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Governor Ron DeSantis appears to be trolling people who, he believes, are not actually impacted by immigration. But sanctuary cities like Boston, New York, and Los Angeles came to their positions not in the absence of migrants but in their presence.
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When Migrants Become Political Pawns
Governor DeSantis appeared to be attempting to troll people whose magnanimity, he seemed to believe, is inversely proportional to the extent to which a given problem has an impact on their own lives.
4:15 PM · Sep 25, 2022
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Governor Ron DeSantis appears to be trolling people who, he believes, are not actually impacted by immigration. But sanctuary cities like Boston, New York, and Los Angeles came to their positions not in the absence of migrants but in their presence.
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When Migrants Become Political Pawns
Governor DeSantis appeared to be attempting to troll people whose magnanimity, he seemed to believe, is inversely proportional to the extent to which a given problem has an impact on their own lives.
4:15 PM · Sep 25, 2022
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The calcified cruelty, malignant politics, and questionable legality of the decisions by Governors Greg Abbott, of Texas, and Ron DeSantis, of Florida, to transport dozens of migrants in Texas to unsuspecting locales in Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., reiterate the pointoften made in recent yearsthat the only check on the behavior of the current Republican Party is the limits of its own imagination. Most of the migrants reportedly came from Venezuela, a country so racked with discord that an estimated twenty per cent of its population has been displaced. One man said that he arrived after having spent three months trekking across several countries. Many people recounted being offered free accommodations and flights to cities where they thought they would be guaranteed work.
Instead, they were dispatched on two chartered planes, arranged at DeSantiss behest, and unceremoniously released on Marthas Vineyard, the resort island just off the coast of Massachusetts which DeSantis called a sanctuary jurisdiction. Others were bused to Washington, D.C., and left outside the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory, where Vice-President Kamala Harris lives, as part of a program that Abbott, who is running for a third term, enacted this spring. Texas has bused more than eight thousand migrants to Washington, New York City, and Chicago, at a cost to the state of more than twelve million dollars. Arizona, under the Republican governor Doug Ducey, has also sent more than a thousand migrants to the nations capital. All three governors plan to continue the transportations.
Implicit in their actions is the idea that Northern, liberal attitudes regarding immigration are undergirded by the fact that the places where Northern liberals live arent being inundated with people who enter the country without documentation. Governor DeSantis appeared to be attempting to troll people whose magnanimity, he seemed to believe, is inversely proportional to the extent to which a given problem has an impact on their own lives. Indeed, much of the discussion on the right about the immigration crisis tends to frame it as a border crisis, erroneously suggesting both that the sole driver of the number of people arriving is the porousness of the Southern border and that this issue falls squarely on the shoulders of the states in the South and the Southwest. DeSantis has frequently complained about an undue burden on the border states, and expressed concern that migrants arriving in those states really want to move to his. As reported on NPR, he said, What were trying to do is profile: O.K., who do you think is trying to get to Florida? What seems not to have been factored into this thinking is that, before the most recent crackdowns, Florida, though not a border state, nevertheless had a long tradition of welcoming certain migrantsprovided that they were fleeing Fidel Castros Cuba.
Buoyed by the audacity of the recent stunts, some commentators played up the nimby message. A headline in the New York Post ran: with marthas vineyard meltdown, maybe dems will FINALLY understand illegal immigration problems. On Fox News, Tucker Carlson ridiculed Marthas Vineyard as a white haven full of people hyperventilating about the sudden presence of so many brown people. (A conservative online meme showed a woman calling the police to report a Hispanic man who was not holding a leaf blower.) Carlsons colleague Jesse Watters asked Mike Pompeo, I mean, everybody basically that you know on the left has a home there. Do you think theyre going to be embracing their new neighbors? Pompeo, who served as Donald Trumps Secretary of State, said, You know, these are all sanctuary cities until theyre in their sanctuary.
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When Migrants Become Political Pawns (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Sep 2022
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niyad
(113,055 posts)1. Nemesis, my dear cousin, if you would, please??