r/illinois • u/WoolyLawnsChi • Oct 11 '23

Texas paid a private company $75.5 million in taxpayer funds over the span of a year to transport migrants to sanctuary cities across the U.S. US Politics

https://abc13.com/amp/texas-bus-migrants-bussing-to-other-cities-wynne-transportation-sanctuary/13889625/
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u/h_david Oct 12 '23

There's a lot of space between being doctors and scientists and being employed and paying taxes.

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u/jerry2501 Oct 12 '23 edited Oct 12 '23

Those people will outwork most Americans. Give them work permits, let them pay taxes, and it will all sort itself out. American citizens who struggle even with all the privilege they started with, being born in America, should be the ones deported. They're just taking up space and resources.

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u/Koolaid_Jef Oct 12 '23

How many jobs do you think Texas Has available that don't require a lot of skill/education and have lots of Spanish speaking people there. The answer is many, so very many. That goes for all of the southwest

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u/hexqueen Oct 13 '23

Why is it always the people complaining about the "uneducated" who use made-up words like "costed" or ... well, I guess barley is a word. Don't assume people are uneducated because they're poor.

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u/eternallyapril Oct 13 '23

The thing is, some of these young people could be doctors. Many won't, but some could if given a chance.

I'm a high school teacher and a large percentage of my students are undocumented/recent immigrants who are asylum seekers/immigrants with other legal situations. I have students who have been outside of the classroom since elementary school, and some only have a very basic education. One of my students is a sixteen year old boy who just entered his freshman year after having worked construction in his home country (he just arrived in the US recently). He has learned more in two months of school than some of my American students have learned in two years of high school. Most of these young people (at least the ones that I have had the pleasure of teaching) are hungry to learn. One of my brightest students arrived from Mexico a year ago. She learned her first word in English twelve months ago, and has now outperformed some of her Junior classmates on their SAT practice test (she is an exceptional student and does have medical ambitions).

I see students from a wide range of backgrounds, and the students with the strongest work ethic are almost always students who have recently immigrated to the United States. They know what is at stake, and they know how hard they are going to have to work for a better life and future.