Gov. Charlie Baker is to be counseled for offering shelter for the 50 Venezuelan immigrants that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis shipped unannounced to Martha’s Vineyard.
While shocked residents of the idyllic island have been type and useful to the unlawful immigrants throughout their in a single day keep — offering them with meals, clothes and beds in a church — they may not get them off the island quick sufficient.
They referred to as the touchdown of the Venezuelans “a humanitarian crisis,” performing as if they have been survivors of the Bataan Death March. Democrats and progressives have been outraged.
While the surprising arrival of the Venezuelans could have been an inconvenience, it was no “humanitarian crisis.”
A humanitarian disaster was when the our bodies of fifty unlawful immigrants have been discovered after they have been trapped within the sweltering warmth in a locked and deserted tractor-trailer truck outdoors of San Antonio in June.
The Democrats confirmed no outrage again then. That is as a result of no wealthy Martha’s Vineyard progressives have been affected, solely poor Mexicans on the lookout for a greater life.
Still, Baker got here to the rescue of each the Venezuelans and the islanders by transporting the immigrants by bus and boat to the Joint Base Cape Cod on the mainland, in Bourne.
He activated 125 members of the Massachusetts National Guard to offer help, which quantities to 2 plus guardsmen for each Venezuelan, most of whom have been younger males.
That help, by the way in which, is a “wraparound” service effort that features free shelter, meals, well being care, psychological well being help, interpreters, and disaster counseling.
Democrats from U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey on down, welcomed them and attacked DeSantis for flying them to the island, though they’d not even have been within the nation have been it not for President Biden waving them in.
Markey, for example, stated on CNN, ”We are going to welcome folks. We are going to maintain folks,” which seems like an invite for extra unlawful immigrants to return to Massachusetts.
Maybe one other 50 might come, or 500, or 5,000.
Well, why not? They won’t have an effect on him. Markey doesn’t even reside right here. He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Neither Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott nor DeSantis has but to ship any immigrants there. And if Markey have been so involved, he might enable a migrant household or two to reside in his empty home in Malden the place he pretends to reside.
Nor has Warren made room to accommodate any immigrants in or round her million-dollar residence in Cambridge, and Cambridge is one in all eight sanctuary cities within the state.
Reports have it that Nicolas Maduro, the socialist dictator of Venezuela who has turned a once-thriving nation into an financial basket case, is encouraging dissidents to go away the nation for the U.S.
Like fellow Communist dictator Fidel Castro 30 years in the past, Maduro reportedly has opened the prisons to permit inmates to make the trek to the Mexican border and into the United States.
Back then Castro, in what was referred to as the Muriel Boatlift, informed his those who in the event that they needed to go away Cuba they may. This included jail inmates in addition to folks in psychological establishments.
For a interval of 5 months 1000’s of Cubans crossed the straits from Cuba to Florida typically on rickety boats and rafts, Many drowned. Many have been rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard.
While the inflow of some 125,000 needy Cubans raised some financial and social issues, it’s dwarfed in significance in contrast to what’s occurring immediately below Biden’s open borders coverage.
The 1000’s have was hundreds of thousands, now together with younger and wholesome Venezuelan males.
Perhaps, since they’re housed at a navy base, the Biden administration might set up a pilot program and supply these younger males with navy coaching in order that in the future they may return to Venezuela, overthrow Maduro and reclaim their nation.
It beats welfare.
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
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