It’s a disgrace Kamala Harris didn’t cease over at Logan Airport en path to Martha’s Vineyard final weekend.
Had she finished so she may have picked up an unlawful immigrant household or two and related them to welcoming households residing on the prosperous island.
Harris is, in spite of everything, Joe Biden’s border czar charged with rooting out the causes of unlawful immigration, one in every of which is the open southern border.
That method she would have helped reply Gov. Maura Healey’s name for Massachusetts residents to absorb households of unlawful immigrants to ease the flood of immigrants which have overwhelmed the state’s shelter system.
Or as Kim “Ditto” Driscoll, the lieutenant governor, put it when Healey referred to as a state of emergency, “If you have an extra room or suite in your home, please consider hosting a family.”
It is costing Massachusetts taxpayers $45 million a month to accommodate the inflow of unlawful immigrants. Shelters are overflowing and inns and motels are booked.
Next factor you understand professional vacationers, if they’re nonetheless coming, will probably be sleeping of their vehicles.
Massachusetts is the one state that has a right-to-shelter legislation that ensures the homeless the precise to housing. And all people now is aware of it, which is why the state is being overwhelmed with unlawful immigrants,
Although at instances it might not seem so, Martha’s Vineyard is a part of Massachusetts.
While Massachusetts households with further rooms of their houses should not breaking down doorways to absorb the newcomers, residents of Martha’s Vineyard like Barack Obama and John Kerry, who dwell in roomy palaces, may have set an instance. Both empty fits have empty suites.
Or she may have requested her sister Maya Lakshmi Harris to open her summer season residence in Katama, which she shares together with her husband Tony West, to an unlawful immigrant household. Katama is a residential space of Edgartown.
Also, island residents may have redeemed their picture that was shattered when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis flew in some 50 unlawful immigrants, largely Venezuelans, to the island final September.
While welcoming the immigrants at first, which was correct, the islanders couldn’t get them off the toney island quick sufficient.
In lower than 24 hours of their arrival, then-Republican Gov. Charlie Baker declared his personal “state of emergency.”
He referred to as out 125 troops of the National Guard to escort the immigrants from the island to the mainland at Joint Base at Cape Cod. Some of them are nonetheless there and are being joined by extra immigrant households despatched down from Boston.
While Sen. Elizabeth Warren referred to as DeSantis’ plan a “repulsive and cruel” political stunt, Baker did the identical factor. Only he used a ship as an alternative of a aircraft.
Repulsive and merciless as DeSantis may need been in sending the immigrants north to the Vineyard, none have sought to return to Venezuela or anyplace else.
Massachusetts is simply superb, thanks.
Harris was on the island over the weekend together with her husband Douglas Emhoff, who out of compassion we won’t seek advice from because the Second Gentleman.
The vice chairman was there to attend two “grassroots” fundraisers for the Biden Victory Fund, one in every of which was questionably held at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, a public facility.
Donations ranged from $50, which received you within the door, to $10,000, which received you a photograph.
Harris, in talking to supporters, prevented serving up any phrase salads, however caught to attacking Republicans and declaring accomplishments of the Biden/Harris administration.
She didn’t speak about unlawful immigration, although, or the open southern border, not to mention the mini-immigrant disaster that startled Martha’s Vineyard a yr in the past.
And, like Joe Biden, Harris had little or nothing to say in regards to the horrific Maui firestorm that killed a whole bunch of Hawaiians and destroyed Lahaina.
She may have donated the cash she raised at Martha’s Vineyard to go to the stricken folks in Maui.
It is perhaps, although, that Harris simply went to the mistaken island, seeing that they each start with M.
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”