As you all know, the citizens of Martha’s Vineyard had their own migrant encounter last week, encountering a whopping 48 Venezuelan migrants who’d been flown north from Florida by Gov. Ron DeSantis. The cookies they’d baked for their new guests hadn’t even cooled when more buses whisked the migrants away to a military base on Cape Cod. MSNBC’s Chuck Todd noted that Martha’s Vineyard is “a literal island that doesn’t have any infrastructure” (but plenty of mansions listed on Airbnb for rent). How many migrants is a literal island expected to support?
DeSantis and Gov. Greg Abbott have been testing the sanctuary city system for a few weeks now, and Washington, D.C. declared a humanitarian crisis after 4,000 migrants had been dropped off, with Mayor Muriel Bowser twice approaching the National Guard for help (and twice being turned down).
DeSantis and Abbott have proved their point: why are small border towns expected to deal with an exponentially greater number of migrants with their limited infrastructure? Fox News’ Bill Melugin points out that August’s migrant encounter numbers haven’t yet been released but will push the number over 2 million, with a month to go in the fiscal year.
We are now 19 days into September and the federal government still has not reported migrant encounter numbers at the border for August. Those numbers will put us well over 2 million encounters for FY’22 with a month left to go, and they don’t account for 500,000+ known gotaways.
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) September 19, 2022
Explain the "known gotaways"…
Who's in charge keeping track?— Milsma (@milsma) September 19, 2022
CBP does. They are seen & logged via cameras & sensors etc but there is no manpower to get to them, and they are typically undercounted.
DHS Secretary Mayorkas testified under oath that they recorded approx 390,000 known gotaways last year.
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) September 19, 2022
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And Martha’s Vineyard is screaming, yelling, and crying over 50.
— Colette Price (@Colette88342032) September 19, 2022
Where do we go to find out how many migrants have died in their attempt to cross illegally into our country. Would be curious. Certainly no MSM outlets are interested in knowing.
— Blair Collins (@perihelion11) September 19, 2022
Correct us if we’re wrong, but we recently saw a tweet claiming nearly 800 deaths this fiscal year.
The 50 in Martha’s Vineyard are the only ones that matter.
— Andy Lancaster (@andylancaster) September 19, 2022
Because whatever happens to border towns is ok… so long as the lib areas don’t see it
— REDACTED (@quiettactician) September 19, 2022
Sounds secure to me.🙄 @PressSec @VP
— Bunting Wheeler (@drebin_lt) September 19, 2022
100% of illegal immigrants should be shipped directly to sanctuary states.
— J.W. of the Vineyard (@C130GreybeardTN) September 19, 2022
Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship. – Bruce Coville
— Dr. Turnleftundkoff (@Questionery1) September 19, 2022
If we recall correctly, someone during the Democratic debates urged illegal immigrants to immediately surge to the border if he were elected.***
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Update:
BREAKING: It’s official. For the first time, migrant encounters at the border have surpassed two million in one year.
CBP reports there were 203,598 migrant encounters at the border in August, bringing the total for FY’22 to 2,150,370, and there is still one month left to go.
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) September 19, 2022
A reminder, these numbers do NOT include known gotaways, which DHS sources tell us are already well over 500,000 for FY’22 so far.
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) September 19, 2022
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Related:
AP report citing US officials’ info about illegal crossings doesn’t match up with Kamala Harris’ claim that the ‘border is secure’ https://t.co/Tcm82oOvZt
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 19, 2022
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