The Democratic mayors of Chicago and Denver gave a joint interview Sunday in which they acknowledged the “crisis” on the southern border but placed much of the blame on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ® for creating more “chaos” in his approach to migration.
In an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Denver Mayor Mike Johnston stressed their frustration with the surprise arrivals of buses and airplanes in theirs and other cities.
Johnston said he has not considered turning away buses — as some other cities’ mayors have – but asked that city officials be notified that the buses were coming before they arrived and that the buses arrive during regular working hours and at regular bus stops.
“All we want is a system that is humanitarian for both the new folks that are arriving and for our cities and our city employees. And so, we understand there will be an inflow, we have already had 35,000 migrants arrive to Denver, we’ve successfully helped them integrate into the country here,” Johnston said. “What we don’t want is people arriving at 2:00 in the morning at a city and county building with women and children outside in 10-degree weather and no support.
The GOP and conservative pundits have become quite adept at lying while leaving a little bit of room for ambiguity. I was under the impression the migrants are being heavily mislead and they’re agreeing to be moved to other states. I’m pretty sure there has to be an element of force or coercion for it to be considered human trafficking and the GOP is stretching the letter of the law just before it snaps.
Can’t make a legal agreement under duress, which the migrants definitely are, but even if they fully understood and weren’t in a position to argue with officials at the time, they’re being misled. Misrepresentations of material fact, which is a basis for voiding any legal agreement predicated on those facts.
Funny how all the GQP arguments and justifications dry up as soon as you start looking at it through the same lens as any other contract, ain’t it.
But isn’t misleading them a form of coercion?