...are still weathering the largest burden of asylum seekers / illegal immigrants.
Non-border states and locations that rhetorically are more amenable to immigration have been tagged in to help shoulder some of the burden.
Everyone from community members to local and state politicians are now crying foul and questioning the practical application of their rhetoric.
While I disagree with most of what Abbott and DeSantis do, I can't say that this is a terrible idea. I wish they would have worked with blue state governors first to attempt a burden sharing solution and then go scorched earth on them when they inevitably turned it down...
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Okay. Let’s do it. “NO! THEY MUST ALL BE SHIPPED OUT!!!” Absolutely no way to rationally work with these xenophobes
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One party and most of their supporters can't tell you often enough how their Christian values give them moral superiority over the rest of the country yet time and again make/support policy that is admittedly of questionable morality but economically rational in their view. You'd think this would lead to some introspection at some point.
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It might be terrible policy, politically or by some other metric, perhaps humanitarian. As pure state economics, it's right. Spread the cost to others who aren't helping. NPR wouldn't get into that, or how much the feds also spent busing migrants elsewhere.