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The Atlantic explains how Democrats can turn the tables on Gov. Ron DeSantis over immigration

We’re closing in on a week of coverage of Gov. Ron DeSantis flying approximately 50 Venezuelan migrants from Florida to Martha’s Vineyard, where they were fed, clothed, and sheltered for less than 48 hours before the National Guard stuck them on buses headed for a military base. A lot of Democrats thought they owned DeSantis by showing just how well they treat brown people … for two days.

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Now Ross Barkan writes in The Atlantic that this is the moment for the Democrats to turn the tables on DeSantis. “Republicans’ cruel immigration tactics present an opportunity for blue cities,” he writes. Blue cities like New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., where they’ve declared a humanitarian crisis over a couple of busloads of migrants from Arizona and Texas?

“Cruel immigration tactics.” Barkan writes:

But the Democrats have an opportunity here. Rather than lament yet another disingenuous culture war that Republicans are thirsty to wage, Democrats of all ideological stripes should use this moment to celebrate the very places that could become permanent homes for migrants fleeing violence and economic calamity. Since the pandemic-induced crime spike, Trump Republicans have inveighed against big cities, taking up an incendiary and racially coded 20th-century playbook to throw Democrats on the defensive. Few prominent Democrats have offered an adequate counterargument. Now political leaders who care about immigrants should declare, affirmatively and loudly, Yes, send them here.

Send them to New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Send them to Cleveland, Detroit, and St. Louis. And send them to the cosmopolitan cities trapped in red states that will welcome migrants. San Antonio, Houston, and Miami are enriched by refugees and their children, people who have fled oppression for a better life in America.

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Um … those political leaders did say, “Send them here.” They designated themselves sanctuary cities. And now they’re repeatedly asking the National Guard for assistance in dealing with the humanitarian crisis posed by 4,000 migrants and claiming their infrastructure is strained to the limit.

Is busing migrants to Detroit “kidnapping” and “human trafficking”?

“Cities such as Cleveland, Detroit, and St. Louis have long bled residents and would be well served with a new class of immigrants enthusiastic about finding work and wanting to remain in a country far more stable than their homeland,” Barkan writes. So exactly how many migrants are we talking about sending to these cities, seeing as hundreds of thousands are coming across the border?

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