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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good news though!

The children of migrants exported by Gov. Abbot from Texas to DC will now be enrolled in DC schools.

Win! [/quote]

From the footage I see there aren't many kids though... mostly young men, actually.  If they come for free housing and food and medicine, they should turn back, if they are willing to work, there is plenty of work to go around municipal projects and city improvements, make people work for the shelter and food at least 4 hours a day, don't give anything free, problem solved. [/quote]

My church took in some of the migrants on a temporary basis until they could get on their feet.  My understanding was that they very much want to work.  And are working almost immediately upon arrival.[/quote]

Please don't confuse most migrants with the homeless.   We need people able and willing to work. The homeless are neither.[/quote]

Migrants of nearly all types are positively selected in some way; if it were legal, most corporations would only hire migrants.

The homeless on DC's streets are mostly negatively selected in all ways. Mental illness onwards. And then society has mostly forgotten about them, but are occasionally strung along by handouts[/quote]

So a 16 year old migrant could do your job?  Or are you one of the ignorant who think “corporations,” as opposed to the military, government, consultancies, law firms, and service organizations that dominate the DMV employment base do not hire migrants? [/quote]

70% of the services industry employees are migrants; 75% of farmworkers; 50% construction workers. It is the overwhelming majority in a number of fields where they need able bodied workers to do physical, demanding labor that you and I just won't do. Have you ever been in a restaurant? Hotel? Seen the janitorial services at your office space? Take a walk through a construction site. Do it just one time. Migrant workers are able bodied people looking for work escaping a country where they have none. We need the types of people who put their life on the line so that they can come to a place to find employment. They are here to work and the idea that they made it all this way to just sit around is ludicrous. My bet is you know approximately zero migrants.

Homeless encampments, on the other hand, are filled with drug addicts and the mentally ill. The vast majority are in need of mental health services, rehab, and/or incarceration. These people need to be off the streets, as they are a huge danger to society. [/quote

Thank God for each and every one of them.  [/quote]

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