The New Yorker’s Jelani Cobb writes “When Migrants Become Political Pawns.” He means the illegals DeSantis sent to Martha’s Vineyard or Abbott sent to DC. Oh, the horror! As though these actions made those illegals “political pawns.”
Uh … wrong. Governors DeSantis and Abbott were merely repurposing existing political pawns. It was the functional equivalent of using an enemy’s own weapons against him.
When new President Joe Biden dismantled Trump’s successful effort to keep most illegals out of the country, THAT was when migrants became political pawns. Pawns of the Democrat Party Biden led. He dumped illegal migrants on the whole country, in selfish pursuit of both political power and imagined moral superiority. Flew them around on night flights.
I understand it was uncomfortable when Abbott and DeSantis arranged for Democrats to experience what “frontline” governors were experiencing. A brilliant Alinsky-style counterpunch, it rubbed the Democrats’ noses in the mess they had made for everyone.
Serves ‘em effing right, doesn’t it?
