New York City sets up office to give migrants one-way tickets out of town, to anywhere in the world ( english.elpais.com )

ShellMonkey , 8 months ago

Hell of a lot better than TX or FL where they give some false promise and then force them all off to somewhere they don’t like with a big fuck-off attached. At least it gives people a choice of destination, maybe they have someone they know elsewhere to live with but can’t get there otherwise.

prole , 8 months ago

It’s still fucked up. Nobody wants to spend the money and do the work necessary to make sure these people are capable of living comfortable lives. They’ll just keep getting handed off and shipped elsewhere over and over.

What a way to live.

millie , 8 months ago

I don’t know if you’ve ever been homeless in New England in the winter, but I definitely have and if you’re not from the area you’re straight up not ready for how cold it’s going to get.

If I was homeless in New York I’d take a ticket in a heart beat.

prole , 8 months ago

Right, but you’re missing the point. We’re still just passing the hot potato around, and nobody is doing anything to actually solve any of the problems that get us here.

millie , 8 months ago

I think the point in this case is not freezing to death. We’re always going to have homelessness as long as our society is an evil capitalist dystopia. I’m not sure that NYC is equipped to tackle that particular problem on their own.

ShellMonkey , 8 months ago

Same kind of deal with most any refuge situation though. Country gets into a war for whatever reason, some crazy person gets in power and decides X group is undesirable, natural disaster levels a town, someone has to foot the bill but just passing it off to whatever location they land at won’t work. Within the USA we have things like FEMA that could help out by pooling resources from multiple places to support an affected region, but that becomes a lot more difficult when you’re talking international. We can’t exactly demand taxes from someplace else entirely to fix the issue, and even if we have local resources it’s going to detract from supporting the local people that already need help.

It’s stupid and largely the fault of a profit driven mindset by society. We have housing in abundance that nobody can afford and piles of food thrown out at the end of the workday in restaurants and cafes because they’re not allowed to give it away (supposedly for health reasons but if it was good enough to sell before closing time it’s good enough after).