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ifallsmn218 t1_j4tlsfp wrote

This is on the right-wing governors for sending these migrants here. This is purely for fundraising & out of spite. It has nothing to do with ‘these people want to go to NYC’. That’s bs. Most of these migrants have family who work in agricultural settings in the US already, and I doubt they’re milking cows or digging potatoes in Times Square.

If the goal is for this migrant resettlement to be a success then you don’t send them to the most expensive city in America. You send them to the cheapest cities closest to where they entered the country, like Tulsa, Little Rock, Paducah, Baton Rouge, Springfield, Wichita, Missoula, Des Moines, Rapid City, Sioux Falls, Fargo, Grand Forks and so on. Low cost of living and plenty of cheap land to develop more affordable housing if need be.

These red states have been sending their criminals, homeless and addicts to CA & NY for decades while nobody has said anything. And we pay for them.

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spicytoastaficionado t1_j4w549s wrote

>It has nothing to do with ‘these people want to go to NYC’. That’s bs. Most of these migrants have family who work in agricultural settings in the US already, and I doubt they’re milking cows or digging potatoes in Times Square.

Nobody is being bussed here against their will.

Also, you can find articles detailing how migrants are thankful to be bussed to friendlier jurisdictions like D.C. and NYC over staying in Texas border towns.

Migrants in El Paso are not being set up in hotels and having their expenses paid for.

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>If the goal is for this migrant resettlement to be a success then you don’t send them to the most expensive city in America.

For migrant resettlement to be a success, it can't be built off of economic migrants exploiting the asylum process, so the system is already destined for failure.

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>You send them to the cheapest cities closest to where they entered the country, like Tulsa, Little Rock, Paducah, Baton Rouge, Springfield, Wichita, Missoula, Des Moines, Rapid City, Sioux Falls, Fargo, Grand Forks and so on.

Once migrants are released from federal custody, they can't be forced to go anywhere.

Migrants are offered free bus trips to NYC and are taking them. Perhaps if the mayor of Tulsa holds multiple press conferences saying they'll take migrants as Adams did for over a year, the governor of TX will route some Greyhounds there.

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>These red states have been sending their criminals, homeless and addicts to CA & NY for decades while nobody has said anything

NYC has had multiple scandals with bussing homeless people out of the city.

Also, look at the stats for homelessness in CA. Most of them are long-time residents (10+ years) of the state.

And your conspiracy theory of NY criminals being red-state transplants is not backed by evidence.

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