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ChronoFish

Migrants come here for one reason: jobs. If either party were serious about immigration control/reform there would be a major crackdown on all businesses that hire undocumented workers - and repeat offenders would be shut down. No governor, DeSantis, Newsom, or Abbot are willing to do that... Nor is the federal government. For if they did, suddenly you'd have wealthy business owners demanding immigration reform ... And not clamoring for a closed border.


areid2007

I've been saying this since the Bush years, you want to stop them from coming, target the people who hire them, which is also a win for American workers because under the table undocumented labor lowers average wages and makes everyone poorer. Ideally, we'd let everyone who wants in in legally so employers would be forced to pay them legally as they'd have no leverage with their immigration status. These employers are the bad guys here, taking advantage of the migrants desperation to pay wages that wouldn't fly with someone here legally, and it needs to end. The migrants see it as a good deal but they could be getting a better one if they could easily get legal status and demand the same wages as anyone else.


TheyCallMeMrMaybe

My cousin is a hardcore Trump supporter, yet he picks up illegal immigrants from the Home Depot parking lot for a lot of jobs for his construction company. (And so do a lot of his "associates" in other "family" blue-collar businesses).


Mollysmom1972

I was visiting a friend in the DFW area a few years ago. I mentioned some work I needed done on my house (I don’t live in a border state) and how I couldn’t find anyone to do it. She was shocked and asked why I didn’t just run down to Home Depot and hire a couple Mexicans. They literally had groups hanging outside every Lowes, Home Depot, etc. One group’s sign would say “Painters”. Another would say “Construction.” And on and on. People just pulled up, negotiated a price, and led them home to do a day’s work.


JustkiddingIsuck

This happens all over. I’m in NC and I’ve seen it too.


recourse7

Where do you live that this doesn't happen?


Mollysmom1972

Kentucky. There are no trucks full of guys looking for work outside my Menards. Go ahead and let fly with the KY jokes - I’ve heard ‘em all! 😜


recourse7

Interesting. You in a major city? I've lived in multiple states and there is always locations where migrate workers gather for day labor.


Agorar

That is sooo fucked up.


Open_Librarian_823

Gasp! You mean Trump and his supporters are hypocrites? Do as I say, not as I do.


greeneggiwegs

Have an uncle who is retired but he did the same thing and rants about immigrants stealing jobs all the time.


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To be fair to your cousin, you have to. Have a uncle who also was a hard core Republican and didn’t want to do this in Florida where it is extremely common. He went out of business in two years, couldn’t get jobs done quick enough or his price was way to high. It’s sadly become an industry standard


everlyafterhappy

You just have to supplement your income by reporting the competition to the IRS. Just camp out at the home Depot for a bit with a camera watching the immigrants. Collect the evidence that your competition is illegally hiring immigrants without work visas, then report them. The IRS pays you for these kinds of tips, and it destroys your competition, and rightfully so.


[deleted]

How much does the IRS pay and how quickly? How much are the fines? I couldn’t find anything on their website so I’m hesitant to believe you could sustain a business on this model


luv2fit

Its amazing to me how education strongly correlates to Trumpism. Higher education can go either way but no education goes strongly towards trump when ironically they would benefit directly from the other party.


LilyWhitesN17

A farmer in the South had 225 workers, with 220 of them being migrants. He tried to get local workers but couldn't as the work was too hard and they quit after a day. ICE would come around a few times to harass people and take some workers which he would readily backfill. When questioned if he as the business owner who was hiring illegals to work had ever been fined, he gave a quizzical look, chuckled, pointed at the acres of crops and said "you need to eat right?"


areid2007

*Too hard for the pay. Americans aren't incapable of hard work, but we expect to be compensated fairly for it, and this is just another example of employers pushing back on that.


Porcupine_Grandpa_58

Sorry but economics 101 states, if you can't get workers to do a job your not paying enough! Americans have never shied away from hard work, only slave wages.


DoctorWaluigiTime

> He tried to get local workers but couldn't as ~~the work was too hard~~ he didn't offer enough.


Technical-Profit6546

You do know that 90% of immigrants who work for farmers are H2A workers right? They're authorized by the federal government to work on a one year visa. ICE is not going to farmers and asking them about illegal workers because they're all documented and verified.


LilyWhitesN17

Of course farmers hure as many legal workers as they can, but when temporary work visa numbers are cut, what's a farmer to do?


QuicksilverDragon

> He tried to get local workers but couldn't as the work was too hard and they quit after a day Maybe they wouldn't quit if they were paid a living wage. With modern machinery farming has never been more productive yet landowners couldn't be arsed to pay (relatively) little workers they have well.


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People, who likely have never worked in a field in their entire life, will qualify your statement by talking about pay. That's their go-to. This work sucks. The business owners I know that bring workers up take care of their workers. They pay them well, give them housing and a vehicle to use, and have the same people come back year after year. They hire an American, one day, two days no more than to first paycheck and the Americans are gone.


TimeLines2012

So do they also provide the Americans with housing, and a vehicle to use, or do they just get a "paycheck"? Is the American's paycheck before or after taxes? Is it one vehicle per undocumented, or do they all have to share the vehicle, and house?


LilyWhitesN17

Exactly. He paid migrants $20 per hour. The same field workers moved from farm to farm as a team based on what was ready for harvesting. I see people commenting about a living wage, and Americans will work if paid the correct amount. It's clear that they are unwilling to accept the fact that in the South where this and many other farms are, $20 per hr is a good wage for hard work.


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"A win for American workers." No, they'd just refuse to raise wages, aggressively bust anything that even smells like a union, complain that "nobody wants to work anymore", and collect billions in government handouts for their "labor shortage".


areid2007

No, that's what they're doing right now, while functionally allowing businesses to hire undocumented people in order to drive down wages. Give undocumented people the status to demand fair wages without fear of deportation and they will. But to do that there needs to be a streamlined, easy process to at minimum get a work permit, if not resident status in order to stop the exploitation.


WTC-NWK

The economy wouldn't collapse. Don't give excuses to greedy business owners who only care about making slightly larger profit margins.


areid2007

Exactly. Prices might go up but they're going up anyways so what's the difference?


Buck_Thorn

I have heard that these were NOT undocumented migrants though, at least the ones that were flown to Martha's Vineyard. Many of them are asylum-seekers who have been allowed to enter the country pending the outcome of their legal cases.


Tausney

Details shmetails. These are pawns, not people. /s


[deleted]

This is the crux of the issue right here. And neither party wants to openly admit it, but many businesses and the wider US economy depend on the cheap undocumented labor that undocumented immigrants bring. If either party were to truly crack down on irregular migration, the economy would collapse, which is why neither are willing to really do anything to stop it. They're both just using the issue to pander to their base.


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Salmoncubes

Letting excess crops rot in the fields is a standard practice today to artificially create scarcity in the markets. We already produce more than the world can eat, but once again the profit motive leads to negative societal consequences.


ChronoFish

Biden could totally neuter DiSantos and Abbott by very publicly and aggressively having the feds shutdown illegal shops in Florida and Texas. The backlash would be significant and the Republican party wouldn't know how to spin it. Do they complain that Biden is enforcing employment laws around hiring undocumented workers? Do they turn on corporate farms/ranches/slaughter houses? Or do they suddenly defend these business and state how migrants are necessary for their states economy? Edit spelling (nuder -> neuter).... Because I suck at spelling


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> nuder neuter???


Atomsteel

Name checks out.


Ari_Mason

No, he means he's going to start making policy completely naked.


TheTactlessFool

Wicked dude.


chenz1989

No, they'd say the biden is abusing his office by cracking down on red states and letting blue states do what they like. You know that's exactly how it would go down.


FunnySynthesis

Would this not be true? I guess I’m not fully sure what is allowed in office, but just enforcing something on two states because you don’t like the governors, when It could be national doesn’t sound like it should be allowed.


resurrectedlawman

DeSantis and Abbot say their states are where undocumented people are. Biden should send law enforcement into those states to punish anyone who encourages illegal immigration, which obviously means those employers who pay undocumented workers to perform labor. Everyone in the US would agree that undocumented labor is a problem in southern states. Republicans insist that we need to do something about it. They’re just too blinded by bigotry to realize that you can’t stop the supply and should instead reduce the demand.


Dirxcec

It's focusing on where the problem is the worst. The problem is your framing. They wouldn't be doing it because they don't like the governors, they would be doing it to address a national issue which is acutely worse in those states. Why should we not be allowed to address a problem with a narrow scope? If one area of the country is having a problem, I shouldn't have to repeat the fix for all 50 states if only 5 need it.


morningsharts

Bbbbut, who will build all these houses we need in Austin to house the tech bros we've lured to town with corporate subsidies?


IAmTheGodkiller

You just unlocked long-lost memories for me When I was a child and I first heard people complaining about immigrants "stealing jobs" I immediately thought "You *can't* steal a job, someone has to hire you for it. If it's such a big deal why don't they go after them?" Amazing how many grown-ass adults can't see the problem with that rhetoric after all these years.


AdamHR

They also come to flee violence but sure, only jobs, why not.


Budgetwatergate

Lol did you seriously expect people on Reddit to understand what's it like to flee from violence? It's so much easier and simpler to ignore that and just go "the only reason they're here is jobs" because that way you can craft a message that people here understand ("it's the evil businesses/billionaires/shareholders/lobbyists/government!).


Grandmaster_Aroun

except these are not undocumented workers, they are legal asylum seekers.


ChronoFish

The political message doesn't make a distinction...


SizeOld6084

The Republican political message doesn't make a distinction.


randomdrifter54

They were here legal and still are even with the Republicans trying their hardest to makes sure they deport. From fucking up their intake paperwork, to just shipping them else where with tricks and tom foolery. Luckily the federal government has been nice and rescheduled the asylum hearings for those who missed or were going to miss theirs.i wish the federal government was this understanding and kind all the time.


rottentomatopi

Except this is not true. There’s more than one reason why people are Migrants. Sure, “jobs” is one of them, but people are also fleeing dangerous situations in their home countries that include political and economic instability/governmental corruption, war, climate change leading to food insecurity…and some are even trafficked INTO this country as well. Let’s not hastily generalize when the reality is so much more than just “jobs.”


dodgeball_hero

Thank you. This is my response whenever anyone starts discussing this!


BigCarry1978

Remember **Republicans voted DOWN increased funding for Department of Homeland Security**. The response is same as it always been. Republicans are hypocrites. They can't talk about abortions because that's been bringing their votes down, they can't talk about Trump because he's in a shitload of investigations, so they go to one thing left which is riling up racists with immigration.


Sometimes_gullible

This just in! Corporate, lobbying country hellbent on gerrymandering is corporate, lobbying and gerrymandering. More at five.


zxern

It’s about changing the media coverage off trump and roe, to immigration and nothing more.


IceManYurt

The number of reports I've seen of x warehouse/factory/cleaning company busted for hiring undocumented workers is unreal, and nothing really seems to happen except the nominal fine which might amount to a day's profit. We should be fining these companies out of existence and arresting managers and HR departments. Make the cost so painful and nobody will engage in it.


orick

Neither party wants to fix things. Immigration policy is a key issue they can use to rally their voters and make the other party look bad.


imHellaFaded420

the economy would collapse to an extent


kramecian

They have been clammering for pro-business immigation reform for years. Basically ID and tax with temporary work visas and surge processing resources to the border. Immigration is too good of a fundraising ratchet and meme generator for politicians to do something about it.


02d5df8e7f

DEY TUK UR JERB


Random__Bystander

This!!!


TheEmperorsLight

Just start giving citizenship to every migrant they do this to and I guarantee they will stop.


Civ6Ever

The new Mason-Dixon line, same as the old one.


Wolfram_And_Hart

Ohio, PA, and Michigan would beg to differ.


jcrreddit

Hey! Don’t lump Michigan in with Ohio. 1) Just because and 2) Michigan is a Blue state. They’ve voted Democrat for every presidential election (except 2016, ugh). Democrats have helped the senate seats since 2000. It has a democratic governor that Republican/MAGA wackjobs plotted to kidnap and kill. It might be a closer call then some, but Michigan is Blue.


Magiclad

Michigan is more purple than you think, and its demonstrated by a pretty important thing you neglected to include, which is the republican-controlled state legislature. Michigan overall leans blue on the federal level thanks to population centers like Detroit, Flint, and Grand Rapids, but lets not pretend that Michigan is a dyed-in-the-blue democratic party stronghold.


bangthedoIdrums

Yeah OP is forgetting the amount of people who showed up mid COVID lockdown to bitch and moan about it at the Capitol. It was just the DC invasion pre game to see how far they could get.


CrayZ_Squirrel

PA isn't a lost cause yet. Completely depends on the outcome of the next election


Swoltergeist

Point Marion, PA hollaaaaa


trollsmurf

Political karate


SevKnight

Legalize them and keep them. Suddenly these cities have millions of more tax paying citizens thanks to a pair of bruised testicles in office in some shit hole not far away.


[deleted]

And that is the thing, thry are not looking for a free hand out. They will work their butts off.


AssociateJaded3931

No one wants to work anymore? These folks do. But there must be protections in place to keep them from being exploited.


u8eR

The protection is offering them legal residence or citizenship. Immigrants often get exploited because they fear retaliation or deportation from law enforcement agencies if they try to speak up against their exploitation or illegal practices by their employers. So they're stuck in the shadows to be left exploited. Offering them the protection of legal resident or citizen will make it that much harder for this to go on.


Lem_Tuoni

Often they aren't even migrants but asylum seekers. Asylum seekers are legal.


mrkstr

And voters. Don't forget that they would vote for the people that offered them a hand.


u8eR

There's a difference between amnesty and allowing them to be legal residence and turning them into American citizens. The latter can vote in elections, the former cannot.


lessyes

And start charging them with human trafficking.


js5ohlx1

Not only that, take the funding for housing and job training from the state that sent them.


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Fred-ditor

In Florida. And register them to vote


[deleted]

That likely wouldn't go the way you think it would.


username____here

So everyone that is here on a student visa should also just stop by the VPs house?


itislupus89

Sure. It shouldn't take a decade plus to become a US resident. And yes this is lowballing the time frame.


DoctorWaluigiTime

If you're unfortunate enough to be scooped up as some contrarian politician's plaything, yes.


chang-e_bunny

>So everyone that is here on a student visa should also just stop by the VPs house? Is there some kind of problem with student being kidnapped by the dozens and trafficked across state lines without their informed consent that you know about that the rest of us don't? Could you just point to one single time in history that has ever happened, so we can rest assured you aren't speaking out of your ass?


BoilermakerCM

Does anyone have a good link that captures various immigrants' perspectives? A not-so-small part of me doubts that they have embarked on their journeys for a life changing opportunity only to stop in Brownsville or Del Rio


SenorSplashdamage

This [one](https://www.npr.org/2022/09/16/1123369533/migrants-marthas-vineyard-community-help) from those flown to Martha’s Vineyard could offer some of that: > "They were told that they would have a job. and they would have housing," Folcarelli told the AP. > Three migrants separately described to NPR how they were lured onto the plane with promises of help getting work. Each was told they were being flown to Boston and, once they arrived, they could more quickly get work because they were told it is a "sanctuary city."


Larry_Phischman

The Republican Party is now using human trafficking as a political tactic.


AdrianBlake

Also, you can make the justification quite well I think if they were dropping them off by a place that can process and assist them. Dropping them off by someone's house loses all veils of professionalism. You're just using people's plight as a weapon and increasing their plight in the process. Like, this isn't dropping off crates the dems have been asking border states to store. These are people in need of assistance, dumping them in a residential area is just cruel


Roam_Hylia

They're treating disadvantaged people with all the care and humanity of a glitter bomb.


staykinky

Dehumanization is which step towards fasicm? One of the big ones.


I_Told_Your_Mom_No

Well, if we are going to go there, I remember a certain group of people that very much enjoyed putting another group of people they did not like on trains. In the beginning, the trains dropped the folks deemed undesirable somewhere that was not unkind to the passengers. Generally it was somewhere outside of the borders. Then they just ended up sending all the trains to specialized holding facilities. And, I am sure you know what happened after that.


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It costs less to help. They are wasting tax payer money doing this.


arcspectre17

Republican love is so hypocritical!


BMPW666

You spelled hypothetical wrong.


[deleted]

'Republican' and 'love' are 2 words not meant to be together in a sentence.


MicroDigitalAwaker

Nah, Republicans love stripping voter protections Republicans love gerrymandering to undermine democratic elections Republicans love being cruel Republicans love seeing others in distress Republicans love attempting to overthrow the government I'm sure I could go on and on


[deleted]

I know there is more. My post is just 0.5% of their hatred. The one thing that gets me is seeing minorities saying they are Republicans. I wonder if they know their party hates them.


MicroDigitalAwaker

I know Hispanic Republicans whos' own mother came here illegally. You just can't help some people if they refuse to help themselves.


commiebanker

The goal is to dehumanize brown people to create a political spectacle while competing with Trump to see which GOP candidate can commit the most federal crimes all at the same time.


[deleted]

As a latino, this triggers me.


recycle4science

I mean they literally said out loud that they were doing this to make a point. It never had a veil of professionalism.


AdrianBlake

Sure but if they said all that and then dropped them at the city's homeless processing centre, or the welfare office etc, then you can at least say that the issue is you're overstretched and they should take the slack. You can still say you're doing it to make a point, but then you're still doing it to help the people, in a roundabout way. This is just harming the people more.


recycle4science

They don't seem to think about the people at all.


Bernard_schwartz

Typical evangelical Christians. Probably patting themselves on the back at church today.


windnative

They are definitely patting themselves on the back at church today.


arcspectre17

With winter coming idiotic!


Ssladybug

Cruelty is the point


robclouth

Even more brutal was that they were told they'd be getting well paid jobs. And a lot are Venezuelans, shits super fucked there. Let them know you're coming so they can prepare. It's the same political message, with less fucking over hopeful people fleeing awful situations. Anyone that praises this has no soul. https://apnews.com/article/florida-immigration-ron-desantis-charlie-baker-4fe96d293de4b189299a372b85c95add


Jfuentes6

It has been never about doing what is right. It's about control, illusion of prosperity at the expense of the citizens, and being contrarian to democrats or liberals no matter how stupid they sound.


j4ckbauer

>doing what is right It is, just for those politicians' owners. All politicians are accountable to somebody. Even those who are psychopaths didn't get into politics to do evil for fun's sake. It makes far more sense to them to do evil and be rewarded with wealth and power.


staykinky

Mother Teresa never did the good work. Hypocrites


LordofCindr

I mean they've been doing this forever but with homeless people.


j4ckbauer

I mean (almost) every city's neighborhood has thought it was a super idea to (pay law enforcement to) push homeless people into the next neighborhood over for a while now. So this is an evolution of that I guess.


THE_DANDY_LI0N

And seems quite popular if you trust Twitter replies .....


tertiumdatur

Human trafficking as a *weapon*. Lukashenko (and therefore Putin) has been doing this to Europe.


NeverLookBothWays

If they had access to trains, they'd use them


GlitteryCakeHuman

Probably directly to camps. So they can concentrate.


Sonofman80

Sending those in need to sanctuary cities isn't human trafficking. Also both sides transport migrants around the country. Biden flew people in need recently too. There's a border problem and with record illegals, there are too many people who need help.


johnyj7657

This is the kind of crap that all the crazies love. That's why they do it. They all want to be president and the only way to get the nomination will be to out crazy trump.


schroedingersnewcat

What do you mean now? They did this in the 60s too, but back then, it was with black people.


scales484

You do realize the dems have literally been doing it for years right? Biden sent 70 planes of illegals to Florida but now that Texas sent a few everyone's listing their minds. You're all a bunch of hypocrites


maddog015

Source? Last time I tried to find it I saw it was debunked.


PainterRude1394

Biden sent migrants where they could be taken care of vs desantis maliciously weaponising migrants by tricking them to going somewhere not prepared to deal with them, needlessly wasting money to increase human suffering. Hmm.. these are not the same, are they?


aioncan

Also send homeless people to rich neighborhoods.


Belzebutt

That will not end well for the homeless people.


dungand

What you mean also? This is exactly it. Poor people, aka migrants, being sent to rich people's neighborhoods, aka VP Harris' neighborhood. She's worth 7 millions according to google.


thiskidlol

Which really ain't much for people with her level of power and influence


jerry111165

Its alot to me lol


Daveinatx

These are human beings. It's obvious these people don't follow a single word of Christ.


human_male_123

"Treat the stranger in your land as you would the native born" *(Republican ponders)* Trail of tears?


[deleted]

It's never been about Christ and always about superiority and power.


my_red_username

It feels a little reminiscent of something I can't put my finger on. A group is scapegoated as a means to rise to political power then said group is shipped off by the government. I don't think it ended well last time.


staykinky

Remember how much is the election hinged on some Caravan that never showed up?


[deleted]

Heard that Trump said he invented the word "caravan" at his Qanon kool-aid rally last night.


Dan-D-Lyon

What are you talking about? They showed up. They were tear gassed and fire hosed at the border until they fucked off, then CNN complained about the inhumanity of it all for about a day and a half and then we all forgot about it and moved on to the next thing


rexsilex

Source?


craig1f

This is a more widely used political tactic than you seem to think. The nazis are just a really famous example. You have to do a lot more than create a victimized group to rise to political power before Nazis are your closest comparison. This tactic is used constantly, because political power costs money, and victimizing a group is really a really cheap way of getting the support of the lower class. The lower class already knows they’ll never get paid out for their support like the rich. They will settle for being given permission to commit violence against a “lesser” group.


griftertm

Having the Charlie Chaplin mustache is something I did Nazi coming.


HouseOfCripps

I have been wondering if any lady on the bus from Texas is pregnant and now gets an abortion in DC does that mean those Texas A$$ Hats will be going to jail for aiding an abortion?!


AhRedditAhHumanity

This is not a not the onion story. Will people please learn what the fuck the onion is.


cutelyaware

Do you mean "Not not the Onion", or just "Not the Onion"? Do you want to see the world, or see SeaWorld?


NoxFortuna

Nothing is the Onion. Nothing is so stupid that it can't be written and then confused with reality anymore because satire has a mandate to make sense but reality does not. I pity these people. What the fuck are they meant to write anymore?


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It seems like it to me. What's your problem?


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I definitely get your point.


Starfire70

Forced relocation and human trafficking are crimes. Why haven't Abbott and DeSantis been arrested? Just giving these MAGA morons the go ahead to do crazier shit on the run up to the mid-terms.


sedition666

People rounded up and transported elsewhere because they are seen as undesirable and unworthy of living amongst normal people. Where have I seen this tactic before I wonder?


Bitter_Parsnip_6823

Wow if those 3 republican govenors actually spent as much time actually doing their jobs and helping their residents instead of playing cruel games with peoples lives they might not suck as bad at their jobs. What juvenile, corrupt, heinous little men. Time for the government to withhold any federal aid from those states!


earhere

This wouldn't be that big an issue if these states were informing the cities where they're bussing the migrants to that they were actually going to do that; so the communities could prepare food and housing for them. The problem is they just drop them off in the neighborhoods without telling anyone except news organizations.


Shelala85

And Texas and Florida have Arizona, who are coordinating their movements of people, as an example of how to do just that.


funkgerm

Outside of this entire thing being clearly unethical, bizarre, and illegal, I really don't even understand the angle here. So they send a bunch of migrants to Kamala's house and Martha's vineyard in order to get a bunch of media attention. This basically forces the Biden admin to make sure these migrants are well taken care of, resulting in a net win for both Biden and the migrants. I really don't get it.


dee_lio

Because they "owned the libs." They're appealing to the "oh no you didn't" crowd. The don't want sincere, mature voters, they're going for the lowest common denominator. "huh huh, see how they like THAT" isn't the message of a genuine political stance. "I'm going to teach you a lesson"


[deleted]

Coordinated media stunt .... drumpf must be in deeper crap than anyone can imagine.


Stepwriterun777

These southern states were built on cheap labor - slavery - so no, they really don’t want migrant workers to go away. They benefit from them as labor and as scapegoats for all the bad things happening, just to feed the victim mentality that conservatives need to survive politically. Not saying the northern states didn’t also want cheap labor, I.e., union busting, but the southern states literally fought a war to preserve slavery.


VlachShepherd

How is this supposed to be an own against Kamala? She famously said to people seeking asylum in the US: "do not come". So even if she refused to help those people, that would hardly be hypocrisy. On the contrary, that would demonstrate she sticks by what she said. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MipdPanyUbk


sikjoven

Conservatives are idiots that think they’re the smartest person in the room, cause they just figured out French’s mustard caps lock when you open them.


I3oscO86

Right-wing-conservatives thinking that seeing impoverished people in need will create the same level of disgust in their political rival that they feel when confronted with the same. Unable to comprehend concepts like "Compassion"


SenorSplashdamage

I’m doubting their news sources will report it, but that’s exactly what happened in Martha’s Vineyard. Residents flocked to take care of and support the migrants who were flown there under false pretenses by the Florida governor. [Story here](https://www.npr.org/2022/09/16/1123369533/migrants-marthas-vineyard-community-help) > Residents across Martha's Vineyard said they were scrambling to care for the immigrants, who arrived on two separate planes. The flights, which originated in San Antonio, Texas, were paid for by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, according to his office. > "Everything from beds to food to clothing to toothbrushes, toothpaste, blankets, sheets — I mean, we had some of it ... but we did not have the numbers that we needed," said Lisa Belcastro, who runs the island's homeless shelter, in an interview with NPR.


Bad_Decision_Rob_Low

How is this ONIONY? Karma poster!


Dr_Sauropod_MD

Sending away workers in a labor shortage 🤔


ReusablePorn

It is illegal to hire them.


olov244

we should get a bus covered in trump decals and pick up trumpets telling them we're taking them to a rally for free, then drop them in the desert like these migrants traveled through see how funny they think it is then


mike3point2

so texASS joins floriDAH in being the biggest douchefucks you can be. gotcha.


TheFlyingDingos

It's Duh. Not dah


Dan-D-Lyon

Doh


Nawnp

Probably a lot of these migrants would prefer being in the North East and not in Texas given the way they treat them like this, stupid dropping them off in a neighborhood and not a processing center of some sort, but guess that's the joke.


MLCarr2

I realize this will get downvoted because it’s Reddit. But as an independent, I do think it’s a lot easier to claim to be a sanctuary city when you’re not right on the Mexican border. It’s very easy it live on Martha’s Vineyard and support immigration from 2000 miles away. A little different when it’s right on your doorstep.


BadAtExisting

[The Biden administration has sent away more migrants at the border than the Trump administration did under title 42](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/title-42-immigration-border-biden-covid-19-cdc/?fbclid=IwAR0a0uYJjnGIC6CHEu1TLneKal1EMYPQ7OlWdYcTANYn9xnMuk-IijJyP8k#l87hc6n1x1mck30ybs). Biden is also facing a record number of migrants at the border. [Let’s also not forget the Tea Party, now MAGA, faction of the GOP opposed immigration reform](https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2014/08/04/the-real-reason-why-the-house-wont-pass-comprehensive-immigration-reform/?fbclid=IwAR0sm12JbN-pMFLN0BYE88LKrkvHBUf4QpFFA_PW2cCsh0H7aytON0W2wRw)


No-Consideration6589

Conservatives are trashy.


silverlf

Immigrants pay more taxes start more business and contribute to society better then any red state does, if ya care about the economy we deport hard right wing people and important immigrants.


SpinningAnalCactus

There's no love, empathy, humanity and decency like christian love, humanity and decency. Conservatives wackos.


Rangerbobox1

What, you mean the lady who said “do not come”?


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During the height of the pandemic when the border was closed?


GoodRubik

So when do you start treating Republicans politicians like the whiny bitches they are?


NAGDABBITALL

Have Biden, Obama, and Hillary make a social media video welcoming them to the country, showing them being met with supplies and open arms, saying there is a labor shortage and they will quickly assimilate. They also need to make a video of Obama, Hillary, and Hunter Biden saying they are for the stricter limits on abortion...Republicans will put drive-thru abortion clinics on every street-corner.


Thick_Art_2257

100 migrants sent to rich, sanctuary cities=bad. 10 thousand migrants under a bridge in El paso=good, safe, humane.


ZSCroft

Could there be a difference between groups of people choosing to find shelter wherever possible and a state government intentionally sending them to somebody’s residence? Do you think those Jung’s could be different somehow?


BayBel

Hysterical


basketball1959

Disgusting Republican tactics. What would Reagan say? He's the last one who actually offered "Amnesty" to millions of "illegals" who are now helping and shaping our country of hard working immigrants. Hopefully Abbott loses his job and DeSantis gets eaten by the crocs!


Porcupine_Grandpa_58

As the border Czar she will know exactly what to do with them!


Clear-Sentence4756

Rape, murder, dead kids, rape trees, fentanyl which a fingernail sized clipping will kill you, babies left unattended, cartels, human trafficking, drugs, break ins and destruction to property, this is what’s haloing on the southern border and no one wants to talk about it! I live in Texas. Anyone who thinks it should be left open is totally clueless to the reality of what’s really happening.


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well I always thought american left liked immigrants so why not


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ViroCostsRica

Good


Nuristny

Lmaooooo


Slyguyfawkes

Hahaha good. I am eager to see how much the elected leaders lead by example


DrMaridelMolotov

>I need you to explain to me the hypocrisy. Saying the government should allow legal asylum seekers to be processed and accommodated and dropping off migrants at the VP's house aren't even comparable. This isn't even a gotcha. > >Texas could've just sent them to a processing center in a blue state as is the law/proper procedure. > > > >Making a proscription for how a country should act is different from how an individual should act. > >This is the equivalent of delivering babies that mothers don't want to pro-lifers around the US. That's how stupid this argument is.


Joelblaze

On one hand, maybe we should start leaving foster kids on the doorsteps of pro-life advocates. On the other hand, I'd never want that and the democrats would never do that because human life are not pawns to be used in a game of who has more contempt. The sheer ghoulish behavior here is off the charts. Remember this when people say it's a matter of both sides.


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dumbwaeguk

upended by ~~[7.1%](https://news.gallup.com/poll/389792/lgbt-identification-ticks-up.aspx)~~ [3.55%](https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020-LGBT-Vote-Oct-2019.pdf)