(09-10-2022, 10:42 AM)Sneakers Wrote:

(09-10-2022, 10:12 AM)mikesez Wrote: What cities and states do on this issue can never be anything more than posturing and lip service.  That goes for the "sanctuary cities" and equally for TX uselessly bussing them around.  This is a federal issue and Congress needs to act.

Texas is not ''uselessly bussing them around", they're providing free transportation to communities proclaiming welcome to all and promising not to deport.  If Chicago and other sanctuary cities (perched on a soapbox a thousand miles away) want a voice in border security, they need to accept their share of responsibility for those who cross illegally.  Governor Abbott is reducing an overwhelming burden on his citizens and as, Biscuit pointed out, exposing the hypocrisy of the Left.  

No progress will be made on this problem while Biden is President.

I'm not optimistic that there will be any new immigration laws under Biden either, but I wouldn't rule it out.  Biden believes that Obama wasted a lot of goodwill and time on this issue and he will avoid repeating that mistake.

I think you probably agree with me that Texas' action is numerically very small, just a few hundred people getting bussed out of hundreds of thousands of recently arrived illegal immigrants.  I think you agree that it is just symbolic and meant to teach a lesson.  I think where we disagree is whether symbolic attempts to teach lessons are useful or not. Chicago may stop presenting itself as a sanctuary city, yes, but that won't change federal law nor will it cause Texans or Chigagoans to start sending different-minded people to Congress.

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