Bloomberg: Why Is the Government Sending Illegal Aliens to Blue Jurisdictions, When It's the Red Jurisdictions Who So Dearly Need Their Diversity?

As you well know, the left is adamant that all the world's destitute be permitted to come settle the United States to free it from its current colonialist inhabitants. But you know as well that the left insists that those dirty foreigners be settled far way from from leftwing enclaves. Ship 20,000 Haitians to working-class white Springfield, Ohio -- but when 50 (fifty, five-zero) immigrants are bussed to all white, all wealthy Martha's Vinyard, these White Saviors say "We just don't have the proper welfare services to handle such a huge flow of immigrants" and they ship them off to, yes, a literal military camp.

Bloomberg has an article up offering the beginnings of an intellectual justification for why these illegal aliens that the left is so very, very fond of should be settled in "red jurisdictions." You see, the blue jurisdictions they sometimes come to are already "thriving." These illegals would bring even more thriving to these thriving areas, and really, do you need that much thriving?

So they have a plan: Let's divert the illegal aliens who cause local thriving from the already-thriving blue jurisdictions and dump them into the red jurisdictions that desperately need the "thriving" these illegal aliens can provide.

Whatever is necessary to keep them out of Martha's Vinyard.

Migrants Are Settling in Thriving Blue Counties -- Not the Red Counties That Need Them

By Elena Mejía and Shawn Donnan for Bloomberg Politics + Equality

In this year's US presidential campaign, few issues figure as prominently as immigration. Voters from coast to coast have seen their communities mired in fierce debates about how to handle an influx of migrants fueled by a record number of border crossings in 2023.

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Often lost in all the politicking, though, is a clear accounting of what shape the recent wave of immigration has taken -- and what clues that offers about the US economy, including the labor and resource needs of the swing-state cities and towns that are poised to have outsize impact on the election.

Bloomberg News analyzed immigration court data obtained by researchers at Syracuse University that show where the 1.8 million asylum seekers and refugees who landed in the US in 2023 have taken up residence...

Migrants landing in swing states, and across the country, are gravitating to counties that voted for President Joe Biden in 2020.

In the battleground states that will decide this November's election, about 72% of migrants in 2023 went to Biden counties while less than a third went to Trump counties, the Bloomberg analysis found. Counties that voted for Biden four years ago are home to roughly 60% of the overall US population.

Swing states received 12% of all migrants, with most going to blue counties like Philadelphia, home to Pennsylvania's largest city, and Gwinnett, which is outside Atlanta.

Much like in previous generations, migrants are headed to places with growing local economies, bolstering the labor force in places that are already thriving. In swing states, 85% of migrants settled in places that saw GDP growth from 2019 to 2022, according to the latest available data....

These newcomers are unlikely to become US citizens before the election, so they won't be casting ballots of their own.

LOL, sure.

Westmoreland, which through the 19th and 20th centuries turned coal into a manufacturing-driven regional economy that once attracted companies such as Alcoa, Sony and Volkswagen, has weathered decades of deindustrialization that led to a steady exodus of people. And for years local leaders have been plotting how to attract more residents, with mixed results. The county's population is about 10% smaller today than it was at its peak in 1979.

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Westmoreland was the destination for just 142 migrants with cases pending in immigration court in 2023. And the politics of the region may preclude that from getting much larger.

Let's force Westmoreland to take 15-20,000 Haitians so it can start thriving again!!!

This is an especially sick thing to demand, when the town you're talking about has had a collapse of local employment due to deindustrialization, that is, outsourcing manufacturing jobs to the third world.

But let's flood this already low-employment town with lots of illegals willing to work for dirt wages. That'll really help the locals to thrive!

How much more obvious could Bloomberg be that they are making a case for liberals getting what they want politically -- a never-ending flood of third world "new voters" -- so long as those dirty foreigners are penned up with Dirty White Working Class.

Local Republican elected officials have this year worked to get the county, in which Trump took 63% of the vote in 2020, taken off a list of sanctuary communities kept by the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that advocates for tougher border policies. That became an issue because of Republican moves in the state legislature to crack down on cities and counties identified as sanctuaries and local complaints from Trump supporters.

What they're complaining about is that liberals want to declare their cities sanctuary cities, but then dirty foreigners actually take them at their word that they are "welcomed" there and move to those leftwing cities.

What they want is for red jurisdictions to call themselves sanctuary cities so the dirty foreigners will move their instead, leaving Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard pristine and almost entirely white and wealthy.

Here, they make the case that what these economically-stunted former manufacturing areas need is not new jobs but new workers to fill the few jobs that exist, because, somehow, adding new workers to an area with high unemployment will attract "outside investors" who will then start new industries and make new jobs.

Where they're getting this is unclear. I think this is just pure wishcasting and trying to concoct some fantasy about why dirty foreigners should stick to crumbling post-industrial towns where dirty Trump votes live.

According to federal data, the county's local economy was at the end of 2022 still 2.5% smaller in inflation-adjusted terms than it was in 2019 before the pandemic. The lack of workers still serves as one hindrance to drawing new investments, according to local economic development officials.

Yes whenever a town's unemployment is high, and people are leaving the area to find work in other places, I always think, "What this place needs is a flood of new third-world workers to compete with the resident population for the few remaining jobs. Just putting all those working class white people out on the street will really attract 'outside investment.'"

Kulick's program is part of his broader mission to quietly bring migrants to a conservative county that was built many generations ago by immigrants arriving from places like Italy and Eastern Europe, but has gravitated toward Trump and his anti-migrant politics in recent years.

If it wants to survive, the county will eventually have to welcome more migrants from Latin America and beyond, Kulick says. It's a matter of adapting to economic reality, he says.

Nah. I think they should just build paper mills and fat rendering plants on Martha's Vineyard. What do you think of that? Really make Martha's Vineyard thrive with foreigners and dirty industries.

Meanwhile: Springfield Ohio is thriving, baby, if your metric for "thriving" is shoplifting and vehicle theft.

Reports of shoplifting and vehicle theft increased considerably in Springfield, Ohio, following the arrival of thousands of Haitian refugees, according to data obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation through a records request.

The town, which had a population of 58,622 in 2020, has taken in between 12,000 and 20,000 Haitian refugees over the past three years, marking a population increase of between 20.4% and 34.1%. From 2021 to 2023, Springfield also saw a 51.5% jump in motor vehicle theft reports and a 112.8% spike in reports of shoplifting, data provided by the Springfield Police Division shows.

Springfield residents previously told the DCNF that the influx of Haitians has resulted in an uptick in car accidents, increased housing prices and strained public services. Bryan Heck, Springfield's city manager, sent a letter to Democratic Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, Republican Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance and Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott in July requesting federal assistance to deal with the pressure migrants had placed on the housing supply.

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Springfield's police department declined to comment on the crime data, which does not include information on the immigration status or demographics of offenders.

Obviously, American citizens cannot have possession of any information that might undermine the Regime's claims.

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Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has set aside $2.5 million to help Springfield deal with the migrant surge and announced Wednesday that he would deploy the Ohio State Highway Patrol to assist with traffic enforcement in the municipality. The issue of poor driving among refugees became a flashpoint in the community after a Haitian national driving a minivan without a license swerved in front of a school bus in August 2023, killing an 11-year-old boy and injuring roughly a dozen other students.

One Springfield resident, a pastor, told the DCNF that the town had accidents every day as a result of the influx of Haitians. A local towing employee confirmed that there had been an uptick in wrecks.

Thriving, baby.

posted by Ace at 12:10 PM

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