[ExI] to hold or not to hold

[spike at rainier66.com]

…> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] to hold or not to hold

 

On Mon, Mar 25, 2024, 5:10 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> > wrote:

BillK, the USA has demonstrated that it cannot or will not close its
southern border.  Immigrants want to go to New York City.

 

>…Immigrants want to go to the USA.  They often do not care that much where…

 

There is a good video where a news guy went down the row in some Texas border town asking them where they wanted to go.  Most of them answered either Chicago or New York.  They definitely don’t want to stay in Texas.

 

So... Texas
cheerfully obliges with a one-way ticket.  New York cannot stop this…

 

>…It can, and already is in the process of doing so, using the police and the courts…

 

But if illegals have a bus ticket, New York cannot stop them.  Texas can give them a Greyhound bus ticket.  If New York stops the charter buses, then the buses stop in New Jersey, within walking distance of New York.  National borders are enforceable.  State lines are not.

 

>…Now, there may be a case for fast tracking immigrant applications if they are willing to move to states that are bleeding people to the point that one might question if they should still be states.  Wyoming, for example…

 

But none of them want to be in Wyoming.  I can’t blame them.  I was there recently.  Beautiful state actually, but the climate is very harsh and there is very few jobs.

 

Regarding whether Wyoming should still be a state, do let me assure you, with that few people holding 4% of the senate, they value their statehood highly.

 

spike

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