We are happy but somewhat confused  to report that the Cobb GOP has censured Republican Gov. Kemp for his abject defiance on illegal immigration campaign promises.

Above: Brian Kemp’s first 2018 TV campaign ad.

“Rebuke” and/or “censure”- tomato/tomahtoe. It looks like it has happened twice?

In late May we were sent a Cobb County GOP resolution “rebuking” Gov Brian Kemp on his refusal to honor (or even mention) his detailed 2018 campaign promises on illegal immigration. At least the criminal alien part of illegal immigration. We were happy to see that it matched the draft language we created in April and distributed to various pro-enforcement Republicans around the state.

Now we are told that yesterday the Cobb Republicans voted for a Kemp censure and that it included what appears to be the same language as above. We have not seen a copy of the Cobb documents. Apparently the Marietta Daily Journal has seen them. Below is part of their news (paywall) report. I do not subscribe. Many thanks to John L for sending it over.

Related – Counting the days since Brian Kemp’s #BigTruckTrick

Cobb County GOP censures Gov. Kemp as former party chair resigns

By Jon Gillooly jgillooly@mdjonline.com Oct 1, 2021

Cobb GOP Chair Salleigh Grubbs said the party approved three resolutions at its committee meeting Thursday night at Marietta City Hall.

One resolution censured Kemp for failing to carry out campaign promises concerning illegal immigration. Grubbs said the resolution outlines Kemp’s campaign promises of addressing sanctuary cities, creating a registry of criminal aliens and a track and deport plan.

“And (Kemp) has consistently said, ‘I’ve got a big truck in case I need to round up criminal illegals and take them home myself,’” Grubbs said. “So the resolution portion of it says that Gov. Brian Kemp be censured for his failure to keep his campaign promises and meet his obligations to end illegal immigration in the state of Georgia.”

A second resolution calls on Kemp to prohibit vaccine passports, while asking the Georgia Legislature to prevent businesses from requiring documentation about an individual’s vaccination status. The idea, Grubbs said, is to prevent organizations such as Wellstar Health System from firing staff who refuse to adhere to its vaccine mandate.

A third resolution calls for a statewide forensic audit and criminal investigation into the 2020 and January 2021 elections.

Shepherd, who was not present at the meeting due to a teaching engagement, said he was represented by proxy, and his proxy voted against the resolution condemning Kemp.

Shepherd said the Kemp resolution came up during the GOP’s county convention earlier this year when it was brought by the chair of the party’s resolution committee, Michael Opitz. Shepherd said he shot it down at that time because party rules prohibit censuring someone who is not a member of the county committee. Kemp is not a member.

Yet Grubbs believes the resolution is legitimate.

Washington Examiner 

Twenty percent of border crossers tested positive amid delta variant surge, ‘surprised’ Mayorkas says

The top border official in the Biden administration admitted to being caught off guard recently by the spike in delta variant coronavirus cases among migrants at the border.

“What I didn’t expect was the tragic rise of the delta variant,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said during a Monday speech at the Migration Policy Institute’s annual immigration law and policy conference in Washington. “I did not expect to be in late September where we are.”

Mayorkas, who has for months refused to speak on the risk that infected migrants who are released into the United States pose to border communities, said upwards of 20% of that population are sick with the highly contagious disease.

“We are confronted with a population of people that, as a general matter, that have a rate of illness of approximately 20%,” said Mayorkas, who has been in his position since January. “When one is speaking of 7,000 or 7,500 people encountered at the border every day, if one takes a look at that the system, it is not built for that in a COVID environment where isolation is required.”

In August, more than 200,000 people were encountered attempting to enter the U.S. illegally from Mexico, among the highest rates in two decades… More here.

Townhall.com

The Biden administration on Wednesday began notifying governors about how many Afghan refugees would be resettled within their states from the first batch of 37,000 evacuees.

The administration plans to resettle 65,000 Afghans by the end of September, and 30,000 more by September 2022.

While the Associated Press first reported on the numbers, Axios presented the data more clearly

Many of the new evacuees requested to be resettled in those states because they already have family and close friends living in those states, according to two U.S. officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the calls to state government officials. Resettlement agencies also have a large presence and capacity in many of those states.

The State Department resettled evacuees based on the advice of local affiliates of nine national resettlement agencies the U.S. government is working with, the officials said.

The officials said Afghan evacuees are advised that other parts of the country — including areas with plentiful job openings and cheaper housing — could be good places to begin their new lives in the U.S. (Associated Press)

Read the entire story here from Townhall.