OK, this is going to be a short post, because the tweets in question aren’t getting any traction. Still, we found it so funny we had to do something with it. As you know, Gov. Ron DeSantis sent a flight of 48 Venezuelan migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, a literal island with no infrastructure. Where do you put 48 people on an island? You can’t make it any bigger. And you don’t have a homeless shelter despite advertising yourself as a sanctuary for illegal immigrants.
The governor prepared to mobilize 125 National Guard members to assist with the 48 migrants, and in less than 48 hours, they were bused to a military base on Cape Cod. PolitiFact will have you know they were not “deported,” and that military base is a designated emergency shelter, so the military wasn’t involved or anything like that. All of the migrants agreed to be buses to Cape Cod, just as they agreed to be flown to Martha’s Vineyard.
In that very brief time period, those Martha’s Vineyard residents who interacted with the migrants before kicking them out found the experience “transformative,” according to Eve Zuckoff, a climate change reporter covering Cape Cod.
“I know my life is changed. I know this is what I've been missing and I need to have it continue in my life,” Donna McElroy said about the feeling of community that the experience produced. @evezuckoff #MarthasVineyard https://t.co/tDxoizaM0n
— CAI (@WCAI_NPR) September 30, 2022
But we were assured that flying them to Martha’s Vineyard was “cruel.” But now the shelter coordinator there says she doesn’t even “want to go back to being unaware.” So she’s admitting to being unaware. What does she do as shelter coordinator the other 363 days of the year?
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It’s been two weeks since the 48 migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard left the island. I heard from dozens of volunteers who called the experience transformative.
Now, the central question for them is: how can the experience create lasting change in our community?@GBHNews https://t.co/JTNgkI4j5B
— Eve Zuckoff (@evezuckoff) September 30, 2022
Yes they came together to boot them off the island in record time. True teamwork.
— #TermLimitsForAll (@TruthIsTruth000) October 1, 2022
Is this a joke?
It has to be a joke. https://t.co/4ulW97ffW9— Jeff Semon (@JeffSemonMA) October 1, 2022
How can the experience create lasting change in their community? Why not ask DeSantis to fly in more planefuls of migrants? Has anyone thought of that?
Related:
NBC News’ Chuck Todd: Martha’s Vineyard is ‘a literal island that doesn’t have any infrastructure’ https://t.co/7a7s6haJFP
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 16, 2022
