“Turning unvetted immigrants loose in the Georgia countryside poses a threat to our law-abiding citizens. People in Northwest Georgia expect their elected officials to maintain order and the rule of law,” an angry state Rep. Mike Cameron, R-Rossville, tells InsiderAdvantage. He’s referring to a recent incident when Dade County Sheriff Ray Cross and his deputies confronted a bus driver hauling illegal aliens from Texas to DC who was letting his passengers off because they wanted to stay in Georgia.
This is yet another story about migrants who’ve snuck through our borders, have been captured by Arizona, Texas and Florida authorities, and are abandoning their free bus rides before reaching Washington and New York. Those destinations, by the way, are very expensive for “asylum seekers” who have little cash and food and are looking for a place to settle.
“Sheriff Cross indicated that the immigrants had exited the bus from Texas in Rising Fawn and wanted to stay,” Cameron explains. “Sheriff Cross went to the truck stop where the bus had stopped and politely explained that the immigrants would need to get back on the bus and go to their destination.” They did—after the sheriff and his deputies rounded them up and ordered the illegals (some of whom had stripped off their identifying wristbands) to get back on the bus and get out of town.
Arizona, Texas and Florida offer border-jumpers seeking asylum voluntary bus rides after they are released with permission to travel by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents. Some are slated to arrive in Democrat-ruled Washington, D.C., and New York City “sanctuaries” to underscore the open borders problem. But who knows where many of them really end up.
Cameron hopes the word gets out that they’re not welcome in Georgia. The GOP lawmaker told InsiderAdvantage that “I notified Gov. Brian Kemp’s office of what transpired and he was very supportive of Cross’ actions. Both Sheriff Cross and I greatly appreciate the governor’s support.” “Immigrant buses no longer stop in our area because the sheriff drew a line and refused to budge,” Cameron notes. “His courage should be a lesson to us all.”
