A couple of years ago, Europe was having its own illegal alien crisis with an influx from North Africa and the Middle East. Germany was accepting them, and sending them to different towns.
One fairly small town (tourism and skiing in the winter were the main businesses) was notified they were going to get a LOT of these illegals - amounting to a very significant fraction of their population. The German government demanded a list of all available hotel rooms, vacant office space and private homes with extra bedrooms. The mayor (burgermeister?) pointed out that the last in particular was prohibited since the German constitution prohibits taking people's homes to house others, and as for the other info demanded, well, they had no information on that. There was some back-and-forth on this.
Well, eventually, a train full of illegals pulled in late, along with some bureaucrats. They found the train station closed, locked, and dark, with nobody there except a janitor. No food, no transportation, no housing arrangements, no welcome committee - nothing. Phone calls to town offices got recordings saying they were closed.
Bureaucrats were furious - but the town was doing nothing. Ultimately they called the German army who came out and set up a tent city in a vacant field, along with field kitchens, latrines, etc. Last I heard, they were looking elsewhere for housing to accommodate the illegals . . . a situation that was due to get worse, since another trainload was supposed to come in soon.
Never saw a follow up, but I wonder if some border communities and border states here should do the same as that little German town.
