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philip964 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 15, 2022 5:36 pm

philip964 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:10 pm If things do not go well in November. I’m really not sure about the future of the US. At some point they will close the borders and not let us leave. Before that they will close the borders to the movement of capital out of the country, mostly likely that will occur after gun confiscation.

Problem where to go?

If not Texas, then where?

Friend moved to Idaho. House prices are insane there already.

parabelum wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 7:47 am

The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:30 am

Chemist45 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 10, 2022 9:26 pm Mayor Eric Adams of New York on Tuesday wrote:

I already called all of my friends in Texas and told them how to cast their vote,

What? All three of them?

Typical leftist… he didn’t recommend how all three of them should vote; he TOLD them how to vote.

You have to, when they’re dead

Rafe wrote: ↑Wed Aug 10, 2022 11:04 am I wish I'd made better note of who the guest was, but yesterday afternoon on Fox they had on a (don't trust me on this; I'm going entirely from memory) a former president of the National Border Patrol Council talking about the NY bussing business. He was steamed. This is probably a terrible paraphrasing of what he said (I'll the actual video clip if I ever find it; couldn't locate it just now):

A bad paraphrase from memory of yesterday's interview wrote: The New York and DC mayors don't understand how it works. We, the CPB, take illegal crossings into custody. They fill out paperwork about who they are, where they were born, where they're coming from, and where in the United States they're going to. Under current federal directives, after we process them they're turned over to one of the NGOs involved, and those NGOs work with them from there. At that point, they are not detained and are free to go anywhere they want.

You'd think from the rhetoric in New York and DC that Governor Abbott is pointing to random people and ordering them onto a bus. That isn't what's happening at all. Abbott is using Texas state funding to pay for bus trips, but it's the NGOs who are working with the immigrants, seeing who has written "New York" or Washington DC" on their intake forms as being their final U.S. destination, and then asking who among those would like to take the free bus trip. They're finding our who wants to go there. Almost none of them have the means to get there on their own. Look at the videos. Do any of those people look like they were forced on a bus? You see them disembarking in New York smiles all around because that's where they wanted to go when they paid the coyotes, and Texas has paid for them to make that 1,950-mile journey on a nice, safe, comfortable, air-conditioned bus.

New York is the biggest city in the country. It has thousands of recent immigrants. A good number of the people crossing the Rio Grande have family in and around New York. That's one reason so many want to go there. And besides, New York and DC have proudly proclaimed themselves to be sanctuary cities. Just like Biden's open border policies have been a magnet for illegal crossings, cities that have labeled themselves "sanctuary cities" had better understand that they reap what they sow.

And how hypocritic is it to put up a banner about being a sanctuary city and then start whining and asking for federal aid--even the National Guard in DC--when a few busloads of immigrants arrive? A standard motor coach bus can hold about 55 passengers; the very biggest up to 80 passengers. So far in 2022, we've had more border stops than at any equivalent period since we've been keeping records. We've beat 2021, which is no easy feat. The CBP's fiscal year starts in October, and for 2022 so far we've recorded 1.75 million stops at the southern border. All of 2021 was 1.73 million. We had 239,416 encounters in May and 207,416 in June. Del Rio, Texas, has a population of less than 36,000. Brackettville is less than 2,000; Carizo Springs is about 5,500; Uvalde a little over 16,000. Even San Antonio, the largest major city to the border and the second largest city in Texas, has a population of about 1.4 million. The Greater New York Combined Statistical Area has a population of 23.6 million. And since the start of the pandemic, New York City's population is down more than 4%. A lot of people don't feel safe there anymore and have moved. So there's room to be a sanctuary city and take in people who do want to be there.

Who's better equipped to handle the inflow of illegal immigrants? Tiny border towns with tiny budgets and no housing, or a metropolitan area that's larger than 40 of the 50 states? By my count, as of Sunday a total of five busses of immigrants have arrived in New York from Texas. My thought about what Adams is saying is, "A long overdue welcome to the party, pal. Big self-declared sanctuary cities should be getting the majority of the undocumented influx, but you've been happy to sit back and let small border towns be literally overwhelmed with numbers that--every single month, and not counting the half-million or more 'got aways' we've already had in 2022--are more than five times their entire populations. Every single month!

Now threatening to impact and influence Texas state sovereign elections, Adams has climbed onboard the Beto bus (pun intended):

Mayor Eric Adams of New York on Tuesday wrote:"I already called all of my friends in Texas and told them how to cast their vote, and I am deeply contemplating taking a bus load of New Yorkers to go to Texas and do some good old-fashioned door knocking because, for the good of America, we have to get him out of office."

Just like, throughout the current administration to date, neither Biden nor Harris has even bothered to come to the southern border, maybe we need a "Mayors for Community Service" exchange program and have people like Muriel Bowser and Eric Adams--instead of taking a comfy vacation--come spend a week, just one week, in Del Rio working with the NGOs who handle in the influx...and maybe even spend a day or two riding with Customs and Border Patrol agents.

It's a national crisis, people. It isn't a, "Oh, just ignore it; let Texas and Arizona sort it out" problem.