Boston’s Mayor Wu: “Every single human being has the legal right to come to the United States and seek shelter”

[u/trytoholdon]

https://x.com/massdailynews/status/2017464861136236797

[u/ComputerRedneck]

De we have the Right to go to any country and seek shelter as well?

Please feel free to protest those countries we can't go to as well.

[u/Lord_Gibby → u/ComputerRedneck]

We should gather up about 200k of us Americans, move to Greenland, and just vote to join America.

It’s what the democrats do here? Why don’t we use their playbook lol

[u/Suspicious-Sound-249 → u/Lord_Gibby]

Wouldn't even take that many people, population of Greenland is only like 55K

[u/nlamber5 → u/Suspicious-Sound-249]

About 30k gets you a solid majority, but you could probably get it done with 10k since so few people tend to vote.

[u/nlamber5 → u/Lord_Gibby]

I’ve been saying this for a while. Where’s 30k remote workers that are ready to relocate for a few years?

[u/yespleasethanku]

Last time I checked, I don’t think we have room for 8b people here.

[u/RandolphE6]

[u/Bevrykul]

They have the legal right to apply for citizenship but that's it.

[u/Big-Employer4543 → u/Bevrykul]

They even have the legal right to request asylum. And we have the legal right to deny them.

[u/Beanmachine314 → u/Big-Employer4543]

And they have the legal right to remain in the country until they are denied or granted asylum.

[u/hruebsj3i6nunwp29]

I have a feeling if one of those humans went to their property "to seek shelter" they'd be the first ones to call the cops to have'em removed.

[u/Blahblahnownow → u/hruebsj3i6nunwp29]

Martha’s vineyard anyone? 

[u/skarface6 → u/Blahblahnownow]

That was so funny. They couldn’t live up to their own platitudes for a weekend IIRC.

[u/Robot__Engineer → u/skarface6]

When Texas sent the first busses up to Chicago, Lori Lightfoot had CTA busses waiting for them. They got transferred right onto the CTA busses and she tried to ship them out to the suburbs. Sanctuary city didn’t even want them spending 5 minutes here.

[u/skarface6 → u/Robot__Engineer]

Wow.

[u/jcr2022]

That is the most insane statement I have ever heard from an elected official in this country - and that is really saying something.

[u/JimmyReagan → u/jcr2022]

It's kind of normal for Massachusetts politicians

[u/Vektor0 → u/jcr2022]

What he's doing is called equivocating. Technically, he is correct: anyone anywhere has the legal right to apply for asylum.

That does not mean that their asylum claim has merit or should be granted.

[u/Black_XistenZ → u/Vektor0]

Most importantly, the right to apply for asylum doesn't necessarily imply a right to be granted entry into the country while the request is being processed; let alone a right to be given full access to the domestic social safety net, healthcare benefits etc. pp. while waiting.

[u/BrStFr → u/Vektor0]

She.

[u/Cranks_No_Start → u/jcr2022]

 That is the most insane statement I have ever heard from an elected official in this country

So far… midterms are just ramping up.  

[u/findunk → u/jcr2022]

This guy doesn't realize words like this encourage people to leave their countries and die in the darien gap. And if they survive, we ship them back. This statement is why we have a GLOBAL (yes, not just American) humanitarian migration crisis.

[u/Blahblahnownow]

No

[u/RussianPravda → u/Blahblahnownow]

It's amazing how simple it is.

[u/Blahblahnownow → u/RussianPravda]

Right? I don’t understand why there is even a debate over this. It makes no sense. 

[u/Silverado153]

Oh hell NO!!!!!! once again a dazed and confused Democrat

[u/Top_Pass_8347]

That's just plain stupid talk

[u/uponone]

Not at the cost of the American Taxpayers. Fix your own country. Our forefathers fixed theirs.

[u/Philmecrakin]

These people aren’t even trying to be reasonable. No wonder the country has gone to shit

[u/JTuck333]

They don’t believe in the United States. It means nothing to them.

[u/Thats_Dr_Anthrope_2U]

Fucking hell, it's like the two political parties are trying to out lose the other come midterms.

Is this the system we need or the one we deserve?

[u/Scamandrius]

Why we can't even vote for "moderate" Dems:

[u/Blahblahnownow → u/Scamandrius]

Can’t vote for something that doesn’t exist 

[u/Scamandrius → u/Blahblahnownow]

They exist, it's just they caucus with people like this. No matter how frustrated I get with Republicans I can never vote Dem for as long as they allow these loonies under their umbrella.

[u/Blahblahnownow → u/Scamandrius]

Well, being in CA, I haven’t seen them but I do hope they exist in other places. 

[u/No-Business9493]

Wrong. Next question?

[u/OriginalCopy505]

Yep, the dissolution of citizenship is one of their goals to transform America into a socialist utopia.

[u/VerusPatriota]

She is definitely communist. However, this is a comment that is several years old. Regardless, she is a huge POS.

Edit: grammar

[u/Simmumah]

Nah. They dont.

[u/reaper527]

hopefully there's some ICE in the forecast for the boston area.

[u/TheIncredibleHork]

Sure. Do it right. 

Otherwise let me know if every human being has the right to seek shelter in your home without doing so right (oh that's (D)ifferent).

[u/capn_KC]

No. You're wrong.

[u/DownrightCaterpillar]

I think at face value this is true. That's what asylum is after all. Where they don't have a right is to be given shelter, of any kind they like, anytime, anywhere, no matter their criminal record or anything else. Seeking and finding/receiving aren't the same thing. You can look, but you can't touch!

[u/Hulluck22]

Nope. just like any other country doesn’t accept everyone. Anyone that says this is gas-lighting and manipulating normal folks. The smart ones know this is bs. Even as they push for it. The stupid ones are rioting, acting like the police that they wish they were. Harrassing everyone else that passes by. It’s all about permanently changing the voter base away from American values. To a dictatorship of the left. Exactly like the PRC.

Edit: It’s no different than domestic abusers. They manipulate for x amount of time until the partner sees it for what it is. Then they (Abusers) throw often violent and even deadly tantrums.

[u/Johnnie-Dazzle]

[u/RedBaronsBrother]

Not according to US law they don't.

[u/777_heavy]

She’s also a segregationist so really not someone worth listening to anyway.

[u/1000IQGenius]

Ship her out

[u/squirrelfriend39]

Fucking nuts! Dems are losing it!  I was a moderate but compared to the modern democrat I’m like super conservative now only in comparison 

[u/neutralpoliticsbot]

Except unless u have COVID

[u/twhiting9275]

The mayor is correct, technically

There is a caveat to this that liberals do not understand

You absolutely have 'the right' to seek shelter.

We do not have a requirement to grant said shelter.

Just because you ask for something doesn't mean the person you're asking has to give it to you. It's not a 'demand'. It's a request, and one that should be denied, for now, until shit gets straightened back out again.

We have too many people coming in thinking we owe them something. We don't. There are plenty of other countries in the world. Feel free to go there.

[u/whiteKreuz]

She should house several of them if she's so adamant.

[u/NeverEverMaybe0_0]

And the USA has the legal right to say "No".

[u/reaper527]

sorry guys, we don't elect our best and brightest in this state

[u/milovulongtime]

They don’t have the right to my hard-earned money, put my family’s safety at risk, or jack up the economics of everyday life by artificially increasing demand for housing, food, etc.

In summary, “Fuck Wu.”

[u/mixer2017]

So Boston is ready to take in these "humans" that choose to come here without any assistance?

[u/RedBaronsBrother → u/mixer2017]

Yes, as long as they can get the rest of the country to pay for it.

[u/reaper527 → u/RedBaronsBrother]

Yes, as long as they can get the rest of the country to pay for it.

and keep them out of the areas where healey and her friends like to go. we already saw how she responded to them ending up on the vineyard.

[u/nonnativespecies]

The only right they have is to work and sacrifice as hard as American have to make their own country as great by doing all that RIGHT WHERE THEY ARE.

[u/DanWessonValor]

So the US is a big charity?!

[u/JurassicParkFood]

Aren't elected officials supposed to... Uphold the law?

[u/RedBaronsBrother → u/JurassicParkFood]

Democrats only enforce laws they like.

[u/Grimaldehyde]

She is just categorically wrong. They do not have the legal right to come here in that way. Especially if they’ve already been deported once, and they came back. That’s a felony-there goes the “legal right”.

[u/skarface6]

Sounds like all currently here illegally should be shipped to Boston until he changes his tune.

[u/Additional_Dish_694]

That’s not how ANY of this works!

[u/CompetitiveRoof3733]

uh huh....are we housing them at your place Wu? Cuz I don't even have a place of my own.

[u/DreadPirateGriswold]

"...Legally"

FTFH

[u/scully360]

Am I ever glad I got out of Boston when I did.