# Guess what Texas immigration authorities did to Kamala Harris - AGAIN? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 25, 2022, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-texas-immigration-authorities-did-to-kamala-harris-again/977091 "2022-12-25T23:03:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2022, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-texas-immigration-authorities-did-to-kamala-harris-again/977091/121 "2022-12-28T23:29:29Z")
I’m buying beers all around if eenerms ever answers your questions. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2022, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-texas-immigration-authorities-did-to-kamala-harris-again/977091/122 "2022-12-28T23:33:49Z")
Can Michigan send the Whitmer kidnapping plotters to Governor Abbott’s home, or at least have them spend their prison sentences in Texas? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2022, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-texas-immigration-authorities-did-to-kamala-harris-again/977091/123 "2022-12-28T23:38:11Z")
See, that’s what Republicans don’t understand. I live in Chicago-ish, and we have lots of our own problems here. Problems specific to us, that Abbott doesn’t have to deal with. But we don’t put our unique problems on a bus and sent them to the homes of Texas government officials because we aren’t inhuman shitslimes. Republicans don’t get that. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2022, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-texas-immigration-authorities-did-to-kamala-harris-again/977091/124 "2022-12-28T23:59:28Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > You know they were picked up by NGO s and taken to shelters where as El Paso has no room and they are sleeping on the streets? “No room” in Texas, of all places? I take it you’ve never seen the place. If there’s anything at all that Texas has, it’s room. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-texas-immigration-authorities-did-to-kamala-harris-again/977091/125 "2022-12-29T01:38:17Z")
Evidently some Texans are coming to the realization that their state is no longer the largest state in the union. And this is how they respond to that: kneejerk jackassery. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-texas-immigration-authorities-did-to-kamala-harris-again/977091/126 "2022-12-29T01:45:55Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Evidently some Texans are coming to the realization that their state is no longer the largest state in the union. And this is how they respond to that: kneejerk jackassery. - That happened in 1958. They’re just hearing about it _now_? [![](https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/f350d4ea-361b-4fc0-b127-f138362816fa.bf3b2f4a50ac307a34eb105d726b69d6.jpeg) ](https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/f350d4ea-361b-4fc0-b127-f138362816fa.bf3b2f4a50ac307a34eb105d726b69d6.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-texas-immigration-authorities-did-to-kamala-harris-again/977091/127 "2022-12-29T01:49:00Z")
Even the stupid is bigger in Texas. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-texas-immigration-authorities-did-to-kamala-harris-again/977091/128 "2022-12-29T01:54:07Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Someone on another board just suggested something I hadn’t thought of, and it’s that TPTB chose Ms. Harris’ home because her parents were both immigrants themselves. If they were looking for an immigrant’s child, they could have dropped them off at Mar-a-Lago and saved some gas. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-texas-immigration-authorities-did-to-kamala-harris-again/977091/129 "2022-12-29T03:42:39Z")
I’ve told this story on the Dope before but a friend of mine lived in Alaska for over three years, as her hubby was in the airbase at Fairbanks. When he got transferred to San Antionio my friend went to get a new driver’s license at the Texas DMV, something that had always been easy during other moves. But the clerk at the DMV told her “We don’t take driver’s licenses from other countries.” This clerk truly did not believe Alaska was a US state. So much for Texas officialdom. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-texas-immigration-authorities-did-to-kamala-harris-again/977091/130 "2022-12-29T08:34:01Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > So, maybe he called the pope to find out what to do with those folks, and the pope saith “Fuck those dirty migrants. They probably carry diseases or something. It’s Christmas – you don’t want their cooties on you – ship their sorry asses over to DC or some other place with tons of shitlibs.” If someone believes that Pope Francis thinks that anyone coming from Latin America must be carrying diseases or bringing in drugs when they come across the Mexican border (because, you know, all those Latin Americans are diseased and drug dealers), they don’t know anything about him. He’s almost the only pope born outside of Europe. He was born and grew up in Argentina. He’s probably going to be part of a trend away from European and European-ancestry people being the future popes, since an increasingly large proportion of Catholics now live in Africa, Asia, and South America rather than in Europe and North America. This is not to defend the Catholic church as being a wonderful organization. In most ways it’s a terrible organization that’s done terrible things. It’s just that with the trend toward Catholics increasingly being non-European and non-European-ancestry people, future popes can be expected to come from many places around the world. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-texas-immigration-authorities-did-to-kamala-harris-again/977091/131 "2022-12-29T12:05:47Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > If someone believes that Pope Francis thinks that anyone coming from Latin America must be carrying diseases or bringing in drugs when they come across the Mexican border (because, you know, all those Latin Americans are diseased and drug dealers), they don’t know anything about him. The quote you are responding to was making the point that Pope Francis thought no such thing. It’s been clarified in the subsequent posts for people who missed the sarcasm. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-texas-immigration-authorities-did-to-kamala-harris-again/977091/132 "2022-12-29T12:16:15Z")
BTW, I also don’t think Jesus would have said “fuck those migrants”, in case anyone else isn’t understanding. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-texas-immigration-authorities-did-to-kamala-harris-again/977091/133 "2022-12-29T12:27:46Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > He was born and grew up in Argentina. He’s probably going to be part of a trend away from European and European-ancestry people being the future popes, since an increasingly large proportion of Catholics now live in Africa, Asia, and South America rather than in Europe and North America. You are probably right about non-Europeans, but note that Francis is of Italian heritage. The majority of Argentinians have a European background. Not that I care, but I wont be holding my breath for an African, Asian, or indigenous heritage Pope any time soon. Anyway, back to the topic at hand. Let’s see if Republicans in the next Congress are serious about immigration reform or are only interested in shallow stunts like this. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-texas-immigration-authorities-did-to-kamala-harris-again/977091/134 "2022-12-29T14:18:41Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > Not that I care, but I wont be holding my breath for an African, Asian, or indigenous heritage Pope any time soon. I wouldn’t be surprised if the next pope is not of European heritage. Popes are chosen from the cardinals and are voted on by them. The following website notes that the cardinals are increasingly not of European heritage: > **[Under Pope Francis, the College of Cardinals has become less European](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/09/20/under-pope-francis-the-college-of-cardinals-has-become-less-european/)** > > Pope Francis’ picks for the College of Cardinals have tilted the leadership structure away from its historic European base and toward countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Everything is changing everywhere, and nothing that’s completely different from the way it was before will surprise me. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-texas-immigration-authorities-did-to-kamala-harris-again/977091/135 "2022-12-29T22:29:26Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > Let’s see if Republicans in the next Congress are serious about immigration reform or are only interested in shallow stunts like this. Spoiler alert: It’s the shallow stunts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-what-texas-immigration-authorities-did-to-kamala-harris-again/977091.md?page=6)