The bus will travel to several southern states, including Georgia and Alabama to protest those states' recently passed strict immigration enforcement laws, and end in Charlotte, North Carolina, just in time for the Democratic National Convention.
The
activists are angry that the federal government is still deporting some illegal
aliens.
The group's
website states: "Riders are undocumented people from all over the country,
including students, mothers and fathers, children, people in deportation
proceedings, day laborers, and others who continue to face deportation,
harassment, and death while simply looking for a better life."
One of those riders, Mexican national Fernando Lopez, told the Charlotte
Observer: “We are tired of the injustice. We are tired of the
indignity.”
The illegal
alien activists hope to join with North Carolina's "LGBTQ community,
Occupy, families of and formerly incarcerated people, labor and worker
organizations."
They also
hope to be welcomed by the Democrat Party "as honorary delegates."
Of course, this
is nothing new...