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On busloads of immigrants showing up unannounced [1]
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Date: 2022-10-02
Immigrants stopped by Border Patrol Credit: vichinterlang
More than two million migrants have arrived at our southern border since January.
No matter how you feel about sending migrants unannounced to places governed by Democrats, it is becoming clear that the migrant situation is truly a crisis. It is also clear that the Biden administration’s efforts have had negligible effect. Meanwhile, the unannounced dissemination of migrants by bus and plane continues...
Irregardless of the need for help at their borders, Governors Abbot, Ducey, and DeSantis, crowing about ‘owning the libs,’ is simply the behavior of old-fashioned bullies. Remember when the GOP began calling Joe Biden “Brandon,” meant as a slur? Thirty seconds after the Democrats embraced the “Brandon” meme, the rhetoric went away. That same tactic will work here. It is an effective way to deal with bullies.
How do we ‘embrace’ this situation?
Request a busload of immigrants today! How could those three Republican governors refuse that request from Democratic mayors and governors across this country? To refuse would put them in the position of being the bad guys even among their own ranks. Not to be outdone, wouldn't Republican mayors/governors participate?
What are the benefits?
Besides tamping down the rhetoric, the benefits to this approach are enormous. A multitude of small groups of migrants will get vetted, processed, and, if qualified, into housing more quickly by spreading the process out across the country. Won’t this reduce stress on our single point of entry for the Immigration Service and lighten the load for our Border Patrol Agents?
Once processed, these newly legal immigrants will need work. If you have not noticed, there is a labor shortage in America. What if they fill many of those jobs? Isn’t the labor shortage part of the problem with our supply chain? If we lessen the pressure on the supply chain, won’t that move us toward reducing inflation?
By requesting migrants, the two warring factions will be forced to talk with each other. That would be great, right? Who knows what is possible if we start talking with, rather than at, one another? Immigration reform has been on the America’s legislative agenda for decades. By communicating and cooperating surely there is a workable compromise.
The most important reason to do this
The most important reason to do this, however, is because it is the right thing to do. Isn’t this the humanitarian thing to do? Isn’t this what Democrats say they stand for? Ask yourself: Why should border states bear the entire brunt of the current migration deluge?
Don’t we all chip in on things none of us can individually afford like roads, bridges, and schools? If each city and state carries some of the weight of this migratory influx, we can bear this load and ease this crisis.
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