Jeff Danziger for October 15, 2022

A LOT of immigrants have seen that statue as they arrive. This decade, not so much.

New York seems to be a lot more welcoming than Texas. If you have got no prospects in Texas, take the free trip payed by the taxpayers of Texas or Florida.

Why do republicans call ALL immigrants “illegal”? Is it because under Trump they tried to make it as difficult as possible to come in legally?

“Look Mom, the Statue of Liberty!!” (translation)

Sadly, liberty has a different restrictive meaning to the GQP.

Muy bien, señor.

Hush up, kid. We don’t like to be reminded of what we are likely to lose in the next two years.

Right,kid,and it beats the hell out of Big Tex…

Please reroute to Florida, rapidemente.

Give us your poor etc is not in the GQP Republican and Nationalist Christian vocabulary and never will be. They laugh at those words while people who want to be real Americans get a lump in their throats. Native Americans often feel like the invading army not only welcomed themselves to the table and took all the food but then pooped on the table. People of color and even families of other immigrants might feel that those who claim to have built America with their own sweat and blood ought to choke on those words. What a nation this could be if the real history was taught and respect and the wealth was shared far more equitably. The Republicans certainly cannot allow any of that to happen

Don’t vote for human trafficker republicans.

And so it is, that these immigrants from away, in seeking that land of liberty, have been bused to a people that will do whatever they can to care for them. The Dems that receive them, though from the same land of liberty as those that sent them, are way different in how they define liberty.

That cartoon was actually heartwarming…

Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free of the stench of self-serving political hack jobs and their sweaty, smelly, stupid, overweight, poorly-dressed lard bucket constituents.

Is that too harsh?

Es verdad, kid, that’s where it is. And the torch is still lit, so far.

A couple of points: 1) Immigration in this country once WAS open. Many of us had great-grandparents come over and go through Ellis Island or some equivalent. Before the 1880s, there was no immigration policy to speak of. Only in the last few decades have we made it increasingly difficult for people to immigrate here legally. It’s not because we can’t hold/support/use more people. We have more than enough resources, and virtually all research shows that immigrants increase US productivity and well-being. It’s because, like abortion and guns, the radical right has found an issue they can hype up and exploit, creating a bogeyman to blame on the “libs”. We COULD have a calm, rational immigration policy that let in many more people (so they wouldn’t have to resort to undocumented means) — but we choose not to. 2) If border states (and let us remember that California receives more undocumented immigrants than Texas, yet they don’t resort to whining and taxpayer-funded political stunts) truly needed help with handling the immigrants being processed in their states — processing which comes at federal, not state expense — then they could work with other states rather than play political games. There are ways for states less near the border — say, Indiana or Arkansas — to share some of that burden, to the degree that it is a burden. New York City has received thousands all at once, and although it is straining city resources because of the way in which they have been dumped, the City and State of New York are now working with the feds to accommodate and spread the numbers. My take on this whole immigration hoax is that it’s no more of a problem than it was 50 years ago — just a political ploy.