Last Updated on December 30, 2022 by Raider1
This follows a constant barrage of buses to sanctuary cities like Chicago, Washington D.C., and New York. As of August 8, 2022, more than 6100 migrants had made the trip out of Texas. All of this is orchestrated by Texas Govenor, Greg Abbott.
I think we all get it. With the current administration’s lax border, migrants are crossing by the tens of thousands into the U.S. border states. I can only imagine that every resource in these states to deal with this crisis is exhausted.
Let’s be clear, the crisis at the border isn’t that so many people are coming in, it’s that so many people are seeking asylum from where they’ve been. These people are running from one crisis into another. The lesser of two evils is still evil.
The best Greg Abbott can do? Put them on a bus in record cold temperatures and dump them somewhere else.
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The Bottom Line Cannot Be Solved with Bottom of the Barrel Governing
The bottom line is that Washington has dumped the issue of the Southern border squarely on the shoulders of the states connected to it. I guess they figure since they’re a thousand miles away, it will take a while for the problem to reach their door.
Governor Abbott has removed all obstacles.
He, and the people of Texas have been dumped on by the U.S. government and he is sending a message.
The problem is that message is falling on deaf ears who then spin it back on him and make him look like the bad guy for putting little kids on a bus to nowhere in the dead of night. Who’s more right?
This is where we have to revert to some simple principles like loving your neighbor as yourself.
I don’t believe that includes bussing your neighbor 1000+ miles in the dead of winter. I don’t believe weaponizing these people is the answer. This is the path of least resistance and I think the role of a governor demands much more than that.
What’s a Governor to Do with All the People!?!
It’s not like folks crossing the border illegally is a new thing. Governor Abbott has been in office since 2015 and was the Attorney General of Texas before that. Texas has been dealing with the influx of people long enough to have better strategies than a Greyhound bus.
At best, this is Republican fit-throwing in response to a Democrat regime that’s not enforcing our border. At worst, it’s further division, discord, and overall inhospitable. You know, the folks in Sodom weren’t very hospitable and look what happened to them.
This is wholly political and Abbott thinks it’s fine to use human beings as fodder for his political agenda when vengeance doesn’t belong to him.
What These People Are Running From
The majority of people crossing the border are trying to get away from areas that are overrun and run by ruthless drug cartels.
Sure, there are some bad actors, and with a wide open border, I’m sure people from Mexico, Guatamala, etc. aren’t the only ones showing themselves in.
It seems the majority are fleeing the cartels and third world living conditions for greener pastures. Can we really blame them?
If the cartels took over the U.S., we’d be knocking on Canada’s door so fast. Have you see The Handmaid’s Tale? Canada is the promised land.
None of this is new. The thing that is new is border state governors fighting back against something that has been dumped in their laps and forgotten.
A Better Plan
It seems to me, rather than this bus thing which is costing taxpayers a fortune. One source said $12 million. I think that money would better be spent creating infrastructure to help these people. These are HUMAN BEINGS! Children, even!
Abbott just slapped them a bus that dumped them in sub-freezing temperatures late on Christmas Eve!
Why can’t we help folks on the path to citizenship?
I won’t even pretend to know anything about that process, but I know you can’t just show up in the country you want to live in and become a citizen unless you marry someone or something like that.
If you can’t be in the country and apply, then why not create a facility where these people can stay and declare it as it’s own country or whatever and let them apply from there and guide them through the process.
In the meantime, put them to work. I’m sure Texas has cleaning and maintenance they can do. There’s probably even a budget for that sort of thing where they can pay folks.
If they’re not coming here to be citizens, then they get sent back from whence they came.
Then we need to get to work in these places they come from.
We are so quick to stick our nose in affairs overseas. Why can’t we focus on our own continent?
These people and their countries need help.
The cartels need to be cleaned out, but we can’t do that, can we? Because our alphabet agencies are busy trading guns and drugs with them, right?
All that needs to stop and all the corruption needs to be cleaned out.
Offer these people training. Show them businesses they can start in their own countries.
Network with them and help them. Teach them English or other languages that would help them with business.
Show them what resources they have at their disposal.
This is not rocket science.
Putting People First Fixes Everything
I hope Abbott has thought of all of this and is backed in a corner. Otherwise, there’s not excuse to treat people like cattle.
He should champion how to deal with this problem, figure it out, and then show other states how it’s done, and I don’t mean putting people on buses. This is not a solution.
What a legacy that would be: the guy who figured out the border problem regardless of walls and fences or lack thereof.
Not to mention, a great way to secure the Hispanic vote of citizens and present and future.
Sources
Buses
- https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/texas-gov-greg-abbott-sends-bus-of-migrants-to-chicago/
- https://www.npr.org/2022/08/08/1116285340/new-york-migrant-bus-texas-abbott
- https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/greg-abbott-escalating-migrant-buses-desantis/
- https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-announces-migrant-bus-arrivals-at-border-czar-harris-residence-in-washington-d.c
- https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08/31/texas-12-million-migrant-busing-program/
Cartels
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-drugs/factbox-worst-atrocities-in-mexicos-drug-war-idUSBRE87C06820120813
- https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/2012-the-most-outlandish-stories-from-the-drug-war-in-mexico
- https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/worse-than-any-horror-film-inside-a-los-zetas-cartel-kitchen-1.4225436