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sj_zero ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• FMT99@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Seems a little disingenuous. People were not complaining about receiving immigrants but those immigrants being lied to by elected officials, shipped across state lines illegally, just to score political points. It’s idiotic populism at it’s finest.

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  • sj_zero ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah they are complaining about receiving migrants. They're complaining about not having the resources to deal with an influx of people that they never expected to get. They're complaining about resources that could be used for local populations being used on a bunch of illegal migrants.

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/03/us/migrant-crisis-chicago-buses-vote/index.html

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/07/nyregion/adams-migrants-destroy-nyc.html

    • NataliePortland@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And of course you realize that those border states Al receive federal funding and have decades of infrastructure in place for helping immigrants, but instead are using that very funding to simply drop them off in random places around the country. Even if you can’t understand humanitarianism or empathy, you can probably understand how wasteful that is.

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      • sj_zero ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The point is that it's easy to puff your chest out and act morally indignant when it isn't your city.

        Suddenly it is your city, and the enlightened benefactors are suddenly banning busses.

        A lack of empathy is the exact problem here.

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  • aelwero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I assumed it to be facetious actually … I thought, and still kinda think, that they forgot their /s

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