I Have A Few Questions About The Martha’s
Vineyard Migrant Kerfuffle
The Federalist,
by
Daid Harsanyi
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
9/16/2022 1:53:56 PM
A person can make a compelling case that dropping unsuspecting migrants off in places like Chicago or San Francisco is cruel, but Martha’s Vineyard? Isn’t it more humane to send migrants to well-heeled communities than to allow them to live in “squalor” in makeshift tent cities under highway overpasses? Because I rarely hear the left worry about the latter.
Then again, why has a story about 50 migrants spending a couple of days on Martha’s Vineyard garnered far more coverage and outrage from left media and punditry media than 51 migrants being cooked alive in a tractor-trailer only last month?
Why is it barely news that officials dumped 1,000 migrants into
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Moritz55 9/16/2022 2:05:15 PM (No. 1279419)
Excellent questions, and the answers should be obvious, but the Biden administration is what it is, and with Republicans faltering in the run up to the November election, it’s doubtful that much will change.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 9/16/2022 2:07:13 PM (No. 1279423)
We can handle 150,000 tourists [because they've got money and look like us] - - but - - we can't handle 50 "migrants" [because they don't have money and don't look like us].
Love Is Love!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Krause 9/16/2022 2:17:37 PM (No. 1279432)
I would say to the phony leftists of MV…..’take your stupid virtue signaling yard signs down.’ Nobody believes you. You all just flunked DeSantis’ test!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MDConservative 9/16/2022 2:54:54 PM (No. 1279451)
Like the Homeless Coordinator on MV can't find a few Viking refrigerator boxes for housing. I looked yesterday at rentals there that would accommodate at least 10 guests for a minimum 60 days...VRBO lists 28 properties. Tain't cheap, none of them, but it's a "crisis"! Never let one go to waste!!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Fasteddie 9/16/2022 2:55:40 PM (No. 1279452)
Governors DeSantis and Abbott are geniuses.
With this one simple move, they have caused the Biden (mis)Administration and Democrat politicians in general to expose themselves as deranged hypocrites (or, in Biden's case, as a senile doofus.)
All the yelling and screams of outrage from the Dim Media types only makes it more obvious.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Aubreyesque 9/16/2022 4:11:21 PM (No. 1279502)
See this is why it is WORTHLESS to send a piddling 100, 200 or 500 at a time.
Our borders are being flooded. Why arent we flooding the front lawns of Beetlejuice, Obama, and all those lily-white Yankee enclaves that love to dictate to the rest of fly over country? FLOOD THEIR YARDS WITH THE ILLEGALS. And if they send them back then tell them we are dumping them off in a country not of their origin.
Double down folks. Its what those Marxists creatures will do to us the minute we lighten up.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
msliberty1937 9/16/2022 4:30:00 PM (No. 1279511)
Why aren't the thousands of Afghanis, brought here by the plane load last year, included in the "immigrant" count? They were neither vetted nor covid tested yet allowed to take off to parts unknown to do who knows what. The documented numbers would probably double if they plus the got-aways could be accurately determined.
Watching these lefty virtue signallers foaming at the mouth would be more hilarious if this crisis was not so deadly serious...with no end in sight.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 9/16/2022 5:22:17 PM (No. 1279544)
Martha’s vineyard …ha. It is the vineyard of Karens and Newsomes
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mobyclik 9/16/2022 5:52:10 PM (No. 1279554)
At least those elitist pukes know that 90% of the country is laughing at them. Belly laughs!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DW626 9/17/2022 5:39:45 AM (No. 1279807)
The only question I can come up with, is why don’t we send them more?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
judy 9/17/2022 6:01:31 AM (No. 1279816)
Maybe they should work for the defense department ...they declared a disaster in record time & moved them out by bus in record time!!! It's how the OK for thee but not me crowd works... in a town that post signs they welcome illegals!!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
judy 9/17/2022 6:04:25 AM (No. 1279817)
Since the sanctuary city handled it so quickly... maybe DeSantis will allow them to do it again???
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Msquared112 9/17/2022 7:18:45 AM (No. 1279851)
These various articles on the Martha’s Vineyard story deftly point out the hypocrisy and virtue-signaling of the Left. It’s not as if we didn’t know it, but now the Left gets it rubbed in their faces and personally, the schadenfreude is wonderful. Calling it “cruel” compounds the error of the Left. If shipping the illegals to MV is “cruel”, why isn’t it “cruel” to ship them to Texas or Florida towns? Cruel is cruel and now the Left have to eat that cow patty.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Red Jeep 9/17/2022 7:18:57 AM (No. 1279852)
Please do not accept the Left's use of the word migrant. It is language perversion to paint a false picture. Use illegal alien, not migrant.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
WinterParker 9/17/2022 7:45:14 AM (No. 1279871)
Please stay in your icky little border towns while we post inane drivel about you on our storefront.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
The Remnants 9/17/2022 8:25:13 AM (No. 1279902)
This story made obvious what we already know:
The critical-thinking gene is missing in progressive-leftists.
( I understand the 50 illegal aliens were only on the island 24 hours before the
fake Republican Governor 125 National Guardsmen)
Missing gene,
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 9/17/2022 9:02:19 AM (No. 1279929)
Heard the National Guard transported the illegals elsewhere
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 9/17/2022 9:08:23 AM (No. 1279933)
So the liberals think it is cruel for DeSantis to send the illegals to Martha's Vineyard. I think it is more cruel to do nothing to the policies and procedures at the border. Government has become so bloated, ineffective, and slow.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Zigrid 9/17/2022 9:57:12 AM (No. 1279973)
This whole Martha's Vineyard story is just plain delicious...it proved once and for all to see... the ruling elite are not about equality...but rather out for themselves and their image...well...their image has been shattered all over the world as the news reported their contempt for the immigrants....
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Kafka2 9/17/2022 10:08:54 AM (No. 1279984)
That sanctuary city of Martha’s Vineyard had the chance to help show a little virtue to 50 illegals. Their response was a resounding NIMBY !!!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
OZZCAR 9/17/2022 10:32:32 AM (No. 1280011)
It's a bit late but isn't Martha's Vineyard over due for a Trump boat parade?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
walcb 9/17/2022 10:46:56 AM (No. 1280036)
The logic in the author's argument is perfect so it will have no merit with a dimocrat voter.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Rinktum 9/17/2022 11:00:58 AM (No. 1280064)
Had our politicians played the same game that democrats do a long time ago, we may not be in the mess we are today, but far too many went along to get along. This was a pitch perfect act that showed those virtue signaling sanctimonious fools for what they are and it’s high time they were exposed. While we all knew this would be their response to having illegals anywhere near them, they certainly did not disappoint. If Republicans don’t make ads out of their response, they are the fools. Not holding my breath though. Why does it take a Royal battle to get the RNC and Republican leadership to take advantage of a golden opportunity ripe for exploiting?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Vincent Vega 9/17/2022 11:51:27 AM (No. 1280120)
These limousine liberals love to virtue signal don't they? They love to talk the talk - "no human is illegal", "love is love"........yeah right. But when it comes time to walk the talk, they go to pieces. Abbott and DeSantis have exposed these phonies for the colossal hypocrites they are, and the entire country is laughing at them, which explains their (and their media enablers) outrage. They know they have been caught up in their BS red-handed.
They can accommodate 100,000 visitors during the summer season, but can't accommodate 50 illegal aliens? 50? Give me a break. My hope is to see more busloads go to 2 more specific locations; Biden's front yard in Delaware, and the beach where he constantly vacations. Maybe one of the illegals can teach him how to ride a bike without falling on his ass.
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