How One Family’s Meal At Whataburger Morphed Into An Anti-Immigrant Talking Point | Talking Points Memo

Is it a caravan? We’re doomed.

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With apologies to all of the lovely women I know who are actually named Karen, precisely.

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What you don’t do is blow off the quarantine requirement and knowingly endanger others. The family that did that, without their intent I’m sure, set up Texas to go full blown blame the brown. That family should be immediately deported and it made 100% clear that you don’t do that shit here. The organization responsible for hosting them should be fined and told: last straw.

These fuck ups work right into the GOP’s ‘do nothing and blame it on others’ COVID political survival plans. Look around and it’s hard to deny. America should be gracious with it’s neighbors seeking asylum but we don’t have to put up with shit like that family pulled. They gave anti-immigration folks and anti Vax folks all they need to keep up the shit.

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GOP members and their voters are shuttling through our country without being vaccinated against COVID

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From the WaPo article:

The most obvious point we can make is that the current surge in coronavirus cases doesn’t overlap with the surge in immigration or with the locations where those immigrants end up.

To the first point, the surge in new cases began in late June. The increase in immigration began in March. Meaning that, for the first three months of the current surge in apprehensions, coronavirus cases in the United States were going down .

But then there’s the geography. The places that are hardest-hit by the virus at this point are mostly not along the border with Mexico. Instead, they’re on the Gulf Coast, in Florida and stretching north from Louisiana up through Arkansas and Missouri.

Of the 10 counties that are currently experiencing the highest rates of new infections relative to population, eight are more densely White than the United States as a whole and nine are less densely Hispanic. That doesn’t suggest that they are likely destinations for migrants.

What the places that are seeing high rates of infection do have in common is that they have populations that are generally less heavily vaccinated. Analysis of county-level data aggregated by the New York Times and vaccination data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that the counties that have seen the highest percentage of their populations vaccinated still have far lower rates of new infections. In fact, even more than a month into the surge, the level of new infections in the most-vaccinated counties is still below the rate of new infections in less-heavily-vaccinated counties two weeks ago.

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Roofing nails on area roadways? Piano wire is perhaps too cliche.

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Only white senators can do that, right Rand Paul?

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It can also be said that immigrants are human beings not space aliens so they pose no exotic disease threat in the USA. If the American people vaxed up immigrant COVID status would be no threat at all.

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This current COVID resurgence isn’t predicted to crest until possibly mid-October, or later. Some health officials and epidemiologists foresee daily deaths rising to the thousands at that peak. Scenes like below, and the sentiments behind them, are going to become increasingly common. And the vitriolic, and possibly violent, pushback from the super-spreaders will follow suit. Society is moving to a segregated haves and haves not. Vaccines that is.

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“Consider, for example, a family of migrants released in La Joya, Texas,” lawyers for the state wrote. “The family went to a public restaurant and began ‘coughing and sneezing without covering their mouths.’” The family in question told police they had COVID-19, the filing noted.

Good lord. This is an absolutely outrageous filing – whoever wrote this is a fascist.

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Please stop with dragging “white” into debates as a weapon where no one else has mentioned or hinted at it. Obviously Paul is an asshole but he’s an American citizen so that, not his whiteness is in play. In the Whata burger case that family selfishly jeopardized the families of 1000’s of immigrants that need to be here by pumping up anti-immigrant fever with their stupid actions. White had no play in it.

My wife came here as an illegal. Get off the high horse.

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Yeah, well, we wouldn’t want our public officials to speak anything like the truth now, would we?

Actually, Mayor Dennis didn’t get it quite right: it ought to be, “goddammed unvaccinated assholes.”

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Forget it, @katscherger, it’s Texas.

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Biden is proposing vaccinating all immigrants and visitors

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Actually, it isn’t obvious. What is obvious, is that you have invented a crime, being outside quarantine with covid-19 symptoms, and demanded we apply this new crime of yours to illegal immigrants.

Now personally, I think it should be a criminal offense to be out and about while covid-19 positive with symptoms. And in some sane western countries it is a crime. But here it is not a crime, at least, not in Texas.

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I agree with the Mayor wholeheartedly. Still say things are going to get very tense and dicey before this all wanes a bit. Biden and other public officials are actively gaming measures to paint people into a corner on getting vaccinated, or face the consequences of being tagged with a scarlet letter for not doing so. No one likes being publicly shunned, and the anti-vaxx crew has more than a few nutjob ammosexuals in their midst.

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I’m old enough to remember when America wasn’t a fascist death cult. Sadly, I fear it’s only going to get a lot worse before it gets better, if ever.

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It still isn’t: just the MAGA crowd! :slight_smile:

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So, a piddling 73 million people.

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