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Dolos2279 t1_it7egvr wrote

I don't understand. NYC is supposed to be a sanctuary for migrants.

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HashtagDadWatts t1_it7gpu5 wrote

You don't understand why it's inappropriate to use people's lives as a cynical political stunt?

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ripstep1 t1_it90rqv wrote

Is it a political stunt to offload your public state infrastructure?

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Dolos2279 t1_it7igrk wrote

Shouldn't the city be eager to help these people who are supposedly being used for a cynical political stunt? As a sanctuary NYC should be bussing them from Texas. Texas is saving NYC money.

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HashtagDadWatts t1_it7k0p3 wrote

The city has been helping these folks. That doesn't change the fact that using them as political pawns is wrong.

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Dolos2279 t1_it7rue0 wrote

Or maybe they're just spreading the resource burden of dealing with illegal immigration and starting with the places claiming to be sanctuaries. It's the most sensible thing to do in that situation.

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HashtagDadWatts t1_it7sbu4 wrote

I guess we should revoke the federal funding they receive, them, and reallocate it to NYC.

Note also that the people being used as pawns are people who are in the country legally.

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Dolos2279 t1_it8302y wrote

Well no actually. They're clearly lacking resources at the border so doing that would mean they should send even more to NYC.

>Note also that the people being used as pawns are people who are in the country legally.

I mean sure but endless masses of people showing up claiming asylum are obviously abusing asylum laws. I don't blame them but no matter your views on immigration we can't just absorb unlimited amounts of homeless people from around the world.

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HashtagDadWatts t1_it84ldt wrote

You say "send even more to NYC" as though disproportionate funding is here. The truth is that it's the opposite. Texas is getting billions and using it to complain and play political games.

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TeamMisha t1_it873in wrote

"sanctuary" just means NYC and other similar cities do not coordinate with immigration police and federal agencies on arresting illegal migrants or people overstaying visas. It doesn't mean we or any other city has infinite resources to accept everyone. This should have been a matter for the federal government, but Texas acted unilaterally in its decision which in my opinion was not right. Instead what should have happened is the federal government and Texas would have coordinated with (and paid from federal grants) other states and cities and distributed migrants to where there was capacity ready, and find out where capacity can be added. "Sanctuary city" doesn't mean NYC is ready to just accept 10,000 migrants in a week lol

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heepofsheep t1_it8hvpk wrote

So basically Texas is spending money to ensure these people can’t be deported?

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