Let’s play imagine for a moment.
You wake up in the morning, take a drive to Safeway for some groceries, and notice a long and an unfamiliar bus parked in the middle of the parking lot, bearing New York license plates.
Your curiosity piqued, you park a short distance away and observe.
A door opens, and you watch about 70 people of varying ages and skin color disembark, carrying suitcases, shopping bags, and other belongings.
Emptied of passengers, the bus closes its doors and takes off, leaving the people huddled in the parking lot, confused, looking around and not knowing what to do.
Then it hits you. Migrants! A group of migrants have just been dropped off in Sedona with no one there to greet them or direct them.
So, what do you then do?
Most likely, call 911 and let the police know what just happened. And wait.
The police arrive, and they don’t know what to do either, so they call the City and ask for guidance, as the group begins to split up and meander in different directions.
Outnumbered, the police try to round them up before they could slip into the community.
Those with children remain huddled, but a few single, military-aged men wander off before they could be corralled.
City officials arrive, as well as the mayor, to assess the situation.
The question is, has the city prepared for such a scenario?
What will it do? Lease another large bus and ship the immigrants to Cottonwood?
Open a school auditorium to house them until they could figure out what to do with the migrants, especially the families?
Open up the food bank to feed them?
Buy them Happy Meals?
Work with the local churches and houses of worship to provide space where they could sleep?
Rent rooms in local hotels?
Build weatherproof tents on the cultural park grounds?
Enroll their kids temporarily in local schools?
Buy them additional clothing at Goodwill?
Hook them up with medical insurance and food stamps?
Drive them back to New York?
Sedona Mayor Scott Jablow, when asked if the City has any plans on how it would handle such a scenario, said it doesn’t have any.
He said most likely immigration authorities would be there to handle the situation and that migrants would be much better off in Phoenix.
“Why would they come to Sedona when they could get everything they want in Phoenix,” he asked?
Presently, the mayor is working with council and staff to provide a safe place to park for people employed in Sedona who are living in their cars. Though the effort has caused some controversy in the community, those with compassionate hearts are hoping to be able to create the camp in the parking lot of the Sedona Cultural Park for homeless workers.
He noted that a percentage of the homeless who do not work in the city and have no transportation have set up camp in the past by Oak Creek and in the storm drains by Walgreens, but recently the drain pipes have been cleaned by ADOT and no trespassing signs have been put up, according to the mayor.
“As far as a busload of migrants bussed to Sedona from New York, I certainly hope that that scenario never comes to be,” Mayor Jablow said.
Such a scenario where migrants get dropped off in Sedona may be possible, but not probable.
Still, if it should happen, it would be wise to have a plan in place, locked and loaded.
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Wow! You need your Trumpy Brain dewormed! Everything FOX, OAN, NEWsMax, Brain Wars, Der Stormer and the rest of your Putin channels shows you about M’erica being under seige is true but it’s under siege by MAGA Morons not migrant “soldiers” as the Draft Dodging Commie lover recently depicted migrants while spittleing into the wind. Makes me laugh really hard to see the Draft Dodger describe things as “war” “soldiers” and the like. How would he know when absolutely NOBODY in his family has ever served this country.
He thinks himself a Mafia Don 😂. He can’t keep his mouth shut, he’s terrible with money and he’s an absolute moron. The Mob would put up with him for about a nanosecond before they put one in his pumpkin brain.
Are you one of those paranoid a-holes on Nextdoor that think their home is being attacked every time a “strange” vehicles pulls into a neighborhood driveway?
As for your fantastical mega drama, Border Control does not stop at the border. There are rings of border security with mobile impromptu checkpoints set up strategically hundreds of miles inside of the US proper. Should the sky fall on Sedona and some sh#tbird Trumpy TexASS Governor were to illegally send migrants here I am 100% certain the Mayor and Chief of Police would know to contain the individuals and lawfully provide them with necessities such as food, water and bathroom access until Homeland Security could dispatch personnel to here from Prescott and or Flagstaff or even Phoenix and Yuma if necessary. This would take hours for their response not days or months and they would all be taken down to a processing center in Phoenix or Yuma. End of story!
Wow!!!!
It’s just a matter of time ! ! !
I say rent a large industrial building for a shelter.
Obtain cots or bunk beds (good enough for me while serving in the military, good enough for Illegals).
Study programming at Flagstaff Shelter – continental breakfast, sandwiches for lunch and a hot meal for dinner.
Public works ‘volunteer’ projects required for continued stay in Sedona.
Guy,
I agree with the ideal of cots, which is a luxury my unit rarely had in the military. We usually slept in ponchos or bivy bags under the stars.
The City should use whatever they can obtain from the military DRMO system to equip and furnish whichever facility is chosen which at this time is the Cultural Center.
I do not agree that in order to receive housing assistance that full time employees should be required to also do volunteer work unless that volunteer work is part time and at the facility provided to them as a temporary residence while they continue to work in Sedona. These folks deserve to be treated like any other citizen/employee of Sedona while abiding by established local, state and federal law.
Treating full time employees like children will backfire spectacularly.
Two men arrested in connection to 2 child sex trafficking incidents in Yavapai County https://www.azfamily.com/2024/03/05/two-men-arrested-connection-2-child-sex-trafficking-incidents-yavapai-county/
Must be migrants! NOT!