> The reason Texas and Florida's political stunts elicit an outcry because is because those states are kidnapping and trafficking people I highly doubt it's ki

> The reason Texas and Florida's political stunts elicit an outcry because is because those states are kidnapping and trafficking people I highly doubt it's kidnapping. If I were a migrant and given the options: 1. Stay in Texas and sleep on the street in El Paso, or if you're lucky get to stay in some charity-run shelter. 2. Get on this free bus to New York City, where the government there will pay to house and feed you for free and you will have a much better living situation. I would eagerly get on that bus. >> Why are El Paso or Brownsville expected to incur the negative externalities of people who illegally cross into the US without any comments/concerns from national media, but a tiny fraction of that number in a northern city suddenly elicits an outcry? > Given that the Texas state government is funded largely off of sales tax and property tax--and undocumented immigrants are ineligible for most social services--undocumented immigrants are a net positive to Texas' revenue.They are subject to sales tax whenever they buy things and pay landlords' property tax via rent. All while being unable to use most social programs. That's just utter nonsense, and it's hard to imagine that someone could write that without misunderstanding the situation (willfully or otherwise). You're cherry-picking facts to an extreme degree to arrive at false "counterintuitive" result. And even if you weren't, no one cares so much about sales tax revenue to think like that.