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Originally posted by PM_Mama00
I understand that in these conditions people can start to go "crazy" like Dee described, but those who are caught doing these things should be held and taken back to the Superdome. Let them form their own little colony of felons. I don't think the intaking cities should have to suffer their liberty and freedom after offering a great situation of help.
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I definitely agree here. There are so many people -- a quarter of a million according to the last newscast I saw-- currently located in Texas cities like Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Corpus Christi. I am pretty sure there are several thousand more in other states as well. I don't feel like being a victim of a hurricane is an excuse to act the way some of these people are acting. Cities are doing everything they can to help these people start new lives and it isn't fair for the people trying to help to have to deal with crime brought on by some of the refugees at the same time.
A local newscast mentioned there is a curfew at some of the shelters... does anyone know how this is actually enforced? If they are given free bus passes, and there are literally hundreds (or in some cases thousands) of refugees staying there, how is that enforced?
And this is also random, but I just noticed I used the word "refugees" at least a couple of times. It's really weird b/c before the hurricane, when I heard the word "refugees" I thought of third-world-type countries... it's just weird to use it when you are referring to people in your own country..