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Biden says he'll shut down the border if deal gives him authority
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When I see an article about busses bringing immigrants, I have often found a high ranked comment about human trafficking and alleging this was all done with lies. That the bussing is immoral.
That was about a month ago.
I took down votes then, too. Except then my point was that if I was an immigrant one of the last places I'd want to remain is south Texas. Give me that bus ticket to a blue state.
It just looked like resentment that they were arriving in blue states and sanctuary cities. The same places that have long described immigrants as net positives.
Edit: "objectively false" when I have the conversation history. This is why I point to the undeserved certainty to lemmy throws around on topics.
I think it's more that they're being dropped off with no communication, coordination, planning, or notice at all. Just random bus loads of immigrants arriving in the night thinking there will be resources there to help them.
Oh, and then you get the obvious PR moves like bus loads showing up unannounced at the Vice President's official residence in the middle of the night during a time where the temperatures were dangerously low. It's sick -- just using immigrants as a PR stunt to "own the libs."
Hold up. Do you think they arrive at the US border with communication, coordination, planning, and notice? Your complaint against Texas mirrors Texas's own complaints against immigrants.
Because Texas can rationally make the same argument you just raised, I have to reject both. You don't get to argue about a lack of coordination, because Texas doesn't get any either.
If you want to fight back against Texas bussing immigrants to sanctuary cities, you have to flip the script: sanctuary cities need to send busses to Texas, ready to pick them up.
Significant portions of those involved on the thread were sure it was human trafficking. Spoke and voted that way.
I'm not saying the stunt portion of bussing is okay. But finding a term that diminishes the agency of immigrants and makes their appearance in blue areas the act of unlawful human trafficking (a specific and high bar to cross)... It just seemed convenient that everything about the arrival of immigrants was wrong.
I work with immigrants. They're smart, capable and just want a shot at the dream. I'm not against immigration. I'm against lemmy seeming to find convenient reasons why it's okay to happen until it happens nearby.
Those threads are not hard to find.
Texas is not responsible to house every immigrant that crosses the border. You didn't say it, but others imply it.
The bussing is immoral when they're bussed into a town that isn't expecting them and just dropped off. If Texas wants to coordinate the bussing with the destination cities/towns, fine do that. I have no problem with that. But when people are carted to a fucking Chicago suburb with no cold weather clothing in the dead of winter and just dropped the fuck off, how can you see that as anything but immoral?
I've never said that all conditions of the bussing are moral. Only that bussing itself isn't immoral. Or human trafficking (as is often posited).
I've specifically said the stunt part isn't cool. The bussing part... Can be.