Bussing - It's Payback Time

More of a stub than usual...

Any honest political observer would have understood Texas Governor Greg "Hot Wheels" Abbott's scheme of bussing illegal immigrants to places like NYC, Martha's Vineyard and Chicago was both 1) appalling and 2) politically, perhaps the most brilliant stunt of the election cycle. 

Outside of the Democratic party's continued insistence on doing this... : 


... the bussing of migrants might have been the single most effective campaign tactic to bring home just how broken the border had become. Leaving aside that the Republicans torpedoed the immigration bill to keep it as an issue. 

Because let's be very honest: it's very easy for the cities and states 1000+ miles away from the border to loudly virtue signal about the humanity of illegal immigrants when they don't have to deal with even close to the same magnitude of problems that emanate from an unsecured border. Martha's Vineyard cried for the National Guard, Chicago added considerable spending it can't afford, etc etc. And since it happened in NYC, the New York Times - now the de facto national newspaper for a considerable swathe of the US - covered it with many stories from several angles.

But I digress; my point is that bussing worked as a tool to "share the pain" and get a conversation started. So why are the Blue cities allowing themselves to end up as dumping grounds for drug-addicted thieves? The constant refrain you read in newspaper comments from the leftists is that homelessness is a "national problem," though they keep spending bucket loads of cash locally through municipal/county government and non-profits. This doesn't "solve" anything so much as act as a magnet for those living outside the bounds of the social contract, but the average leftist is (often proudly) economically illiterate and doesn't really want to think about cost/benefit issues. Anyway, instead of spending/wasting so much locally they should make it a national problem by taking a page from Gov Abbott. 

Each time there is an opportunity for an arrest - and there are so, so many - document where they came from by checking their ID and last known address. I bet they will find a significant number of warrants for arrest, considering how often that detail appears in news stories when a criminal turns out to have been living in an encampment with half a dozen outstanding warrants from both out-of-state and in the county. Then start sending them back on busses. Let the regions responsible for producing them take care of them. THEN we can have a national conversation. 

It's a policy whose time has come!

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