Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's office is now flying migrants to sanctuary cities, including Chicago, sources in his office tell Fox News, as the border crisis continues.
  • Bongo_Stryker
    3·
    1 year ago

    Wait are these legal migrants or illegal aliens? Because isn’t it illegal to transport illegal aliens across state lines?

    But isn’t the population growth in decline? We need more immigrants, otherwise we’ll soon be a nation of old people with no-one to bring bran flakes and turn up the heat for us.

      • Bongo_Stryker
        5·
        1 year ago

        Ok I see. If I’m reading this right, seems like it’s transporting them at all.

        https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1324&num=0&edition=prelim

        “(ii) knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, transports, or moves or attempts to transport or move such alien within the United States by means of transportation or otherwise…”

        I suppose it doesn’t matter, since it seems both left and right can just pick and choose which laws they think do and don’t apply to them.

        • OnlyTakesLs@sh.itjust.worksOP
          14·
          1 year ago

          Border patrol literally picks up illegals from the middle of the desert and dumps them in border towns.

          The law effectively doesnt matter. Its like that law about driving and having a flagger be infront of you. Its outdated, unenforced, and might as well not exist.

    • ratman150@sh.itjust.works
      31·
      1 year ago

      That would still be a win to these people and in their mind they’re adding crime to an already crime filled area.

    • OnlyTakesLs@sh.itjust.worksOP
      17·
      1 year ago

      Its actually not. Theres worse places. Chiraq is a funny meme though.

      I think the point of this is Santuary Cities, all of them, arent having to deal with the problems that they inflict on others, and this fixes this little oversight.

      Eventual hope is they finally call to secure the border.

        • Bongo_Stryker
          3·
          1 year ago

          Yes this seems like a problem to me: axing almost all social wellness programs, together with privitizing and commodification of everything possible, criminalizes poverty. It’s like punishing people for the situation you’ve forced them into. Makes no sense to me, but some people get rich off this system so they like it.

            • Bongo_Stryker
              3·
              1 year ago

              I understand this may be hard for you to follow, but I am blaming Robert Mundell, Arthur Laffer, and Ronald Reagan for the droves of immigrants at the border, the hordes of homeless in the streets, and the erosion of American society in general.

                • Bongo_Stryker
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Yes, and it’s been decades that central america has been fucked up beyond belief, thanks to US intervention. There are still people alive suffering ptsd from the fucked up shit that went down. Decades of the war on drugs and intergenerational trauma and messed up economy are still having an effect. The evidence is that people are so desperate they are willing to risk their lives and walk 3000 miles and hide in a river from gangs and ICE, just for a chance to get a taste of less fucked up America.

                  Meanwhile in the US, neoliberal policy that started with Reagan has continued for decdes has meant no mental health or any healthcare except for the wealthy, decades of the systematic erosion of workers rights and devaluation of labor, also decades of the war on drugs. Republicans and democrats alike have carried on these policies and while the GDP has risen, wages haven’t. In 1981 the average hourly construction wage was $10.82 an hour, last year it was $18.75. the GDP went from 3.2 trillion to 15.4 trillion.

                  Last paragraph I promise: According to this pubmed link:
                  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2221566/#:~:text=In the 1950s and 1960s,cheap hotels on skid rows. "In the 1950s and 1960s homelessness declined to the point that researchers were predicting its virtual disappearance in the 1970s. Instead, in the 1980s, homelessness increased rapidly and drastically changed in composition. " Closing all the mental hospitals and kicking the patients out on the street was the beginning and it has gotten worse since then. Reagan. Yeah that was decades ago, and america is still paying the price for the trickle down economics that never trickled down.