Thread by @gauravsabnis

Conservative governors have been sending undocumented immigrants to blue states by bus, train, chartered plane. By the thousands.

Have you heard of any anti-immigrant mobs or demonstrations or grumbles in these blue states & cities?

Nope. We get along generally.

#VoteBlue

As a friend who works with helping undocumented immigrants settle in the city was telling me, you know what happens when an Abbott or a DeSantis sends a bunch of em to the city?

Almost all call someone they know in NYC, get temporary digs, try to find a job, get settled in.

Red state folks seem to think that undocumented immigrants come to America to live off the "taxpayer teat".

Shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how the American state works. Its teats are not as wholesome for immigrants, documented or otherwise.

Even for citizens really.

You might hear blue state politicians grumble about the logistical and budgetary issues related to accepting and settling immigrants randomly sent to us as political stunts. That's just regular work grumbling.

But the general citizenry is cool absorbing immigrants, papers or not

Our unemployment is at record lows.

We have a historic labor shortage.

We have very clear gaps in the industrial and white collar work force.

America needs more immigrants, not less.

The only time an undocumented immigrant is living off the "taxpayer teat" is when they are put in a detention center.