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Migrants, real and imagined, grip US voters, 1,500 miles north of border (www.theguardian.com)
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Few residents of this Wisconsin small city have seen a migrant but some are blaming Biden for an ‘invasion’ regardless and elsewhere in the state an influx of foreigners is not all it seems

Rhinelander is closer to the Arctic Circle than to Mexico, so it is no great surprise that few people in the small Wisconsin city have laid eyes on the foreign migrants Donald Trump claims are “invading” the country from across the US border 1,500 miles to the south.

But Jim Schuh, the manager of a local bakery, is nonetheless sure they are a major problem and he’s voting accordingly.

“We don’t see immigrants here but I have relatives all over the country and they see them,” he said. “That’s Biden. He’s responsible.”

Large numbers of voters in key swing states agree with Schuh, even in places where migrants are hard to find as they eye cities such as Chicago and New York struggling to cope with tens of thousands of refugees and other arrivals transported there by the governors of Texas and Florida.

Trump has been pushing fears over record levels of migration hard in Wisconsin where the past two presidential elections have been decided by a margin of less than 1% of the vote. A Marquette law school poll last month found that two-thirds of Wisconsin voters agree that “the Biden administration’s border policies have created a crisis of uncontrolled illegal migration into the country”.

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[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 37 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Migrants are not “illegal immigrants.” They are documented asylum seekers, allowed temporary refuge. They have been bused to Democratic sanctuary cities for the last few years to prevent overcrowding border cities.

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested-statistics-immigrants-and-immigration-united-states-2024

Unauthorized immigrants are the “illegal immigrants” they’re so worried about. Almost all of the cities with the largest unauthorized immigrant populations are the same sanctuary cities.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/03/11/us-metro-areas-unauthorized-immigrants/

Both of these groups are different from registered immigrants, entering the US with intent to become citizens, who must follow an incredibly challenging legal path for naturalization.

You red states are missing out on interesting culture, awesome food, and hard workers.

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[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago

Oh man, is it time for our once-every-four-years scary caravan of literally billions of migrant rapists preparing to invade the border? The caravan which will mysteriously vanish in December?

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

How do these fucktards not understand that we need immigrants?

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[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

Fox News and right wingers really helped push fake threats.

My friend is a Rogan fan and he's so terrified of certain cities, believing they're overrun with migrants, as if he currently doesnt live in the top 10 dangerous cities in America.

It's fucking bananas.

[-] bamfic@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

This is so fucking stupid. Unless you live in central Africa, all humans are migrants.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Someone should make an interactive worldmap where you could see who was the bad ones at specific times.

You know, the bad people like jews, black people, italians (France 1970 IIRC, just an example), foreigners, polish plumbers (not kidding), the lazy mexicans stealing jobs etc. etc. etc.

I'm not at all enough versed in this kind of history, but I'd love to see one. Maybe because I was the bread stealing person for some years :-) but being a bit serious, maybe some scared people might understand it's just that, scare techniques, and that they have been used in centuries to abuse people (both the scared ones and the one attacked ofc).

[-] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Wisconsin has a big Hmong population, all of whom came to the US legally. Holy hell the things I've heard people say about them. As if they're not even human. This sentiment doesn't surprise me at all.

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