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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 2y ago

3-Year-Old Migrant Dies During Trip to Chicago on Bus Sponsored by Texas

Death linked to Gov. Greg Abbott’s program of sending migrants f. border to Democratic cities

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/us/migrant-child-abbott-bus.html

* TX Department of Emergency Management, which runs Abbott’s busing program, confirmed child’s death

* Abbott busing migrants f. Texas to NYC, Washington, Philadelphia

* 30,000 migrants bused out of Texas since 2022-04

#xenophobia #HumanRightsViolations #Texas #GOP #SanctuaryCities #neofascism #GregAbbott

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 2y ago

Addendae 1

Reverse Freedom Rides: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Freedom_Rides

* attempts in 1962 by segregationists in Southern U.S. to send Black Americans f. southern cities to mostly northern, some western cities by bus

* given free 1-way bus tickets; promised guaranteed high-paying jobs, free housing

* in reality there was no guaranteed free housing or jobs waiting for them

* parody of Freedom Rides which were organized by Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) the Nashville Student Movement in 1961

#BlackHistory