700 million, “tens of thousands of migrants”, that’s about ten to seventy thousand per head. And that’s just for transporting them!

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    I was wondering why the comments in this thread suck so much… then I looked at the community’s name.

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    And he’ll lose wasting everyone’s money for a marginal bump. Meanwhile jackass over in Texas plays politics with immigrants lives.

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      Texas isn’t able to deal with the massive amounts of migrants. Other states have to help out or we simply need to start turning people away.

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        They seem to be able to handle putting them all on a bus or a plane. Maybe they should send them back instead of onward.

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    You guys remember learning about the dust bowl in school? A pivotal moment was when the dust finally got bad enough that it blew all the way into Washington DC. This was followed by government intervention and real change.

    Uncontrolled illegal immigration is an issue. Biden is doing nothing about it. And this is a problem for southern states. I see absolutely nothing wrong with taking a fraction of these immigrants and dropping them on the doorstep of the states that say there is no immigration issue.

    The reality is, if this truly is not an issue, they should encourage it! Give us your hungry, your sick, and your poor, right?

    And if having a literal fraction of these immigrants dropped in your city is an issue, could you imagine being a border state and having these people flooding in? Maybe, just maybe, we should do something about it.

    Pursuing a lawsuit against the bus companies tells me they think this is an issue. Maybe their energy is better invested in pressing Biden to step in and address the immigration issue. Instead, they just want this to be an unaddressed problem for the southern states and not the entire country. The equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and closing your eyes.

    Imagine if Washington DC had criticized the mid west for allowing their dust to blow east, and tried to build fans that blow the wind back west. Would be pretty pathetic, right?

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      So Texas is doing something about it? Isn’t it the state’s problem? I mean, states rule their land, right? Or, is it only when it’s convenient? Perhaps Texas, who has them in hand, should send them BACK, instead of forward.

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        Okay, so you believe States should be able to dictate border policy and supersede the Federal government?

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          Did the federal government ask them to be sent to New York? Is there not an existing policy on how to handle illegal immigrants?