Union Station Starbucks Closing

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Anonymous wrote:More coverage about bus loads of hungry starving undocumented people https://twitter.com/nsbonsu_/status/1547970119162142722?s=21&t=17C49EoanIdACgtl6NF8lg

Hmmm I wonder if anyone has considered enforcing immigration laws.

How do you enforce a law when the bus , sent by a governor, arrives at 1am with women and small children who haven't eaten for two days. It's despicable. 3,400 people since May.

I believe the pp was referring to prior to them arriving at the governor's state. As in why should that state have to handle all the costs?

They arrived legally and are in the US legally. And they're probably thrilled to get out of Texas - I know the first buses, at least, were full of volunteers. There are many humanitarian issues with the situation but they're not here illegally.

Curious… why do you think they’re here legally? The articles I’ve read don’t spell it out but lots suggest these were people “caught” crossing the border. Doesn’t sound like there here legally.

People cross the border and are allowed to stay until their case can be sorted out which can be years. They are free to travel anywhere. Must connect with family or existing contacts. This is nothing new. Many continue to other places from DC.

For a 5 year period the DMV got more UAM released to sponsors than Texas so all this is just overflow of increased volumes crossing the border. The DMV has been a border state for decades and most revenue for non profits that supports the process for illegal immigration is through government grants.

Local one includes CARECEN. https://carecendc.networkforgood.com/projects/158810-help-us-welcome-migrants-bused-in-from-texas
"We are not sure how long Governor Abbot will continue to use these immigrants for his own political agenda,"

So UAM get federal transportation as do sponsors to meet them I guess but others do not. Statistically many on the Union Station buses could want a destination in Fairfax County or MOCO etc so the fault is not the state of Texas which is providing their transportation.

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Anonymous wrote:More coverage about bus loads of hungry starving undocumented people https://twitter.com/nsbonsu_/status/1547970119162142722?s=21&t=17C49EoanIdACgtl6NF8lg

Hmmm I wonder if anyone has considered enforcing immigration laws.

How do you enforce a law when the bus , sent by a governor, arrives at 1am with women and small children who haven't eaten for two days. It's despicable. 3,400 people since May.

Truly despicable. This is why DC needs to be a state now.

You are OK with people who haven't eaten for two days (or longer) being received and processed by Texas, but not by DC? 3,400 is a drop in the pan compared to what Texas handles on a daily basis. Why don't you get on out there and set up sandwiches and soup reception, like the Poles did for the Ukrainians?

Makes sense for Texas to make their point but its not effecting Biden, just locals.

What are you talking about---I'm talking about Abbott playing chess with people's lives. It's a stunt on his part. That's what is despicable. DC needs to be a state so that the rest of the country realizes real people live here. I'm completely fine with DC taking them in, but I find it troubling that they're immediately shipped off on a days long journey when some of them may need medical attention and could rest.

They all choose to go. No one forces them on a bus.

Sure, Jan. Abbott is so generous. From the article posted above this post:

"Since April, Texas and Arizona have sent a combined 4,000 migrants to the District, with officials in both states claiming that migrants voluntarily agreed to take the bus trip north.

It now appears, however, that those participating in the trips may have been under the impression that they would have a final destination other than D.C.

One asylum seeker mother of two from Venezuela told WUSA9 on Thursday that she was told in Texas that she and her family would be sent to Colorado after they arrive in the nation's capital, which never happened.

Another mother of three said a Texas official told her that someone in D.C. would provide her family transport to Chicago.

'But it was all a lie,' she said."

AND ALSO:

"The goal, according to Abbott, was to bring the crisis to the doorsteps of President Joe Biden and other D.C. elite to elicit a stronger response to the southern border crisis from the administration."

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Oh wow! This is so sad

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Can we just finally clear these tents and unsanitary trash heaps in the public parks, now? And Union Station needs to be reclaimed from the vagrants and drug abusers.

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Didn’t Mayor Bowser close DC’s main shelter and give, uh “sell” the property to her developer crony?

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There are several issues happening all at once. Amtrak wants to fix the issues in common areas and surrounding entrances and security. Paid 250 million to the courts to take over retail as common areas of Union Station controlled by bankrupt leasing company. Bankrupt leasing company out of NY wants 700 million to release their contract (good through 2084). Court battle = mess. Leasing company doing bare minimum to nothing to maintain station at this point.

Second separate issue, Texas and Arizona shipping their state level politics to our city and region, and using impoverished human beings to prove a point. Below human dignity.

If DC started sending buses of drug addicted mentally ill people to Texas and Arizona , these states wouldn't have an argument. These states are making their state level problem DC's local city humanitarian crisis. Yet don't want DC to be a state... such hypocrites!

The federal government allows thousands of undocumented people to come over the United States border per day, and that is a is a “state” problem?

DC has received 4,000 immigrants total. That’s how many come over the border per day.

Yet DC declared itself a “sanctuary city.” The hypocrisy is all on one side, and its not Texas.

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Anonymous wrote:Pp who who currently works there,

There are several issues happening all at once. Amtrak wants to fix the issues in common areas and surrounding entrances and security. Paid 250 million to the courts to take over retail as common areas of Union Station controlled by bankrupt leasing company. Bankrupt leasing company out of NY wants 700 million to release their contract (good through 2084). Court battle = mess. Leasing company doing bare minimum to nothing to maintain station at this point.

Second separate issue, Texas and Arizona shipping their state level politics to our city and region, and using impoverished human beings to prove a point. Below human dignity.

If DC started sending buses of drug addicted mentally ill people to Texas and Arizona , these states wouldn't have an argument. These states are making their state level problem DC's local city humanitarian crisis. Yet don't want DC to be a state... such hypocrites!

The federal government allows thousands of undocumented people to come over the United States border per day, and that is a is a “state” problem?

DC has received 4,000 immigrants total. That’s how many come over the border per day.

Yet DC declared itself a “sanctuary city.” The hypocrisy is all on one side, and its not Texas.

Agree. I’m so glad Texas did this so people in other states can wake up to what is truly going on. It’s easier to ignore when it’s not in your face. I can usually see two sides to every story but for this one I can’t.

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Anonymous wrote:Pp who who currently works there,

There are several issues happening all at once. Amtrak wants to fix the issues in common areas and surrounding entrances and security. Paid 250 million to the courts to take over retail as common areas of Union Station controlled by bankrupt leasing company. Bankrupt leasing company out of NY wants 700 million to release their contract (good through 2084). Court battle = mess. Leasing company doing bare minimum to nothing to maintain station at this point.

Second separate issue, Texas and Arizona shipping their state level politics to our city and region, and using impoverished human beings to prove a point. Below human dignity.

If DC started sending buses of drug addicted mentally ill people to Texas and Arizona , these states wouldn't have an argument. These states are making their state level problem DC's local city humanitarian crisis. Yet don't want DC to be a state... such hypocrites!

The federal government allows thousands of undocumented people to come over the United States border per day, and that is a is a “state” problem?

DC has received 4,000 immigrants total. That’s how many come over the border per day.

Yet DC declared itself a “sanctuary city.” The hypocrisy is all on one side, and its not Texas.

Agree. I’m so glad Texas did this so people in other states can wake up to what is truly going on. It’s easier to ignore when it’s not in your face. I can usually see two sides to every story but for this one I can’t.

+1000 Why should Texas have to deal with this problem that was created by Joe Biden in Washington?

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Send all 4,000 to Takoma Park. Let’s see if all those yard signs are really how people feel.

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Anonymous wrote:Send all 4,000 to Takoma Park. Let’s see if all those yard signs are really how people feel.

This!!!! Except hopefully it’s closer to 10,000 in a few weeks. Keep them coming. 3.5 million have crossed the border. It’s laughable that someone cares about 4,000 out of 3.5 million.

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Anonymous wrote:Send all 4,000 to Takoma Park. Let’s see if all those yard signs are really how people feel.

This!!!! Except hopefully it’s closer to 10,000 in a few weeks. Keep them coming. 3.5 million have crossed the border. It’s laughable that someone cares about 4,000 out of 3.5 million.

What is your solution to asylum seekers?

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Anonymous wrote:Send all 4,000 to Takoma Park. Let’s see if all those yard signs are really how people feel.

This!!!! Except hopefully it’s closer to 10,000 in a few weeks. Keep them coming. 3.5 million have crossed the border. It’s laughable that someone cares about 4,000 out of 3.5 million.

What is your solution to asylum seekers?

NP but if they are from Mexico then we follow the asylum laws. If they are from a different country and passed through Mexico or other countries before coming here then we follow the law and send them back to the first country they entered and have them apply for asylum there.

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Anonymous wrote:Send all 4,000 to Takoma Park. Let’s see if all those yard signs are really how people feel.

This!!!! Except hopefully it’s closer to 10,000 in a few weeks. Keep them coming. 3.5 million have crossed the border. It’s laughable that someone cares about 4,000 out of 3.5 million.

What is your solution to asylum seekers?

NP but if they are from Mexico then we follow the asylum laws. If they are from a different country and passed through Mexico or other countries before coming here then we follow the law and send them back to the first country they entered and have them apply for asylum there.

This makes sense.

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Anonymous wrote:Send all 4,000 to Takoma Park. Let’s see if all those yard signs are really how people feel.

This!!!! Except hopefully it’s closer to 10,000 in a few weeks. Keep them coming. 3.5 million have crossed the border. It’s laughable that someone cares about 4,000 out of 3.5 million.

What is your solution to asylum seekers?

NP but if they are from Mexico then we follow the asylum laws. If they are from a different country and passed through Mexico or other countries before coming here then we follow the law and send them back to the first country they entered and have them apply for asylum there.

Except you're going to have to change the laws first. In some cases we cannot kick them out without giving them a hearing first. And we can't give them hearings because there aren't enough judges to hear their cases. And that leads to a massive backlog in cases. Which means we can't do anything for months, or even a year or two. And we also don't have enough places to put them while awaiting their hearings. So they get turned loose and told to come back when their hearing comes up.

Republicans won't authorize or fund more judges to clear the backlog. Probably because they think it will just speed up entry of foreigners. Nor will they fund facilities to house them until their hearings come up because that's "free shit for illegals." But they also won't do anything to change any of the laws that put us in this conundrum in the first place.

So there we are.

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Anonymous wrote:Pp who who currently works there,

There are several issues happening all at once. Amtrak wants to fix the issues in common areas and surrounding entrances and security. Paid 250 million to the courts to take over retail as common areas of Union Station controlled by bankrupt leasing company. Bankrupt leasing company out of NY wants 700 million to release their contract (good through 2084). Court battle = mess. Leasing company doing bare minimum to nothing to maintain station at this point.

Second separate issue, Texas and Arizona shipping their state level politics to our city and region, and using impoverished human beings to prove a point. Below human dignity.

If DC started sending buses of drug addicted mentally ill people to Texas and Arizona , these states wouldn't have an argument. These states are making their state level problem DC's local city humanitarian crisis. Yet don't want DC to be a state... such hypocrites!

The federal government allows thousands of undocumented people to come over the United States border per day, and that is a is a “state” problem?

DC has received 4,000 immigrants total. That’s how many come over the border per day.

Yet DC declared itself a “sanctuary city.” The hypocrisy is all on one side, and its not Texas.

Agree. I’m so glad Texas did this so people in other states can wake up to what is truly going on. It’s easier to ignore when it’s not in your face. I can usually see two sides to every story but for this one I can’t.

+1000 Why should Texas have to deal with this problem that was created by Joe Biden in Washington?

If Texas shouldn't, then why should DC? DC residents don't even have representation or a vote in Congress. At least Texas does. If it's fine for Texas to ship them elsewhere it should be fine for DC to ship them elsewhere. Like maybe back to Texas where they can go bug their Representatives to pass some legislation since DC residents can't.