DeSantis one ups Abbott, flys 2 plane loads of migrants to Martha's Vinyard.

[RgrF]

NEW: Officials with the Town of West Tisbury are saying right now there are at least 50 people from Texas who have been essentially SHIPPED (flown and left on) to Martha's Vineyard.

Apparently, two more plane loads of people are expected to arrive in the coming days.

This from a WGBH tweet that's not linked. FOX has it as well.

[anonymouse1]

Apparently he's spending $12 million on this, AIUI.

[GGD]

RgrF wrote:
NEW: Officials with the Town of West Tisbury are saying right now there are at least 50 people from Texas who have been essentially SHIPPED (flown and left on) to Martha's Vineyard.

Apparently, two more plane loads of people are expected to arrive in the coming days.

This from a WGBH tweet that's not linked. FOX has it as well.

Why is DeSantis shipping people from Texas instead of from Florida? Did Florida run out of shippable people?

[N-OS X-tasy!]

What the fuck is wrong with elected officials today?

[Acer]

GGD wrote:
[quote=RgrF]
NEW: Officials with the Town of West Tisbury are saying right now there are at least 50 people from Texas who have been essentially SHIPPED (flown and left on) to Martha's Vineyard.

Apparently, two more plane loads of people are expected to arrive in the coming days.

This from a WGBH tweet that's not linked. FOX has it as well.

Why is DeSantis shipping people from Texas instead of from Florida? Did Florida run out of shippable people?
Florida needs immigrants to tend the landscaping, housekeep for all the old people and such. Also, they don't want to accidentally ship out someone related to a Cuban exile family, they vote Republican.

[Fritz]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
What the f'k is wrong with elected officials today?

ain' nothing wrong with elected o-fistulas today.
it's the electorate that is f'd in the head.

if we (western civilization) had taken the hint around the Coup of '52, gotten off the fossil fuel teet and began developing alternative energy in earnest ....
Would there have been, an Iraq, Iran, 9/11, Afghanistan ..... or as much of a fleeing immigrant issue around the world.?

[testcase]

Why shouldn't Democratic LaLa Lands have to deal with the same problems their ritzy residents expect border towns to deal with? :dunno:

[mattkime]

testcase wrote:
Why shouldn't Democratic LaLa Lands have to deal with the same problems their ritzy residents expect border towns to deal with? :dunno:

In a way I agree, but there's purposefully zero coordination. They're purposefully being pains in the ass.

[mrbigstuff]

It's a myth that northern states, because of their distance from borders (at least southern borders) do not already deal with undocumented immigrants. But I will say that most who travel north, seem to have their stuff together perhaps a little more so, and tend to find employment quite easily. I've worked alongside many central and south Americans over the decades.

[JoeH]

MA already has its own undocumented immigrants, you don't hear as much about it as from other regions. The zero coordination and deliberately choosing to drop them off on the island where there is listed resources to work with the people just dropped off.