Immigration

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Texas has spent over $148 million busing migrants to other parts of the country

www.npr.org/2024/02/20/1232651088/texas-has-spent-over-148-million-busing-migrants-to-other-parts-of-the-country

Nearly two years later, Texas has transported over 102,000 migrants to New York, Chicago, Denver, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

But the initiative has also come with a hefty price tag. Records obtained by The Texas Newsroom under the Texas Public Information Act show that as of Jan. 24, the state has spent over $148 million to bus migrants to predominantly Democratic cities. The price tag grows every day.

A pretty interesting article, the interview with the bussed migrant from Venezuela was particularly interesting. He was happy to be bussed out of Texas into a more immigrant friendly location for free. It worked out really well for him and his relatives because he got to Washington DC, was able to get a job, and was soon out of the shelter and into their own place.

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Average $1450 per person. Pricey bus tickets!

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There has to be grift in there somewhere!

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www.cnn.com/2024/02/27/us/ken-paxton-migrants-nonprofit-texas/index.html

Texas AG sues a nonprofit that helps migrants, accusing it of ‘alien harboring.’ But the group calls the lawsuit ‘unfounded’

Texas’ Republican attorney general is suing a Catholic nonprofit that assists migrants, claiming his office has information “strongly suggesting” the group has engaged in “alien harboring, human smuggling, and operating a stash house,” according to a news release.

Ken Paxton is now trying to revoke the registration of Annunciation House in El Paso, according to a court filing in the district court of El Paso.

Paxton’s maneuver came in response to a lawsuit filed by Annunciation House, which obtained a temporary restraining order against the state’s wide-ranging demand to disclose the organization’s records “immediately.”

According to the nonprofit, a representative from the attorney general’s office came to Annunciation House on February 7, “stating the organization had one day to turn over a broad swath of records to the Attorney General without an explanation,” the group said in a statement last week.

“Annunciation House asked a Court to decide what documents the law permits the Attorney General to access,” the nonprofit said. “There is nothing illegal about asking a Court to decide a person’s rights.”

Now, the Office of the Attorney General says it is seeking the revocation of the nonprofit’s registration “on the grounds that it has violated the law and failed to permit OAG to inspect, examine and make copies of Annunciation House’s records in response to a valid Request to Examine,” according to a court filing.

The attorney general’s lawsuit against the migrant shelter is viewed as an escalation in the ongoing feud between Texas’ Republican political leaders and the federal government over how to handle the migrant crisis.

I wonder where all this escalation leads? What is the end game?

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Of course Paxton thinks that laws don't apply to him and what he wants...

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Straight up lawfare.

[mdgv2]

On internal relocation? I can’t say I’m inherently against it. It can prevent border areas having a disproportionate number of asylum seekers and immigrants compared to other areas of the same country. And given the overwhelming majority of migration is in search of a better life and employment, a more even distribution can help that.

Where it’s gone wrong in the UK (and almost certainly deliberately so, because Cunts), is the uneven distribution to already impoverished areas where there’s not a lot of work as it is. I mean, you don’t see Migrants shipped to pretty little Home County towns like the Chalfonts. Oh no. Fuck them off to post-industrial collapse areas instead.

As ever, Not Bad Ideas are conducted in the most cuntish way possible for political clout.

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I definitely support co-ordinated and voluntary internal relocation, because you ideally want to avoid overwhelming border regions and get the new people to where they have resources and need people. For instance a lot of Scottish Islands are desperate for people to move up there, but the migrants never seem to get that far.

I say co-ordinated and voluntary, because IIRC the Texan approach was to give them fraudulent fliers promising all sorts and forcing them onto busses where they'd just be dumped in a sanctuary city or a Democrat politicians home town in the middle of the night in an attempt to overwhelm them and get the librals to complain in order to go "Hah! So you don't like immigrants when it's on your door step!"

There'd be no problem with an approach where migrants are connected up to towns/regions that would suit them and that they'd benefit, beyond it making political point scoring impossible.

Edit: Here's a conservative meme of exactly that I just stumbled across on another forum:

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www.npr.org/2024/04/26/1242236604/florida-economy-immigration-businesses-workers-undocumented

A year later, Florida businesses say the state's immigration law dealt a huge blow

Many local Florida businesses say the new law has led to workers leaving the state that's hurt their bottom line. "A lot of people are scared," says Sanchez. "A lot of people went north and never came back."

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**shocked pikachu**

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The "very serious" Republicans again kill a border reform bill that their own Senator Lankford helped negotiate, and that included pretty much everything they claimed they wanted..... again......

apnews.com/article/border-immigration-senate-vote-924f48912eecf1dc544dc648d757c3fe

Border bill fails Senate test vote as Democrats seek to underscore Republican resistance

Senate Republicans again blocked a bill meant to clamp down on the number of migrants allowed to claim asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer sought Thursday to underscore GOP resistance to the proposal.

The legislation, negotiated by a bipartisan group of senators, was already rejected by most Republicans in February when it was linked to a foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies. But with immigration and border security becoming one of the top issues of this year’s election, Democrats are looking for an answer to the barrage of GOP attacks, led by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

“We gave Republicans a second chance to show where they stand,” Schumer, a New York Democrat, said after the vote. “Do they want to fix this so-called emergency or do they want to show blind allegiance to the former president even when they know he’s wrong?”

Chuck, buddy; you know the answer to your own question.

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Apparently Trump was roundly booed at the Libertarian Party.

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May 26, 2024 6:03:25 GMT -5 mdgv2 said:

Apparently Trump was roundly booed at the Libertarian Party.

Eh, some will throw their votes away to a third party but I reckon most of those will end up ticking Trump on the ballot because "at least he's not a socialist". I wouldn't put much stock by a single rally with some boos this far out

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www.npr.org/2024/06/18/g-s1-4918/parole-immigration-biden-undocumented-deportation

Biden's plan will shield undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens from deportation

President Biden is set to announce Tuesday new executive actions that will offer protection against deportation to an estimated half a million undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens.

The plan grants "parole in place" to undocumented people who have been in this country for at least 10 years. This measure will also allow eligible immigrants to apply for legal permanent status.

Additionally, it would extend a path to legality to noncitizen minors, and stepchildren of American citizens.

These executive actions include providing eligible immigrants with work permits.

Biden’s plan intends to keep families together, said senior White House officials who asked not to be identified because the information they provided will be announced on Tuesday by the president.

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I found this story interesting.....

www.npr.org/2024/08/07/nx-s1-5032835/chinese-migrants-southern-border

What drove last year's surge in Chinese migrants at the southern border?

Last year, a record number of Chinese migrants crossed the U.S. southern border without authorization. In search of jobs and freedom from China's heavy-handed pandemic response, they followed paths long walked by migrants from many countries. But here in the U.S. they have come under a different kind of scrutiny, because they hail from America’s biggest geopolitical rival.

Politicians on the right, led by former President Donald Trump, baselessly claim Chinese migrants are spies or drug smugglers, sent by Beijing to harm Americans.

Trump suggested at a rally in May that "military-aged men" are "building a little army in our country."

At the Republican National Convention in July, former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro described migrants crossing the border as "murderers, rapists, human traffickers, terrorists ... Chinese spies."

"Chinese transnational criminal organizations are also ruthlessly exploiting our border's vulnerabilities, fueling the fentanyl crisis that claims thousands of American lives each year," Craig Singleton, a fellow with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told a House hearing in May.

None of those claims stands up to scrutiny. Research based on years of federal and local government data shows that unauthorized migrants — from China or elsewhere — do not threaten national security or commit crimes more than other immigrants or people born in the U.S. This June, unauthorized crossings hit the lowest level since 2021, following President Biden's executive actions restricting asylum claims and stepped-up enforcement in Mexico.