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spicytoastaficionado t1_j0vl0p9 wrote

>Feds should transfer money allocated to southern bored to NY.

Federal funds allocated to the southern border specifically is for federal resources such as border security, migrant detention, and federal personnel staffing. If you think the migrant crisis is bad now, what do you think would happen without any border patrol?

Federal humanitarian aid is given to NGOs as grants; not deposited into the coffers of border states.

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> A) we should receive some as we are now supporting more people.

If you took the NGO humanitarian aid that United Way spends in TX and had them disperse some of it to NYC based on proportion of migrants who are sent here, we'd get like pennies on the dollar.

Border towns in TX deal with tens of thousands of migrants arrivals per week on top of all the ones who are residing in the state. Can't compare their situation with NYC.

Federal border patrol records upwards of a quarter-million migrant encounters per month. If feds took away their funding as you suggested, you'd have literally millions of people entering the country every month.

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> B) southern states might rethink their strategy

Southern states wouldn't re-think their strategy if feds transferred their border patrol funds to NY.

They'd just send even more busses.

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