Fixing the migrant bussing problem?

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1. No one should be "mad" at Texas

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for migrant bussing.

Migrants are crossing the border in record, STAGGERING numbers. They are doing this for many reasons, due to terrible economic and political conditions in Venezuela and other places, and they are doing it because the border is not currently secured.

There are two choices.

Either we, as an entire country, decide that we support letting migrants in, or we don't.

If we as democrats decide that our values mean that we support migrants, we have to stop talking out of both sides of our mouths on this issue. It's much easier for people to say "I support migrants, those poor people! I feel sorry for them!" when they aren't showing up in your schools and your backyard.

In 2022, 1.2 MILLION migrants crossed illegally into Texas.
500K crossed into AZ
140 K crossed into NM
250 K crossed into California.

So the mayor of New York can pitch a fit and cry about 100,000 migrants, but Texas has to deal with 12 times that EVERY YEAR. They can't all stay in Texas. There are more coming this year. There will be more coming next year unless there is policy change.

If our democratic values say that we let these people in, every single city and state will have to support them. Every single one. It should not be Greg Abbott sending busses of migrants. Biden should be providing the busses to spread these people out to communities across the nation. Or we should slow the rate they're coming in. But blaming Abbott is silly. It's silly to expect they will stay in Texas where you don't have to look at the problem any more than it is to expect that 2 million migrants a year should have to stay in Vermont or Delaware. This is a national problem. IT needs a national solution.