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Dilemma of Our Own Making

6/6/2023

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Lefty: “Hey, did you year that Governor Gavin Newsom wants to impose kidnapping charges on Governor Ron DeSantis? Yeah, something about transporting immigrants to California.”


Righty: “Isn’t that a sanctuary state? Aren’t its cities sanctuaries? Have they become Martha’s Vineyard, putting out the welcoming sign of love for all while shipping the unwanted migrants elsewhere within about a day or two? Doesn’t the California governor want the migrants? Is he, dare I say it, a white supremacist? A racist?”


Independent: “Who knows? Maybe it's a ploy to garner votes for his run for the presidency. California, long dependent upon seasonal migrant workers, now is off limits to migrants.”


Lefty: “Newsom is accusing DeSantis of kidnapping, saying the migrants didn’t know where they were going when they boarded a plane.”


Righty: “They boarded, didn’t they? This wasn’t a reenactment of Nazis with guns forcing Jews into box cars headed to concentration camps. Did any migrant under the threat of being shot have to walk up the steps to enter the plane? Were the migrants being sent to some concentration camp in Sacramento under armed guard?”


“Independent: “Who paid for this?”


Lefty: “Gotta be the misuse of Florida taxes. These xenophobic people have no compunction, no compassion, no authority…”


Righty: “To what? What’s their choice? Open the borders of Florida just as they did to all those Cuban migrants forty and sixty some years ago? Remember when Fidel released prisoners in that more recent wave of Cuban migration? Florida did allow most of the migrants to join its population. Just go to Calle Ocho in Miami, a kind of hub of Cubanity, a center of 'Little Havana.' You might know it as Eighth Street.”


Independent: “You’re making me hungry for some tapas and margaritas at La Taverna Calle 8.”


Lefty: “Go ahead, you two. Show your ignorance. Newsom is showing his compassion for the poor migrants.”


Righty: “How? By threatening those who might make their journey to his sanctuary cities easy?”


Independent: “He seems to be making a valid point, Lefty.”


Lefty: “No. Florida is showing its xenophobia.”


Righty: “So, let’s get this straight. You’re saying that a state that is 26.8 % hispanic or latino with a governor who has Italian heritage and a middle name Dino is anti-immigrant? But you say nothing about a governor and a state that claims to be compassionate and welcoming now threatening those who facilitate the passage of immigrants to Sacramento? Surely, the governor’s mansion has some extra bedrooms. And given the kind of meal we saw Newsom eat at an expensive restaurant that remained open for him and guests at the time he closed most restaurants in California during the Covid year, well, given that money spent on expensive meals, I’d say California certainly has enough money to buy immigrants food.”


Independent: “He really does seem to have a point.”


Lefty: “You’re ignoring the human tragedy here. You just can’t ship people around the country.”


Righty” You mean the way the Biden Administration ships them around—on planes and in the dead of night to locations pretty much unknown and unreported by the compliant media.”


Independent: “Do they do that? I didn’t know.”


Lefty: “They do so in a compassionate way. The people get free phones, some toiletries, maybe some bags of food for the trip.”


Righty: “But aren’t they ‘kidnapped’? Aren’t they sent off to some location where they might not be welcomed? Say Chicago, where the former mayor sent them to suburbs? I’m beginning to think that you Lefties are all talk and no welcome beyond an initial show for TV coverage. You opened the border, but you really don’t want the migrants. Newsom should be praising Biden, not condemning DeSantis. By the way, did you know that DeSantis hit .336 as captain of the Yale baseball team? That’s a pretty good average. I wonder how successful he might have been had Yale played Santa Clara when Newsom pitched for that team. Or, conversely, I wonder how well the left-handed pitcher Newsom might have been against DeSantis. Well, I guess we’ll never know because Newsom ‘threw out his arm,’ as baseball jargon goes, and didn’t pitch after his sophomore year, and then there’s the age difference, Newsom being eleven years older than DeSantis. Not that Newsom hasn’t turned pitching in baseball to pitching himself.”


Independent: “There is that. But I have to say that Newsom’s accusing DeSantis of kidnapping might have some redeeming value. He doesn’t want his own state flooded the way Texas is flooded by immigrants. There are only so many mutual resources, even in a state the size of California. Maybe he’s just looking for a more humane process to transfer immigrants.”


Lefty: “Yes, and he doesn’t want them treated like subhumans.”


Righty: “So, a plane ride is a terrible way to treat them?”


Lefty: “Yes. They are just flown wherever DeSantis or Abbott want to fly them.”


Righty: “But you haven’t objected to Biden’s Homeland Secretary sending them on planes to unknown destinations.”


Lefty: “That’s different.”


Independent: “I have a feeling that you two will never agree. But I do see Righty’s points because they indicate a certain hypocrisy among Lefties. Do you, or do you not want open borders and sanctuaries? You can’t say you want them and then do what you can to ship migrants to ‘convenient’ places outside your professed sanctuaries. Make up your mind, and lose your hypocrisy.”


Righty: “One more thing. Certainly, most migrants today are probably just like most migrants of the past, people seeking a better life in a land of opportunity and plenty. But Biden has either consciously—hard to associate that word with him—or unconsciously given the world the idea that America has no closed border by his executive decisions to undo the building of the wall and by eliminating the ‘stay in Mexico.’ Isn’t the whole dilemma one of ideology framed by Leftists? The Rightists simply wanted to maintain legal entry and eliminate the free-for-all mentality that has led to many human tragedies like rape and murder by cartels that are making money hand-over-fist for trafficking. Your so-called compassionate Left has engendered human tragedy after human tragedy. And now you’re complaining about a couple of planeloads of migrants you say you welcome.”


Independent: “I’m kinda with him on this. The current administration’s policies have certainly exacerbated a criminal condition that has resulted in abuse of the migrants.”


Lefty: “You guys are just xenophobes and racists.”


Righty: “Really? That’s your argument? And your solution, other than filing kidnapping charges, would be…?”






*https://news.yahoo.com/california-threatens-legal-action-over-234056529.html
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