Wednesday was the first day of Georgia state Sen. Michael Williams’s “deportation bus” tour. The Republican candidate for governor is a long-shot in next week’s primary election.
Williams began his bus tour in a few metro Atlanta cities that have a reputation for being more sympathetic to immigrants than others in the state.
About 300 protestors met him at a strip mall in Clarkston, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta, which is sometimes called the South’s Ellis Island.
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