According to The Boston Globe, officials in Martha’s Vineyard are holding an emergency meeting to deal with the crisis of 43 illegal alien arrivals, including one four-year-old child. The group arrived via a chartered flight dispatched by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
According to state representative Dylan Fernandes, “when you look at the limited housing options on Martha’s Vineyard, as I’m sure many of the folks here are aware, it’s likely we’re going to need an off island location.” As noted by the Globe …”a Zoom meeting has been scheduled for emergency management officials from the island along with people from the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency to discuss the next step for the immigrants.”
(Boston Globe) […] Fernandes also strongly condemned DeSantis and Governor Greg Abbott of Texas for sending the migrants to the Vineyard.
“To use women and children as political pawns is cowardice. Governor DeSantis is a coward,” Fernandes said. “Their communication on this, Governor DeSantis’s on this, was to jump on Fox News and beat his chest about how tough he is on immigration. It’s inhumane. It’s depraved.”
DeSantis defended the move in remarks to reporters on Thursday during a briefing at Northwest Florida State College.
“Every community in America should be sharing in the burdens. It shouldn’t all fall on a handful of red states,” he said. Other states “don’t like it as much when you get just a small, small, small amount compared to what these folks have dealt with in Texas and in other states.”
Florida’s message, DeSantis said, is that it’s not “a sanctuary state.”
“Now what would be the best is for Biden to do his damn job and secure the border,” he said.
Susan Church, a prominent immigration lawyer based in Cambridge, said a team of attorneys in Massachusetts is working with advocacy groups including the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice to interview the migrants and determine whether they’d be eligible for victims of crimes visas, based on reports they were coaxed into getting on a plane under the pretext that their paperwork would be expedited.
“They were duped in to getting on to the plane,” said Church, former chair of the New England Chapter of American Immigration Lawyers Association. “This is akin to kidnapping.” (read more)
While the apoplexy and pearl-clutching from the condescending and sanctimonious democrats is political fuel for ridicule, at the end of the day these transports of illegal economic migrants, illegal aliens, is not a solution.
Desperate times do call for desperate measures, and we desperately need to see the southern border secured, immediately. If the transports lead to backlash from Democrat officials and politicians, and that hypocrisy leads to facing the reality of the border crisis created by Joe Biden, then perhaps something positive can come from this approach.
I find myself torn between seeing this as a political gimmick yet understanding that some shift in the national narrative is needed. If this approach delivers that shift, if more people wake up to the border crisis, then something positive could be gained. However, at the end of the day these unlawful migrants are people.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis answers questions earlier today:
What happened to the DeSantis who was going to seize planes, buses, etc that were transporting illegal aliens?
That’s what I would like to know too. He was going to have the buses right there outside the gate to load them up and take them out of the state.
He could not go on the airport ground himself to do it because it was Federal land from what I remember but I sure didn’t hear anything more about bus loads going out of the state full of incoming illegals that came through the gate.
IMO, DeSantis did the right thing by “forwarding” the illegals sent by TX to Martha’s Vineyard, the current home of Obozo, when he’s not in Hawaii. MA is a “sanctuary State” after all. I understand the negativity going on towards DeSantis, but I still believe that him doing this (sending them to an elite/elitist island in MA, where obozo happens to live) was a good move.
Kamala : The border is secure ..
Liberal Logic: Martha’s Vineyard Calls 50 Illegal Immigrants a “Humanitarian Crisis” – But 4.2 Million Illegal Immigrants Crossing a “Secure Border”
The Bots are out in force on this thread.
Who are the bots?
Read some of the comments up thread. You’ll figure it out pretty quickly
Everybody who doesn’t toe the line is a bot obviously. Jeesh. Go figure.
Anyone who disagrees with him/her/it
You forget “they” !
so much for being the party of inclusiveness.
Hey, if I can go to Hotels.com and find dozens of rooms available on Martha’s Vinyard TONIGHT, why can’t they? Schools are back in session, the season’s over, and hotels have LOTS of room deals. Or perhaps they just don’t want “THOSE people”?
Perhaps.
Perhaps libtard elites want illegals to stay in CA, TX, AZ and not come to their enclaves?
Look at these old stats: 1.7% Hispanic in 2016
https://www.mvcommission.org/sites/default/files/docs/web01_MVSP%20FINAL%20PRINT%202019-03-21-3.pdf
I live in the northern suburbs of Manhattan, just 50 miles from midtown.
While I think this is a really great gimmick, I don’t have much hope it will work.
The cesspool NY City is one of the biggest sanctuary cities in the US A. Just about every city in Westchester is a sanctuary city with thousands of illegals being brought in over the past few years.
These places are controlled by the DemonRats. They are all making plenty of money with their various scams.
The taxpayers are getting killed with massive increases in our property taxes. We are the ones who are paying for this madness.
There is only one man who can stop this and that is President Trump.
I pray every day for his return to the seat of Power.
A few days in NY and the countries they came from might start looking pretty good. “Get us OUT OF HERE!!!”
I have been saying a prayer for you Seneca TE. I can’t imagine the depressing sites that have become everyday for all in that situation. I have missed your updates in your neck of the woods.
Faith you have fine Sir !
I declare Martha’s Vineyard a sanctuary city.
Who second’s the motion?
Someone commented that there is a single home that is big enough for all these new illegal arrivals: the Obama’s mansion.
They DO deserve better. Next bus goes to Newport.
Or Montauk
Where all the wealthy NYorkers own their beach houses
Didn’t think it got much nicer than Martha’s Vineyard.
Yeah, Karine.
Send ’em to a Portland, OR. homeless drug addicted encampment.
*Much* better th/ Martha’s Vineyard, right?????
Let this sink in:
Migrant surge overwhelms Border Patrol and shelters in El PasoBiden just dumps them on the street….
Nearly 1,000 have been released near bus stations over the past week in hope they will find their own way to their next destinations in the U.S.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/migrant-surge-overwhelms-border-patrol-shelters-el-paso-rcna47588
KJP is way too stupid to realize just how stupid she is.
Illegal aliens “deserve” nothing from us, not a thing.
But seriously, “they deserve a lot better”? Better than THE WEALTHY Martha’s Vineyard??
What about what we, you know, the “lowly” CITIZENS of this COUNTRY deserve? We deserve a SECURE BORDER.
She really is stupid. Although I agree there are way better classes of people than the hypocrites in MV.
The Dukes County Regional Housing Authority was publicly chartered in 1986 to assist the towns of Martha’s Vineyard and Gosnold with increasing year-round housing opportunities for residents with low and moderate incomes. The Island-wide Housing Forum of 2000 resulted in several significant housing efforts including the six-town agreement to proportionately share the administrative staff costs of the Housing Authority. Fully funded by the towns since 2005, Housing Authority staff work daily with islanders seeking housing and with town, state and regional organizations developing housing units, programs and supports.
Rental Housing
The Housing Authority manages year-round rentals, administers local rental assistance and partners with other organizations that offer assistance with rent, utility costs, apartment rehabilitation, and homelessness prevention.
More details:
https://housingauthoritymarthasvineyard.org/
Dear President Obama: Surely your huge mansion could house the 47 migrants that are at the emergency shelter. You housed all the celebrities there when you had your big party during the COVID shutdown. We know how compassionate and caring you are.
“All Are Welcome Here”……… until you actually show up, and then it’s: “GTFO!!!”
Well, I sympathize … however the current game afoot requires new rules, ones that enlighten the left to the fact that the gloves are off and a hardball is coming but not over the plate.
Enjoy the fireworks in context of the scene 💥
The average American, IMO, sees illegal aliens as Criminals.
The Left sees illegal aliens as part of their political base.
Susan Church, immigration lawyer, who so desperately wants to sue someone for moving/kidnapping these illegals needs to start with Biden.
Yup, it’s apparently a crime for Red State Gov.’s to move these illegals around, but when FJB ships them all over the country in the dead of night, well that’s different, because Fedgov is in charge of immigration don’t ya know.
The illegals DeSantis sent to Mahhthas Vineyard were shipped to Florida from the Mexican border without Florida’s permission or imput. DeSantis just sent them on.
Good. I have a lot of respect of de Santis now
There is a difference between empathy and sympathy many need to learn the difference, So many self righteous responses from a crowd of people who refuse to take accountability for their voting practices that led to the politicians that helped foster these mass migrations we see happening around the globe.
Sorry none of you get to walk away from that. Be adults and accept responsibility for your actions.
As for acceptance of responsibility for one’s actions, that certainly applies to illegals as well. None of your many posts on this thread have addressed that subject. For you, all of the illegals are victims.
Stop already with the blame game. It’s not only wearisome, it’s offensive.
I think you misunderstood Jeannette. She’s not blaming the posters here, she’s referring to the MV snobs who are crying because they were called on their sanctuary bluff.
How many are you personally housing and feeding and tending to medical and schooling needs?
Wouldn’t that responsibility especially fall on those who openly advocated for open borders and have coerced, including in secret, “re-homing” these illegal criminals? Isn’t that what adults would do, if they were really responsible — personally take in three or four families, feed them, house them, see to their children’s schooling (as in, homeschooling, so to not burden other people and taxpayers!) and medical and visual and dental needs, and provide good employment for them at competitive rates and professions?
How about that? Most of us never voted for anything this issue covers. So we do not bear the responsibility for taking care of the real, live, living people and their children those stupid voters did. It’s their responsibility, and none of the rest of us should be expected to pay for or provide any of it. Made your bed. Sleep in it. You don’t like it? YOU don’t get to walk away from it: either do what your voting got you into, or find a way, personally, to correct it. Close the borders and deport all who are not heritage Americans. That includes the Islamists, not just the Mexicans, Central and South Americans from the last 100 years.
Let those whose votes REALLY led to the Marxist politicians who helped foster these mass migrations around the globe take EXCLUSIVE responsibility for them, personally, in their own homes and property.
That’s adult: TRUTH.
They were kidnapped, she said. Hahahaha, and you get to pay the ransom, dearie. Eff off.
“…these unlawful migrants are people.” Agreed Sundance. However, they are not being treated inhumanely as a coyote did to get them to the border and they are not being charged any money either.
How do forest firefighters put out or control forest fires? By building fire lines and BACK BURNING, that’s how. This may be a poor analogy though it works for me. Take some of the burden off the front-line responders and send them elsewhere. Back burn a little bit and this horrible situation might just get rectified.
Burglars, who break into our homes, are people. The classification of such people? Criminals.
Illegal aliens, who break into our country are people. The classification of such people? Criminals.
Exactly so! Thank you!
This only looks like a political stunt because of the disregard of the southern border,
and states declaring themselves sanctuaries.
If you have a secure border, and no sanctuaries,
then things like transporting illegals to the doorsteps of elites wouldn’t be necessary.
Dear libtards, you made your bed. Now lay in it.
Move the peons “off-island.” What hypocritical snobs these dims be.
Praying a Hedge of Protection over that four year old child.
The federales lurking are getting an earful. There are more comments here, right ow, than on the Daily Presidential thread.
Not to mention the less than stellar, and more to the point responses over at CFP, BB or TGP.
Well, sanctuaries are for human beings. (“Sanctuaries: Not just for virtue signaling anymore”)
First we must stop calling this a border crisis and call it what it is.
A foreign and hostile invasion of our borders. Over 4 million and counting quickly.
I want to see a visual of how many of the largest cruise ships it would take to house all of these people.
I just heard on the News that Martha’s Vineyard does not have the resources to deal with this “crisis.” Therefore, they are being shipped to New Bedford, MA. New Bedford is a small town on the fringe of Cape Cod. New Bedford is not a wealthy town.
Of course it’s not, but MV is too good for the unwashed illegals, obviously 🙄
Sorry to disagree with Sundance, but illegal entry into the US is a felony and, as such, these “people” are felons and should be treated as such. Armed robbers are “people” but they are still felons even though the police did not stop them before they committed the robbery.
It’s not a felony, necessarily. It actually starts out as an administrative violation for the vast majority of first time, not previously deported entrants. It can range up to a felony for previously deported, criminal aliens, which typically means they have a felony conviction here in the US and have already been released from prison, warned , and deported, then re-entered.
Racist white liberals don’t want to live with people of color.
let them eat cake…
Start a GoFundMe to build multi family affordable housing on the Vineyard! It’s who we are.
One of the trespassers was caught eyeing a lobster roll suspiciously.
Ya reap what ya sow…embrace the suck that you have brought to America. I would love to see a continuous caravan of buses headed for the Socialist enclaves in Blue America.
These unlawful migrants knowingly broke the law. They need to be treated as such.
But I’m just shocked all those libs in Martha’s Vineyard didn’t immediately open up their homes to these illegals? Are they not compassionate? 🙄
Apparently these liberals ain’t as liberal as they require Texans and Arizonans to be.
Wait until winter comes to the Vineyard, these illegals will wish they were back in South America.
That’s why they need to be shipped to CA. at some point, or they’ll be heading back to FL.
LeftTheGop. Not necessarily. We have some south of the border folks who went ape at the first site of snow. They were out with their free phones taking pictures. They don’t mind it because they are in rentals where they are not required to clean the stuff off of the sidewalks. They are given free coats, mitts, boots, and all the paraphernalia to reside in the north. No skin off of their teeth.
In a few moments the NPR station will give its totally objective take on the subject.
Or it can be read here among other places.
http://www.nprillinois.org/2022-09-15/50-migrants-land-on-marthas-vineyard
Funny. Not funny. Even “our side” seems to exploit the poor and foolish while those trained in terror or predisposed to terror, are moved around like little chess pieces. This cannot end well.
MAGA is “Common Sense” and common decency. Lets work and pray, get the border sealed up, and return to our Constitution.
Agree with all the comments… Transport them all to sanctuary state cities… I have no problem watching the lefties on the Vineyard and in Ptown pucker up… Make them walk the walk…
The Homeless Shelter Coordinator on Martha’s Vineyard explains the problem. Our guests cannot stay here. They have to go someplace else. Oh dear.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/marthas-vineyard-homeless-shelter-coordinator-melts-illegals-flown-island-move-somewhere-else-video/
F@#$ ’em (the ‘officials’ not the illegals).
The bill you folks charged has come due…now pay it!
Meanwhile, I’m not a fan of shipping these folks throughout the country.
Secure the damn border; until then, shut up and say ‘welcome’.
Hey, here’s an idea. Send the migrants to Ukraine – a “Remain in Ukraine” policy while their paperwork is processed. We’re paying Ukraine bags of cash, they owe us.
Now that is a welcome relief of comedic satire.
thanks for the chuckle! I needed that.
Crossing the southern border, expecting to make your way north,
then ending up on a plane to Martha’s Vineyard?
Yeah, I’d call that an illegal immigrant “win”.
Sounds a lot better than hanging out in some Texas border town
with thousands of other needy illegals.
What are the MV authorities gonna do?
Give you a job maybe? It’s got vineyard in the name. And it’s harvest season.
Feed you? Give you a tour of the island?
Then send you back to the mainland?
Clean, belly’s full, seeing a place most Americans never get to?
Oh, the horror.
Kind of funny if they have to take private residencies to house the illegals. There should a whole bunch of weekend/summer homes available now that Labor Day has passed.
Isn’t Martha’s Vineyard in danger of being overwhelmed by the rising sea waters?
I hope enough are sent to “tip the island over!”
Yes, they are people. People who have broken our country’s laws by illegally invading our country.
“Progressivism” + Reality = Disaster.
Happens Every Time.
They’re not people. They’re invaders. Nobody asked them to come here. They can take the consequences of coming illegally or they can get the hell out. Their choice.
One or 2 of them actually stated on the TV news this morning that they WERE TOLD that the border was open and because of that, they came, illegally.
FTA: “when you look at the limited housing options on Martha’s Vineyard”
Its after Labor Day. There’s thousands of rooms available on the Vineyard.
Maybe I’ll sail over there and check it out. I’m taking tomorrow off to go sailing for three days, if the wind is westerly, then I’ll go to the Vineyard from Narragansett Bay.
And there were 100 illegals who were dropped off in Kamala Harris yard…….
Send more busses!
Sharyl Attkisson did a journalist’s job of interviewing people at the border recently.
http://www.fullmeasure.news/news/cover-story/the-border
The usual Dem mantra, ” rules for thee but not for me.”
Yep. They need to be called out big time. and that is what Abbott and DeSantis are doing.
That smell? Mayorkas and Soros cooking up the illegal invasion: https://www.judicialwatch.org/mayorkas-border-trip/
Lara Logan: The UN discussed plans to move 100 million illegals into the US.
https://rumble.com/v1k8dgj-lara-logan-the-un-discussed-plans-to-move-100-million-illegals-into-the-us..html
at the end of the day these unlawful migrants are people.….who are are being intentionally sent here to destroy this country. They breaking our laws and greatly causing difficulties in multiple ways to our country.
They are NOT migrants … they are illegal aliens … period …
I am a selective anti-Xeno, not a xeno”phobe”. Just like most of us are anti-Jihadi as jihadis like to kill Christians and Jews… not “islamophobic”.. a fake word as we have Historical, empirical, and REAL misgivings about muslims and their violent proclivities and stupid culture.
Perhaps we shall start branding Mayorkas and all bleeding heart liberals who believe every sad sack of shoot story blabbed by every hispanic illegal alien about them fleeing “persecution/gangs”, as XENOPHILIACS!!!
They are fully cognizant that they are breaking the law and do not care.
There is already enough lawlessness in our nation without adding additional lawless persons.
They are INVADERS.
FJB
Both DeSantis and Abbot should keep sending illegals there by planes and busses. Under 50 from an invasion of 2 million doesn’t mean squat. Send a few thousand to the kenyan’s house
Use 100-car trains. Oh, I forgot, Amtrack isn’t doing long-haul runs any more.
They are invaders.
NSS!
Yep. You do the math …
https://www.lapdonline.org/lapd-most-wanted/
LAPD Most Wanted … si se puede
I was just in Monroe, NC… 6 PM in the late afternon, busy traffic on four lanes of Highway 74… and I see car after car after truck after truck, all flying huge Guatemalan flags.
And most were nice trucks. Economic oppression my arse. I’m always amazed at how easy it is to just walk into America and hit the ground running as these folks do.
Monroe? New Guatelama is more like it. There is absolutely NO immigration problem… it’s a piece of cake.
In twenty years, we’ll all be speaking Spanish.
And whenever the US Soccer Team plays Mexico … in Kansas City … the stadium is covered with Mexican Flags, the US Team is booed … and bags of urine are thrown at our players. Oh! You didn’t read about that in the US Press ? I’m shocked.
in 20 years they will speak softly at night about the bad idea of invading America and the way they were hunted after the tax payers tired of them .