Board of Regents can’t alter immigration policy for one Bulldog
Georgia recruit Chester Brown (left) had scholarship hopes derailed by the state's policy on illegal immigrants and undocumented students. (Photo by 247Sports.com)
Don Balfour picked up the phone and said the first thing that you would expect when a Georgia state senator gets a phone call from a sportswriter.
“I don’t normally talk to sportswriters,” he said.
To which I responded that I don’t normally talk to politicians, unless you count commissioners, owners, general managers, coaches, some athletes, their agents, public-relations directors … on second thought, never mind.
Sports and politics overlapped this week. Chester Brown, a 6-foot-5, 340-pound mountain of a teenager, was forced to withdraw his commitment to the Georgia football team because of an immigration issue.
This is where things get kind of screwy. Brown is the son of Samoan immigrants. His mother says Brown was born in the United States, not Samoa, and is a citizen, but the family apparently doesn’t have the proper documentation to prove it. This precludes him from accepting a scholarship from UGA, given the Board of Regents’ tough immigration policy that was passed in July 2011 in the wake of a case involving a Kennesaw State student, Jessica Colotl (who erroneously received in-state tuition, despite being an illegal immigrant).
It’s not my intention to turn this into a column on the illegal-immigration problem in the United States, but I think we can all agree that when the Board of Regents declared that undocumented students and illegal immigrants can’t take away seats from academically qualified Georgia students, nobody figured it would affect the Georgia football team.
Immigration policies are intended to keep the nation safe and protect taxpayers, not wreck pass protection against the Alabama defense.
Balfour is one of the strongest proponents of the Board of Regents’ immigration policy. He acknowledged, “Never in a million years did any of us think this would affect a football team.”
But this case doesn’t cause him to rethink things. Another supporter of the policy, Georgia alum and Earl Ehrhart, R-Powder Springs, agrees.
Rep. Earl Ehrhart (R-Powder Springs) said, "My blood is red and black," but he doesn't second-guess the immigration policy. (Bob Andres/AJC)
“You can’t get into the business of making laws tailored to individuals,” Ehrhart said. “I went to school at Georgia. I graduated from there in 1980. My blood is red and black. I love going to football games. But does it make me not want to enact certain [policies]? No.”
So he’ll tell that to the fans who are sitting next to him in Sanford Stadium?
“Oh yeah, thanks a lot. Am I going to wear a T-shirt [advertising it]? No. There’s no self-preservation in that.”
Brown is an unfortunate byproduct of the illegal-immigrant issue. It’s hard not to feel for the kid. He couldn’t control where he was born or whom he was born to.
He went to school in Hinesville after relocating with his family from Long Beach, Calif., in 2004. He accumulated a 3.2 grade-point average and obviously has excelled on the football field. When he showed up at Georgia’s “Dawg Night,” a summer prospect camp, he looked like manna from heaven for a program with offensive line problems.
Brown was offered a scholarship on the spot. Brown gave his commitment, and he was so excited that he had the date, July 15, 2011, tattooed on his arm.
But now there’s some question where he’s from and whether he can prove it. Ironically, Balfour said, it would be easy for Brown to get into UGA if he wasn’t a U.S. citizen because then he would need only apply for a student visa. His claim of being a U.S. citizen mandates he have proper documentation. For unknown reasons, that has not been supplied by the family. (Brown can still attend a school in a state with less-restrictive policies and is looking at Syracuse, Central Florida and Tulane.)
Here’s what shouldn’t be lost in all of this: A law is a law (or in this case, a policy is a policy). Any Georgia fan, conservative or liberal, who has long supported tougher immigration laws can’t suddenly claim their beloved Bulldogs are being wronged.
“I definitely feel bad for the kid,” Balfour said. “I hate that he’s caught in the middle of this.”
Then he added, tongue-in-cheek, the obligatory southern college football conspiracy theory.
“I think this policy must’ve been started by someone from Georgia Tech,” he joked.
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240 comments Add your comment
Dan
January 26th, 2012
4:28 pm
Just Damn!
Jaw Jaw Homer
January 26th, 2012
4:30 pm
Momma why we gotta cheat to compete?
Jaw Jaw Homer
January 26th, 2012
4:32 pm
Nick Saban wouldn’t be so stupid
Jaw Jaw Homer
January 26th, 2012
4:36 pm
Momma why is Coach Ricth such a scum bag?
Supersize that order, mutt
January 26th, 2012
4:36 pm
If this were the 1930s or 1940s, that law would have been changed overnight. I’m glad to see that some things have changed.
5150 UOAD
January 26th, 2012
4:37 pm
Could he get in Tech IF he qualified? As I read the POLICY he could play for Tech. Tech isn’t FULL and turning away kids but UGa is.
Ginger
January 26th, 2012
4:47 pm
I agree that we have go by laws and that laws are made for the whole and not the individual.
Now–I also think that there are ways to fix this which would be legal. The kid is a good kid…Had the day he committed to UGA tatooed on his arm…This is not the kid’s fault.
So I am praying for him and for God to work on his behalft and work out a great solution to the Glory of God. Would appreciate others of faith–saying a prayer for Chester Brown.
And Chester if you are reading this—Keep the faith and pray…God is an awesome God !!!! Prayer works…..Believe that something good is going to happen to you !!!
BullDogMike
January 26th, 2012
4:53 pm
You can rest assured that had he been a recruit at Bama or Fla. for example,there would be nothing but open arms for him. And I mean policy or no policy he would have gotten in..
Supersize that order, mutt
January 26th, 2012
4:54 pm
I don’t think going to UGA could possibly be considered to be to the glory of God. LOL
beachdog
January 26th, 2012
4:58 pm
Ding-a-ling Republican politicians just cost us a good maybe great O-Lineman.
When will folks learn?
5150 UOAD
January 26th, 2012
4:59 pm
BullDogMike ALABAMA has the same wording in their HB56 on illegal/ undocumented students.
brad
January 26th, 2012
5:00 pm
jaw jaw…learn to spell before you open your pie-hole
Supersize that order, mutt
January 26th, 2012
5:00 pm
bleachdog, sorry, bubba, but the world doesn’t revolve around UGA effing football.
Good Grief
January 26th, 2012
5:01 pm
I’m sure someone can find his birth certiciate – I mean come on now they found one from Kenya after searching all over Hawaii for it
5150 UOAD
January 26th, 2012
5:01 pm
beachdog MAYBE you don’t get an O-Limemen but maybe the kid that gets that seat can be the VET Student that can keep the Bulldog Mascots ALIVE more than a year.
dallasdawg
January 26th, 2012
5:02 pm
Supersize that order mutt….get back to mopping my floors u little techie
Supersize that order, mutt
January 26th, 2012
5:02 pm
Or the one who gets that seat might be the pre-Med student who discovers a cure for cancer. But NOOOOO, you’re more concerned about the effing football team.
Supersize that order, mutt
January 26th, 2012
5:03 pm
dallas, I bet mopping your floors would bring more glory to God than some kid playing football in Athens
Danny O
January 26th, 2012
5:04 pm
It is unwise to keep hard-working, talented individuals out of our universities. Our loss will be the gain of competitors in other parts of the country.
5150 UOAD
January 26th, 2012
5:05 pm
GOD Loves CMR and the DWAGS. Going to college at the DFBWGC&P is for the glory of God. god at UGa just happens to be Leebern’s Liquor.
Rothschild
January 26th, 2012
5:07 pm
Samoa is a territory of the United States. Why should this be a problem?
5150 UOAD
January 26th, 2012
5:08 pm
DANNY O it is a FREAKING GAME. Now if he was a GREAT & HIGHLY INTELLIGENT Student you might have an argument.
Jaw Jaw Homer
January 26th, 2012
5:08 pm
I be a jaw jaw gradjewit
Supersize that order, mutt
January 26th, 2012
5:09 pm
Rothschild, did you ever look at a geography or history book or a map? AMERICAN SAMOA is a US Territory. His family didn’t come from AMERICAN SAMOA. DUHHH
Jaw Jaw Homer
January 26th, 2012
5:10 pm
I made A+’s in spelling at jaw jaw. RTR
Old Blind Dawg
January 26th, 2012
5:10 pm
LOL @ Good Grief – sad and true.
5150 UOAD
January 26th, 2012
5:12 pm
Rothschild…….catch up. US Samoan is a territory West Samoan isn’t and beyond that he CLAIMS to be born in the US. If he was a FOREIGN student(West Samoa) he could get a Student Visa like the 9/11 pilots. If he were to PROVE he were US Samoan he could get in. HE SAYS HE WAS BORN HERE and can’t PROVE IT. Does that make it easier for you to UNDERSTAND?
dallasdawg
January 26th, 2012
5:12 pm
Super size that order…no talking techie just mopping please, oh and don’t forget to walk my dawg and take out the trash(yourself included). lmao
Supersize that order, mutt
January 26th, 2012
5:14 pm
dallasdawg, since this is neither a UGA blog nor a Tech blog, I guess we’re both entitled to say anything we want to. But since I made my post first, I’ve got the upper hand here by default. LOL
Guyr
January 26th, 2012
5:14 pm
Speaking as a legal immigrant myself, it’s not hard to get the documentation. Just order the birth certificate from the appropriate state authorities.
Guyr
January 26th, 2012
5:15 pm
Not that I am in any way defending or supporting Georgia’s egregious anti-immigration policies in any way.
5150 UOAD
January 26th, 2012
5:18 pm
Guyr you can’t be telling the truth. Georgia is all for IMMIGRATION. You do it through the PROPER Channels as I figure you did.
Supersize that order, mutt
January 26th, 2012
5:20 pm
The US is a nation of IMMIGRANTS, but they were all LEGAL ones.
dallasdawg
January 26th, 2012
5:21 pm
One win in what ten years and you think you have the upper hand…now that is funny. Thanks man, for I have not laugh like that since I visited that cesspool of a stadium you techies play in this past November…lol
Supersize that order, mutt
January 26th, 2012
5:24 pm
dallas, I just said I had the upper hand over you. And that actually was pretty easy to do
Supersize that order, mutt
January 26th, 2012
5:26 pm
BTW, dallas, the term cesspool is reserved for Athens and for historical reasons. In case you didn’t know it, Sanford and Son Stadium was built on top of a sewerage drainage ditch, or something like that. There is actually a valid reason for denigrating Athens with the term “cesspool.” There is no reason at all for using that term for Tech, other than just stupidity.
Whatever happened to Chip Towers
January 26th, 2012
5:30 pm
Instead of just wishing the player good luck at wherever he ends up why doesn’t some of the legal beagles at UGA attempt to help him get a birth certificate? I think if an effort was made then a satisfactory result would happen. FINISH THE DRILL UGA
Steve
January 26th, 2012
5:36 pm
I see “Supersize” still has no girlfriend (or maybe boyfriend?) or friends. Poor guy.
Whatever happened to Chip Towers
January 26th, 2012
5:36 pm
Supersize that brain dufus. Since you are so knowlegeable about cesspools one could assume that you creeped out of one. Stupidity would be a good term describing SOME Tech fans including your little manly deficient self. Is your nickname Pee Wee for obvious reasons?
ignition
January 26th, 2012
5:41 pm
Dumb Redneck fans…
Dumb Redneck state..
Dumb Redneck college..
Dumb Redneck policies..
Glad it bit them in the butt…
Trojan
January 26th, 2012
5:43 pm
The headline to this article seems to indicate that someone ask that there be an exception to the rule.
I guess headlines (even if misleading) can lead to more clicks on a blog.
Steve
January 26th, 2012
5:44 pm
5150, HAHAHA Tech fans come on here with no life and start making comments about UGA players and fans. When will you losers ever accept you are SECOND and always will be in this state? It’s not even close!
Trojan
January 26th, 2012
5:44 pm
If you can become a president without documentation, surely you can get a football scholarship.
Seriously, what is different from this student and a student that is from another country. Didn’t Tech just sign a guy from Australia?
Whatever happened to Chip Towers
January 26th, 2012
5:46 pm
Rep Eebhardt if your blood is red and black then make an effort as a Dawg Fan to help Chester get a birth certificaate.
ARdawg
January 26th, 2012
5:46 pm
Schultz
Why isn’t he able to re-apply as a foreign student?
ARdawg
January 26th, 2012
5:49 pm
It’s not that difficult to apply for Adjustment of Status. Is nobody in the entire Athletic program looking at alternatives other than kicking the kid to the curb?
5150 UOAD
January 26th, 2012
5:52 pm
Trojan…………The TECH commit is a Foreign student with a STUDENT VISA. Are you so DUMB you can’t understand that? the 9/11 terrorist were on Student Visas and learning to Fly at American Schools.
C. BROWN doesn’t have DOCUMENTATION. Can you read Stupid? READ
Wh2Chip…..you really want to spend TAXPAYER money to let an illegal/undocumented high school football player to get an EXCEPTION to be a UGa MUTT? really?
Steve
January 26th, 2012
5:52 pm
It’s always good to see immigration reform laws working as intended. Regardless of whether Mr. Brown was born in the States, he obviously spent the vast majority of his life (if not his entire life) here, worked hard, did well in school and put himself in a position to earn a scholarship at a good university. The result: punish him for what his parents (apparently) did 18 years ago and not let him attend college.
I’m sure some “real” American kid with a 2.5 GPA will fill Mr. Brown’s spot nicely.
Mission Accomplished, xenophobes
5150 UOAD
January 26th, 2012
5:53 pm
If you guys REALLY care about the kid going to college and playing ball then help him get in TECH or Ga State, or Valdosta.
Supersize that order, mutt
January 26th, 2012
5:55 pm
Interesting how I simply state an opinion and give a little history lesson, and the only thing you dummies can come up with in response is to call me names. I didn’t call any of you any names. Granted my opinion about “giving glory to God” was a little over the top, but what I said about the cesspool is HISTORY, and my feelings about immigration are probably shared by most of you, except, apparently, when it comes to UGA football. If you notice, I didn’t even criticize the kid; in fact in a way, I feel sorry for him. But the law is the law. The fact that the best you guys can come up with is to call me names merely shows how immature you are.
5150 UOAD
January 26th, 2012
5:57 pm
ARdawg because HE says he doesn’t have documentation to prove either US or Western Samoan birth because he was born in the US.
If he was Illegal here his parents will have to leave GA possibly & that is why he is considering other states to play ball and his parents to move.
Supersize that order, mutt
January 26th, 2012
5:58 pm
Steve, the result of applying the law in this case only keeps him from accepting a scholarship at UGA where he would be chosen over a citizen for an open spot. If he applies to another school in the state that HAS OPENINGS, then he would not be denied. There is nothing xenophobic about that. You just seem to want to put UGA football over the better interests of the school as a whole and the actual US citizen who would be deprived of a chance to attend UGA in his stead.
bo
January 26th, 2012
5:59 pm
interesting point ARdawg. Foreigners can get sports scholarships to GA colleges can’t they?
Super Size That What??
January 26th, 2012
5:59 pm
I don’t know what history books you were studying at TECH but the United States is NOT a nation made up of LEGAL Immigrants. I bet you think this country was free for the taking too, right? Everyone that moved to this country from elsewhere when it was inhabited by Native Americans (get it, Native to this land we call the United States) is an Illegal Immigrant.
SuperB
January 26th, 2012
6:01 pm
All of these Redneck Georgia politicians, including the ones that miracuously managed to graduate from UGA need to get their lazy butts off the GOP Immigration Bandwagon and see– see if Chester was born in the US. A hospital MUST have a record of his birth. Just saying you love UGA is not enough– prove it!
PS: these are probably the same geniuses that still think Obama was not born in Hawaii.
Steve
January 26th, 2012
6:01 pm
Supersize:
“You just seem to want to put UGA football over the better interests of the school as a whole and the actual US citizen who would be deprived of a chance to attend UGA in his stead.”
Now, go and Google “Xenophobe”
Thanks for proving my point.
SuperB
January 26th, 2012
6:03 pm
Check the hospital he was born in– they must have a record of his birth.
Let's Be Honest
January 26th, 2012
6:04 pm
SMFH… Repubs shooting themselves in the foot. AGAIN.
Supersize that order, mutt
January 26th, 2012
6:05 pm
Steve, I didn’t prove whatever point you thought you made at all. The law is the law, whether we agree with it or not.
Observer
January 26th, 2012
6:07 pm
The essence of self deportation, in a sense. No need to “round ‘em up” as Newt and other liberals, rinos and such say.
Build the fence, enforce laws with e-verify, cut off the gravy, and they will go home.
And then Americans will have more jobs, pay rates will increase, and the underclass in America will become employed once again and enjoy upward mobility.
Supersize that order, mutt
January 26th, 2012
6:09 pm
Obviously the European colonists stole this land from the natives who lived here before they came. But, since the US Constitution was written, the vast majority of immigrants who subsequently came to this country and settled here came here legally and followed legal the legal path to citizenship. That has always been the law, still is the law, and hopefully always will be the law. And, by the way, that is no different than the laws in other civilized countries on this earth too.
Supersize that order, mutt
January 26th, 2012
6:12 pm
Steve, by the way, it is you UGA fans who are always claiming that Tech is loaded with foreign students, as if that is something bad. Those UGA fans are the xenophobes. Besides, the percentage of foreign students in this year’s freshman class was higher at UGA than at Tech.
Super Size That What??
January 26th, 2012
6:17 pm
Acknowledgment of theft….sensible answer, I’m satisfied.
Thank you sir!
Super Size That What??
January 26th, 2012
6:18 pm
…or ma’am, whichever you are.
5150 UOAD
January 26th, 2012
6:21 pm
I would love for Chester’s Mom & Dad to walk in the doors of the company you work at and a[[ly for your job. He or she gets your or your wife’s job and you are unemployed in this JOB market. I just bet you would LOVE the illegals then for sure.
Paul in NH
January 26th, 2012
6:21 pm
Observer
January 26th, 2012
6:07 pm
The essence of self deportation, in a sense. No need to “round ‘em up” as Newt and other liberals, rinos and such say.
Build the fence, enforce laws with e-verify, cut off the gravy, and they will go home.
And then Americans will have more jobs, pay rates will increase, and the underclass in America will become employed once again and enjoy upward mobility.
————-
Wow – who knew that it is so simple to solve the illegal immigration problem or that unemployment and poverty in America are all the fault of illegal immigrants?
5150 UOAD
January 26th, 2012
6:22 pm
APPLY sorry. even a Dwag can could get the point.
5150 UOAD
January 26th, 2012
6:24 pm
PAUL in RDU now NH you know there is a 1 sentence solution for all of Americas problems. HAHAHA but you do know we are trying to make people follow the LAWS.
Observer (The Real Observer)
January 26th, 2012
6:24 pm
Let the record state that the previous comment posted by Observer was done so by an actual imposter.
I would never post something with such a moronic view.
Supersize that order, mutt
January 26th, 2012
6:25 pm
@ Supe Size That What?? I assume that was sincere, but you don’t have to call me “sir”. Anyway, I’m happy that my response was satisfactory to you. I don’t hate immigrants, but I do believe in the law, and I do recognize how this country came into being to begin with.
@ Super Size
January 26th, 2012
6:32 pm
You obviously would rather apply your own definition to fit your screwed up agenda. Your statement of “facts” regarding the “cesspool” that Sanford Stadium is built over is simply wrong – try Tanyard Creek which feeds the Oconee.
ARdawg
January 26th, 2012
6:36 pm
Bo…Yes they can. I’ve no doubt the kid can attend UGA and working within the framework of the law and UGA policies. It’s slow and might cost him sometime (at this point) but certainly can be done.
POAD…Quit yer trolling. HE wouldn’t be the first kid that found himself in similar circumstance. Immigration officials can and often do make provisions. Not because HE is a football player or because it is UGA but, because HE likely qualifies as a citizen and has rights.
Sid
January 26th, 2012
6:39 pm
His parents can’t provide a birth certificate? Hell, even Obama has one of those albeit it questionable.
CRO-MAGNON MAN
January 26th, 2012
6:40 pm
YEA, A LAW IS A LAW UNTIL IT AFFECTS SOMEONE NEAR AND DEAR TO YOU….IT’S EASY WHEN IT DOESN’T AFFECT YOU….THIS IS SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE AND COULD BE FIXED….HOW STUPID IS THIS IN THE YEAR 2012….
5150 UOAD
January 26th, 2012
6:42 pm
ARdwag no TROLLING just the new Ga Policy. Since he isn’t the First PLEASE put some FACTS on who the others are.
Supersize that order, mutt
January 26th, 2012
6:45 pm
@ @ Super Size, historically, the creek was said, whether correctly or incorrectly (I only know what I have read) to have been used for raw sewerage, and that is the reason for the evolution of the term cesspool of the south. I didn’t make it up. Whether the perception was originally accurate or not, I don’t know; that goes WAY WAY back. But it is a perception that Tech students at the time utilized in coming up with the nickname. So I am not applying my definition to anything. It is a term, nickname, or whatever that came into being back at the time Sanford Stadium, or whatever it was called then, was first used as a football playing field.
Mountain Dawg
January 26th, 2012
6:50 pm
Hey 5150, why don’t you go fondle CPJ’s MOOBS for a while and give us all a break.
Supersize that order, mutt
January 26th, 2012
6:51 pm
Mountain Dawg, you sure seem obsessed with another man’s anatomy. Are you that hard up up in the mountains?
5150 UOAD
January 26th, 2012
6:52 pm
ARdwag start here for a solution. HAHAAH
Alpha
January 26th, 2012
6:54 pm
5150 UOAD ….. You are a constant source of embarassment and you have the I.Q. of a flower.
5150 UOAD
January 26th, 2012
6:55 pm
CHESTER if you really are that smart TRY TECH. Get an Education you can use in 5 years when you don’t make the NFL. Tech isn’t FULL and we have room for you Unlike the Drunk Fake Blonde White Girls College & Plantation of Georgia.
Try looking here………How to find your birth ce
If you want to find information concerning birth certificates, it may be obtained at the Vital
Vital Statistics Office
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799
011-684-633-1405 (voice)
011-684-633-7910 (fax)
If you want a copy of your birth certificate you need to write the Vital Statistics Office a request letter with the following enclosed.
The request for a birth certificate with your name and your parents name.
A copy of a CURRENTLY VALID STATE ID such as a currently valid drivers licence.
A five dollar MONEY ORDER (no cash and no personal checks) payable to the American Samoa Government.
That should do it.
Note: Since this is a US Territory regular US postal rates apply. If you are in a hurry send the letter via “PRIORITY MAIL.” DO NOT send it via EXPRESS MAIL as there are only two flights in here a week; Monday and Friday nights, and thus it will be no faster than PRIORITY.
Eaassyy
January 26th, 2012
6:56 pm
Congrats on having an opinion on immigration, the history of Sanford stadium, and UGA football in general.
You just went up one spot on the top 50 ajc internet trolls.
Dawg48
January 26th, 2012
6:58 pm
Can’t we all just get along?
5150 UOAD
January 26th, 2012
6:58 pm
@ Super Size………Sanford was filled with raw sewage so how did that happen?
5150 UOAD
January 26th, 2012
6:59 pm
48 are you ready for Danica to go all Go DADDY on Johnson? LOL
Dawg48
January 26th, 2012
7:03 pm
Lol, I watched DW induction into the NASCAR hall of fame the other night. I like DW but he would not shut up. If DW and Mikie Waltrip ever cover a race together LOOK OUT they love to hear there selves talk.
5150 UOAD
January 26th, 2012
7:04 pm
UGa is offering 2 new degrees to get recruits.
1. Bail Bondsmen/ Bounty Hunter
2. Birth Certificate Application and & Continued Possession
5150 UOAD
January 26th, 2012
7:06 pm
DW & Mikie could talk over a car engine at full song turning 8k rpm.
Eaassyy
January 26th, 2012
7:06 pm
right behind two new tech degrees:
mugging and pistol whip prevention 101
h1B student intro to english
Dawg48
January 26th, 2012
7:11 pm
Can’t wait for speed weeks though. I love the shoot out, but the new drafting at Daytona and
DALEuhDEEGA sucks!
5150 UOAD
January 26th, 2012
7:12 pm
Welcome to the death of NASCAR. Shorten the races and increase the speeds.
Dawg48
January 26th, 2012
7:15 pm
5150, do you remember the IROC series?
5150 UOAD
January 26th, 2012
7:16 pm
I am a HUGE Mark Martin Fan if that answers your question.
5150 UOAD
January 26th, 2012
7:17 pm
He did very well in IROC over the years. AND to your point yes. All the same cars at the same speed is not racing for the big boys.
Mountain Dawg
January 26th, 2012
7:19 pm
I think it’s high time that all the Techie Weenie Waggers go back to their own blog to see how many 1-Star recruits they have flipped from the Naval Academy and Ga. Southern.
Dawg48
January 26th, 2012
7:19 pm
That’s what the series is turning into, all the cars are basically equal. The rules have become to tight. At first I did not like Kyle Busch but he is starting to grow on me, he has a old school mentality about him, he just wants to win and does not care if I spin you out to do it!
How to fix Nascar
January 26th, 2012
7:21 pm
Smaller tires – put the driver back into the equation.
No more restrictor plates – put the driver back into the equation.
Both of those suggestions would force drivers to use the brakes and end the draft.
Dawg48
January 26th, 2012
7:21 pm
Mountain Dawg, we are talking NASCAR now!
Dawg48
January 26th, 2012
7:25 pm
Ho to fix NASCAR, we can thank awesome Bill from Dawsonville for the restrictor plates. But let’s face it when a car gets over 200 mph and the wind hits it the wrong way……….well it’s a plane with no wings.
5150 UOAD
January 26th, 2012
7:28 pm
Mount a DWAG this is a JEFF SCHULTZ Blog not a MUTT BLOG
Shorten the races so it isn’t all day to watch.
decide how many miles a car can go on a tank then make like the race so many stops PLUS a 1/2 a tank short of the millage.
tell the sponsors to NUT UP and let the drivers say what they think after the race DAMNIT.
I like KYLE and SMOKE they have the F..U attitude on the track.
Supersize that order, mutt
January 26th, 2012
7:40 pm
Mountain Dawg, you know there all kinds of sites for guys obsessed with other men’s anatomies. Maybe you should go to one of them
Dawg48
January 26th, 2012
7:45 pm
NASCAR should change the number of cars that can start a race. It needs to be lowered to around 30 to 33 cars. 15 to 20 of the cars are not even competitive and it puts spending caps on the major teams.
1 4 GT
January 26th, 2012
7:46 pm
I predict NASCAR will switch to fuel injection this year.
Dawg48
January 26th, 2012
7:51 pm
14GT, why is that?
Dawg48
January 26th, 2012
7:54 pm
Can she drive……STICK? Lol
1 4 GT
January 26th, 2012
8:34 pm
I’ve been semi-busy. Just think it’s way past time they took a step up with their technology. I would like to see them go back to the race cars at least looking something like what I can buy. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CHEVY—-except for #48—-sick of him!!!!
1 4 GT
January 26th, 2012
8:41 pm
5150. Yes, I saw that. Sad!
georgiagirl
January 26th, 2012
8:46 pm
This just sucks
mdr
January 26th, 2012
8:54 pm
Jeff, what is the point of this column? No one is trying to make an exception to this rule. This is a non-story. The kid will go to school somewhere else and UGA will move on. Nothing to see here.
athdog
January 26th, 2012
9:04 pm
I wonder if his family has considered having the kid changed his claim of being a citizen, as the Senator said. Obviously going to Georgia means a lot to the kid if he had his arm tattooed with the
commitment date.
richie
January 26th, 2012
9:12 pm
This state is the most backward that I have ever seen.The farmers cannot harvest their crops because of this stupid state.If they live here ,go to school here,they should be allowed to go to college here………….rednecks……….in the state capital………..fat,grey hair white guys……………
Jaw Jaw Homer
January 26th, 2012
9:17 pm
U know why my jaw hurts right
OLD MAN
January 26th, 2012
9:20 pm
i see uga is crying again.. they do not respect the law when comes to football
OLD MAN FARTS
January 26th, 2012
9:24 pm
@ OLD MAN Did you actually read the article?
“You can’t get into the business of making laws tailored to individuals,” Ehrhart said. “I went to school at Georgia. I graduated from there in 1980. My blood is red and black. I love going to football games. But does it make me not want to enact certain [policies]? No.
MB
January 26th, 2012
9:25 pm
I have no idea whether this one kid is here legally or not, but illegal immigrants cost the US taxpayers billions of dollars a year. We pay for their kids to go to our schools (at around $7,000/kid per year), often pay their medical, housing, and food bills (Democrats call those entitlements) all while thy work undocumented getting cash on Friday and pay NO taxes.
Enforce the border, illegal immigrants are not victims, they are criminals who have illegally invaded our country; quit feelling sorry for them
billy bob
January 26th, 2012
9:26 pm
hey steve…we might be 2nd in football, but that is it! Lets compare wages trailer trash1
1 4 GT
January 26th, 2012
9:32 pm
Feel bad for the kid, but don’t mind seeing Georgie have a bit of bad karma for a change. I see they also got themselves an in-house bail bondsman out of yesterday’s trip to the recruits church. Pretty slick of Gramps to also drum up business for himself and future partner/grandson.
Tdawg
January 26th, 2012
9:38 pm
5150 UTURD The kid was born in the USA and is as American as your pathetic a$$ is. Geez you must really hate knowing that GT will never be at the level that UGA is. I would resign myself to the fact that you are a troll, but most likely you are just a jerk.
BG
January 26th, 2012
9:43 pm
Why is he able to go to college in Florida?
ARdawg
January 26th, 2012
9:50 pm
UOAD has obviously broken into the liquor cabinet again. Check with immigration wiseguy that’s USCIS if you what some stats or figures. If you think for a minute this kid is the only one with illegals for parents……well wait a minute, you did graduate from GT, didn’t you?
1 4 GT
January 26th, 2012
9:57 pm
Only a handful of states have passed laws restricting undocumented immigrants rights and privileges. He has no proof of citizenship and his family is from West Samoa. American Samoa would be no problem. If he had a student visa, he could go to Georgie, as the kid from Australia is doing at GT and the 9/11 terrorists did to attend flight schools in the USA. Why don’t you read the whole story before opening your big mouth and start your uniformed yammering. As far as that goes, he could go to GT because we have an open spot which he would not be preventing a legal resident from filling.
Fan of the Game
January 26th, 2012
10:03 pm
Hate it for the kid, but dang the parents dropped the ball here. Once again do what is needed and everything is fine. Some thing rules don’t apply to them and think they can get by.
Mark. (another one)
January 26th, 2012
10:05 pm
The family says he was born in California. The issue is proving it by obtaining his birth certificate. Informaiton on vital records for Samoa is probably not helpful. However, California has a similar office as do all 50 states. I have to believe there is more to this story since you can call the state’s office of vital records and order a birth certificate over the phone. I was born in California and did this so I could obtain a passport.
1 4 GT
January 26th, 2012
10:05 pm
Tdawg. He has no birth certificate with which to prove his American citizenship. Why must others explain, repeatedly, what is clearly stated in the article leading into this blog. The same facts were also stated in yesterday’s AJC article about Mr. Brown. What’s up with the name of Brown for a Samoan anyway? Don’t their names generally have about 2 dozen letters and 6 or 8 syllables? Something like Banokeaoagoyo? Just asking. Not mocking or anything, but Brown for a Samoan name???
chuck
January 26th, 2012
10:15 pm
If Obama can be President then Chester Brown should be able to go to UGA.
5150 UOAD
January 26th, 2012
10:28 pm
1 4 GT thanks for the post to TARDEDdwag. I am done explaining why these MUTTS are Stupid. This isn’t that difficult to understand. Either he proves he was born in the US or he goes to a school in a state that doesn’t have this policy.
ARdwag it has noting to do with if his parents are illegals or not. Even illegal parents know to keep the child’s birth certificate. This case is the FIRST in the STATE with the new POLICY so you are wrong. We are talking about a kid not being allowed in because of a new policy not a kid with illegal parents. Illegal parents don’t matter to the new Georgia policy.
Najeh Davenpoop
January 26th, 2012
10:30 pm
“Never in a million years did any of us think this would affect a football team.”
So what he’s really trying to say is that Mexicans can’t play football. `
Paul in NH
January 26th, 2012
10:36 pm
Najeh – Great post
Matt Ryan
January 26th, 2012
10:38 pm
“Here’s what shouldn’t be lost in all of this: A law is a law (or in this case, a policy is a policy). Any Georgia fan, conservative or liberal, who has long supported tougher immigration laws can’t suddenly claim their beloved Bulldogs are being wronged.”
You are absolutely right. I cannot, and I do not. If this kid wants to attend UGA he’ll clear up the problem with his paperwork. If he cannot, he should look elsewhere.
iTiSi
January 26th, 2012
10:39 pm
Had at a minimum 4 yrs. to do something about it but didn’t. TS!
Kit Cursin
January 26th, 2012
10:54 pm
Maybe the young man will play in a state where the politicians aren’t willing to punish hard working kids just to get the bigot vote.
WvRDawg
January 26th, 2012
10:57 pm
he looks fat and out of shape—ga doesn’t need him. Let him go to clemson or auburn–they’ll take anybody.
The Factor
January 26th, 2012
10:59 pm
I feel sorrrow for the kid. His parents were looking for a better life for him moving east as a younster. Wish we could get him as he obviously wants to come to UGA. However, it looks pretty cut and dry. I wish him luck…..We forget, because of the oversized bodies, they are still impressional teens.
new rules
January 26th, 2012
11:00 pm
The government should change the laws in case of football players — it’s unfair to not let him play at georgia—they need this talent bad and the law should not apply in this case.
Commander in Thief
January 26th, 2012
11:03 pm
Of course, if he wanted to run for POTUS, THAT wouldn’t be a problem (think Obozo). Aren’t laws and their selective enforcement a wonderful thing?
5150 UOAD
January 26th, 2012
11:07 pm
WvRdwag how many Ripped Samoans have you ever seen. Most are built like sumo wrestlers. That doesn’t mean they are not strong and agile.
1 4 GT
January 26th, 2012
11:12 pm
I didn’t vote for Obama, but this crapola about him not being born in the USA is just what I called 10x over. Get over it you racist, prejudiced, bigot.
The Factor
January 26th, 2012
11:15 pm
@new rules……pinhead
5150 UOAD
January 26th, 2012
11:18 pm
Factor I think well I hope new rules was being sarcastic.
atlantattoseattle2015
January 26th, 2012
11:21 pm
backwards state,with plenty of ignorant 1950,s thinkin redneck..not only the state getting behind but that overated university in the red neck town of athens lose out as well..when will they come into the 21st century???
1 4 GT
January 26th, 2012
11:25 pm
What gives with these stupid filters????? I d i d n o t v o t e f o r O b a m a. T h i s j u n k a b o u t h i m n o t b e i n g b o r n i n t h e U S A i s a b u n c h o f c r a p o n l y 10 x o v e r. G e t o v e r i t y o u r a c i s t b i g o t. T h i s f o o l t h a t b r o u g h t a l a w s u i t a b o u t t h a t i s m a k i n g G e o r g i a lo o k a b u n c h o f b a c k w o o d b u f f o o n s.
bev
January 26th, 2012
11:34 pm
Just another example of another reckless law.
Pago Pago DAWG
January 26th, 2012
11:35 pm
No matter where his folks are from, they probably have been working all the time while in the USA.
We know a lot of Samoans with last names…Reid, Pritchard, Grey, Scanlon,Forsgreen, Chan, Brown, Nomura, etc.
Not sure why they gave him like Chester?
Supersize that order, mutt
January 26th, 2012
11:39 pm
Not a one of you dwags wold be posting the things you are posting on here about state politics if a similar situation had happened with a Tech recruit. You would be slamming Tech and praising the law from the get-go. Even though it’s an unfortunate situation for the kid, the law makes total sense. There is no reason why a non-citizen should be given any position, be it work, school, football team or what over an available citizen. That is neither racist, nor xenophobic; it is practical.
The Factor
January 26th, 2012
11:44 pm
@5150
Perhaps, or someone posting as a dog fan. Or, maybe a dog fan who is actually a pinhead…..imagine
jvillebil
January 26th, 2012
11:45 pm
Is there anyway someone in Georgia could legally adopt him????
If that doesn’t work, could we find him a good Georgia girl that wants to get married?
Supersize that order, mutt
January 26th, 2012
11:46 pm
jvillegil, not in time for football season
RedMeat
January 26th, 2012
11:53 pm
america for americans. get the illegals out. i’ll cut my own grass and serve my own tacos.
dee mills
January 26th, 2012
11:55 pm
just go to school in a diiferent state,its georgia’s loss.
5150 UOAD
January 27th, 2012
12:00 am
SUPERSIZE new recruiting blog on WILL ADAMS being offered by Richt today too.
David Granger
January 27th, 2012
12:06 am
If he were born in the US, the hospital would have a record of it. And if he were born at home, the doctor would have records for it. This seems like it would have been an easy fix, unless there’s more here than we’re being told.
The Factor
January 27th, 2012
12:09 am
@5150
Seems like a great kid and would love for UGA to get him, but from everything I have seen he is very happy to be going to Tek (sorry, couldn’t resist…kinda like dwag…).
5150 UOAD
January 27th, 2012
12:26 am
just let them sign after their Junior year when ever they get qualified. When the SAT ACT test scores are in and he looks good to go let them sign that will stop over signing too. Coaches will have to be good on the offer. If the kid doesn’t pan out then after the year cut him lose. That is what the kids are doing with the verbal commitment then changing.
Redneckerson
January 27th, 2012
12:26 am
“Never in a million years did any of us think this would affect a football team.”
No, of course not. You wrote this beauty of a bill to keep the Consuela’s and Pablo’s of the state from getting a little education. Darn hispanics trying to get an education. Well it looks like your net caught an unintended victim. I hope this kid goes to another school, develops and becomes an all-American.
5150 UOAD
January 27th, 2012
12:34 am
The TAIL is Wagging the Dog. I don’t want to lose these kids, but CPJ is right. Commitment has a definition the kids need to learn.
The Factor
January 27th, 2012
12:35 am
@Redneckerson
So it’s ok for me to keep footing the bill taxwise for illegals to go to GA public schools in addition to paying higher healthcare costs because crowded hospital ER’s can’t turn anyone away, even for a nosebleed or a sore throat – something they were never intended to do?
5150 UOAD
January 27th, 2012
12:40 am
Sic’m The FACTOR. Bite him on the butt so his brains will fallout.
The Factor
January 27th, 2012
12:40 am
@5150…….agree. I also think this kid UGA is recruiting from Valdosta, his grand dad is enjoying his “press” moment with a bit of sad grandstanding.
chicano white honky
January 27th, 2012
12:44 am
this samoan football player better not call the FLIPFLOPPER anchor baby MORMON mexican-american and candidate for president MITT ROMNEY. YES MITT ROMNEY is mexican and might be the MANCHURIAN candidate and give mexican amnesty when he is elected. MITT OLD MAN was born in mexico and his grandfather ROMMENY had several mexican wives back in the day and MITT still has bunch of mexican PRIMOS living in MEXICO and very proud of their TIO-uncle ROMMEY, but the FLIPFLOP MITT says he deport all illegals, please who are goin to change the diapers of all those white mormon wives kids that live in LILLY WHITE UTAH. the black people aint going to change those mormon kid diapers like the movie the HELP. because MITT FATHER was born in MEXICO, mitt can become citizen of mexico any time he wants to walk in any mexican consulate or embassy any where in the world or the united states.
Redneckerson
January 27th, 2012
1:22 am
the Factor…no we shouldn’t foot the bill. but the spirit of the bill was not in that light. it was written to stop the illegals from getting in the education game. why pass on the money?? if illegals want to get an education then they got to step up with cash and pay as they go along. get legal but until you are–CASH ONLY. that’s all schools want anyway. illegals didn’t become an issue in the country until it looked like the next generation was not going to cut grass and paint houses like papi. this bill was written out of fear of them getting in the game and creating some more competition for jobs. 5150 u have to come harder than that ole dude…go back to watching FOX News.
ARdawg
January 27th, 2012
1:26 am
UOAD
If you weren’t such an idiot you might understand that most illegals will not push the envelope and go hanging around an INS office attempting to get a child documented when it will challenge their own presence in this country. I wonder what is it really like inside that Peter Pan head of yours.
Chester had nothing to do with his parents immigration status yet HE is paying the price for it. This can be rectified. If HE was in fact born on US soil he has the same inalienable rights as you even if HE wasn’t documented. And no, just because HE was given birth on US soil does not mean it was documented. Idiot
5150 UOAD
January 27th, 2012
1:57 am
ARdwag if he doesn’t have documents I don’t care if he was born here. He has to prove it. he can’t the to damn bad. His parents Made a Choice to play Russian roulette with his future by not playing by the rules. Sorry but he has other choices of colleges he can attend. Many of you are just UPSET cause he wants to be a MUTT Football player. If you care about him getting an education fine. He can go to school in another state. he can even go to a college in Georgia and play football just not UGa and that is what is making you guys cry.
5150 UOAD
January 27th, 2012
2:04 am
ARdwag very few illegals really FEAR being deported. They are out and in your face all day everyday. They drive without licenses and insurance they stand on the corner looking for work. You are full of it saying they fear being sent back. That might be changing with the new laws and that is a good thing. When Chester was born the chance of a Samoan being deported? haha You are kidding right?
Call ICE like you are suppose to.
January 27th, 2012
3:41 am
The TECH commit is a Foreign student with a STUDENT VISA.. you are DAM right. 2 Tech students have gone and got all LEGAL !!!! Paper work done. Have people gone nuts to let ILLEGALS try to make our state a joke. Now Mitt Rommey will use this to sack our NEWT . This IILEGAL needs to be handed over and trailed. But not one soul cares any more. To bid by our LAWS. Nor is any one trying to get ICE to do they dam job. Hand this case over to ICE or fired coach mark for not reporting this to ICE
this is just as bad to what happen @ PENN ST . People breaking the law by not reporting .
Fire Coach RICHT for hiding this
January 27th, 2012
3:50 am
UGA and COACH RICHT have not came out and reported this to any one. They need to fired him. As they did in PENN ST . For not reporting a crime. We going to start a group to seek to remove Coach Richt from UGA.
legionaire
January 27th, 2012
5:01 am
This kid has had plenty of time to make sure he is a legal citizen. He won’t or can’t. Either way the Georgia law worked like it is supposed to. No more explanation or whining please.
Orange11
January 27th, 2012
5:19 am
Maybe he can get on at The University of Somoa.
NotTomBaxter
January 27th, 2012
7:44 am
I believe Schultz when he says that he normally does not talk to politicians. If he did, Jeff would have started crying from laughing so hard when Earl Ehrhart said that “You can’t get into the business of making laws tailored to individuals”.
That, my friends, is comedy gold.
RedandBlackDAWG
January 27th, 2012
7:49 am
Something tells me, that Mom and Dad, may not be telling it like it is. If this young man were born in the U.S., even if they had lost his birth certificate, it would be a simple matter contacting the bureau of records in California and they could issue a copy. It seems they are encouraging him to go to another state where the immigration laws will allow him to enroll, without the need to prove he is a legal U.S. Citizen. If indeed, anybody is working on obtaining that certificate, UGA will most likely have a recruiting slot left over for him. I think there just may be a reason it can’t be produced and it might be that he was not born in the United States. I feel bad for the kid, but UGA didn’t let him down, it appears most likely his parents did.
Mr. Thomas Anthony Jones, SR
January 27th, 2012
8:05 am
If a county courthouse in America was blown up and everone’s record burned would those people born in that county would those stll not American. This policy is asinine. Get rid of it and the stupid Republicans who thought it up. I hope the Red Chinese hackers hack into every computer in all courthouses in the United States of America and destroy all the birth records. This would end this asinine policy once and for all.
Really?
January 27th, 2012
8:07 am
@David Granger
Most kids born at home are born without the help of a doctor. It’s midwives and family members doing the duty and they wouldn’t have records. When in the last 20 years do you know of a physician making a house call?
Mr. Thomas Anthony Jones, SR
January 27th, 2012
8:08 am
Why didn’t stupid Republican put an exception in the law for people whose records were lost or destroyed. Or who were birthed by midwives. These Republican politicians are ,mindless Fools who can not think.
Georgia Laughingstock
January 27th, 2012
8:14 am
“Never in a million years did any of us think this would affect a football team.” I wonder what Jesus would do with the Dream Act. . .
Rodster
January 27th, 2012
8:47 am
I am sorry for the young man’s trouble. I do feel badly for him. But on the other hand I just have to laugh at the irony. The stupid right-wing conservative jack holes in Georgia that got on their soap box and ranted and raved about undocumented aliens, etc… To all of you butt wipes, your arguments were spurious and born out of some paranoid hysteria to start with and now the unintended consequence is it has lost your university possibly a really good football player. Ha!
TallaDawg
January 27th, 2012
8:55 am
“You can’t get into the business of making laws tailored to individuals,” Ehrhart said.
But, wasn’t the impetus behind the whole policy a single circumstance involving ONE individual?
Kmac
January 27th, 2012
9:03 am
I’m a dawg through and through….season ticket holder for 13 years, etc. I stand by this policy and have no problem with it even if it affects a potential top recruit coming here. The issue is not whether immigrants can go to school here, it is whether they are LEGALLY allowed to be here. If they are not, go home, get in line like all the other law abiding future immigrants and come here LEGALLY.
flagboy?
January 27th, 2012
9:07 am
I don’t understand the fuss. If the kid has a US birth Cert, he’d be fine. Apparently he doesn’t have one. So by law, he can’t take the place of someone from the state. I don’t have a problem with that.
It is unfortunate for the kid because it wasn’t his decision to do anything illegal in respect to where we would live or move to at a young age, but the law is there for a reason. It’s rough for him, and really ONLY for him. . . but i’m sure he’ll land on his feet.
Best of luck.
A brief recrootin’ post | Get The Picture
January 27th, 2012
9:09 am
[...] A Georgia legislator makes a funny about Chester Brown’s plight. [...]
robodawg
January 27th, 2012
9:18 am
“There’s no self-preservation in that.”
And self-preservation is, of course, rule number 1 for these guys.
zgoldatl
January 27th, 2012
9:18 am
I agree with the politicians on this one. We have too many native Georgians in need of a higher education. This is a good policy, and shouldn’t be adjusted to help or hurt one individual. Wish the young man the best of luck
bucket
January 27th, 2012
9:27 am
My question about Mr. Brown’s situation would be this: Has no one else in the state of Georgia ever asked for his birth certificate? I am 41 years old and I have been asked for my birth certificate so many times that I can’t even remember. Did the schools he has been enrolled in not ask for one? Did he ever play youth league sports?
phildo
January 27th, 2012
9:33 am
How did he prove his age for eligibility to play HS football? What if he is 30 years old?
GT
January 27th, 2012
9:33 am
WHAT DID THIS KID DO WRONG? FOREIGNERS HAV EBEEN RECRUITED TO UNIVERSITIES TO PLAY SPORTS AND DO TOP ACADEMIC WORK FOR YEARS. WHY CAN HE NOT GET OUT OF COUNTRY SCHOLARSHIP-LEVEL MONEY?
I UNDERSTAND THE INTENT OF THE RULE. PERFORS THE TENNIS PLAYER WAS A SWEDE. SO?
A MAJOR PROBLEM IS AND WILL CONTINIUE TO BE A CORRUPT, POLITICAL, SLIMY BOARD OF REGENTS.
Vince
January 27th, 2012
9:35 am
I haven’t heard one UGA fan complain about this issue.
bucket
January 27th, 2012
9:39 am
Exactly phildo! I can understand the coaches not thinking this was an issue because I am sure they figured that question had been answered a long time ago.
Alphare
January 27th, 2012
9:58 am
Out of 300,000 college applicants in Georgia, only 500 were illegal immigrants, about 1.5 out of one thousand.
Yet, those “conservatives” thought they were destroying the state of Georgia, ruining their good lives.
RD
January 27th, 2012
10:08 am
Nice coach the mutts had scaming his own players out of millions.
Mick
January 27th, 2012
10:11 am
Those kids must have consumed a lot of milk from cows given growth horomones. Look at those boobs on them. Make cpj’s look like a size b.
Dr. Phil
January 27th, 2012
10:13 am
This policy was enacted by Sonny Perdue’s hand-picked BOR. This is the same Board that winked at Adams fleecing the UGA funds for a graduation party for his son and awarded a salary and retirement plan for Mrs. Adams. Other outrages included a $500,000 desk for Adams’ office. I am surprised that Adams’ protector and pal, Regent Leebron, couldn’t help Mike out with this immigration problem. Leebron still owes Mike for the lucrative bottled water monopoly at the University. Perdue and this BOR have set the University System back to the days of Gene Talmadge.
ptmmac
January 27th, 2012
10:16 am
The really scary thing is that Conservatives want more government when we don’t need it. Lets make sure some special piece of paper is required for anyone to get government services. Who cares that government is the worst way to do anything. You know I won’t have a problem with this because I have the paper and illegal aliens won’t have a problem because they are already breaking the law. The only ones who will have a problem are innocent, hardworking, and poor. Who cares about poor people? They are all losers anyway. Wonderful set of values you guys got!
WDE
January 27th, 2012
10:24 am
@ptmmac what in the hell did you just spew? You need your meds checked again. This is a shame for the young man but the law is working as designed, if your not a legal citizens the tax payers of the state aren’t going to foot the bill for you education. If your illegal your illegal its real simple. We are all immigrants just most of us are legal immigrants.
John Galt
January 27th, 2012
10:36 am
If he was born here someone can help him find his birth certificate. If he wasn’t, it is an appropriate law and his exclusion is appropriate.
John Galt
January 27th, 2012
10:38 am
@ptmmac -
Huh?
Dave
January 27th, 2012
10:41 am
Something’s fishy here. I recently needed a certified copy of my birth certificate. Ordered it (from another state) on a Friday, had it in my hands the following Monday. If he was born here why can’t his parents prove his citizenship?
GT
January 27th, 2012
10:41 am
This reads like a John Grisham novel with a pinch of Saturday Night Live. You got a bunch of fat politicians that look and sound like Fog Horn Leghorn who only meant to pick on a minority, so southern, and grandstand a little. Like a husband caught cheating and telling his wife, “you know I didn’t love the girl, just a one night thing baby!”. And now these fat guys that take themselves way too seriously are calling a sport writer and telling him “I am far too sophisticated to be talking to someone like you, but this is the Georgia Bulldawgs we are putting in jeopardy and I need to talk to somebody, explain myself.” Crops rotting in the field during an economic turn down, Christian people getting shot in the dead of night crossing deserts, and a state that finds itself last in every category that counts, like education, jobs, wealth… finds this the subject he wants to make himself clear about to a sportswriter. I telling you this is too rich for anybody to believe and like everything else good in this state, Chester Brown, will be playing for someone else next year in some other state that can probably see the forest and not stuck on the trees.
dean
January 27th, 2012
10:45 am
Dave @ 1041. Bingo!
John Galt
January 27th, 2012
10:47 am
@Mr. Thomas Anthony Jones, SR-
Thank you sir; my confidence was sort of low today, but when I read your post, I was reminded that there are a lot of people out there who are as dumb and inarticulate as rocks, making me appear to be a genius by comparison.
Thanks for the confidence boost!
John Galt
January 27th, 2012
10:49 am
You too GT! Thanks!
GT
January 27th, 2012
10:55 am
And thank you for the laugh John Galt? What would this world be without clowns like you?
David Granger
January 27th, 2012
10:57 am
@ Really?
re: Your 8:07
Actually, most children born in this country to illegal immigrants are born in hospitals, since the law requires that the hospital cannot turn them away and cannot report them, either…plus, the hospital then gets a very nice tax writeoff if the family can’t pay, as is often the case. And I suspect that is the situation here. I just wanted to include the possibility of his being born at home because…if I didn’t…some bozo would invariably write something like “everybody’s not born in a hospital, you know?”
And if a midwife were in charge of the birth, he or she would invariably have known about, kept, and filed the proper records…especially in California. Midwives there are recognized professionals, have to be licensed, and are paid well…and they’re not going to take chances by failure to file the correct papers required by state law. And also, by filing the correct papers, his parents would have been eligible for several different types of government assitance because the kid would have been an American citizen.
I think there’s more to this story than we are being given.
I wish the kid luck wherever he goes to school.
Alphare
January 27th, 2012
11:15 am
From Earl Ehrhart’s complexion, he looks like a Mexican to me. Trying to stand up to his own people to show his “conservative” toughness?
MountainDawg
January 27th, 2012
11:18 am
The law was overdue and much needed. Sorry for this kid, but he’ll land a scholarship to another D1 school.
icedawg
January 27th, 2012
11:22 am
If he was born in the US there’s gotta be a way to substantiate it. If he was born here then he should get a good attorney because there are far greater implications that simply playing football.
Dirty Dawg
January 27th, 2012
11:26 am
What a bunch of reactionary idiots this State has become. Foreign nationals are being offered scholarships to play at every school in the country…except, apparently, us. As I said, idiotic peckerwoods and proud of it.
Alphare
January 27th, 2012
11:28 am
Back in the days lots of Italians sneaked into this country. They were welcomed with “No Italians” or “No Irish” signs.
Now the descendants of the Irish and Italians erected signs “No Mexicans”.
Has history taught anybody anything?
GT
January 27th, 2012
11:33 am
Much needed? In the top ten things “much needed” where do you rank this? And the state of Georgia who can’t even run a good speed trap anymore is going to tell the rest of the country how we can do things? The kid is not going to be booted out of the country he is going to be playing football for one of the other 40 something states that have bigger fish to fry that our enlighten state. Take a good look at Georgia look at its ranking, that is if you are one of the lucky ones in this state that can read, another one to put on the much needed list but who is counting, who even knows how to count?
Matt
January 27th, 2012
11:37 am
Nor should they.
Steve- He can blame his parents, not the State. Kids with 2.5 don’t get in to UGA. THis kid is still going to get a free college education. It’s not like he’s out on the streets now.
News | MrSEC
January 27th, 2012
11:39 am
[...] from a 16-point halftime deficit to avoid an upset at Ole Miss.2. Who would have dreamed that the Georgia football program would be dealing with immigration issues?3. When John Calipari’s team travels to LSU tomorrow, they’ll be facing a former [...]
Highlands
January 27th, 2012
12:11 pm
As a Bulldog fan and, more importantly, a Georgia taxpayer, I’m completely fine with this. I know most of you dipshits have never been to the United States Supreme Court, but right there over the big, white columns out front it says “EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW”. This law, like all others, is applied to everyone.Hate it for the kid, but blame mama for losing your birth certificate.
Too tough
January 27th, 2012
12:14 pm
prove the birth or file another status…Go Dawgs
harold
January 27th, 2012
12:14 pm
HOW STUPID IS THIS????????????????????????????????
Farm Dawg
January 27th, 2012
12:20 pm
Speaking as a farmer and small business owner, the law is wrong. It was born in hate and is going to ruin this great state. Many of us are having a problem bringing in a crop or managing agri-businesses and other states are going to pick up that slack. Every one of those immigrant people (legal and illegal) are paying taxes and shopping in your stores and caring for your elderly relatives and mowing your lawns and putting food on your table. Hating “other” people is as old as history and apparently alive and well in Georgia.
@ Supersize D-bag loser
January 27th, 2012
12:35 pm
“but the world doesn’t revolve around UGA effing football.”
Says the bitter, friendless, idiotic, dishonest Tech troll that uses a freaking moniker that is devoted to UGA football on a pathetic 24/7 basis.
Can this creepy troll please get banned already??
ramguy68
January 27th, 2012
12:42 pm
@Matt THis kid is still going to get a free college education. It’s not like he’s out on the streets now.
Free???? Unless I missed something I would assume that you are implying that since he will get a scholarship to play football at a D-1 school that he will be getting an education for free. I hear that kind of remark over and over. It’s amusing. If you knew what these kids go through and how hard they have to work you might not say that so flippantly.
2012 Preseason Fulmer Cup Champs
January 27th, 2012
12:57 pm
GO DAWGS WOOF WOOF!!!!!!
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tu87
January 27th, 2012
12:59 pm
Born in the USA but don’t have a birth certificate. Please……
2012 Preseason Fulmer Cup Champs
January 27th, 2012
1:06 pm
“Any Georgia fan, conservative or liberal, who has long supported tougher immigration laws can’t suddenly claim their beloved Bulldogs are being wronged.”
How many illegals trim the hedges every year?
5150 UOAD
January 27th, 2012
1:07 pm
GT change your name to cry’n Harvard libtard.
Matt Ryan
January 27th, 2012
1:59 pm
“We are all immigrants just most of us are legal immigrants”
No, we are not. Most of us were born here in the USA.
“Speaking as a farmer and small business owner, the law is wrong. It was born in hate and is going to ruin this great state.”
Hate? Your apparent interest is assuring a supply of cheap labor outside of the purview of OSHA and other regulatory constraints. You, sir, are breaking the law if you knowingly employ illegal immigrants. I reject your notion this law was born of “hate”; it was born of respect for the rule of law and the desire to clean up the expense and exploitation caused by illegal immigration. Yes, the exploitation.
DawgDad
January 27th, 2012
2:01 pm
Hey, if I offended anyone by posting as “Matt Ryan” I apologize. Used that on a sports blog and forgot to change it here.
Pointing out the obvious
January 27th, 2012
2:20 pm
5150 UOAD is obviously one of supertrolls other handles that he uses to talk to himself.
Alphare
January 27th, 2012
2:20 pm
Matt Ryan,
are you an Indian? otherwise how can you be legal? or more specifically your 1st ancestor be legal? did the Indians invite him or he was not an Indian?
what do elementary, middle, and high schools require?
January 27th, 2012
3:31 pm
Was he born in a barn or a hospital? Seriously, if he were born here, there should be a birth certificate at the very least.
What have his parents been doing for 18 years? Blame them for their slackness. Or are they possibly lying?
I feel bad for the kid also for having dumb parents in this regard.
heartofdarkness
January 27th, 2012
3:32 pm
When Rick Santorum’s grandfather came to this country (my guess is between 1880 and 1910), there was no limit on the number of immigrants to the US. Identities were checked to insure inbound individuals were not a subject of interest to the European security apparatus that grew out of the Congress of Vienna, but otherwise, welcome aboard. There weren’t many immigration laws to break.
Organized labor pressure and concerns about high unemployment in Europe after WWI that might flood onto US markets helped establish immigration quotas. It is quite likely that as the bulge in the population represented by the boomer generation passes from the scene and the American population begins to decline, the need for labor will expand or remove the quotas. Thankfully, immigration has not been a moral issue in this country, but one of pragmatics, that are the proper concern of sovereigns.
What is of overarching concern in the case of this young man is that he may have no documentation to establish his citizenship in any political entity. If that is the case, one would hope a forum might be available to him capable of producing for him a legally enforceable status. In the Information Age, there can be no satisfactory argument for letting people fall through the cracks to suffer a permanent legal disability.
man without a country?
January 27th, 2012
3:35 pm
Ga tech can get some kid from Australia but there’s trouble with an American?
Kids get in all the time from other countries, why can’t he just say F it and say he’s from Samoa and would like a visa and that scholarship? He obviously doesn’t have any other documents.
man without a country?
January 27th, 2012
3:37 pm
What were his parents thinking? Call up the hospital he was born in to get a birth certificate.
Was he born in an American hospital?
Errrrrr
January 27th, 2012
3:43 pm
Richard Tardits anyone?
GT is a 4th rate High School team
January 27th, 2012
3:49 pm
Yeah, those North Ave HS fans and alums did it. LOL
13-1
January 27th, 2012
9:59 pm
AJ-C sportswriters are lazy. All this time. All these stories. And, this is all the lot of you can come up with ?
“[Chester] Brown is the son of Samoan immigrants. His mother says Brown was born in the United States, not Samoa, and is a citizen, but the family apparently doesn’t have the proper documentation to prove it.”
Jeff Schultz, that is weasel-wording. How about doing some
REPORTING ?
None of you, after all this time, has come out and said that you researched it and here is the story.
None of you expect to win the Peabody Award the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication gives out,
do you ?
RedandBlackDAWG
January 28th, 2012
9:58 am
Dirty Dawg,
Take a look at the illegal population of this state compared to total population and against other states. I think then you might understand more about why this law was enacted. It has nothing to do with being narrow minded or racially motivated as far as this young man goes, as it is more intended to prevent the mass exodus of Central and South Americans migrating into this country. Tax dollars that this state can ill afford to waste are being used to care for these folks in a lot of incidences, so something has to be done, or taxes will continue to rise for the middle class citizen, the main payer of taxes in this state.
aprilglaspie
January 28th, 2012
10:43 am
Xenophobic, nativist, know-nothing idiocy.
Change the rules!
January 29th, 2012
12:32 pm
Georgia football brings in millions in revenue for the state—the legislature should make special rules for football recruits due to all this money they make. Hopefully, they change the law this year!
This is Mrs. Norman Maine
January 29th, 2012
5:54 pm
” I think we can all agree that when the Board of Regents declared that undocumented students and illegal immigrants can’t take away seats from academically qualified Georgia students, nobody figured it would affect the Georgia football team.”
LMAO!!! Because if they had, I can assure you they would have thought three times about that policy before implementing it. I promise you that!
Chester Brown: Ex-UGA OL recruit will sign with Central Florida | AJC College Sports Recruiting
January 30th, 2012
2:21 am
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Just Wonderin'
January 30th, 2012
8:34 am
“Immigration policies are intended to keep the nation safe and protect taxpayers, not wreck pass protection against the Alabama defense.”
That’s assuming Georgia will play Alabama some time in the future….
Ordinary Citizen
January 30th, 2012
9:30 am
Since someone mentioned praying to God that this would all work out so the kid could attend UGA, I recommend a different prayer. Let’s quit referring to undocumented immigrants as “illegal.” No where in the bible are the undocumented referred to as illegals. The laws handed down by God in the Old Testament specially say they are entitled to full rights and dignity. In the New Testament Jesus was never referred to as “illegal’ though by the standard now set by the Board of Regents he would be, since every time he left his region, including his sojourn in Egypt, he would be. Shame on us for making undocumented individuals the scapegoat for our lack of civility, compassion and unity.
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January 30th, 2012
10:19 am
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Georgia Board of Regents’ Illegal Immigrant Policy Costs Bulldogs an Offensive Line Recruit : YOU GO USA
January 31st, 2012
2:16 am
[...] immigrants. Targeting a loyal mountebanks (Canadians overstaying their visas), they didn’t expect an bootleg newcomer competence be an descent line awaiting committed to Georgia, according to a [...]
Danny No'
January 31st, 2012
2:43 am
@#$% politicians and their short sighted policies. All cases are unique and to try and place an all engrossing law on such issues is idiocy. Die in a fire!
Dawgator
January 31st, 2012
10:41 am
Young man heah needs a little he’p from some good Jawjah fans: Thinking of Fisher or Muschamp.