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Migrants, real and imagined, grip US voters, 1,500 miles north of border (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 months ago by MicroWave to c/news

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Few residents of this Wisconsin small city have seen a migrant but some are blaming Biden for an ‘invasion’ regardless and elsewhere in the state an influx of foreigners is not all it seems

Rhinelander is closer to the Arctic Circle than to Mexico, so it is no great surprise that few people in the small Wisconsin city have laid eyes on the foreign migrants Donald Trump claims are “invading” the country from across the US border 1,500 miles to the south.

But Jim Schuh, the manager of a local bakery, is nonetheless sure they are a major problem and he’s voting accordingly.

“We don’t see immigrants here but I have relatives all over the country and they see them,” he said. “That’s Biden. He’s responsible.”

Large numbers of voters in key swing states agree with Schuh, even in places where migrants are hard to find as they eye cities such as Chicago and New York struggling to cope with tens of thousands of refugees and other arrivals transported there by the governors of Texas and Florida.

Trump has been pushing fears over record levels of migration hard in Wisconsin where the past two presidential elections have been decided by a margin of less than 1% of the vote. A Marquette law school poll last month found that two-thirds of Wisconsin voters agree that “the Biden administration’s border policies have created a crisis of uncontrolled illegal migration into the country”.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Very few people are advocating open borders, and I haven't seen any politicians doing so. Why are you trying to get clarification on an issue that doesn't exist?

We need migrants

That is the sentence you had an issue with. Admit it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

More succinct questions would be: How many illegal border crossings with the intent to stay in the US permanently is an issue? 100k/month? 50k? 10k? None?

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/oct/03/alex-mooney/fact-checking-current-scale-us-mexico-border-cross/

[–] PopcornTin 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Asking any questions, discussing any part of an issue is bad. Do as you're told, or else we'll call you bad names.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah the echo chamber / groupthink here is kinda not great. Hopefully it gets better as the platform grows

[–] whereisk -4 points 6 months ago

-- We need clean air.

-- How much?? All of it? Don't you know oxygen is flammable and corrosive? Look what it does to steel.

-- Welp