Sunday, August 7, 2022

Burden-Sharing

Both Washington DC and New York City are proud “sanctuary cities.” Translation: they won’t cooperate with Homeland Security officials who might want to round up and deport aliens who are here without benefit of visa.

Recently the governors of Texas and Arizona have been offering undocumented aliens free bus rides to DC and NYC, and unsurprisingly have found plenty of takers. The mayors of those proud sanctuary cities have been whining about having these unemployed, needy individuals dumped on their doorstep.

How do they think mayors in TX and AZ have felt? How have those border state worthies been dealing? 

There are plenty of other “blue cities” to which the undocumented could be shipped, Minnesota’s Twin Cities and Boston for a couple of examples. Philadelphia, Chicago and St. Louis maybe? If we do enough of this, urban Democrats might press national Democrats to get serious about border enforcement and deportation.

Making Democrats walk their talk can have a moderating effect on policy. Not to mention the joy we experience in hoisting those woke jerks with their own petards.