• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    To be fair, even the blue states are feeling the resource and budget pinch with immigration and are aggressively calling for federal assistance. His views aren’t exactly out of line with his constituents on that issue.

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      Who are you referencing here? Illinois is the only one I remember, and their solution isn’t to close the border, it’s to speed up processing and stop a giant state from intentionally overstressing a smaller state. California is on the border and handling things just fine, but when suddenly all of Texas’s immigrants get redirected to a state that doesn’t have the infrastructure in place to handle them, it’s a problem.

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        1 year ago

        New York, Colorado, Massachusetts, etc etc. Lots of stories from AP and Reuters in Google News if you start searching for teams like “migrants” and “federal.”

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          Massachusetts is another one that wants the federal government to fast track work authorizations and the like, and again, stop the targeted use of migrant busses to overload a small state’s infrastructure. For New York it seems like it’s mostly NYC and Adams is kind of a DINO.

          There’s a lot of subtext smuggled into the original statement regarding blue state opinions on migration, and the concerns are entirely different from red state xenophobia.

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        Anyone who would vote to limit immigration is so anti-American that I cannot believe they are listened to at all.

        I recognize the reality of it, but it’s just a bag full of insanity to me.

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            By your metric, Fetterman might have irrational and un-American constituents, but they’re the folks who put him in office, unfortunately.

            I agree. I dislike them, not him. He’s doing his job.

            I may disagree with his position, but I don’t dislike him as a person.

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          Anyone who would vote to limit immigration is so anti-American that I cannot believe they are listened to at all.

          You’re dissatisfied with your party’s actions and wish they would listen to their left?

          Do tell.

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        It’s the same with the kids in cages thing, like this is what America is, and what it must do to maintain its position in the world. You have to be anti-American to sincerely criticize it. The political system absorbs and mediates the outrage so the system can maintain itself. Biden committed more funds to the border wall and immigration policy still puts kids in cages, and it always will so long as America is what it is. Climate change and mass migration will require America to become more harsh, just like the European countries who let the migrant ships sink with families drowning in front of their eyes. Party politics can point the blame so nobody has to feel guilty.