Cruel or brilliant - City Offers Homeless One-Way leave if they never return
City Offers Homeless One-Way Travel Ticket to Europe If They Sign Contract to Never Return
The city of Basel in Switzerland has offered its homeless community a free one-way ticket to any other European destination if they agree to sign a contract vowing never to return... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...pzo?li=BBnbfcL |
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What happens, if they come back?
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This is nothing at all new. San Francisco has been providing bus tickets to its homeless to return to the places where their families live (and where they came from) forever. There's no way to prevent them from coming back however.
Many other American cities give free bus tickets to their homeless to leave town. Some of San Francisco's homeless got here that way from other places. But again, there's no way to prevent them returning. |
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https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/edito...me-6554737.php |
Every other big city in Switzerland should sue the municipal government of Basel for the cost of caring for these people. Not cool.
This is a story as old as time. England actually had a welfare system in the Middle Ages but it collapsed in the early 18th century when ‘enclosure’ drove peasants off big estates and this migration led to strain put on local governments that paid for this charity. There were ‘poor laws’ passed that criminalized vagrancy and generally made things hard for the working class until the labor movement and unions drove a push towards modern liberalism/progressivism. Moral of the story is social spending has to be mostly at the federal level otherwise it creates a free rider problem among local entities until the system inevitably breaks down. |
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Not a fan. Especially when my city has become a repository for the homeless and then gets blamed for the issue saying we're the cause of our own problems. And that's without acknowledging that the other towns dumping their homeless here don't have the money or resources or facilities that big cities do. And when those same small towns dumping their homeless here themselves have crime that is even shocking considering their small size.
It happens. https://www.kxan.com/news/local/aust...him-to-austin/ A rural town ran out of resources to help a homeless man. So, they brought him to Austin by: John Engel Posted: Apr 7, 2021 / 02:47 PM CDT / Updated: Apr 8, 2021 / 09:28 AM CDT AUSTIN (KXAN) — On Tuesday, the head of Austin’s police union posted a video to social media showing a Giddings Police Department officer dropping someone off at the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless. “That’s just a disgrace,” Austin Police Association President Ken Casaday can be heard saying on the video. “These other counties need to be held accountable and take care of their own folks.” Giddings is 55 miles east of Austin. The police chief there, Haril Walpole, confirmed to KXAN on Wednesday that, yes, one of his officers brought a man experiencing homelessness to Austin. But that was only after the man’s family turned him away and the town of just over 5,000 ran out of resources to help him. Like many smaller communities, Giddings doesn’t have the volume of individuals experiencing homelessness to warrant the construction of a shelter and the city doesn’t have the money to build one, anyway. - Giddings is tiny. 5 square miles with 5,171 people estimated living there in 2020. |
welcome to america, basel
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nice town, slept in a funny attic by the university
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From my experience with the American homeless, they generally don't respect the city ordinances and laws of public exposure, public intoxication, urination, defecation, illegal camping, trespassing, loitering, littering, disturbing the peace, theft, most property crimes and at times violent crimes. And the worst offense of them all is they refuse to WEAR A MASK, while digging through the garbage to find some old sushi to eat. |
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What's to stop them from returning after deportation? Maybe that corner in Basel is profitable (I'm sure it is, Switzerland prices are insane) but also sentimental. |
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