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If you'd like to change the subject of this sub-thread from "whether there's a crisis" to "what should be done about it," we can do that.

It's cold on the border, too. Border communities are broke, too. There's no reason the border communities should be expected to shoulder this challenge by themselves. If the numbers are overwhelming in Denver or New York, they're overwhelming in Eagle Pass and Brownsville too. Blamestorming won't fix this. No human being is illegal; you might want to stick to more neutral terms like "undocumented" or "unauthorized" (and when in doubt it's usually safer to refer to human beings with nouns, such as "people," rather than adjectives). It is not the people who are the problem, it is the failure to manage them. It is not the states that are at fault, it is their representatives in Congress. It is not Dems suffering the consequences, it's migrants.

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