and they have to have the 100% permission from ICE to actually move from the area where their court date is.
Having to pay for the seekers' food, shelter, having to pay for the man-hours it takes to process them-- the list goes ever on.
There's a reason I said "even in peace-time," you know?
You forget that most of the federal money spent in the red states on immigration comes from blue states with very few exceptions.
The vast majority of immigrants end up in blue cities and states because that is where the jobs are at. For example, Texas is a red state, but where do the migrants go there? Dallas - blue, Houston - blue, Austin - blue and so on. Sure, there are some migrants that end up in meat packing towns in places like Western Kansas (where they are a godsend to the local economy), but the vast majority will end up in blue cities.
It would be especially cruel to send the illegal to a sanctuary city as far away from where its court appearance is mandated, maybe somewhere in Canada.
that isn't how it works...you don't get to claim that a civil war where citizens are shooting at each other over slavery to someone here looking for asylum protection.
You don’t not have to pay for food and shelter if you detain them. The hours it takes to process them is our obligation, whether in is a blue or red state, no different - tho certainly less costly - than what we have to do with refugees brought here from overseas. This sort of thing is among the stuff the nations of the world pledged themselves to do with the various post WWII treaties enacted in the shadow of the holocaust and other abuses of that period. The treaties protecting refugees are just two of many involving unjust imprisonment, torture, certain economic rights, etc. Sorry if this bothers you, and as I have said, let me know if you want the names of the various treaties so that you can work to rid us of their obligations. Trump suggested ignoring or breaking these laws, but even he was constrained. He suggested torture and war crimes and ignoring refugee law, but was confined to spreading hatred and fear and in the case of war crimes, pardoning the offenders our armed forces had convicted or wanted to try.
I suspect he probably supports DeSantis idea to invade Mexico and also to kick out US citizen children born to immigrants.
According to whose rules?
What an expansive statement. You wrote that on the basis of what?
If you trick people into getting onto a bus or plane to send them somewhere else based on lies you are telling them like there are jobs for them there, housing and so on - when you haven't arranged any of that, it is indeed cruelty.
OK, I agree with you. No trickery.
Many red states take in more federal tax dollars than they contribute. That's plain fact.
Question for you: what motivated DeSantis to move the migrants? Was it:
Your generosity and understanding of the human condition is inspiring. I bet you also are so grateful at how current immigration, much as past, subsidizes our economy and lifestyles.
To answer your leading question, if 'C' choice was given without the snarky 'childish' comment, then that is the answer. He did that to make a political point. To show that Biden and his idiot henchman Majorcas don't give a damn about enforcing federal laws at the border. He got the publicity he was looking for. And for those who will never vote for DeSantis, they will accept what he did for what it is worth.
Another 'fact' thrown out for which there is no substantiation.
You have no documented evidence about "lies" or trickery or what constitutes "cruelty" when putting migrants on buses or planes.
www.tampabay.com
abcnews.go.com
jr“They were told there was a surprise present for them, and that there would be jobs and housing awaiting for them when they arrived. This was obviously a sadistic lie,” said Rachel Self, a Boston immigration attorney who was assisting with the migrants’ cases.Migrants stranded in Martha’s Vineyard say they were lied to
Migrants said they didn’t know they were bound for the island, and had been promised jobs and assistance.
"Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar announced the probe on Monday night, saying that his office believes the migrants who were shuttled to the Massachusetts island on Sept. 14 were lured under false pretenses, which DeSantis denies.Sheriff investigates DeSantis' migrant flight as attorneys sue, claiming trip was manipulative
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' migrant flight to Martha's Vineyard is being investigated by the Bexar County, Texas, sheriff
"What infuriates me the most about this case is that here we have 48 people that are already on hard times, right?" Salazar said at a press conference. "They are here legally, in our country. At that point, they have every right to be where they are. And I believe that they were preyed upon."
Now you have the proof of the cruelty.jr
It would seem to me that 48 Venezuelans should consider themselves the luckiest migrants in the world.
They almost died in the jungles trying to get to Mexico and now they are living in Massachusetts being treated well by the natives there.
Finding Their Way, Venezuelan Migrants Put Down New Island Roots
Six months ago, Eliud made an unplanned trip to Martha’s Vineyard. Now he’s here to stay — or at least he is hopeful about that.vineyardgazette.com
It's not an obligation in the least. It's a political football, in which the Left encourages illegals to make a dangerous journey and get themselves into hock to the cartels, just so that the administration can make a show of opening their gates wide to the "huddled masses" before actually sending back the vast majority of applicants, most of whom had no justification to seek asylum. Trump saw that the law had been perverted by Leftie virtue signaling and took action to stop encouraging illegal caravans.
See post 599 for a description of REAL cruelty.