Sounds like a win win.
Texas should continue to send the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to DC even New York City (given the city has lost over 100,000 residents during Covid). Hopefully, that will help relieve the worker shortage there.
The issue for border states is nothing new. It was a problem in the 80s and 90s. Illegal immigrants especially those with children cost states millions and in many cases billions of dollars. It has been a problem for at least 50 years. It is one reason Republican and Democrats alike support border security in border states. As a self proclaimed liberal, you might be avoiding reading conservative media reports on the border, since I don't see such reports in most of my liberal new feeds.
https://nypost.com/2021/03/21/biden-admin-handling-of-border-crisis-a-slap-in-the-face/
This is the opposite of legal immigrants. Legal immigrants while congregating in cities enter at a more controlled rate and generally have more valuable skills and/or family to live with, plus they have legal "work status". Studies show legal immigrants contribute almost immediately more to the economy than they take out. Never conflate the enormous benefits of legal immigration with illegal immigration.
We now live in California and operate a small property services business. Most of our employees are Hispanic immigrants. They constantly complain about the lack of border security that is turning their communities into cartel havens with constant gang wars for control of the drug and human trafficking trade. "New soldiers" are arriving daily. Since for young poor Hispanic man with few skills, a gang "soldier" is a good living. Meanwhile, the people themselves have little capacity to help... we rent to families in those neighborhoods and often an extended family of 12 leave in a rental unit designed for 4.
That it why it was liberal Californians in the past , that was doing the most complaining about illegal immigration. They argued that immigration is a "national policy" but the cost burden of those decisions fall disproportionately on the "border states". Interestingly, as DHS has begun to transporting illegal immigrants all around the country more and more towns and states are pushing back. Ideology is one thing, but it gets real when a town is suddenly flooded with people that have no where to live, no job, do not speak the language and the temporary federal funding dries up. Neither are school systems equipped in many cases to educate children not able to speak English (another reason illegal immigrants gravitate toward Hispanic communities is because language compels them to).
While one cannot blame illegal immigrants wanting to go to Republican states since unemployment is lower in those states and many come here as "economic refugees", "low cost" labor flooding those labors puts wage pressure on low wage citizens working in those states. This hurts poor families.
In addition, illegal immigrants pursuing jobs tend to go where jobs are growing. The problem is that compounds the "growth rate" in those localities. I live in Florida town whose population increased from 18,000 to 50,000 in ten years. The cost of building new high schools, middle schools, and multiple elementary schools was huge.
Regardless of your ideology, there is nothing fair about overwhelming local municipalities with illegal immigrants and forcing them to fund the cost of mandated but unfunded services including education. As one recent legal immigrant told me... people come to America because it has jobs and laws. We need to ensure we preserve those things by enforcing our laws including immigration laws and growing jobs by growing our economy.
