Quote from: RE on Jan 06, 2024, 02:23 PMI only know one migrant who has applied for asylum at this time. I would hook him up with a job if I could. I see 3-4 new Russian speaking migrants at the store every day. Obviously from the Ukraine, but they won't say so.Quote from: K-Dog on Jan 06, 2024, 12:09 PMBut at the end of the day refugees are just people in a boat thrown together by circumstance trying to find a life.
They may have arrived at that particular boat randomly, but they all have the same destination in mind, the FSoA. They're all going to face the INS at the border and all going to try to get a court date for a residency hearing. They'll all be looking for shelter, they're all afraid of deportation. They all need water, food, warm clothing, shelter, money.
Of course they're all individuals, but they have characteristics in common and they're going to tend to react to things in similar ways. They're going to be treated as a group by the system they are going into, herded onto buses and into refugee camps. It's unavoidable in a mass migration of people of this sort.
RE
All my neighbors except one are now ethnic Chinese. The only politics they had to express to get here is to have the money. Our neighborhood has been featured as the best place in America to move to in Beijing real estate advertisements. The local drugstore and bank have all young Chinese women working for them. As a policy that pisses me off, only a racist would wonder why. One of them did a great job reinvesting my 401 K last month.
The Russians I see in the store are a group. They have to express correct politics to get here no doubt. No random collection there. I suspect Anchorage is getting a share of that action.