General Discussion

My city is too cold. My city is too hot. We have too many homeless people here already. We don't have enough resources. We don't have enough shelter beds. Our taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for it. Our POC population has been mistreated long enough and they should be prioritized, not migrants. We don't have a homeless shelter at all. Our schools are already failing and we can't take on all these extra kids. Blah blah blah.

Guess what? Every city in the US can come up with a long list of excuses why the busses should not be sent to their city and why the migrants should be sent somewhere else. That is absolutely NIMBYism. Chicago doesn't want to deal with migrants. I get it. But they are not unique in this position. Our current policy is that we are letting in 10,000 migrants per day. Those people have to go somewhere. They cannot all stay in Texas. As soon as 10,000 enter one day, there are 10,000 coming the next day, which is why they are being put on busses to major cities in other parts of the country. If the frustration is that there are not enough resources to support these people for whatever reason (cold, not enough beds, whatever) then fine, but that conversation needs to be directed to the federal level and how many people we are allowing in, rather than the conversation being about anger about busses. Our position as democrats must not be that we talk about immigration out of both sides of our mouths, saying we want to support an open border and let these people out of one side of our mouth, and out of the other, we say "as long as one of those busses never shows up to my city. Send them somewhere else. My city is too cold. Too many homeless. Keep them all hidden in Texas where the problem is invisible to me and I never have to see a migrant or have one in my child's school or have my tax dollars expected to pay for their care."

That's NIMBYism, folks. Immigration is a national issue. We need to stop making it about busses. If we let these people in, we all have to support them.