Originally posted by Whalers
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I didn't make assumptions about the racial makeup of the immigrants. You did. So I'll await the proof behind your assumption that they are all persons of color.
The compassionate people of MV did take care of the immigrants by establishing a group housing location in a local church on no notice and gathering whatever supplies they could assemble. Apparently you believe they were required to put them up in commercial hotels or even private homes, requirements that haven't existed in Texas and Florida and don't exist in sanctuary declarations either (contrary to the brain cramped thoughts of many, giving sanctuary does not require paying to put someone up in the Ritz-Carlton or offering the guest room). The federal government has spent a fortune setting up facilities in those states so immigrants are not placed in hotels except in limited or rare circumstances. In those unusual cases where they are, the facitilites were paid reasonable compensation. The overwhelmingly common practice, however, is to send immigrants to temporary government housing facilities, some of which, in Texas at least, are current or former military. Hey, that sounds familiar. If Abbott and Desantis think it's so bad for Massachusetts to send them to available military facilities instead of commercial inns, perhaps they'll show us how it's done by emptying their immigrant holding facilities and filling empty hotel rooms at an appropriate rate of compensation.
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