Opinion: DeSantis 2024?

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(09-18-2022, 09:15 AM)masonbengals fan Wrote: Looks like you may be starting to comprehend the plight of our southern states. So the political ploy (As shitty as it is) may just be working.


 I don't believe for 2 seconds that the numerous multi-millionaire citizens of MV lack the resources to care for 50 people. 

Sigh.

They have the money...not the resources.

There are place set up to handle that.

I didn't get even get into the fact that DeSantis took people ALREADY in shelters and then changed their addresses and shipped them off.  Those people would need to go to THE NEW ADRESS DeSantis' people gave them for their hearings...and he shipped them ALL to MA.

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I wonder if it would help to explain some nuances of the Martha's Vineyard situation that may be lost on the general public.

These folks had already been processed by DHS and were in a private shelter getting ready to make onward journeys when DeSantis's people tricked them.



The U.S. government doesn't provide a dime for asylum seekers not in detention, but they also can't work for at least 6 months.

These folks were eager to work and it sounds like they agreed to go to Mass because someone said they'd get their work permits faster that way.

Meanwhile, these folks have upcoming deportation court dates all over the country. They will be ordered deported if they don't show.


That's partly why advocates are so appalled. DeSantis made these folks go out of their way and potentially sabotage their cases for a cruel prank.

The whole premise of the stunt (i.e. migrants burdening border states) is also absurd. If DeSantis had done nothing, many of these folks would already be at their original destinations across the country. Indeed, the busiest deportation court (SF) isn't even near the border.



Also, once again, the U.S. government doesn't care what happens to asylum seekers released from detention, so the fact that the folks are getting accommodated at the military base in Mass is also unusual.


To be clear, I think the lack of immediate accommodation or permission to work sucks. In fact, that's what made this whole ruse possible in the first place.



As an aside, the bogus brochure DeSantis's people gave out implied folks could get Refugee Cash Assistance. RCA is only for people who've won their cases. Ironically, in my experience, by the time people are eligible for those benefits, they make too much money to qualify.



Meanwhile, there's not a single red cent for people who show up at the border, often on foot and with only the clothes on their backs.



Correction: SF isn't the busiest overall, just in California. These are the top-10 busiest deportation courts. As you can see, not a single one is on the Southern border. The closest to the U.S.-Mexico land border (#6) is Dallas.

Source: https://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/court_backlog/…




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Are there problems with the immigration system?  You betcha!  Do stunts like these do anything to fix them?  In no way.

Tax money is already going from MA to TX or the border...and even though the pawns in DeSantis' prank were met with compassion and care the right keeps lying about it anyway.

The gop doesn't WANT to fix the problem...they never do unless its the "problem" of the rich paying taxes...they want something to campaign on.