There is a mobile billboard in El Paso, Texas that welcomes illegal aliens to come to San Francisco. The fourth special session of the Texas Legislature passed two new laws to address the Biden border crisis. They fund border wall construction and allow state enforcement of immigration law. Is that too mean for the open borders crowd?

San Francisco 'Sanctuary City' Billboard Erected in El Paso

Interesting.

San Francisco is now advertising its sanctuary status after clearing the streets for Biden's visit with Xi Jinping.

Nice to know SF has room overwhelmed Texas border towns lack.https://t.co/glC53BlQAu

— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) December 13, 2023

The billboard boasts that San Francisco welcomes all immigrants. So does Texas. Texas welcomes immigrants – legal immigrants. The far-left frequently conflates all immigration, both legal and illegal, into one category. This billboard is sponsored by sanctuarycities.com. If you head over to that website, you see that not only do San Francisco residents pride themselves in welcoming illegal aliens, they think “their city was stolen from Ohlone people, and that they themselves don’t have a right to be there in the first place.” Is that like some kind of white guilt thing going on?

“Sanctuary City” in bold yellow letters covers the face of the billboard, which reads that it was paid for by sanctuarycities.com. The website claims, “San Francisco is a city where diversity is celebrated. The residents of San Francisco pride themselves on welcoming immigrants of all backgrounds to their city.”

San Francisco was the first city to pass a “City of Refuge” resolution in 1985. This only included El Salvadoran and Guatemalan immigrants seeking asylum. In 1989, the ordinance was extended to all immigrants.

The billboard is near a busy highway in El Paso, not far from the border. There is another billboard set up in West Texas. There is another one in New York City that shows the Statue of Liberty.

This project seems tone-deaf. If San Francisco wants busloads of illegal aliens to virtue-signal how wonderful its residents are, I’m sure Governor Abbott would be happy to make that happen. But the problem is that every sanctuary city that Abbott has taken up on its claims of being sanctuary cities has had a hissy fit when the buses arrive. Abbott has been criticized for using “political stunts” as Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary has called the buses.

Will Osborn of SanctuaryCities.com told SFGATE he’s one member of a small group of “concerned American citizens” responsible for the billboards. Their concern? That immigrants crossing into the U.S. from the southern border don’t know which cities have the resources to accommodate them.

“These are the cities that have stepped up and made [migrant protections] a priority through their policies and their ordinances,” Osborn said of San Francisco and New York City, which are included as destinations for immigrants on the group’s website. Though Chicago also is listed on the website, Osborn said that billboard space for a third sign wasn’t available in El Paso when his group was placing the ads.

Osborn said the two billboards are across the street from one another and are near the Sacred Heart Church, a popular shelter for migrants that’s about a mile from the southern border.

Osborn said he hopes that immigrants who fear for their safety in the U.S. will see the billboards and realize that some cities may be more welcoming than others. However, he says, it’s easy for that message to get lost in today’s political climate — especially in a place like Texas.

What is the beef with Texas? Is it because Texas is trying to close its border with Mexico and protect the sovereignty of the United States? We are supposed to be a nation of laws. Illegal immigrants break the law when they illegally cross the border. Their very first act in the United States is to break the law. Why should they be rewarded when people coming across the border legally are left to go through a lengthy and expensive process to live in America?

Osborn isn’t sure how long the billboards will remain up. He did acknowledge that his group has not facilitated travel arrangements for illegal aliens. He said some local nonprofit groups already do that work. The organization, though, sounds sketchy.

The group’s website is stock photo-heavy and uses gauzy, uplifting language in English only about the resources available to migrants in San Francisco, but it is light on specifics — it doesn’t provide any contact information for organizations that provide those resources, and has no details about the group itself.

It’s all about emotion and feelings – whoa, whoa, whoa, feeeeelings. What should be clear by now is that the Biden border crisis is rife with grifters making a lot of money off an open border. Whether it is NGOs or charities, or sketchy organizations in California, there is plenty of money to be made at the expense of U.S. national security and a humanitarian crisis. Sanctuary cities are saying “no mas” as they deal with what they asked for.