Kansas city says it WANTS migrants to move there with $15,000 'Choose Topeka' campaign to lure borde

[rangerrebew]

Kansas city says it WANTS migrants to move there with $15,000 'Choose Topeka' campaign to lure border crossers to the Dem-led city to fill 7,000 open jobs
Story by Nic White For Dailymail.Com • 13h


Topeka began a program to lure new residents with cash payouts in 2019

The city started targeting migrants last year to add to its workforce

It comes as cities like New York, Chicago and Denver are struggling to cope


A small American city is so desperate for workers it doesn't just want migrants to move there - it will pay them $15,000 to come.
 
Cities like New York, Chicago, and Denver are struggling to care for 100,000 migrants bussed in from Texas as up to 10,000 cross from Mexico every day.

But Topeka, the capital of Kansas, wishes a few of those buses would come its way to join its growing Hispanic community that makes up 17 per cent of the population.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/kansas-city-says-it-wants-migrants-to-move-there-with-15-000-choose-topeka-campaign-to-lure-border-crossers-to-the-dem-led-city-to-fill-7-000-open-jobs/ar-BB1hDbgK?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=7dcfeea80a0141fb9454a907e743cc3d&ei=47

[sneakypete]

I don't think I have  ever been to  KC.

Does  it really suck THAT much?

[roamer_1]

I don't think I have  ever been to  KC.

Does  it really suck THAT much?

Topeka ain't Kansas City (KC) @sneakypete
KC is on the eastern border of KS, Topeka is roughly 60 miles west of KC on the Kansas River.
I have been to Topeka many times, as my mother's kin hail mainly from Wamego KS, about 50 miles north by east of Topeka, with Topeka being the nearest town of considerable size.

[The_Reader_David]

Topeka ain't Kansas City (KC) @sneakypete
KC is on the eastern border of KS, Topeka is roughly 60 miles west of KC on the Kansas River.
I have been to Topeka many times, as my mother's kin hail mainly from Wamego KS, about 50 miles north by east of Topeka, with Topeka being the nearest town of considerable size.

...from Wamego KS, about 50 miles west by northwest of Topeka...  (When did you visit your mother's kin last?)

So you don't think Manhattan, KS, population 50K and home of the Kansas State University Wildcats is a town of considerable size?

[libertybele]

 

[roamer_1]

...from Wamego KS, about 50 miles west by northwest of Topeka...  (When did you visit your mother's kin last?)

Right. Thanks for the correction. I misspoke.

So you don't think Manhattan, KS, population 50K and home of the Kansas State University Wildcats is a town of considerable size?

No, that ain't what I think... Been to Manhattan more than Topeka. But prior to the internet, when things were warehoused and peddled through retail outlets, there were things that were not available in Manhattan, which would require a trip to Topeka. There was only once that we had to go on through to Kansas City to get something, that I recall, but driving to Topeka for something or another was nearly always a thing when we were there to visit.

[Fishrrman]

Paging Governor Abbott:
Please pick up the nearest courtesy phone -- more buses need north...

[berdie]

One should always be careful of what one wishes for. jmho

[mountaineer]

Wendy Patterson
@wendyp4545
A word of warning: If the government flashes money in front of your face to take in criminal illegal aliens, even in your rental properties, don't do it.
Once they establish residency the money will stop and you won't be able to legally get rid of them.
1:50 PM · Feb 2, 2024

[sneakypete]

Topeka ain't Kansas City (KC) @sneakypete
KC is on the eastern border of KS, Topeka is roughly 60 miles west of KC on the Kansas River.
I have been to Topeka many times, as my mother's kin hail mainly from Wamego KS, about 50 miles north by east of Topeka, with Topeka being the nearest town of considerable size.

@roamer_1

OK,I  apologize for the  confusion.

So,does Topeka really suck that much?

[roamer_1]

@roamer_1

OK,I  apologize for the  confusion.

So,does Topeka really suck that much?

@sneakypete

Dunno... It's been a couple decades since I been there. But to me it sucked even then, but my view on big towns and certainly cities, colors that view with a very broad brush.

Heck Missoula sucks and that is smaller than Topeka... Even here is starting to suck. Give me a cabin up on the Yaak River any day

[The_Reader_David]

@roamer_1

So,does Topeka really suck that much?

Yeah, pretty much.  It doesn't have a commercial airport, the downtown is essentially dead, they overbuilt shopping malls and have completely dead ones.  It's pretty much a government town in a state that isn't fond of government. 

I used to get there a lot because the one thing Topeka does have is the only serious ballet school in Kansas, and my daughter from the age of 3 to the age of 18 wanted to be a ballerina. (She did get to be Clara in Topeka's production of the Nutcracker, but finally gave up on it after getting one of the more demanding roles in the Nutcracker with a semi-professional company in Omaha and seeing how actual professional ballet dancers live.)  The ballet mistress who ran it used to also choreograph for the National Ballet of Paraguay and made costumes for a lot of major companies.  She retired and one of the schools alumni who danced with the Topeka company when my daughter was, who went on to a professional career in a minor company on the East Coast came back with a Russian husband who also danced ballet and now runs it in a more spacious facility.  (Yes, some male ballet dancers are straight.)

[sneakypete]

Thanks for the info!

I had NO freaking idea there would be a ballet school in Kansas.

Shows how wrong you  can be when you allow yourself to just guess about something you know,and care,nothing about.

[DB]

May they get what they're asking for...

[sneakypete]

May they get what they're asking for...

@DB

The problem is they will NOT remain there. They will be looking for a new place to go that provides them with better housing,health care,larger welfare checks,etc,etc,etc,and move there the instant they discover where they have to go.

[DB]

@DB

The problem is they will NOT remain there. They will be looking for a new place to go that provides them with better housing,health care,larger welfare checks,etc,etc,etc,and move there the instant they discover where they have to go.

If they're in the country, better there than here.

[Smokin Joe]

@DB

The problem is they will NOT remain there. They will be looking for a new place to go that provides them with better housing,health care,larger welfare checks,etc,etc,etc,and move there the instant they discover where they have to go.

Yep. THey will cash in their sign up bonus and look for greener pastures elsewhere.

They are illegal immigrants. Send them home. This only makes sense (from a legal standpoint) if it is s sting to collect and ship out the illegals in the wind.

Otherwise it is patent insanity. Cultural suicide.

Did Topeka even make this offer to Americans?

(I'd bet there are a few realtors in the shadows, or maybe even right up front in this.)