Fixing the migrant bussing problem?

[In It to Win It]

63. You can guess how that conversation would go

but that's all you can do is guess, because he didn't try.

He didn't want to try. That's what makes it a ridiculous political stunt.

When California and Washington needs help with their wildfires, they ask for it.
When Florida and other gulf coast states needs help with its hurricanes and floods, they ask for it. When these same states need help with search and rescues and evacuations for these events, they ask for it.
When midwest states needs help with their tornadoes, they ask for it.

In these scenarios, they ask the federal government and they ask other states. The states will provide assistance if they're able. Other states will spare some National Guard troops if they can; spare some firefighters if they can; and whatever else if they can.

Many states, both red and blue, set up programs for resettling Ukrainian refugees, and something similar could be set up for Venezuelan asylum-seekers (assuming these are mostly Venezuelans) to help relieve Texas of a good chunk of them. Abbott is a fairly prominent politician, and if he had tried some amount of diplomacy rather than the partisan tit-for-tat he was looking for, he might have found some political allies. He wasn't looking for allies. He was looking for a fight.

Maybe, I'm naive but I have to think that politicians want the job because they believe they can solve problems for the good of their state and perhaps the country.

If he actually tried to be an effective politician, they might have assisted Abbott to whatever degree they could have. We'll never know though because he didn't want to. He wanted to grab headlines and talk shit to score political points.

The thing of it is, Greg Abbott doesn't get a warning phone call before 1.2 million migrants show up on his doorstep. No one asks his permission if it's okay. No one asks if he's okay if they show up in Texas.

This is supposed to justify him making it the problem of other state governors? Just because no one asked him, that means Abbott should perpetuate that onto other state governors? As I've said before, it's not their problem.

I'm sure Abbott would pout and complain if New York took a problem that was specific to NY and just shipped it to Texas. If they were wanting to be petty, they could have easily put them back on a bus to Texas... but these migrants were dropped on their doorstep and they're not shipping them to another state, like they could have done. They chose not to forcefully push the problem onto other governors, even ones they hate.

I still think the appropriate person to be coordinating that is someone in the federal government--like don't we have someone overseeing the southern border?

There is but we also have asylum laws that are pretty generous that only Congress could change. I'm not limiting the blame to the current immigration spike, but all of the past spikes as well. I believe the appropriate entity that is to blame here is Congress. I think the immigration problem is symptom of the dysfunction in Congress. Our entire immigration system, from top to bottom, is completely inadequate to handle today's problem, and for many reasons, Congress does nothing to address it. A president can only kick the can to the next president, but Congress can reconfigure the system entirely.