96  I wrote an op-ed for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
regarding the heinous murder committed in Athens last week, my own
experience as a captain in the Doraville Police Department, and what we
must do to get criminal aliens off our streets.

I hope you’ll read it
in full below.

Death of student in Athens highlights America’s lax
immigration policies
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as-lax-immigration-policies/OJUEYJDLSNDK5OGDGXYT4B744E/ The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
By Commissioner John King

The issues of
illegal immigration and enforcing the law are personal to me.

I was
born and raised in Mexico, and I’m a career lawman. I came to America
legally when I was 17 and joined the Atlanta Police Department to pay
for college. It turned into a career. I spent years on high crime and
drug task forces, and eventually, I served 17 years as chief of police
in Doraville, a city just northeast of Atlanta.

Prior to becoming
chief, I was a captain in the Doraville Police Department. We had a
young officer murdered in the line of duty. He was a good kid. His
family had come to America from Colombia, he’d grown up in Doraville,
and all he ever wanted was to serve as a police officer.

At the
time, the hunt for his killer was the largest manhunt in Georgia
history, and I served as the lead investigator. We made an arrest and
got the confession.

The perpetrator was 18-year-old Bautista Ramirez
— an illegal immigrant from Mexico. He was given a life sentence, but
he’s still eligible for parole.

That heinous killing shook our
community. Now, another heinous killing shook Athens. A 22-year-old
nursing student was killed while on a run Thursday morning, a “crime of
opportunity.” Her accused killer, Jose Antonio Ibarra, is a Venezuelan.
ICE officials confirmed Sunday that Ibarra unlawfully entered the
country in 2022 and was paroled and released for further processing.
There’s always going to be evil on the streets, but these crimes were
preventable.

Unfortunately, too many so-called “leaders,” at every
level of government, keep supporting policies that allow criminals to
come into our country, commit crimes, stay here and repeat the cycle.
Let’s start with the federal government. In addition to my time as a
lawman, I spent 40 years in the Army National Guard, enlisting as a
private and retiring last year as a major general. I deployed to the
border numerous times under multiple administrations.

I can tell you
from experience, President Joe Biden’s border policies have made things
worse. He halted construction on the wall, ended Remain in Mexico, the
policy requiring asylum seekers remain in Mexico until their U.S.
immigration court date, and reinstituted catch and release. We’ve all
seen the results. More than 7 million unvetted illegal immigrants have
crossed our border since he took office.

The president’s response?
He’s done more to crackdown on states trying to act than to secure our
border. Despite what politicians may tell you, there’s no bumper
sticker slogan that will secure the border once and for all, but there
are obvious starting points. End catch and release, bust up the
cartels, reinstate Remain in Mexico and resume construction of the
wall, for starters.

It also goes without saying that we must do more
to end sanctuary cities, and we must vote out the lunatics who support
them.

I’m calling on the Georgia Legislature to immediately pass a
bill stating that any illegal immigrant arrested in our state for a
violent crime should not get bond under any circumstances. And any
illegal immigrant convicted of a crime should not be eligible for
parole or early release; they should be immediately deported when their
complete sentence is served.

I’m also calling on our state’s U.S.
senators — Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock — to introduce this
legislation at the federal level. How many more innocent lives must be
lost? How many more families and communities must have their world
turned upside down?

This is a logical, long overdue step that will
keep criminal aliens behind bars where they belong and save lives. The
time to act is now, before another tragedy strikes another family, and
we must get it done.

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John King
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