Abbott dropped busloads of migrants outside Kamala’s home in 18 degree temps on Xmas eve

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like a lot of people in this thread just have not been to the Texas border recently and have not paid attention to this story outside of the tabloid news coverage about the evil Republicans vs Good Guy Democrats.

Over the past two years (since Biden was elected) there has been a massive influx of “asylum seekers” crossing the border. Texas (and other border states) have been begging Biden to step in and provide better border security, and instead he pawned it off to Kamala Harris to deal with.

Over the past year it has become a humanitarian crisis. Shelters are completely full, churches are completely full, charities have run out of money, space, and other resources to help, and again border states begged the federal government to assist in relocating some of these migrants to other states so they aren’t literally dying in the street because it simply isn’t reasonable for El Paso (as an example) to hold the entire responsibility for our unsecured border. Again, the federal government rebuffed them.

So they started to relocate these migrants on their own. Because they cannot handle the crisis on their own, and the federal government’s basic response was that if they didn’t see the crisis from their window, it wasn’t a crisis.

Should never have came to this, the government should have made strengthening the border a day one priority to begin with, and then built their own system to transport those asylum seekers let in to all fifty states rather then relying on five states handling the entire crisis, but you cannot blame Abbot and DeSantas for doing the right thing and sending these migrants to other states that are fully capable of handling them.

And before people start piling on me, let me specify that the people most heavily effected by the illegal immigration crisis are primarily Latino residents living legally in these border towns getting overrun. These areas are majority Latino areas, as well as generally poor areas, and they are being overrun by a crisis that the federal government has spent the past two years pretending doesn’t exist. And then when their state steps in, are told that it is all because their governor is cruel and just playing politics.

It’s a simple yes / no question. Do you think it was appropriate to put refugee migrants into a bus to drive them to a destination that was not a shelter and out on the street in subzero temperatures with no provisions such as winter coats and hats, or information about where they should go to get out of the elements, just to score political points?

DP, but its not a simple question. The migrant situation is extremely overwhelming for border towns. Texas isnt out of line for making the border czar take some responsibility. I feel bad for the migrants. But we cant provide the life they expected here anymore, all in border areas. We have a big nation and other parts will have to step up if we keep accepting migrants at this pace.

Yes, but should and would Texas return the money that was earmarked to deal with this -- but was misused?

They claim they have spent that money and more. Unless you have evidence they are lying, I will take them at their word.

That's odd. Didn't you know that when you spend large sums of federal sums, there is supposed to be documentation of it? A "paper trail," as it were?

Or were you thinking that the GAO is supposed to just take anyone at their word?

Oh, show me the GAO audit that proves they abused the funds.

[Anonymous]

This isn’t about spreading them around. Dumping them in below freezing temps in front of the VP’s home? That is a political stunt.

I’m all for governments working together on this. I highly doubt Abbott would agree to it even if Biden came to him personally.

I have actually wondered all along why the UN isn’t involved here. These are refugees.

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Anonymous wrote:It got down to 21 degrees in El Paso last night so not much of a difference. I am a Democrat and what is happening in El Paso is horrific. The city of El Paso can’t be responsible for sheltering literally thousands and thousands of people dumped on their streets by Immigration every day!

The government needs to be transporting these hundreds of thousands of people claiming asylum all over the country to even out the burden.

A leader would transport them to shelters. A despicable human being who performs political stunts drops them off in front of the Vice President's home.

+1 exactly.

How would Rs feel if women who were forced to give birth abandoned their babies in front of R politicians' homes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This isn’t about spreading them around. Dumping them in below freezing temps in front of the VP’s home? That is a political stunt.

I’m all for governments working together on this. I highly doubt Abbott would agree to it even if Biden came to him personally.

I have actually wondered all along why the UN isn’t involved here. These are refugees.

What Abbott did is cruel, and inhumane. Having stated that, these folks aren't refugees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like a lot of people in this thread just have not been to the Texas border recently and have not paid attention to this story outside of the tabloid news coverage about the evil Republicans vs Good Guy Democrats.

Over the past two years (since Biden was elected) there has been a massive influx of “asylum seekers” crossing the border. Texas (and other border states) have been begging Biden to step in and provide better border security, and instead he pawned it off to Kamala Harris to deal with.

Over the past year it has become a humanitarian crisis. Shelters are completely full, churches are completely full, charities have run out of money, space, and other resources to help, and again border states begged the federal government to assist in relocating some of these migrants to other states so they aren’t literally dying in the street because it simply isn’t reasonable for El Paso (as an example) to hold the entire responsibility for our unsecured border. Again, the federal government rebuffed them.

So they started to relocate these migrants on their own. Because they cannot handle the crisis on their own, and the federal government’s basic response was that if they didn’t see the crisis from their window, it wasn’t a crisis.

Should never have came to this, the government should have made strengthening the border a day one priority to begin with, and then built their own system to transport those asylum seekers let in to all fifty states rather then relying on five states handling the entire crisis, but you cannot blame Abbot and DeSantas for doing the right thing and sending these migrants to other states that are fully capable of handling them.

And before people start piling on me, let me specify that the people most heavily effected by the illegal immigration crisis are primarily Latino residents living legally in these border towns getting overrun. These areas are majority Latino areas, as well as generally poor areas, and they are being overrun by a crisis that the federal government has spent the past two years pretending doesn’t exist. And then when their state steps in, are told that it is all because their governor is cruel and just playing politics.

The ends do not justify the means. I agree that the feds should help more, but dumping these people in freezing temperatures, in a foreign place, with no connections purely to prove a political point is just evil.

Merry F*n Xmas, I guess. You Rs should be ashamed of yourselves.

-former R

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Ok, explain why not

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like a lot of people in this thread just have not been to the Texas border recently and have not paid attention to this story outside of the tabloid news coverage about the evil Republicans vs Good Guy Democrats.

Over the past two years (since Biden was elected) there has been a massive influx of “asylum seekers” crossing the border. Texas (and other border states) have been begging Biden to step in and provide better border security, and instead he pawned it off to Kamala Harris to deal with.

Over the past year it has become a humanitarian crisis. Shelters are completely full, churches are completely full, charities have run out of money, space, and other resources to help, and again border states begged the federal government to assist in relocating some of these migrants to other states so they aren’t literally dying in the street because it simply isn’t reasonable for El Paso (as an example) to hold the entire responsibility for our unsecured border. Again, the federal government rebuffed them.

So they started to relocate these migrants on their own. Because they cannot handle the crisis on their own, and the federal government’s basic response was that if they didn’t see the crisis from their window, it wasn’t a crisis.

Should never have came to this, the government should have made strengthening the border a day one priority to begin with, and then built their own system to transport those asylum seekers let in to all fifty states rather then relying on five states handling the entire crisis, but you cannot blame Abbot and DeSantas for doing the right thing and sending these migrants to other states that are fully capable of handling them.

And before people start piling on me, let me specify that the people most heavily effected by the illegal immigration crisis are primarily Latino residents living legally in these border towns getting overrun. These areas are majority Latino areas, as well as generally poor areas, and they are being overrun by a crisis that the federal government has spent the past two years pretending doesn’t exist. And then when their state steps in, are told that it is all because their governor is cruel and just playing politics.

It’s a simple yes / no question. Do you think it was appropriate to put refugee migrants into a bus to drive them to a destination that was not a shelter and out on the street in subzero temperatures with no provisions such as winter coats and hats, or information about where they should go to get out of the elements, just to score political points?

DP, but its not a simple question. The migrant situation is extremely overwhelming for border towns. Texas isnt out of line for making the border czar take some responsibility. I feel bad for the migrants. But we cant provide the life they expected here anymore, all in border areas. We have a big nation and other parts will have to step up if we keep accepting migrants at this pace.

Yes, but should and would Texas return the money that was earmarked to deal with this -- but was misused?

They claim they have spent that money and more. Unless you have evidence they are lying, I will take them at their word.

That's odd. Didn't you know that when you spend large sums of federal sums, there is supposed to be documentation of it? A "paper trail," as it were?

Or were you thinking that the GAO is supposed to just take anyone at their word?

Oh, show me the GAO audit that proves they abused the funds.

Surely they can just list the numbers. They are supposed to be tracking where money goes. Can they write out the allocation in English, or is that too hard?

We already have evidence of misattribution and lying about this. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/04/18/texas-border-security-spending/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like a lot of people in this thread just have not been to the Texas border recently and have not paid attention to this story outside of the tabloid news coverage about the evil Republicans vs Good Guy Democrats.

Over the past two years (since Biden was elected) there has been a massive influx of “asylum seekers” crossing the border. Texas (and other border states) have been begging Biden to step in and provide better border security, and instead he pawned it off to Kamala Harris to deal with.

Over the past year it has become a humanitarian crisis. Shelters are completely full, churches are completely full, charities have run out of money, space, and other resources to help, and again border states begged the federal government to assist in relocating some of these migrants to other states so they aren’t literally dying in the street because it simply isn’t reasonable for El Paso (as an example) to hold the entire responsibility for our unsecured border. Again, the federal government rebuffed them.

So they started to relocate these migrants on their own. Because they cannot handle the crisis on their own, and the federal government’s basic response was that if they didn’t see the crisis from their window, it wasn’t a crisis.

Should never have came to this, the government should have made strengthening the border a day one priority to begin with, and then built their own system to transport those asylum seekers let in to all fifty states rather then relying on five states handling the entire crisis, but you cannot blame Abbot and DeSantas for doing the right thing and sending these migrants to other states that are fully capable of handling them.

And before people start piling on me, let me specify that the people most heavily effected by the illegal immigration crisis are primarily Latino residents living legally in these border towns getting overrun. These areas are majority Latino areas, as well as generally poor areas, and they are being overrun by a crisis that the federal government has spent the past two years pretending doesn’t exist. And then when their state steps in, are told that it is all because their governor is cruel and just playing politics.

It’s a simple yes / no question. Do you think it was appropriate to put refugee migrants into a bus to drive them to a destination that was not a shelter and out on the street in subzero temperatures with no provisions such as winter coats and hats, or information about where they should go to get out of the elements, just to score political points?

DP, but its not a simple question. The migrant situation is extremely overwhelming for border towns. Texas isnt out of line for making the border czar take some responsibility. I feel bad for the migrants. But we cant provide the life they expected here anymore, all in border areas. We have a big nation and other parts will have to step up if we keep accepting migrants at this pace.

DP. You are full. Of. Shit. If you actually cared about migrants but felt they needed to be taken out of Texas, you wouldn’t be advocating for this kind of stunt that endangers people’s lives while accomplishing nothing. You would be criticizing Texas for not making appropriate arrangements in advance with shelters to take them there instead. If malice were not one of the motivators, Texas could have bused them to DC, but taken them directly to a shelter prepared to take them in rather than dumping on the street in dangerous conditions to wait while the shelter arranged its own transportation to take them to a safe place,

We all see through you. Everything you post this kind of nonsense, you cause people to take immigration less seriously as an issue, because you illustrate that even the people who claim to be worried about it don’t take it seriously.

DP. Texas was also in a major cold snap. Basically your whole argument is that you would rather these illegal immigrants die in the streets of El Paso instead of dying in the streets of Washington, DC because so long as they are dying is Texas you do not have to see the humanitarian crisis that has been driven by this administration. I bet you will also act surprised when Trump is reelected by a margin that makes Reagan's reelection look like a nail-biter (and I am not a fan of Trump).

We cannot make federal decisions and then act surprised that the states effected by those decisions want the federal government to take responsibility of the outcome(s) of those decision. This is like a parent tearing the door off their teenage son's room and then being surprised when he is taking suspiciously long showers.

Learn to read.

That is exactly what you said. If that is your position, go for it, I am just tired of people who have never been to the border, have never cared about the issue, and have zero answers as to how to fix the issue acting like they care about these illegal immigrants' well being when really all they care about is not actually witnessing the humanitarian crisis.

Look at the Nantucket embarrassment. As soon as a small number of illegal immigrants touched down the federal government literally bent over backwards to make sure all the wealthy Nantucket residents didnt have to witness the crisis first hand. They were scooped up immediately and literally sent to a military base rather then the priviledged liberals on the resort island have to actually face the reality that people on the border are living with every single day. That has been our immigration policy for decades, let the poor hispanic residents of the American Southwest deal with all the pain and suffering caused by decades of failed immigration policy so long as it doesnt seep out and start impacting all of us priviledged White Americans up here in the 'real America.'

Maybe it is time we end that policy, don't you think? And maybe it is a damn good thing Abbot and DeSantis are actually making us confront the crisis head on. I understand acknowledging a humanitarian crisis of this magnitude is hard and can be painful for some people, but it is what people on the border witness daily.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like a lot of people in this thread just have not been to the Texas border recently and have not paid attention to this story outside of the tabloid news coverage about the evil Republicans vs Good Guy Democrats.

Over the past two years (since Biden was elected) there has been a massive influx of “asylum seekers” crossing the border. Texas (and other border states) have been begging Biden to step in and provide better border security, and instead he pawned it off to Kamala Harris to deal with.

Over the past year it has become a humanitarian crisis. Shelters are completely full, churches are completely full, charities have run out of money, space, and other resources to help, and again border states begged the federal government to assist in relocating some of these migrants to other states so they aren’t literally dying in the street because it simply isn’t reasonable for El Paso (as an example) to hold the entire responsibility for our unsecured border. Again, the federal government rebuffed them.

So they started to relocate these migrants on their own. Because they cannot handle the crisis on their own, and the federal government’s basic response was that if they didn’t see the crisis from their window, it wasn’t a crisis.

Should never have came to this, the government should have made strengthening the border a day one priority to begin with, and then built their own system to transport those asylum seekers let in to all fifty states rather then relying on five states handling the entire crisis, but you cannot blame Abbot and DeSantas for doing the right thing and sending these migrants to other states that are fully capable of handling them.

And before people start piling on me, let me specify that the people most heavily effected by the illegal immigration crisis are primarily Latino residents living legally in these border towns getting overrun. These areas are majority Latino areas, as well as generally poor areas, and they are being overrun by a crisis that the federal government has spent the past two years pretending doesn’t exist. And then when their state steps in, are told that it is all because their governor is cruel and just playing politics.

The ends do not justify the means. I agree that the feds should help more, but dumping these people in freezing temperatures, in a foreign place, with no connections purely to prove a political point is just evil.

Merry F*n Xmas, I guess. You Rs should be ashamed of yourselves.

-former R

I am not a Republican. But I spend approximately 2-3 months a year in Texas around the border. People who have actually been to the border, no matter their political affiliation, know that something has to be done.

[Anonymous]

Well, their countries suck because we helped to make them that way.

Sad but true

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel like a lot of people in this thread just have not been to the Texas border recently and have not paid attention to this story outside of the tabloid news coverage about the evil Republicans vs Good Guy Democrats.

Over the past two years (since Biden was elected) there has been a massive influx of “asylum seekers” crossing the border. Texas (and other border states) have been begging Biden to step in and provide better border security, and instead he pawned it off to Kamala Harris to deal with.

Over the past year it has become a humanitarian crisis. Shelters are completely full, churches are completely full, charities have run out of money, space, and other resources to help, and again border states begged the federal government to assist in relocating some of these migrants to other states so they aren’t literally dying in the street because it simply isn’t reasonable for El Paso (as an example) to hold the entire responsibility for our unsecured border. Again, the federal government rebuffed them.

So they started to relocate these migrants on their own. Because they cannot handle the crisis on their own, and the federal government’s basic response was that if they didn’t see the crisis from their window, it wasn’t a crisis.

Should never have came to this, the government should have made strengthening the border a day one priority to begin with, and then built their own system to transport those asylum seekers let in to all fifty states rather then relying on five states handling the entire crisis, but you cannot blame Abbot and DeSantas for doing the right thing and sending these migrants to other states that are fully capable of handling them.

And before people start piling on me, let me specify that the people most heavily effected by the illegal immigration crisis are primarily Latino residents living legally in these border towns getting overrun. These areas are majority Latino areas, as well as generally poor areas, and they are being overrun by a crisis that the federal government has spent the past two years pretending doesn’t exist. And then when their state steps in, are told that it is all because their governor is cruel and just playing politics.

It’s a simple yes / no question. Do you think it was appropriate to put refugee migrants into a bus to drive them to a destination that was not a shelter and out on the street in subzero temperatures with no provisions such as winter coats and hats, or information about where they should go to get out of the elements, just to score political points?

DP, but its not a simple question. The migrant situation is extremely overwhelming for border towns. Texas isnt out of line for making the border czar take some responsibility. I feel bad for the migrants. But we cant provide the life they expected here anymore, all in border areas. We have a big nation and other parts will have to step up if we keep accepting migrants at this pace.

Yes, but should and would Texas return the money that was earmarked to deal with this -- but was misused?

They claim they have spent that money and more. Unless you have evidence they are lying, I will take them at their word.

That's odd. Didn't you know that when you spend large sums of federal sums, there is supposed to be documentation of it? A "paper trail," as it were?

Or were you thinking that the GAO is supposed to just take anyone at their word?

If you are aware that Texas did not properly account for the money, I urge you to call the appropriate OIG. But it doesnt make sense to proceed on the basis that Texas is committing crimes, based purely on your self-serving desire not to take immigrants into your state.

[Anonymous]

Republican just relish being cruel. Very Christian!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel like a lot of people in this thread just have not been to the Texas border recently and have not paid attention to this story outside of the tabloid news coverage about the evil Republicans vs Good Guy Democrats.

Over the past two years (since Biden was elected) there has been a massive influx of “asylum seekers” crossing the border. Texas (and other border states) have been begging Biden to step in and provide better border security, and instead he pawned it off to Kamala Harris to deal with.

Over the past year it has become a humanitarian crisis. Shelters are completely full, churches are completely full, charities have run out of money, space, and other resources to help, and again border states begged the federal government to assist in relocating some of these migrants to other states so they aren’t literally dying in the street because it simply isn’t reasonable for El Paso (as an example) to hold the entire responsibility for our unsecured border. Again, the federal government rebuffed them.

So they started to relocate these migrants on their own. Because they cannot handle the crisis on their own, and the federal government’s basic response was that if they didn’t see the crisis from their window, it wasn’t a crisis.

Should never have came to this, the government should have made strengthening the border a day one priority to begin with, and then built their own system to transport those asylum seekers let in to all fifty states rather then relying on five states handling the entire crisis, but you cannot blame Abbot and DeSantas for doing the right thing and sending these migrants to other states that are fully capable of handling them.

And before people start piling on me, let me specify that the people most heavily effected by the illegal immigration crisis are primarily Latino residents living legally in these border towns getting overrun. These areas are majority Latino areas, as well as generally poor areas, and they are being overrun by a crisis that the federal government has spent the past two years pretending doesn’t exist. And then when their state steps in, are told that it is all because their governor is cruel and just playing politics.

The ends do not justify the means. I agree that the feds should help more, but dumping these people in freezing temperatures, in a foreign place, with no connections purely to prove a political point is just evil.

Merry F*n Xmas, I guess. You Rs should be ashamed of yourselves.

-former R

I am not a Republican. But I spend approximately 2-3 months a year in Texas around the border. People who have actually been to the border, no matter their political affiliation, know that something has to be done.

PP here.. I agree something needs to be done, but what Abbott is doing is not the way to "get something done". What he did is incredibly inhumane. We had an alert from the county stating that people who leave pets outside overnight would be fined given how cold it was. Animals are treated better by Dems than Rs treat poor people who aren't American.

Incredibly shameful.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like a lot of people in this thread just have not been to the Texas border recently and have not paid attention to this story outside of the tabloid news coverage about the evil Republicans vs Good Guy Democrats.

Over the past two years (since Biden was elected) there has been a massive influx of “asylum seekers” crossing the border. Texas (and other border states) have been begging Biden to step in and provide better border security, and instead he pawned it off to Kamala Harris to deal with.

Over the past year it has become a humanitarian crisis. Shelters are completely full, churches are completely full, charities have run out of money, space, and other resources to help, and again border states begged the federal government to assist in relocating some of these migrants to other states so they aren’t literally dying in the street because it simply isn’t reasonable for El Paso (as an example) to hold the entire responsibility for our unsecured border. Again, the federal government rebuffed them.

So they started to relocate these migrants on their own. Because they cannot handle the crisis on their own, and the federal government’s basic response was that if they didn’t see the crisis from their window, it wasn’t a crisis.

Should never have came to this, the government should have made strengthening the border a day one priority to begin with, and then built their own system to transport those asylum seekers let in to all fifty states rather then relying on five states handling the entire crisis, but you cannot blame Abbot and DeSantas for doing the right thing and sending these migrants to other states that are fully capable of handling them.

And before people start piling on me, let me specify that the people most heavily effected by the illegal immigration crisis are primarily Latino residents living legally in these border towns getting overrun. These areas are majority Latino areas, as well as generally poor areas, and they are being overrun by a crisis that the federal government has spent the past two years pretending doesn’t exist. And then when their state steps in, are told that it is all because their governor is cruel and just playing politics.

It’s a simple yes / no question. Do you think it was appropriate to put refugee migrants into a bus to drive them to a destination that was not a shelter and out on the street in subzero temperatures with no provisions such as winter coats and hats, or information about where they should go to get out of the elements, just to score political points?

DP, but its not a simple question. The migrant situation is extremely overwhelming for border towns. Texas isnt out of line for making the border czar take some responsibility. I feel bad for the migrants. But we cant provide the life they expected here anymore, all in border areas. We have a big nation and other parts will have to step up if we keep accepting migrants at this pace.

Yes, but should and would Texas return the money that was earmarked to deal with this -- but was misused?

They claim they have spent that money and more. Unless you have evidence they are lying, I will take them at their word.

That's odd. Didn't you know that when you spend large sums of federal sums, there is supposed to be documentation of it? A "paper trail," as it were?

Or were you thinking that the GAO is supposed to just take anyone at their word?

Oh, show me the GAO audit that proves they abused the funds.

Surely they can just list the numbers. They are supposed to be tracking where money goes. Can they write out the allocation in English, or is that too hard?

We already have evidence of misattribution and lying about this. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/04/18/texas-border-security-spending/

We dont have a national language and the people working the border issue primarily speak spanish. Bigot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel like a lot of people in this thread just have not been to the Texas border recently and have not paid attention to this story outside of the tabloid news coverage about the evil Republicans vs Good Guy Democrats.

Over the past two years (since Biden was elected) there has been a massive influx of “asylum seekers” crossing the border. Texas (and other border states) have been begging Biden to step in and provide better border security, and instead he pawned it off to Kamala Harris to deal with.

Over the past year it has become a humanitarian crisis. Shelters are completely full, churches are completely full, charities have run out of money, space, and other resources to help, and again border states begged the federal government to assist in relocating some of these migrants to other states so they aren’t literally dying in the street because it simply isn’t reasonable for El Paso (as an example) to hold the entire responsibility for our unsecured border. Again, the federal government rebuffed them.

So they started to relocate these migrants on their own. Because they cannot handle the crisis on their own, and the federal government’s basic response was that if they didn’t see the crisis from their window, it wasn’t a crisis.

Should never have came to this, the government should have made strengthening the border a day one priority to begin with, and then built their own system to transport those asylum seekers let in to all fifty states rather then relying on five states handling the entire crisis, but you cannot blame Abbot and DeSantas for doing the right thing and sending these migrants to other states that are fully capable of handling them.

And before people start piling on me, let me specify that the people most heavily effected by the illegal immigration crisis are primarily Latino residents living legally in these border towns getting overrun. These areas are majority Latino areas, as well as generally poor areas, and they are being overrun by a crisis that the federal government has spent the past two years pretending doesn’t exist. And then when their state steps in, are told that it is all because their governor is cruel and just playing politics.

The ends do not justify the means. I agree that the feds should help more, but dumping these people in freezing temperatures, in a foreign place, with no connections purely to prove a political point is just evil.

Merry F*n Xmas, I guess. You Rs should be ashamed of yourselves.

-former R

I am not a Republican. But I spend approximately 2-3 months a year in Texas around the border. People who have actually been to the border, no matter their political affiliation, know that something has to be done.

PP here.. I agree something needs to be done, but what Abbott is doing is not the way to "get something done". What he did is incredibly inhumane. We had an alert from the county stating that people who leave pets outside overnight would be fined given how cold it was. Animals are treated better by Dems than Rs treat poor people who aren't American.

Incredibly shameful.

Youre only upset when the people of the capital city have to witness the inhumanity. You have no concerns about the daily inhumanity at the border. More people die at the border now than ever before. And its "inhumane" to bring the crisis to the door of the border czar? Elitists, want to feel good with zero actual work.