Ex-UGA recruit Chester Brown and immigration policy
Here’s an update on Chester Brown, the Bradwell Institute offensive lineman who de-committed from UGA on Monday for “personal family reasons.” (Go here to read the full story by the AJC’s Chip Towers)
A relatively new Georgia Board of Regents policy regulating the admission of undocumented students and illegal immigrants has prevented [Chester Brown] from gaining admission to the University of Georgia … However, a variety of people with direct knowledge of the situation confirmed to the AJC on Tuesday that Brown’s change of heart was because his admissions application to UGA was rejected because of a controversial Board of Regents policy that was adopted in October 2010.
That policy, created in the wake of the Jessica Colotl uproar at Kennesaw State earlier that year, states that an undocumented student can’t take the seat of an otherwise academically qualified Georgia resident who has been turned away because of capacity constraints.
For more background on Chester Brown, click here
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Midtown
January 25th, 2012
8:25 am
If he is illegal….which appears to be the case…..then it can’t be solved “within weeks”…..in fact, under the current immigration laws it probably can’t be solved at all. That’s why there are so many illegals. He will probably end up in a gang now.
JB
January 25th, 2012
8:27 am
Yep, Obama’s birth certificate say’s ‘African American”……..Only problem is, that term wasn’t used until 20 years or so after his birth…….Look on line for yourself…..LOL
GT is a 4th rate high school team
January 25th, 2012
8:28 am
VOTE FOR RON PAUL
GT is a 4th rate high school team
January 25th, 2012
8:29 am
RON PAUL IS THE MAN
meh
January 25th, 2012
8:33 am
so the dogs are recruiting illegal aliens. nice
Jacket99
January 25th, 2012
8:35 am
One would think basic information like citizenship and test scores would be known fairly early in the admissions process. Could it be our state supported institutions of higher learning have incompetent administrators?
Phil Collins
January 25th, 2012
8:36 am
It’s no fun, being an illegal alien.
Hmmmmmmmm!
January 25th, 2012
8:38 am
Obama knows how to get you what you need. LOL
13-1
January 25th, 2012
8:38 am
People born in American Samoa — including those born on Swains Island — are American nationals, but are not American citizens unless one of their parents is a U.S. citizen. Chip Towers reports that his mother is. And,, his mother reports he was born in the U.S. As U.S. nationals, American Samoans may not vote in U.S. presidential elections. However, American Samoans are entitled to free and unrestricted entry into the United States.
Samoans are entitled to elect one non-voting delegate to the United States House of Representatives. Their delegate since 1989 has been Democrat Eni Fa’aua’a Hunkin Faleomavaega, Jr. They also send delegates to the Democratic and Republican National Conventions.
Michael Carvell got no credit in the newspaper in my driveway this morning for breaking this story, in fact, he appeared to have missed the story entirely. Now, this morning, it says he contributed to the online version which is the 1 I got, not this summary blog of it.
jasont
January 25th, 2012
8:51 am
So what I’ve learned on this blog, is if you are not a fan of Obama then your a racist. This is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. I am not a fan of Obama and a true believer that he is a media hound. Since I do not like Obama that makes me a racist? Is this really all you Obama lovers have? Didn’t hear anyone calling black people racists for not liking George Bush.
13-1
January 25th, 2012
8:53 am
Michael Carvell, the AJ-C also moved to the left underneath Mark Bradley and Jeff Schultz. He was over on the right under UGA Sports news. This change reflects that he is not in any way UGA Beat-Writer, nor UGA Beat-Writer in-waiting. That is Chip Towers. All I know is that (1) Michael Carvell back when he had his blog on the right side under UGA Sports news, asked a lot of questions and let Chester Brown not tell him the truth. In his rush to publish, he also failed to research. I give Chip Towers credit for the research here, except (2) neither Michael Carvell nor Chip Towers to-date have researched and spelled out this mom who claims to be U.S. Citizen not American National, nor have they either (3) researched and spelled out this statement by the mom, AGAIN, that her child was born in the U.S.
Obviously, (1) the blog by in-fact Michael Carvell on this story is woefully inadequate requiring Chip Towers’ (2) the article referenced in the header of this blog and just as obviously (3) we have nothing to collaborate the stories – both that she is U.S. Citizen nor that her child was born in the U.S.
Reporting is lacking. There is no story here. Yet.
dostoveyskiy
January 25th, 2012
9:00 am
Abide by the law or change it. It can be bent to appease UGa fans. But again, maybe they would agree to change the law if it benefited UGa football.
DawgTALES
January 25th, 2012
9:02 am
“John” let me agree with an above poster, I’m am so glad you moved up to Chicago! I hope you stay up there – hopefully you took all your family with you. As they say American by birth, SOUTHERN by the grace of god. Hope the door DID hit you on the way out.
crusherdawg
January 25th, 2012
9:05 am
Sad part is that the coaches spent so much time and money recruiting him without knowing his immigration status.
slydog
January 25th, 2012
9:10 am
Kramer
January 25th, 2012
7:54 am
The law is the law and it should be. Slydog, you are a moron and kool-aid drinker. By the way, this is a sports blog not a political one. Take your ignorance over to a liberal blog and join the rest of the idiots.
Kramer, idiots like you, who apparently don’t know how to comprehend the English language, is the reason this country is in the state of disarray it finds itself in. You can’t find one liberal statement I made. Go find some corn to husk.
DougsMugsDOTcom
January 25th, 2012
9:14 am
The thing that puzzled me about Obama and caused me to question his basic handling of crises is why he didn’t release his BC immediately. If what he released was real, there wasn’t anything embarrassing in it to cause him to delay.
If he really wasn’t born in Hawaii and wanted to lie to be president, he should not have claimed the two different hospitals as birth locations (a miracle!). He should have claimed a hippie home birth. His mother was wacky enough to have done that.
A person SMART enough to know......
January 25th, 2012
9:16 am
Captain…….Seems to be a very narrow interpretation of the law, exactly which spot in the freshman class would Chester be taking? Is there another 6′5 330lb OL within the state waiting to take his scholarship?…..
Are you that STUPID? At UGa he will more than likely be taking the place of some suburban White girl. UGa would have to admit EVERYBODY that is qualified and want to attend UGa before he could get in.
Getting a foreign student isn’t stopped by the new law IF they have documentation. The problem is the kids says he is a Citizen but cannot prove it. He can’t prove he is Samoan either.
slydog
January 25th, 2012
9:20 am
Tell me this, If Mr. Brown is a U.S. National, and that’s if either of his parents were born in American Samoa and he subsequently was born there (hypothetically), then how does this preclude him from being admitted to Georgia? If what I stated is hypothetically true, then immigration rules do not apply to him. Furthermore, if he was born here, then a birth certificate should be available and it shouldn’t be hard to find. I have a feeling that Mr. Brown was born in Samoa, other than that, it shouldn’t be an issue.
DougsMugsDOTcom
January 25th, 2012
9:20 am
@jasont,
If you didn’t like Bush, then you are gay…. sorry, you mean, President Bush, ok, then you are a “Self Hating White Man”, just like several of my black friends are “Self Hating Black People” because they don’t worship at the feet of Obama.
There, now that is settled, can somebody please make an exception for Chester Brown? I am as for proper immigration as the next conservative guy, but exceptions should be made if the person is a net positive for the economy and society. (no, the flood of Mexican illegals are not a net positive)
DougsMugsDOTcom
January 25th, 2012
9:25 am
@TDF,
I love Socrates and ecdawg and the posters over on leather helmet. Stop telling people about it because their forum is getting slower with all the new posters.
slydog
January 25th, 2012
9:25 am
@jasont
January 25th, 2012
8:51 am
So what I’ve learned on this blog, is if you are not a fan of Obama then your a racist.
No, that is factually not true. It’s just the vocal minority that IS racist is the loudest voice being heard. Unfortunately, when the media played up the “Magic Negroe” concept before Obama was elected, it gave him a “color” cover to hide behind. The racist conservatives take what is fact and twist it into things like “I knew we shouldn’t have elected that Muslim or N……” You got me? To defend Obama makes you a poor, lazy, negroe lover. To attack Obama makes you a racist.
DougsMugsDOTcom
January 25th, 2012
9:27 am
@TDF, btw, I wonder if Carvell even knows what thegrapevine was? Socrates and EC do.
TDF
January 25th, 2012
9:27 am
DougsMugsDOTcom
January 25th, 2012
9:25 am
Gotta get as many folks over there as possible to help keep the site free. Remember to click ads when you visit!
DougsMugsDOTcom
January 25th, 2012
9:29 am
@slydog,
No, Sly, to defend Obama makes you and moron. Why did he block the Keystone Oil Pipeline at a time when we are desperate for jobs and oil security?
slydog
January 25th, 2012
9:31 am
DougsMugsDOTcom
January 25th, 2012
9:29 am
@slydog,
No, Sly, to defend Obama makes you and moron. Why did he block the Keystone Oil Pipeline at a time when we are desperate for jobs and oil security?
Because you nor me have enough money to get him re-elected. J.P.Morgan does. Think about it. Why did Bush and his father, to make it short, start two wars just to give EXXON and Chevron better oil deals? I think that $1 billion a month could have been spent on that pipeline you speak of.
TallaDawg
January 25th, 2012
9:33 am
This is what happens when legislative bodies pass laws and policies based on past facts. The resulting law or policy’s future effects and application are misdirected and result in unintended consequences. Less than .0017 (that is 17 ten-thousandths), but probably much less, could even have possibly been immigrants to whihc this policy applies. Yet, we wates time a resources far exceeding anything that would have been saved, all in the name of ignorant, myopic, eog-centric Conservative policy. YEEEEEE- HAW. Way to reaffirm the image the world has of the American South.
slydog
January 25th, 2012
9:35 am
Why would Carvell report a secret commitment? What if those secret commitments turn out to be partially false? Then he would look like booboo the fool. And everybody here would complain about how bad a reporter he was for not reporting facts. He can only announce when the PSA announces. He isn’t an investigative reporter.
hypocrites
January 25th, 2012
9:35 am
I love how all these immigrant haters come out of the woodwork when there are millions of American citizens who collect an entitlement check for doing nothing. Hey at least they are willing to go out and do work a regular “American” is too good for.
As for the taxes. Nearly half of America pays a net of ZERO in federal income taxes. Everyone pays sales tax. They pay FICA taxes because their employer deducts it from their paycheck. Taxes for entitlements they will not be eligible for since they have no valid SS number.
Frankly the immigrants are paying almost as much in taxes as half of America. As for healthcare last I checked there were plenty of Americans who are using their local ER as their personal healthcare clinic with no insurance or intention of paying for their medical care.
TallaDawg
January 25th, 2012
9:36 am
@TDF – Obama may or may not be a moron, but can we agree that all people with at least a marginal intellect understand that he may or may not be an AMERICAN moron?
TallaDawg
January 25th, 2012
9:41 am
Stop believing what FOX News tells you. The Keystone pipeline is not the panacea that the OIL companies claim. It will only benefit them. These are the same oil companies that make bigger profits as the price of oil goes up while the economy suffers. Oil companies do not want cheap oil, because they price on a margin.
DougsMugsDOTcom
January 25th, 2012
9:42 am
@Say Whut,
I laugh when wackos ramble about Bush not getting Obama. Did Bill Clinton “get” the Atlanta Olympics bomber Eric Rudolph? Rudolph hung out in the North Georgia woods throughout the Clinton Administration and eluded the most massive man hunt in US history! And, you wackos think Bush should have been able to “get” Osama who was protected by Paaawww Keeee Staannn (writing it the way the idiot teleprompter president reads it).
Obama claims to be Rambo and the getter of Osama. What a narcissistic fool. Our military got Osama. Obama was on the golf course until right before the raid. He had to be drug off the course to get a photo opp.
Tobias Funke
January 25th, 2012
9:43 am
This is a bad law, period. Why would you punish somebody for trying to better themselves? These kids can’t help where their parents take them.
What should these kids do since they can’t go to college? Sell drugs? Commit crimes?
Let the kids get a durn education!
First
January 25th, 2012
9:43 am
You are not necessarily racist to criticize Obama but you are ignorant. The economy is BETTER now than when he took over by any definition a serious economist would use (Bortz, Slimebaugh, and Hannity are not economists by the way). We were in a recession when Obama took office (meaning we were experiencing negative GDP for a sustained period of time), now we are not- the economy is experiencing positive growth. We were bleeding jobs every month by the hundreds of thousands when Obama took office- now we are adding jobs (especially in the private sector- the opposite of socialism). Y’all need to just step out of the way and say, “thank you” and ride the recovery all the way to the bank. Even the stock market has gone from around 7,000 when Obama took office to around 11,000 today- good for most of our retirement portfolios. Now if you are a birther still trying to define Obama has Muslim (he is a Christian) or a non-Citizen- yes, you are probably racist because there is no other logical explanation for you because it just goes beyond being a regular ignorant idiot. Why did he wait to release his official birth certificate? Because it is insulting that he should even have to. The hospital and the state of Hawaii had already verified his birth there. There were even two newspaper articles announcing his birth. Had any other President ever had to show more to prove where they were born? No. But no other President had been black with a name like his. Go Dawgs!
DougsMugsDOTcom
January 25th, 2012
9:45 am
@TallaDawg, Obama doesn’t make profits from expensive oil? You need to research his connections with George Soros and all the foreign oil holdings of Soros.
The Keystone Pipeline would be paid for by a Canadian company and would create about 20,000 good paying American jobs just to build and operate it. Any easy to get oil will lower the cost of gas more than importing via oil tanker from OPEC.
Don’t be ignorant.
Russ, the Temporary Mascot
January 25th, 2012
9:57 am
Here’s a guy named Chester Brown who can’t get in at UGA. Go figure. I say tattoo him and get him some bling and change his name to Ugavatious and bring him in. Of course, I am only a little dog.
robodawg
January 25th, 2012
10:00 am
Too bad for UGA and for Chester. Best wishes wherever he lands.
flo-ri-duh
January 25th, 2012
10:00 am
Obviously he is not a U.S. citizen. He has been in this country several years and his family should have taken steps to make him legal. Hopefully, he will now apply for citizenship and go through the proper channels to earn citizenship. I really don’t understand why people come her, live here for years, and never try to apply for legal citizenship. I wish the young man well and wish he was going to UGA but I understand the reasoning behind the decision.
THE Dixie Redcoat Band
January 25th, 2012
10:12 am
13-1 and A Person Smart Enough To Know, do have the right facts/laws for American Samoa.
You’d think his coaches/family would have been working on his papers a long time ago.
I knew a Brown family many many years ago in Pago.
Sure would have been fun though to see an American Samoan playing for the DAWGS.
Dr. Phil
January 25th, 2012
10:18 am
This situation is the result of Sonny Perdue hand picking the BOR. I thought that one of this kid’s parents was in the Army. Hinesville is essentially a suburb of Ft. Stewart. Regardless of the BOR policy, I believe Adams could admit this young man with his presidential prerogative, like he did for the infamous basketball star Tony Cole, presently in Federal prison.. Guys like Cole and Caleb King never took a classroom seat from a qualified student because they never attended class.
HighHopes
January 25th, 2012
10:19 am
Obama lacks proof of citizenship… And he’s our President!
Alphare
January 25th, 2012
10:21 am
Why would a black guy or Somoan play for UGA is beyond me. Look at their fans, they are probably all “conservatives”. If you are touching the values of these “conservatives”, they will kick you in your face in a heartbeat.
BTW, most UGA players are from families labelled as libs or suckers or socialists by the “conservative” UGA fans.
Alphare
January 25th, 2012
10:24 am
HighHopes,
do you have a certificate for your 1980 NC title? which is only 32 years ago, 2 decades after Obama was born.
Don’t claim that title if you don’t even have a certificate.
Gman
January 25th, 2012
10:27 am
No wonder UGA can’t get the best recruits in the state of Georgia. JUST READ THE IGNORANT COMMENTS ON THIS BLOG TODAY! smh
flagboy?
January 25th, 2012
10:28 am
I consider myself as conservative as anyone else and that people have to be accountable for their decisions and I REALLY don’t support illegal immigrants having the same rights and benefits as citizens.
but it really catches some innocent kids in the net along with it. I have no idea when this kid came to the US or if he was born here (apparently not. .?), but it doesn’t seem like he’s done anything wrong. It’s a tough situtation.
Wish the best for the kid and hope he lands on his feet somewhere else.
DougsMugsDOTcom
January 25th, 2012
10:34 am
@Alphare,
Most recruits and their families are socially conservative. They go to Church and are Christian. Economically, they are probably Democrats and lean left on financial issues.
Once in the NFL, don’t most become financial conservatives after seeing how much the Democrats want to take from their checks and deny their children through inheritance (death taxes)? I read somewhere that most NFL players are Republicans, but maybe I was just dreaming.
Alphare
January 25th, 2012
10:36 am
I know most Alabamans “conservative”, but coach Saban is reportedly a Democrat. Don’t you think he cares more about those black players?
Former Auburn coach Tommy Tubberville personally took on Obama and questioned his birth, isn’t that the racist in the best display?
zbulldawg
January 25th, 2012
10:45 am
You have got to be kidding me !! Now we have our own state goverment helping out of state schools take our ball players !! YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME !! When you have 25 or so scholarships to offer how does that not count for enrollment !! How in the world can that be veiwed as bumping someone out of a chance to go to UGA ? This governor is a fool !! What a foolish thing to past ! Sometimes it seems; living in the state of Georgia is like living in a whole different country ! So now we have 3 players trying to enroll in school that have to wait till there’s an opening ? These scholarships Should come off the top ! I’m confused WHAT the hell is going on HERE ! CHIP please look into this WE THE PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW !
Rick James
January 25th, 2012
10:48 am
@Shieldy
The reason illegal aliens have children once they get to the US is because the kids are automatic citizens.If you are born in the US you are a citizen regardless of the parent’s status.It’s scares me when I think of some of the people that are allowed to vote in this country.
MarineDog
January 25th, 2012
10:50 am
These blogs are getting worse by the minute. No one can ever stay on the topic at hand. It usually goes negative within the first 10 posts. I’m not sure if it’s even possible to have a reasonable discussion anymore concerning the actual TOPIC.
DougsMugsDOTcom
January 25th, 2012
10:50 am
@Alphare,
I question Obama’s life history. It has nothing to do with race. I don’t know who he is, and neither do you. He should never had been made president.
The media failed us. They didn’t vet him, or if they did, they hid the results from us. We have never had such a Marxist (that is Communist, if you didn’t know.) President. He seems to be the real life “Manchurian Candidate.”