General Discussion

Chicago has over 2 million people. Texas received 1.2 million migrants last year. Imagine the "chaos" it and the small border towns with only 20,000 people experience as the migrants move through day after day and are processed, and more come on their heels the following day. They never get a break. More come the following day. Think about that "chaos" for a minute and then try to understand why migrants are being put on busses and sent north. It's because when you have a small town like Eagle Pass, Texas, which once received 30,000 migrants over the course of 3 days (Eagle Pass has a population of 28,000), you don't have the resources to help that volume of homeless people. Especially when there are always more crossing the next day. The major cities are the ones with the resources and jobs to help.

I understand the frustration that there is a lack of resources. But aiming that frustration at Texas/Abbott is misplaced. As long as our decision is to keep the border open at the current level it is, the only option is to move the people crossing on. If we are unable to support and aid the number of people we are currently letting in per day, that's not something Texas/Abbott can do anything about. Those changes would need to be implemented at the federal level, and so that's where the conversation needs to be directed. Not about busses.