Pritzker urges Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to stop migrant dropoffs amid winter storm: ‘I plead with you for mercy’

[Anonymous]

Sanctuary cities and states should welcome illegals and the democrats who live there should provide for them. It’s what they touted and voted to achieve. Time to put their money where their mouth is.

[Anonymous]

They left a warm climate by choice. They are welcome to leave if it’s too cold.

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Anonymous wrote:They left a warm climate by choice. They are welcome to leave if it’s too cold.

They left because they were misled and given false promises.

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Anonymous wrote:Sanctuary cities and states should welcome illegals and the democrats who live there should provide for them. It’s what they touted and voted to achieve. Time to put their money where their mouth is.

That's not what Sanctuary City means. It just means they won't enforce federal immigration laws.

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Yep. And remember every convoy/caravan since? DCUM's finest insisted it was just fiction, somehow created by the right-wing to sow discord, just "Fox talking points." That's what we heard from the gaslighters who wanted Americans to believe none of this was actually happening. And now that blue cities are seeing it up close and personal, all of a sudden it's "sociopathic" and "cruel"! Honestly, this is my single-issue election year. Disgust doesn't even cover it anymore.

Maybe everyday Democrats were unaware of how devastating this really is. It's taken a desperate act on the part of Texas to make everyday people who don't live in Texas understand this is a crisis.

Bottom line: News sources have been downplaying this crisis. They aren't telling us the truth.

The government at both the federal and state levels know exactly how bad this problem is, because they receive intelligence.

Why? Perhaps we should be asking why our news sources and elected officials are gaslighting the American people.

They know it’s devastating, they are happy with it. They view it as a mechanism to turn Texas blue and make Abbot look racist and evil because he doesn’t “care” about people who are here illegally.

Now he’s sending people to blue states and they are crying for mercy. He’s sending a small percentage of people to Sanctuary cities that welcome immigrants, who supposedly have a bigger heart and want to protect vulnerable people. Unlike those terrible republicans. And the Sanctuary cities can’t handle it because no one can handle it. That’s the point.

It’s past time for this political charade to end.

Exactly this. It's easy to claim how "welcoming" you/your city is to immigrants - until you're inundated with them. Even just the tiny fraction of immigrants Abbott has sent to NYC and Chicago have overwhelmed those cities. Perhaps they'll think twice before continuing to insist how "welcoming" they are, now that they have experienced even a miniscule amount of what the border states experience on a daily basis. Time for Biden to sign some legislature, securing the border.

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Anonymous wrote:Pritzker is appealing to the wrong person.

His letter should be addressed to Biden urging him to get control of the southern border. Cities all over the country are being affected. And, Joe is twiddling his thumbs.

+1
I wish Abbott would respond by telling Pritzker (publicly) not to worry - that he will be forwarding all correspondence to the White House. Surely Joe will get right on it.

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever you feel about immigration and policies, I am so appalled at conservative's absolute inhumanity.

They have allowed themselves to dehumanize real, living, flesh and blood people to "illegals" and political pawns.

It seems to me you can make your arguments about stemming illegal immigration and refugees and asylum seekers without letting yourself become so cold, hard, and bloodless.

Read through the posts here...absolutely horrifying in their lack of empathy and humanity.

This whole thing is about "owning the libs" and getting one over on sanctuary cities and dehumanizing people so you can score points against "Leftists" and democrats.

Tell us that you want to open our border to anyone and everyone without actually saying it. Good grief. I prefer to live in a country with defined borders and lawful entry *only*. You know, like every other country in the world. If this distresses you so, feel free to open your home to illegal immigrants. What's stopping you?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sanctuary cities and states should welcome illegals and the democrats who live there should provide for them. It’s what they touted and voted to achieve. Time to put their money where their mouth is.

That's not what Sanctuary City means. It just means they won't enforce federal immigration laws.

And? Perhaps they need to learn from experience why those laws are necessary.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the inhumanity. Drugged up children are being trafficked at the border by single adult men.

It’s all by design, that’s why the Biden administration is allowing the border to be wide open. The useful idiots attack republicans and conservatives as heartless and cold while children are being sex trafficked, it’s enough to make anyone physically ill.

Republicans keep PROVING themselves to be heartless and cold at every step of the way. AND, the Republicans have done exactly jack shit in 30+ years to help reform any laws. The only thing they do is make things worse and prevent any fixes to provoke outrage. Proven, over and over and over and over.

Show me meaningful bills going to the House floor, not misrepresented videos.

You're either trolling or painfully stupid. Ever hear about HR-2? You know, the Republican bill that passed the House and is now waiting for DEMOCRATS in the Senate to pass it. Get a clue.
DP

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Anonymous wrote:This is the inhumanity. Drugged up children are being trafficked at the border by single adult men.

It’s all by design, that’s why the Biden administration is allowing the border to be wide open. The useful idiots attack republicans and conservatives as heartless and cold while children are being sex trafficked, it’s enough to make anyone physically ill.

Republicans keep PROVING themselves to be heartless and cold at every step of the way. AND, the Republicans have done exactly jack shit in 30+ years to help reform any laws. The only thing they do is make things worse and prevent any fixes to provoke outrage. Proven, over and over and over and over.

Show me meaningful bills going to the House floor, not misrepresented videos.

Biden is refusing to enforce existing immigration law.

Immigration law is full of holes and problems which create this mess. And Republicans refuse to fix any of it.

Until recently, the only “fixes” put forward by both parties were basically more technology on the border, more staff to process migrants faster (not to deport… but process—catch and release), and more visas (they won’t be a problem if they just come legally so lets make migrating more permissive!).

I did not and do not view these as fixes. I’d rather see employers have to hire Americans and forced to pay higher wages or innovate. This is not 1912, we don’t need massive amounts of cheap labor for factories. We do not give land away to homesteaders. Most of our population has at least a high school education (compared to early 20th century where finishing highschool was relatively rare so the migrants coming were pretty much of the same education/skill level) and now even that isn’t good enough to comfortably raise a family.

I do not live on the border but I do live in a city that over 30 years was drastically changed because the AG industry attracted a lot of migrants to do farm work. If you don’t see the problems that continuously increasing population with people in poverty causes— the stress on limited resources and public goods, the crime (caused by poverty), the community disinvestment, the overburdened schools, the resentment that comes from seeing people who just recently came here being given things for free that LMC-MC-UMC families have to pay for yourself and either through burden-shifting or taxes also end up paying for newcomers..

It’s always been an uphill battle to explain this to people in metro areas who are insulated from seeing these things first hand—yet they think they understand because they work with migrants who we welcomed here because they’re highly skilled and educated or just wealthy. It’s not the same, and these deep blue cities are finally understanding this. Since they are experiencing it first hand.

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Anonymous wrote:https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024/1/12/24036176/pritzker-urges-texas-gov-greg-abbott-to-stop-migrant-dropoffs-amid-winter-storm

Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday sent Texas Gov. Greg Abbott a sweeping letter about the ongoing migrant crisis, urging him to stop dropoffs during a dangerous winter storm.

“While action is pending at the federal level, I plead with you for mercy for the thousands of people who are powerless to speak for themselves,” Pritzker said in the letter. “Please, while winter is threatening vulnerable people’s lives, suspend your transports and do not send more people to our state.”

“Your callousness, sending buses and planes full of migrants in this weather, is now life-threatening to every one of the arrivals,” Pritzker wrote. “Hundreds of children’s and families’ health and survival are at risk due to your actions.”

According to the city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications, Chicago has received an estimated 34,562 migrants since the dropoffs began. That includes 4,468 people who have arrived on daily flights to O’Hare and Midway international airports since June 2023.

The citizens of Chicago should take the vulnerable migrants into their homes and provide them with warm shelter and food. There are enough people who could do so to save these poor people’s lives.

Seems like cook county authorities could charge some bus drivers with manslaughter.

Yeah, no - that's not how this works. Tell us some more of your looney-tune suggestions.
DP

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Anonymous wrote:They left a warm climate by choice. They are welcome to leave if it’s too cold.

They left because they were misled and given false promises.

What? No one misled them or made false promises. What are you babbling about? They were asked if they'd like to go to Chicago, NYC, etc. They said yes. They voluntarily got on the buses that took them to the planned destination. The end. Now tell us about how they were "trafficked" so we can laugh some more at your idiocy.
DP

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Anonymous wrote:This is the inhumanity. Drugged up children are being trafficked at the border by single adult men.

It’s all by design, that’s why the Biden administration is allowing the border to be wide open. The useful idiots attack republicans and conservatives as heartless and cold while children are being sex trafficked, it’s enough to make anyone physically ill.

Republicans keep PROVING themselves to be heartless and cold at every step of the way. AND, the Republicans have done exactly jack shit in 30+ years to help reform any laws. The only thing they do is make things worse and prevent any fixes to provoke outrage. Proven, over and over and over and over.

Show me meaningful bills going to the House floor, not misrepresented videos.

Biden is refusing to enforce existing immigration law.

Immigration law is full of holes and problems which create this mess. And Republicans refuse to fix any of it.

Until recently, the only “fixes” put forward by both parties were basically more technology on the border, more staff to process migrants faster (not to deport… but process—catch and release), and more visas (they won’t be a problem if they just come legally so lets make migrating more permissive!).

I did not and do not view these as fixes. I’d rather see employers have to hire Americans and forced to pay higher wages or innovate. This is not 1912, we don’t need massive amounts of cheap labor for factories. We do not give land away to homesteaders. Most of our population has at least a high school education (compared to early 20th century where finishing highschool was relatively rare so the migrants coming were pretty much of the same education/skill level) and now even that isn’t good enough to comfortably raise a family.

I do not live on the border but I do live in a city that over 30 years was drastically changed because the AG industry attracted a lot of migrants to do farm work. If you don’t see the problems that continuously increasing population with people in poverty causes— the stress on limited resources and public goods, the crime (caused by poverty), the community disinvestment, the overburdened schools, the resentment that comes from seeing people who just recently came here being given things for free that LMC-MC-UMC families have to pay for yourself and either through burden-shifting or taxes also end up paying for newcomers..

It’s always been an uphill battle to explain this to people in metro areas who are insulated from seeing these things first hand—yet they think they understand because they work with migrants who we welcomed here because they’re highly skilled and educated or just wealthy. It’s not the same, and these deep blue cities are finally understanding this. Since they are experiencing it first hand.

Well said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the inhumanity. Drugged up children are being trafficked at the border by single adult men.

It’s all by design, that’s why the Biden administration is allowing the border to be wide open. The useful idiots attack republicans and conservatives as heartless and cold while children are being sex trafficked, it’s enough to make anyone physically ill.

Republicans keep PROVING themselves to be heartless and cold at every step of the way. AND, the Republicans have done exactly jack shit in 30+ years to help reform any laws. The only thing they do is make things worse and prevent any fixes to provoke outrage. Proven, over and over and over and over.

Show me meaningful bills going to the House floor, not misrepresented videos.

Biden is refusing to enforce existing immigration law.

Immigration law is full of holes and problems which create this mess. And Republicans refuse to fix any of it.

Until recently, the only “fixes” put forward by both parties were basically more technology on the border, more staff to process migrants faster (not to deport… but process—catch and release), and more visas (they won’t be a problem if they just come legally so lets make migrating more permissive!).

I did not and do not view these as fixes. I’d rather see employers have to hire Americans and forced to pay higher wages or innovate. This is not 1912, we don’t need massive amounts of cheap labor for factories. We do not give land away to homesteaders. Most of our population has at least a high school education (compared to early 20th century where finishing highschool was relatively rare so the migrants coming were pretty much of the same education/skill level) and now even that isn’t good enough to comfortably raise a family.

I do not live on the border but I do live in a city that over 30 years was drastically changed because the AG industry attracted a lot of migrants to do farm work. If you don’t see the problems that continuously increasing population with people in poverty causes— the stress on limited resources and public goods, the crime (caused by poverty), the community disinvestment, the overburdened schools, the resentment that comes from seeing people who just recently came here being given things for free that LMC-MC-UMC families have to pay for yourself and either through burden-shifting or taxes also end up paying for newcomers..

It’s always been an uphill battle to explain this to people in metro areas who are insulated from seeing these things first hand—yet they think they understand because they work with migrants who we welcomed here because they’re highly skilled and educated or just wealthy. It’s not the same, and these deep blue cities are finally understanding this. Since they are experiencing it first hand.

I consider labor shortages wonderful. I have never known anything bad to come from a labor shortage, and what we are doing with our immigration policy is keeping the labor market in constant surplus.

Vernon Briggs
Cornell Labor Economist

The underlying truth about the immigration battle is that is is fundamentally between those with an insatiable appetite for more cheap, disposable, foreign workers, and those who embrace the social good of tight labor markets.

[Anonymous]

How did so many people get so stupid as to believe big corporations when they say they have a worker shortage?

Why are people so naive to believe the fox in the chicken coop?