Indiana has sent 50 of that state’s national guard to the Texas border for 10 months at the cost of 7 MILLION tax payer dollars.
What could Indiana right now be spending that money on? Indiana is one of the 25 poorest states in the u.s.ofa., ranking 13th. Over 12% of Indiana’s population lives below the national poverty line, and over 20% live 150% below the national poverty line.
So why the hell would they spend $7 dollars to send national guard troops so far away? Especially when immigrants work in nasty steel mills and agricultural industry as well.
In 1910, almost half of all people living in Gary were foreign-born, and 71% were either foreign born themselves or had at least one parent born outside the u.s.ofa.
So why put millions of dollars into preventing the Black and brown immigrants at the border also looking to escape violence and the violence of poverty like almost every white person in Indiana or their recent ancestor?
“Is this a case of “I got mine and fuck you, you’re not going to get yours”?
