Since April 2022, 110,000 migrants have come to New York, with 10,000 arriving a month, largely bused here to the Port Authority terminal by conservative leaders from border states like Texas, in a political dispute about border security.
The surge has forced city officials to open more than 200 emergency sites to house migrants, after its traditional shelters became overwhelmed. And schools are feeling the strain as well.
How is it a strawman when it really is cruel and harmful?
It is about hurting both the migrants and Democrats. As is typical for Republicans, the cruelty is the point.
How are the migrants worse off than they were at the town that didn’t want them?
If democrats want open borders they’re welcome to have them, so long as they take in the crossers.
Because their own choices matter — they went to that destination to be with their families and friends or to fill job opportunities they found. They are actual people with real feelings and ignoring their decisions to move them thousands of miles against their will as a political stunt is definitional cruelty.
If you don’t want immigrants in your town, you should move. Spoiler alert though, there are immigrants going to every town in the US. So you might have to leave the country and immigrate somewhere else.
They don’t get choices, what part of illegal do you not understand? They should get sent straight back, but if liberals want them they can have them in their cities.
So you actually do acknowledge it’s cruel and harmful, you simply don’t care because you believe they deserve it?
You are an awful person.
Being intentionally obtuse doesn’t help anything, but at least from your above comment we agree that New York and other Democrat cities can and should take them.