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# Ice Backs
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/ice-backs/
- Published: 2023-03-17T04:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-03-17T12:03:31.000Z
- Description: Vermont and Texas are the only two states that were once independent republics. That's now not the only thing they have in common.
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Current Affairs, Briefly

The folks fly into Canada then trudge into Vermont and North Dakota. In 2023, compared to 2020, it's up five-fold and is on pace in 2024 to crush the 2023 numbers. [Graph](https://img.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2024/03/17/id5608916-Graph-1.jpg?%5Fgl=1%2A1257cdk%2A%5Fga%2AOTk3NzM5Nzg5LjE3MDQyODk1ODY.%2A%5Fga%5FRD0QM5H02Q%2AMTcxMDY3NDM1Ny40OS4xLjE3MTA2NzQ0NjkuNTYuMC4w%2A%5Fgcl%5Fau%2AMTAyMDM2NjYwMy4xNzA0Mjg5NTg2&ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

And like the new immigrants coming across the southern border, these folks appear to be well-funded. They're not poor and we're not even sure what they're yearning for. I don't know what Emma Lazarus would've thought of them:

> Give me your tired, your poor,  
> Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,  
> The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.  
> Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,  
> I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

> Emma Lazarus, *The New Colossus (1883)*

Or what Lou Reed would've thought (chuckle):

> Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor I'll piss on 'em  
> that's what the Statue of Bigotry says  
> Your poor huddled masses, let's club 'em to death  
> and get it over with and just dump 'em on the boulevard

> Lou Reed, Dirty Boulevard (1989)

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