Ron DeSantis, the Governor of Florida is proving himself to be an effective political street fighter in the mold of Donald Trump. He decided to send 50 Venezuelan refugees to Martha’s Vinyard and has completely upended this elite liberal enclave, causing a “humanitarian crisis”.
“At some point in time they’ll have to move. We don’t have the services to take care of 50 migrants. And we certainly don’t have housing.”
I have a housing suggesting for them. Joe Biden wants to take over community zoning laws to force them to build affording housing complexes. You have an island full of billionaires. I figure you can jack the property taxes enough to build enough affordable housing for at least 50,000 migrants. Biden wants “balanced housing” in every suburb. Get cracking, Karen!
There have been a lot of objections to this. Let me address some of the more popular ones.
This is Un-Christian
This is a really popular one. “Dumping” immigrants on these wealthy communities which have virtue signaled a welcome mat is not Christian.
Jesus tells a story about that. About finding a man beat up on the highway, dressing his wounds and “dumping” him on a random innkeeper. Martha’s Vinyard put out a sign stating that they welcome refugees. These people are refugees. They’re being sent to a place with the net worth of most countries in the world. What is un-Christian about that?
DeSantis is Spending Taxpayer’s Money to Send Them There
Sure he can. He spent tens of millions of dollars to buy plane tickets for these migrants to save the people hundreds of millions in government services, law enforcement, schools, hospitals, etc. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me!
They Can’t Handle the Influx of Refugees
Now that they know that they can’t handle 50 refugees, what are they doing to solve the problem? Are they building affordable apartment houses on their island for future refugees like Joe Biden advocates for? Are they building a Spanish speaking welcome center? Are they requesting an immigration field office to help expedite their asylum paperwork? Are they hiring more doctors and nurses for their hospitals? After all, the most famous first couple on the island advocates for “health care for all”. Are they hiring Spanish speaking teachers and English as a second language teachers for their schools? If they want to get it done quickly, I hear Donald Trump is available. He does jobs on time and under budget. Shouldn’t be much of a tax increase for all the billionaires who live there.
This Whole Event was “Kidnapping”.
Some of the migrants were grateful for being sent to Martha’s Vinyard which must have seemed like the promised land for them. They were asked if they wanted to go, given a map of the destination, and provisions for the trip.
Now after less than 48 hours, the lily-white residents of the resort island called the national guard and had them “deported” to a military base in Boston (well, after giving them a bowl of cereal for a photo op).
They Are Being Used As Political Pawns
No shit? Really? Of course they are. These poor people should never have been encouraged to take the trip by places like Martha’s Vinyard who virtue-signal care for these people while refusing to help with caring for them once they arrive.
This encouragement is causing a true humanitarian crisis at the border. One such example is 46 migrants found dead in a tractor trailer in Texas.
Compare the media coverage of this tragedy with the “tragedy” of rich virtue-signaling elites having to deal with these brown people who did not even have the decency to being cleaning supplies or even a leaf blower.
Joe Biden’s decision to stop construction of the border wall, revoke the “stay in Mexico” policy and stop immigration enforcement, treating everyone like a “refugee” and releasing them into the country with a promise to make their court date is a political stunt that makes this pale in comparison.
Ron DeSantis is a Political Street Fighter
This was the single best political move I’ve seen in my lifetime by a Republican. The Democrats have always treated politics as an eye-gouging, ball-kicking (and when they can get away with it) knifing contest, while the Republicans have wanted to play by the Marquis of Queensbury rules. They don’t want to “sink to their level” and as a result get the shit beaten out of them consistently.
Donald Trump broke that mold. When he was punched, he punched back harder. This got him in trouble on Twitter because all you ever saw was his attack, not the comment that prompted it.
Ron DeSantis is much better at this than Trump. This flying migrants to Martha’s Vinyard was a kick in the establishment’s balls.
I would personally like to see “Migrant Monday™” every Monday, and a question about how Martha’s Vinyard is preparing for the immigrants they are inviting.