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It was already illegal - It was human trafficking.
It'd be nice to have people enforce the laws we already have first instead of this security theatre.
If life was shit where I came from, I made it in, and I was told I could go to NYC or stay in south Texas, I'd get on the bus.
Have you been near the border? There's not a lot of opportunity right there.
Edit: Since this seems to be attracting those who disagree. This is not human trafficking.
And my point about an immigrant choosing not to work in a place where they can be replaced immediately... The point stands.
If your complaint is with immigration generally, then that's a different thing.
The immigrants aren't mentally slow. They just want better and were willing to risk it. An intelligent person would take the free ride to improved opportunity. Even more true if family was there and this saves cash.
Cool, now imagine you made it over and have family in Houston, but some asshole forces you on a bus to NYC where the COL is insanely high and you don't know anyone.
They aren't forced on the bus. That is illegal. This is choosing.
Esit: from the article & note the states in the last paragraph.
Migrants are often lied to to get them onto these buses. They're willing because they're under false impression of where they're going.
I dunno if I'd take the word of either one of these locales on whether the migrants are willingly boarding these transports. This could very well be the "board this bus or we're going to throw you in a cage and forget about you" type of "willingly."
It says in that article the group that got sent to Martha's vineyard are making claims of human trafficking. I find it hard to believe the people put on these buses aren't coerced or lied to. I think there are many reasons people would want to move to NYC instead of bordertown Texas but I don't see Texan politicians caring to filter out ones who do and don't want to go and simply rounding a group up and getting them on a bus.