TX Migrant Buses Prevented 2022 DC Pop. Decline

[Anonymous]

If DC and other cities really wanted to shut down the bus caravans, there's a rather simple way to do it. As the evidence is rather clear that a number of immigrants are being transported East under false pretenses, arrest some bus drivers and impound the buses on a human trafficking charge. Very quickly no bus company or other carrier will want any part of this business. Heck, not even the Texas Rangers (the state police, not the ball players) would want to drive the buses.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Mayor Bowser should be thanking Governor Abbott. The numbers are in and they are not pretty.

- Census Bureau says that through July 2022 DC population increased by approx. 3,000
https://www.popville.com/2022/12/u-s-census-bureau-numbers-show-dcs-population-stabilizing/

- DC lost 3,600 people to domestic migration and international migration was approx. 4,500
https://www.empirecenter.org/publications/new-yorks-post-pandemic-population-hangover-continued-into-2022/

- TX sent approx. 5,100 migrants to DC on buses through July 2022
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/07/29/politics/muriel-bowser-migrants/index.html

These migrant buses account for 100% of the DC population increase and without this “emergency” DC would have to confront a separate crisis, which is why so many people are moving away.

Please support your thesis that DC is facing a “crisis” by virtue of the number of people moving out of the city.

This is a nice way for you to let everyone know that you are not well read.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/opinion/covid-pandemic-cities-future.html?

I don’t put much stock on dystopian prognostication from an opinion writer desperate to meet his weekly obligation. The only crisis that exists is in your unquestioning, angry little mind spoonfed on tripe that even Miss Cleo wouldn’t bother with repeating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Population growth is good and it’s good to live somewhere the population is growing.

Sure, that's why India has been such a popular place to live. Same with China's enormous population and fantastic standard of living in the last hundred years prior to communism.

But seriously, from what I studied, the Black Death is partially credited for the Renaissance. With a large decimation of the population,human labor became more valuable, heck, humans became more valuable so there was more investment in this resource. People were more educated, living standards rose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Population growth is good and it’s good to live somewhere the population is growing.

Sure, that's why India has been such a popular place to live. Same with China's enormous population and fantastic standard of living in the last hundred years prior to communism.

But seriously, from what I studied, the Black Death is partially credited for the Renaissance. With a large decimation of the population,human labor became more valuable, heck, humans became more valuable so there was more investment in this resource. People were more educated, living standards rose.

Comparing a modern, free market capitalist economy with a medieval feudal economy is rather bizarre.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Population growth is good and it’s good to live somewhere the population is growing.

Sure, that's why India has been such a popular place to live. Same with China's enormous population and fantastic standard of living in the last hundred years prior to communism.

But seriously, from what I studied, the Black Death is partially credited for the Renaissance. With a large decimation of the population,human labor became more valuable, heck, humans became more valuable so there was more investment in this resource. People were more educated, living standards rose.

Comparing a modern, free market capitalist economy with a medieval feudal economy is rather bizarre.

Maybe the unwieldy population numbers prevented those economies from advancing to the next stages. Seems too much of a coincidence that the two most populous countries have struggled towards modernity.

[jsteele]

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jsteele wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:OP you are an idiot and you need to use legit news sources. the vast majority of migrants getting to DC on buses from texas end up in other places. DC is too expensive and there are more contacts, families connections in VA.

Do you have suggestions for better sources of data and information than the US Census Bureau and the Washington Post?

Which of those sources shows how many of the bus migrants stayed in DC to become residents as opposed to leaving for other places?

Do you have any sources that shows that they left? No. Just a statement from the mayor. But beside that, you have not once explained your point. Why is this so important to you to argue that migrants have moved on? Seriously bizarre.

The person arguing that migrants bussed to DC by Texas are 100% responsible for DC population increase should provide data to support this argument. If the migrants didn't stay, they didn't contribute to the population increase. What is hard to understand about that? If the migrants did not stay, the title of this thread and the thread's entire premise is wrong. Asking you to provide data to support the primary claim of this thread is causing you all kinds of difficulty in comprehension and I don't understand why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If DC and other cities really wanted to shut down the bus caravans, there's a rather simple way to do it. As the evidence is rather clear that a number of immigrants are being transported East under false pretenses, arrest some bus drivers and impound the buses on a human trafficking charge. Very quickly no bus company or other carrier will want any part of this business. Heck, not even the Texas Rangers (the state police, not the ball players) would want to drive the buses.

Want to agree with you, but the bus drivers and bus companies are just pawns in this, like the migrants. The ones that should really be arrested are the ones giving the orders - like Gov Abbott.