This was a practical decision. These people don't need housing, they just need to get out of town and back to wherever they came from - in several cases, foreign countries. A Spanish MP was stuck there and finally got out and is on his way back to Spain now, for example. Tourists are not multiple-needs people. They only thing they needed to do was get out of town, which most of them had been trying to do, but unlike the city, the airport closed a day early and they were stranded. They had hired and paid for the buses themselves, btw.
Furthermore, NO does not need to be burdened with having to provide security for them, since most of them were probably white or at any rate, not black, and hence were targets.
I've noticed this article posted several times today by some of our more - er, provocative - posters. Any reason for that?
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