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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A person SMART enough to know......
January 25th, 2012
1:12 pm
Birth Certificate from Kenya now that is funny. You can’t hardly get a legal land ownership document in Kenya that has a history longer than 5 years.
TallaDawg
January 25th, 2012
1:16 pm
The immigration law and policy are not bad IN THEORY, but they are a watse of time and money for what the actually accomplish. Conservatives too often vote and govern on theory alone, without regard to the practical effects or the way things work in application in the real world.
slydog
January 25th, 2012
1:18 pm
A person SMART enough to know……
January 25th, 2012
1:12 pm
Birth Certificate from Kenya now that is funny. You can’t hardly get a legal land ownership document in Kenya that has a history longer than 5 years.
That’s because before the British came and tried to “civilize” Kenya, everything got screwed up. So please excuse the Kenyans for living in natural law, the law God or whoever the creator is gave them. There was a time in Europe, before the Roman Empire, when you didn’t need a piece of paper to own a track of land or announce a damn birth.
slydog
January 25th, 2012
1:19 pm
Excues me, I made a mistake. I meant, when the British showed up, they screwed everything up.
Alphare
January 25th, 2012
1:26 pm
HighHopes,
“our President has never released his birth certificate to the general public which he represents.”
Why would he? With weirdo like you all over the place nowadays, what’s the use?
A person SMART enough to know......
January 25th, 2012
1:26 pm
OK Slydog.
Will
January 25th, 2012
1:32 pm
Where is Mr Liberal-Mr Elite Mike Adams? He should be able to handle this problem but can’t because he doesn’t want to deal with the problem.
Please write your Gov and tell him to fire Mike Adams!
DougsMugsDOTcom
January 25th, 2012
1:35 pm
@TallaDawg,
I am tire of the oil sold on open market tripe. Domestic oil costs less due to numerous factors such as transportation and import export fees and taxes. The bottom line, domestic and Canadian oil will lower gas prices at the pump faster than Libyan, Saudi, Russian, Iranian, Saudi, Iraqi or Iranian oil….with the added bonus of not supporting our enemies.
Obama supports our enemies.
Interested reader
January 25th, 2012
1:37 pm
HighHopes
January 25th, 2012
12:19 pm
our President has never released his birth certificate to the general public which he represents. Our Constitution requires our President to be a citizen of natural birth. No problem…Just show us the certificate. We are asking this of this kid, but not the President?
Please take your racist comments and return to the Tech blog.
—–
That well-known liberal, communist newspaper, the Wall Street Journal probably doesn’t make it to Delusional State.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704187604576288811924282824.html
Please take your tinfoil hat and return to the psych ward.
A person SMART enough to know......
January 25th, 2012
1:37 pm
Obama is OUR ENEMY!
Rick James
January 25th, 2012
1:39 pm
@A person SMART enough to know……
Just like I figured..Your response verifies that you dont have a clue..
Jimmy Crack
January 25th, 2012
1:46 pm
Fun fact…
Before the University of Georgia, Michael Adams was the Republican nominee for the United States House of Representatives in 1980 for Tennessee’s Fifth District, but he lost the general election to Democrat BILL BONER who won with 118,506 votes (65.4%) to 62,746 (34.6%).
Why did UGA hire a president who was beaten handily by a boner?
Interested reader
January 25th, 2012
1:47 pm
A person SMART enough to know…
Obama’s birth certificate lists him as having an African father and a Caucasian mother
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704187604576288811924282824.html#project%3DWSJPDF%26s%3Ddocid%253D110427131519-848ceb5009ba4cbb80be5d62cb6c3921%257Cfile%253D042711obamabirthwsj%26articleTabs%3Ddocument
13-1
January 25th, 2012
1:48 pm
“So lets trim that list down by excluding non AQ schools since their schedules are a joke year in year out.”
27 teams 10-Win Seasons 2011 alone and us dead last of the 27 with 4-Loss Season.
Of the 27, we beat none.
Trim the list down ?
Delete non-AQ schools ? Like Boise State who beat us like a DRUM ?
Like TCU who beat Boise State (whom we could NOT beat) ?
You are so full of it; the ONLY reason you DEFEND Mark Richt is because he is a Christian, no other reason.
TDF – Tech Dawg Fan
13-1
January 25th, 2012
1:49 pm
Their schedules are a joke ?
Like our schedules are not ?
richie
January 25th, 2012
1:55 pm
This law was stupid…………But this is Ga………what do you expect……..LOL
True Dawg Fan
January 25th, 2012
2:30 pm
Oh, this is a tragedy! I supported the law when it was against Mexicans what for taken our jobs, but not a prized recruit! Why can’t these smart university types apply the law differently for different people like it was intended?
A person SMART enough to know......
January 25th, 2012
2:34 pm
True Dwag fan no copy & paste today?
BipolarDawg
January 25th, 2012
2:37 pm
Damm Uga needs to help the boy Chester Brown in the legal way ofcourse if they want him other wise other schools dont mind to take him like south florida or Central Florida.
gdawginkalamazoo
January 25th, 2012
2:45 pm
Chester Brown, damn the name sounds all American. How could that one not get by? What is his middle name? That’s the culprit.
RealDawg
January 25th, 2012
3:06 pm
@gdawginkalamazoo
Maybe if his name had been “Barry Barack Baraek Hussein Soetoro Dunham Obama” and had multiple fraudulent Social Security numbers, he would have been ok.
A person SMART enough to know......
January 25th, 2012
3:07 pm
gdwaginkala….that is the question I ask at the beginning of this blog. His parents last name isn’t BROWN. So WHEN did they make that his name?
hypocrites
January 25th, 2012
3:12 pm
Yeah GA would be doing Chester a real favor if there was a way to allow him to play UGA football. It’s not as if the football program gets a ton of money through TV contracts off the backs of its football athletes. Oh wait it does. Athletes who don’t get a dime beyond their “free” education.
So who is doing who a favor?
RHall55
January 25th, 2012
3:13 pm
Where is CRG at this time? As RC should he not know the recruiting policies? Why did he not know the policies or rules? Is not paid to be aware of such situations? CRG, only 15 commits in this football rich state!! That is a farce!! Get off your butt and get to work!!
UGAY " Nuff Said"
January 25th, 2012
3:14 pm
You REDneck Ugay fans are funny, so he SHOULD NOT play over a “so called” US citizen huh? Well, if that was the case NO ONE should be playing, reap what you have sown Miss American, you believe and have always have believed that the only correct way to do just about ANYTHING was to do it your way!!! America was built on IMMIGRANTS and even the “so called” ‘Pure American’ came over here ILLEGALLY!!!! How about asking the Native Americans how they felt about ‘illegal immigration’ (did original American Settlers even care)? Don’t enforce and create new laws now that being illegal is truly inconvenient to your comfort zone!!! That kid was ready to commit to Ugay, Ugay needs lineman!!! Why push him away now? Why did it take the scouts, president, or whoever that was in charge so long to realize that he didn’t have to proper documents prior to persuing him????
A person SMART enough to know......
January 25th, 2012
3:22 pm
UGAY ” Nuff Said”….MORON.
Good Grief
January 25th, 2012
3:23 pm
liberalism and conservativism are both legit points of view and it’s a shame that so many people attack each other like they’re enemies. We are all Americans and believe it or not, a lot alike. Politicans like to focus on our differences to try and divide and conquer and to try and draw a contrast between those in power and those who want to be. The reality is politicans are alot alike just like everyone else is. We want the same things. I wish the people would try and settle differences rather than name-calling and trying to belittle each other. Stop playing into their hands. Stop letting differences define us. Stop name-calling. Stop demonizing. Start orking together and most importantly be humble and come with an open mind.
A person SMART enough to know......
January 25th, 2012
3:27 pm
Easy solution…….
How to find your birth certificate
If you want to find information concerning birth certificates, it may be obtained at the Vital Statistics Office.
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.
Just fill out the paper work and prove that he or his parents are US Samoan.
DawgSTILE
January 25th, 2012
3:31 pm
I am the only one or does that Chester Brown kid look A LOT like one of those SAMOANS on the WWE.
Midtown
January 25th, 2012
3:35 pm
flo-ri-duh wrote: “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”
In all likelihood there is no legitimate path or “proper channels” for him to get U.S. “citizenship”. It cracks me up when folks think people are illegal simply because they haven’t walked into the local immigration office and asked them to print up a green card for them……
A person SMART enough to know......
January 25th, 2012
3:36 pm
somebody said he looks like Kim kardashian and Molly Ringwald in that photo of Brown & Theus.
13-1
January 25th, 2012
3:39 pm
They all look alike to me.
THE Dixie Redcoat Band
January 25th, 2012
3:39 pm
We know several American Samoans and (Western) Samoans with last names like; Pritchard, Reid, Frosgreen, Chan, Brown, Nomura, Godinet, Langford, Grey, etc., granted, they should have given Chester a more Polynesian name.
A person SMART enough to know......
January 25th, 2012
3:39 pm
@Midtown..it shouldn’t be that easy but even people that are here illegally can start the process in this country. It takes years. The family NEVER thought it would be an issue so they were LAZY and didn’t try or don’t have proof they are US Samoan. Still he should have a Birth Certificate if he was born here.
Jacket99
January 25th, 2012
3:41 pm
SMART…someone needs to get his eyes checked.
Linus Van Pelt
January 25th, 2012
3:43 pm
Charlie Brown never gets a break. Lucy keeps lifting the football whenever he tries to kick it.
A person SMART enough to know......
January 25th, 2012
3:47 pm
Jacket99 It is probably the Leebern Liquor in Athens that has effected his eye sight.
Midtown
January 25th, 2012
3:50 pm
@a person Smart Enough to Know: Assuming his parents are also illegal, who exactly would you have petition for him to get a “green card”?
True Dawg Fan
January 25th, 2012
3:54 pm
@RealDawg said: Maybe if his name had been “Barry Barack Baraek Hussein Soetoro Dunham Obama”
Everyone knows that the secret muslim Kenyan usurper in chief’s REAL name is B. Rock “The Islamic Shock” Superallah Fartbama. You just outed yourself as an obvious libtard by calling him Barry. Just why are you carrying water for him?
A person SMART enough to know......
January 25th, 2012
3:55 pm
He would have to file for a STUDENT VISA just like the 9/11 terrorists did to go to flight schools in the US.
RealDawg
January 25th, 2012
4:03 pm
@Good Grief
Liberalism is misnamed. It has ZERO to do with liberty and libertarianism. Today’s liberals are big government Fascist supporters at best and outright communist at worse.
Why to hard leftist coop names for things they are not (i.e. Progressive, Liberal)? It is because most people want freedom and don’t support the robbing of Liberty and freedom. The left are as un-American as King George dictating tax increases.
Alphare
January 25th, 2012
4:07 pm
True Dawg Fan,
you should be a UGA cheerleader. You can shout “libtards” all day long towards those black UGA players.
RealDawg
January 25th, 2012
4:07 pm
@13-1
All Big Samoan Offensive Linemen look alike to me….. Mean and Scary.
I sure wish we had Chester Brown suiting up next fall. This is a big recruiting bummer.
Taylor Wooten
January 25th, 2012
4:10 pm
This is laughable. A Joke.
Illegals running around everywhere…..picking fruit….running convenience stores…..no problem with them.
Taylor Wooten
January 25th, 2012
4:11 pm
Heck, even the President was born outside of the US. Worked out for him.
GT4EVER
January 25th, 2012
4:14 pm
Big government is supported by both parties…they just have a difference of opinion about what part of the government should be big.It’s funny that George Washington was forced to turn to Foreigners and freed slaves to support the Reveloutionary Army… because most of the average people in the 13 colonies thought the whole thing was a fight between two groups of wealthy people… and that neither of them had THEIR best interest in heart anyway.Not much has changed.
Talmadge
January 25th, 2012
4:21 pm
Keep up the tradition boys
Good Grief
January 25th, 2012
4:41 pm
@ RealDawg
You couldnt me more wrong. Reread my OP and use your brain.
Good Grief
January 25th, 2012
4:41 pm
*be
13-1
January 25th, 2012
5:01 pm
RealDawg,
me too.