Martha’s Vineyard Has A meltdown as Migrants Arrive by Plane

“We have talked to a number of people who’ve asked, ‘Where am I?’ And then I was trying to explain where Martha’s Vineyard is,” said befuddled Edgartown, Mass., Police Chief Bruce McNamee of the 50 illegal immigrants who landed on two charter flights at the island’s only airport Wednesday.

Airport officials believed the planes were delivering corporate guys on a late-season golf retreat. However, they were sorely disappointed when they realized the arriving passengers were in fact migrants.

The illegals arrived courtesy of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who sent them there using a $12 million budget set aside by our free state’s legislature to transport illegals to sanctuary jurisdictions.

DeSantis joins ranks with the governors of Texas and Arizona, who have sent thousands of illegal immigrants by bus to New York, Washington and Chicago to protest the Biden administration’s catastrophic failure to secure our southern border.

According to a DeSantis spokesman, “States like Massachusetts, New York and California will better facilitate the care of these individuals whom they have invited into our country by incentivizing illegal immigration.”

“What would be best, would be for Biden to do his damn job and secure the border,” DeSantis himself said in a press conference.

In the current fiscal year, immigration authorities have detained nearly 2 million people who have crossed the border illegally. The number who have not been apprehended is unknown, but very few of them were probably bound for Martha’s Vineyard, which virtue-signaled itself a “sanctuary destination.”

Its largely seasonal population likely believed they would never have to host anyone other than affluent white liberals and the Obamas, who own a 29-acre, $11.75 million property on the island.

Those white liberals are now entertaining the world with the most amusing mass meltdown in some time. As natural hypocrites whose commitment to diversity ends where their pebbled driveways begin, they don’t like the idea of the Vineyard’s newest residents any more than Democrat mayors like Eric Adams of New York and Muriel Bowser of Washington, DC, appreciate their migrants.

Both mayors declared states of emergency after the arrival of only a small fraction of the illegal immigrants, whom their counterparts on the Texas and Arizona borders, must deal with on a daily basis.

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren chasticized that sending in the illegals was “repulsive and cruel.” Supine and penitent former Republican columnist Max Boot of The Washington Post denounced DeSantis’ “heartlessness and cynicism” and warned that his future presidency will be “dangerous.”

DeSantis’ electoral opponent, Charlie Crist, who trails him by 8 points and likely regrets that the illegals won’t be in Florida to vote for him in November, called the move “disgusting and vile.” He suggested that DeSantis is “not in control of his faculties,” hilarious from a man with no principles who has managed to run for statewide office as a Democrat, Republican and independent and lose in all three guises.

In a CNN interview the morning after the illegals arrived, biased journalist John Berman and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, a past guest of the island’s boring film festival, compared the free inbound flights to the Holocaust.

However, the furious liberals are hesitant to acknowledge exactly where the illegal immigrants arrived. That’s understandable considering that their island idealization, where Biden won 77.6% of the vote, is well beyond the means of almost all their fellow Americans, “deplorables” whom they would also prefer not to see or be around. Martha’s Vineyard boasts a median home sale price of $1.35 million.

The world outside leftist run Twitter, however, knows that the illegal immigrants have had the good fortune to land in one of the richest communities in America after having violated our country’s laws by illegally crossing its borders.

Now that Vineyard liberals must endure the sight of them on their doorsteps, they and their confederates can only fly into narcissistic rage. Their shallow, priggish commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and open borders is exposed as a shameless fraud.

It is, after all, the same reaction, possibly from some of the very same people, whose caviar liberalism morphed into vituperative opposition when Adams’ failed predecessor, Bill de Blasio, moved scores of charming homeless men into empty hotels on the Upper West Side.

Vineyard residents put up a facade that they were welcoming the migrants with compassion. Yet, their support lasted for a measly 24 hours before the started reaching out on the internet for donations.

That’s more than a bit rich, so to speak, on an island where an estimated 63% of the million-dollar homes are unoccupied outside of the summer months.

Lisa Belcastro, coordinator of the island’s homeless shelter, then went on to who inform the local media, “At some point in time the illegals have to move somewhere else . . . We don’t have housing for 50 more people.”