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The photograph that appears with this entry is from a recent issue of the Tifton Gazette. It is a snapshot of fifty plus Mexican nationals awaiting a bus that is destined for Mexico. They are standing around in a parking lot of a local supermarket preparing to be driven home. Keep in mind this is all taking place with a federal court having disallowed/suspended two provisions of Georgia's new immigration enforcement legislation
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Here is the original article from the Tifton Gazette in Georgia:
http://tiftongazette.com/local/x2368...to-leave-state
It sounds authentic to me.
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Early Monday, more than 50 Hispanic men, women and children, including babies, were gathered outside a Mexican grocery on 12th Street waiting for a bus to take them back to Mexico before the law takes effect, some of them said.
Scores of suitcases, backpacks, boxes and coolers were stacked up outside Torres Mexican Grocery at 314 W. 12th St.
One of the men waiting, who declined to give his name, said most of the Hispanics gathered outside the store did not have proper residency documentation and so were going to Mexico. When interviewed shortly after 8:30 a.m. Monday, he claimed the group had been awaiting the bus since before 11 p.m. the night before.
As Gazette Publisher Frank Sayles Jr. was taking photographs of the scene in the parking lot, a man who claimed to be the store’s owner approached and shoved Sayles, demanding he leave. Roberto Torres is listed as the store’s owner.
When the owner was asked about the bus and what was going on in front of his store, he replied, “I don’t know; I don’t know.”
Sometime before 11:30 a.m., the large group of Hispanics and their luggage were gone from the store’s parking lot. Repeated attempts to further contact the store’s owner was unsuccessful.
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The magic question here is, "Who hired the bus?" But here is a clue:
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Workers at Sweet Dixie shared stories of friends who have already left Georgia to return to Mexico, only to be robbed of everything they own as soon as they cross the border.
“The Mexican mafia knows lots of people are returning to Mexico because of this law. They are waiting to take their money when they come into the country,” one man said.
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Who but organized crime got these people into the country in the first place? They are probably in debt to organized crime and since they aren't earning outside the country to pay off, organized crime is going to collect when they come back in. Maybe they even hired the bus.