Migrants Over MAGAs, Any Day

With one notable exception, I tend to publish one post per day, so I am a couple of days behind on the story of Texas governor Abbott's declaration that he would bus border-crossing asylum seekers to Washington DC:

At a press conference on Wednesday, Abbott unveiled a stunning plan that sent a shockwave through the immigration rights community: Texas would place state troopers in riot gear to meet migrants at the border and bus them straight to the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., where he said the Biden administration "will be able to more immediately address the needs of the people that they are allowing to come across our border."

Sure, it's unconstitutional, but Abbott succeeded in his goal of trolling the libs.  Personally, I would much rather have migrants as neighbors than MAGAs.  Donald Trump infamously said that Mexico wasn't sending its best people, but the people that Mexico and Central America are sending are a damn sight better than Trumpers.

On a serious note, the crises in Central America are the result of American policies, specifically Republican policies- whether its climate change exacerbated by Republican denialism, or the societal crises rooted in Reagan's support of violent right-wing regimes in the 1980s.  We owe a debt, or more properly punitive damages, to Central and South American peoples, and satisfying that debt would go a long way toward ameliorating the border crisis that Abbott is trying to overplay in this election year.