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 No.11478

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Lately I have following a bit more than usual news coming the USA, specially those about an specific ex-president and his careless management of documents.

However, lately Youtube has been suggesting me news from both right and left leaning media about how some governors in that country are playing hot potato with people coming from my country, I mean people that I could actually walk by while doing errands downtown but for some reason they decided to enter the USA.

Does anyone could tell me what is going on?

Left media seems to be blaming Texas governor for sending those people to a very fancy place called Martha's Vineyard and other locations around the country.

Right media is calling out the alleged hypocrisy of people living in those places for not offering accommodation in a place that supposedly can due to its status as touristic hotspot.

Regardless, quite sad all of this if you ask me...    

 No.11479

>>11478
>Left media seems to be blaming Texas governor for sending those people to a very fancy place called Martha's Vineyard and other locations around the country.
>Right media is calling out the alleged hypocrisy of people living in those places for not offering accommodation in a place that supposedly can due to its status as touristic hotspot.

So both of those are correct, basically, yeah.  Except I think it was the Florida governor?  Either way, the guy rounded up a bunch of people, said he was sending them to one place, and instead sent them to a bunch of other places.  This was a publicity stunt explicitly so they could then say "Aha, see, you wouldn't want them, either."

Initial reports were that the recipients of these victims were like "Yeah, but we're gonna take care of 'em now, what the fuck."  No idea how much that's held up or if different places have responded differently.

Also, even if the governor was correct about how those people would react...this is human trafficking and it's super definitely illegal.  You can't offer people a plane to a location and then dump them somewhere else once they're at your mercy.

 No.11480

>>11479
>Also, even if the governor was correct about how those people would react...this is human trafficking and it's super definitely illegal.  You can't offer people a plane to a location and then dump them somewhere else once they're at your mercy.

I suppose it's a reminder state powers have no obligation to tell the truth.  Whether Florida's politicized immigrant movement will be found to be illegal is anyone's guess, the Florida governor says the transport was consensual.

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/18/1123644692/desantis-migrants-texas-massachusetts-marthas-vineyard-legal-questions

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Gosh, the stuff people on Fox News is saying is nasty.

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Governor DeSantis probably did this as a PR stunt to rile up his base as well as gain prestige among the conservative base by engaging in human trafficking in order to stick it to Yuppie NIMBY Libs.

DeSantis probably wants to peel MAGA voters off of Trump onto himself in a bid for the presidential election in 2024 while still maintaining a public persona as a Trump loyalist while still attempting to usurp the orange man.

While there may be some validity to the hypocracy of the NIMBYs in Martha's Vineyard, the reality is as a tourist trap they probably aren't equipped to deal with people in off seasons. But I can't say because I don't know much about Martha's Vineyard, actually.

 No.11483

>>11478
The long and short of it goes; People who aren't affected in the slightest by things are suddenly affected, and they don't like it.

People calling it "human trafficking" is funny to me, given the state's been relocating people with little to no say like this for ages.
And not even non-citizens, as memory serves New York got in big trouble a while back for doing it with their homeless.

 No.11484

>>11483
Does that make it ok to do?

 No.11485

>>11484
It makes me uninclined to care.
As others have said, it's a publicity stunt to demonstrate hypocrisy.
The harm done seems quite mild, and again, because of hypocrisy, ignored on the other side.

Ultimately I find no cause to care for the moral outrage of those who lack principle.


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