Washington DC at 'tipping point' as migrants arrive from border

Washington DC at 'tipping point' as migrants arrive from border(bbc.co.uk)

4 points by whitesilhouette 3 years ago | 5 comments

winternett 3 years ago |

America is such a contradiction of ethics for a country based on the constitution it preaches about, and based on the very religion it primarily evangelizes... Not saying that any other country or creed is better, but the humanitarian goals we televise are not the outcomes that minorities see in this country, even for natural born citizens, and much less for darker skinned immigrants.

When war broke out in Ukraine, we watched American borders gleefully open up for the deserving migrants, but in contrast, we've seen years of Haitian, Cuban, African, and Mexican migrants fleeing the same types of chaos getting the boot back home, or far worse, and it simply manifests in the news as "Here we go again"... Brought to you by the same people who covered Ukrainian refugees like this -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn0j58Cq4TI

Ukrainian refugees definitely needed the refuge, I would never say they weren't deserving... But the contrast of how America report on and receives migrants of darker skin tones, is frequently not the same warm welcome -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuEhWzum4gc

We also have sent Billions of dollars overseas to Ukraine, as if investing heavily into building local countries up like Mexico wouldn't serve to dramatically reduce the need for people to keep fleeing the country into the US.

America's migration policies have been skewed and selectively administered for a really really long time now. We need to begin to ask why?

I think every day is an opportunity for all of us to reflect clearly on the bias and indifference to the suffering of others and policies that are implemented in our country that we constantly turn blind eyes away from, and stop tolerating the imbalances in their enforcement.

More context here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfpNZwjNIYc

whitesilhouette 3 years ago |

Contrary to how this sounds, is not like DC is complaining about the migrants, just the lack of resources to handle this sudden rise of paperwork.

whitesilhouette 3 years ago |

Actually Reuters has a better headline.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/washington-mayor-requests-t...

SV_BubbleTime 3 years ago | |

Is it though? That could just read that it is citizens from other states.

I originally thought it was a cheap ploy for AZ/TX to do this, but the mayors of DC and NYC have complained and made exactly the statements that AZ/TX were soliciting. It might be a cheap ploy, but it’s been effective it seems.

whitesilhouette 3 years ago | | |

I said 'better' not the best. ;)

And yes, even I thought the same, that DC and NY are behaving exactly how the Reps want them to. I really hoped they would handle it better when AZ sent the first buses 2-3 months ago, but alas!