religious epiphany that instructs you to give away what you once fought to protect? This is our country and not theirs. Your support of them is a slap in the face to our military.my co
Excuse me-- The video I saw certainly had more than 250 people. Admittedly , I am not good at crowd estimates, but the crowd was bigger. King did not say it was 250. He said it was 5000. Your point?? Finding any little thing, no matter how false , to push your view?
As for Pellegrino--his words are empty and are bought by the job he holds.If the illegals succeed he will learn, quickly , how little his support of them matters at that time.
Mr King, thank you for your steady attempt to educate the American public to the dangers of illegal immigration. It is my belief that if these people defeat HB 87, that those who hold office will have no fear of the American people and will continue to make their decisions based on the wishes of the Farm Bureau and the rest who profit from illegal labor.
I suspect your real handle is Georgia melocoton.