Migrants, real and imagined, grip US voters, 1,500 miles north of border - eviltoast
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

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”.

  • Amoxtli@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    129·
    6 months ago

    So immigrants are just left out in the street and have no taxpayer hotels, food, and water, cell phones? That is misinformation there. It is all over the news about migrant hotels and migrant schools. And if they do qualify as a refugee, some of them will undoubtedly well get welfare. I never said the US has a national language, but a country is not a country if it is fractured by languages. Look at Europe, look at Ethiopia, look at Somalia, look at the violence between Francophone and Anglophone factions in African countries. How many intellectual resources will you find in Spanish available online? There are whole databases of intellectual and academic information available in English. If you are assuming I am a white supremacist, let me clear up things that show how much of a straw man you are: I am not white, I am dark, and I don’t look white. Another thing, why do you insinuate my race? What’s next, you are going to assume my gender too? I never said English is the official language of the US. Even the state of Texas has no official language. You think you know more than me? You are straw man…

    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
      162·
      6 months ago

      Unauthorized immigrants are just left out in the street, yes. Registered migrants are provided with one year emergency shelter for asylum. During that time they are to decide if they are choosing the path of naturalization by becoming a registered immigrant, or moving to another nation. The emergency shelter expires after the year regardless of their choice.

      I’m not going to address your claims about “intellectual resources” being exclusive to English other than calling them incorrect and racist.

      I did not assume your race or language, I just assumed it wasn’t Native American. It was a statistical likelihood.

      Lastly, an example of a “straw man argument” is if I said blue is the best color, and you said you like red better, so that means I must hate the color red. My responses have not misrepresented your assertions. They’ve simply disproven them.

    • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      31·
      6 months ago

      Illegal immigrants alone pay over $12 billion in taxes every year despite receiving basically nothing from the state in return.