General Discussion

We need to get a solid democratic message on immigration. Right now our message is frustration over bussing out of one side of our mouth (NIMBYism) and saying we are for allowing migrants to come in out of the other. If we want to help these people (which is our current democratic position), that means that all major cities must be able and willing to accept and shelter migrants. There are 10,000 migrants crossing into Texas per day. The vast majority come with only the clothes on their backs and have no family in the US who can take them in. They are completely dependent on US social services at least at first.

If our values say we want to continue allowing the border to be open at the level it is (10,000 homeless migrants per day) then that's fine. But then we have to be prepared to shelter and feed these people until they get on their feet. Not have a NIMBY response of "send them back to Texas" or getting angry about busses and want to lock up busses and fine bus drivers. If we let these people in, every major city must do their part to shelter them because there are 10,000 more coming across every day.

The conversation must shift away from anger at border states/bussing to how can we get resources/funding, guest worker permits? The conversation must shift away from how can I keep those busses from ever showing up at my city, to if we cannot support that many people, to having a conversation at the federal level about how many people we are allowing in per day. Not lashing out at southern border states, who bear the brunt of this anyway.

This must be a national conversation. Not NIMBYism.

And why aren't other major cities VOLUNTEERING to take homeless migrants in? Where is the leadership?