Have you ever heard of the reverse freedom rides? I history buff I follow on social media posted about it today.
In 1962 various white citizens' councils in the South recruited black families to take free bus rides to various Northern cities. They would promote their arrival in the northern newspapers. Some of the black families naively believed the whites' promises of good jobs and move-in ready housing when they arrived.
So there is some commonality, southern white conservatives sending brown people to northern liberals that they think are hypocrites.
The commonality ends there, of course. The federal rights of black people in 1962 were clear but unenforced. They could have been enforced, but weren't. Meanwhile, the federal rights of migrants vary based on if they are "refugees" or not, and of course they all claim to be refugees. This is an enforcement nightmare as we know.
As I keep saying, I'm glad we acknowledge this is all theater and pretending, but what is the goal here? Is angering citizens in the north really likely to get them to cooperate on immigration?
And what changes do we really want? Increased legal immigration? Process all refugee claims in other countries? Increased penalties for employers? Make more types of businesses liable for those penalties?

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