That is: “The Feds” can’t just conjure funding and human resources out of the aether to support the destination cities and create a National Migrant Receiving Project. Or at least, not “Feds” who still believe in acting lawfully. That is something that needs to be legislated and budgeted. And one part of the Congress wants visible failure so they won’t.
Because everything that has ever happened is bad news for Democrats. Haven’t you ever heard Chuck Todd?
I just wanted to add that when you have large groups of people who are scared to come forward as victims or witnesses because of fear of deportation, you set up a situation where those groups are at serious risk of being abused and exploited by organized criminal operations and then crime and worker exploitation flourish.
I hate the term “sanctuary city”, it’s a snippet of right wing propaganda that’s managed to go mainstream.
Exactly. “Why doesn’t the federal government do more to stop the evil Republican state elected pricks from doing evil acts, even though the other Republican federal pricks are doing everything they can to gum up the workings of the government?”
It’s hardly a great argument.
Please point out the screaming people in this thread expressing such views.
Now this post sure comes across as intentionally obtuse. The OP does seem pretty intransigently ignorant in their sloppy phrasing, but many other people have readily been able to clarify that the feds are not doing the shipping, and could pursue various actions from withholding funding to invasion of Texas. I would hope there would be some possible human trafficking or endangerment prosecutions, but am ignorant of the potentially applicable laws.
But sure, by all means, keep tossing out your extremely useful requests for cites.
TY. I thought we were beyond that. I’d be willing to admit my assumption was wrong but the way this thread is going it would turn out as:
Saint Cad “The Feds are not bussing in any migrants.”
Other Poster: “CITE!!!”
However that then led to the question of: Do the Feds do ANYTHING with regards to migrants? Or is it once they cross the border the Feds wash their hands of them? If so, then that’s even worse.
Remember this?
Got an untold number of cites showing that there weren’t/aren’t, and absolutely no cites showing otherwise.
You don’t want to get past this-you seem to want to bypass this.
It is.
At the risk of getting boiled in oil…
Trump attempted to close the border so that all emigration was done according to legal norms. He wasn’t completely successful but made strides, so much so that no one talked about a border crisis or the plight of immigrants. (Cite? nope)
I remember the Dem debates in the 20 campaign, a question asked, something like “if you are in favor of an open border to all comers, raise your hands!” and all Dem hopefuls leaped in agreement, Biden as well.
Joe won, and the southern border became the focus of world migrants. Masses of people moved on foot, via busses, trains, anything because they knew the border was open, and so it continues to today.
This discussion started with reasonable questions, the feds caused this so why aren’t they helping the cities? And the answer is something like not the feds problem, or the feds could perhaps offer economic help but the Republican House would never allow it.
IANL but these asylum seekers aren’t. If they are seeking asylum and they are not Mexican are they not obliged to apply to the first available asylum state? AKA Mexico? Or someplace earlier? Deny them entrance.
I noticed requests for “cite” many times, starting with the one that the Feds moved people across the country by air before Texas sent some by bus. Any search comes up with a number, here’s one.Biden’s DHS let 200,000 illegal immigrants fly directly into 43 cities | Washington Examiner
The migrant situation is awful and it is all done by and on behalf of the Democratic Party. To also now try to blame it on Republcans is ridiculous. But I’m probably the only person on the Dope who feels this way. And I don’t even own a red hat.
New York City (I assume you were talking about the city, not state) is certainly struggling with the influx of immigrants.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/26/nyregion/migrant-crisis-mayor-eric-adams.html
“Begging” seems to be a fabrication. Begging whom?
Chicago is also struggling.
But again, “begging” is a fiction.
Denver is not nearing bankruptcy. I thought there must be some truth to this claim, but I can’t find any. This seems like one of those talking points the right invents because people who don’t live there just assume it’s true. Supposedly Seattle and Portland have burned down if you believe right wing media.
This isn’t an issue of “red states refusing”. Texas and Florida are targeting blue states and dumping people with no support in a fit of spite.
As you later conceded the federal government isn’t doing this. And the federal government doesn’t have funds because Republicans are being obstructive. The government won’t even have a budget of any kind soon if Republicans continue to stamp their feet in a tantrum.
Above I linked some articles about a few things that Chicago and NYC are trying to do but there’s not a lot they can do.
I don’t see why this should cost votes for Democrats. They aren’t the ones treating human beings as if they’re trash to dump in your neighbor’s yard.
Right wing tabloid spinning propaganda with misleading info.
There is a tiny bit of truth to that, but not the way that trashy conservative mouthpiece is spinning it.
As of Aug. 22, U.S. officials at airports have processed 200,279 migrants under the sponsor initiative, allowing them to live and work in the country legally for two years through an immigration law known as parole, according to internal government data obtained by CBS News. The statistics, which have not been previously reported, show that 67,926 Haitians, 58,918 Venezuelans, 43,149 Cubans and 30,736 Nicaraguans have arrived under the policy.
The idea that “illegal immigrants” are being flown in at will is just a lie, typical of the Washington Examiner.
Or maybe not.
Here is an article of a plan the Biden Administration has put together they even call the Abbott Plan. No clue if it went into effect though.
Here is an article of migrants the Biden Administration placed in Portland, ME. Are you going to argue semantics since they weren’t bused there?
Here is an article that talks directly about the Feds busing and flying migrants, although it doesn’t say where to.
Here’s an oldie but a goodie. Biden’s midnight flights.
So I’m thinking I was right and as a bonus, HMS Irruncible has their cites.
Because the financial information has not been released yet by Mike Johnston. However there are concerns among workers that they are going to take a financial hit because the money is running out. Maybe he’ll pull money from somewhere.
The migrants being brought in legally via work programs are not the ones causing problems for the cities in your OP. You’re just wrong.
Then how do you know it to be true?
Right, ‘to own the libs’. Not because they don’t have the resources either. Or are you are saying is that even though major cities like New York and Chicago cannot handle the influx of people, El Paso can?
If you think this is hard on the people of New York, imagine how the people in the towns and cities along the southern border feel.
If you think all this immigration is a good thing, the least you can do is pay your share. Every one of the cities receiving immigrants declared themselves sanctuary cities and said refugees and asylees are welcome. Are you saying that was just empty virtue signalling?
Those refugees should have been stopped at the border. Failing that, they should be evenly distributed around the country. That’s what we do in Canada. Why should the southern states have to shoulder the burden of something they don’t even want?
Considering where they dropped them in the middle of winter, and the agencies that were NOT contacted as to their arrival, “to own the libs” seems like the most plausible answer so far.
" Several busloads of migrants were dropped off in front of Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence in Washington, DC, on Christmas Eve in 18 degree weather late Saturday.
An initial two busloads were taken to local shelters, according to an administration official. More buses arrived outside the vice president’s residence later Saturday evening. A CNN team saw migrants being dropped off, with some migrants wearing only T-shirts in the freezing weather. They were given blankets and put on another bus that went to a local church."
Makes you feel proud to be a Conservative, don’t it?
So how is it that cities and towns in Texas and Arizona can handle those immigrants, but major cities across America can’t?
They were sent in the middle of winter from someplace with decent weather to apersonal residence in Washington DC, totally unprepared. This is nothing but political theatre at its ugliest.
I love the term sanctuary city. I don’t like how Republicans have such an issue with Reagan’s “shining city on a hill.”