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[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I get that the US has 60 times the population of Finland. That's actually a very large border for the size of the country - the US Southern border is about 1900 miles. The Border Control agency stopped 2.75 million illegal crossings a year, and who knows how many people made it.

The cold and migrants thing is reminiscent of the bullshit that the states of Texas and Florida have been pulling lately... illegally busing migrants by surprise to other states. Just last month Texas sent a busload to Denver and that's been going on a while. DeSantis might have stopped by now, not sure. Denver is pretty cold in the winter as well, and there are thousands of people from Venezuela living there in tents now. It's a callous game with people's lives totally in line with the personalities of Tex. Gov Abbott and DeSantis of Florida.