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In reply to the discussion: Fixing the migrant bussing problem? [View all]DemocraticPatriot
(5,410 posts)prepared to accept these migrants into our communities... in a share equally divided with the rest of the country---
if we intend to stand up for our values. OK...
However, you have been misreprenting the issue, regarding Abbott and DeSantis "busing migrants" into the north.
The problem with that, from the Democratic standpoint, has NEVER been that the immigrants were bussed into the North,
but the way that it was done....
Many migrants were transported into Massachusetts for instance, in the dead of winter, with no notice, and nowhere to go, and dropped off in the dead of winter on the street, in the middle of a very cold night...
Many of them should have stayed where they were, because they had federal cases pending about their status, and when they were moved away, may have inadvertently degraded their legal status....
Many of them got on the bus because they were promised jobs and homes at their destinations---
(which was a complete and total LIE by DeSantis/Abbott because no such arrangement had been made)...
Being Democrats and people that care about people, the northern states would likely have been more than willing to talk about it, if these southern states had offered any communication about the matter--
but they did not. They only shoved migrants onto buses and shipped them north, without caring what would happen to them.
It has been nothing but a right-wing political stunt, and you are vehemently supporting it here. So, WTF ???
The Democratic objection to all this, has been that it is a 'human rights' issue, and that the Republicans have been treating these people as if they were cattle....
(you seem to be very much in love with Greg Abbott--- I think perhaps you are posting on the wrong site...?)
(( and as far as the state government of TEXAS goes------ I am personally in favor of KICKING THEM OUT of the Union!
Forget this 'secession' bullshit--- their government does not deserve to be a part of this nation,
so we ought to KICK them out of the country, first! (sorry Texas Democrats) ))
Well, President/General Ulysses S. Grant once said something to the effect that 'the war against Mexico was the most unjust war which was ever fought'... since we gained so much territory from that war, starting with Texas, perhaps it is time to give it BACK!
The Texas Republicunts who control the state can negotiate with Mexico over the results.... Good Luck!