The last several days of hysterical media/Democrat caterwauling over Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sending illegal immigrants President Joe Biden dumped on them to Vice President Kamala Harris’ Washington, D.C. doorstep and Martha’s Vineyard respectively has been a case study in Democrat NIMBYism and in what happens when Democrat virtue signaling about the supposed benefits of open borders gets put to the test.
As we’ve already seen and heard, the “outrage” from The Usual Suspects has been intense, with Gov. Gavin Newsom demanding DOJ partisan hack Attorney General Merrick Garland “investigate” DeSantis and Abbott on possible “kidnapping” grounds, and calling them both a “disgrace” for sending them to Democrat-run self-declared “sanctuary cities” that we’ve been reliably told would be welcoming safe havens for any illegal immigrant who needed support.
Along with that, members of Biden’s cabinet have reportedly been hastily assembled to explore “litigation options” against the Florida and Texas governors, with Biden himself—on a rare day when he wasn’t on vacation—declaring Abbott’s and DeSantis’ actions to be “un-American.”
Predictably, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was one of the many on the left who went into meltdown mode as news of the migrants’ arrival in the posh enclave that is full of white, affluent liberals hit the airwaves. In a statement, she accused DeSantis of “exploiting vulnerable people for political stunts”:
“Exploiting vulnerable people for political stunts is repulsive and cruel. Massachusetts is fully capable of handling asylum seekers, and today I discussed potential options for federal resources with Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.[…]“In the spirit of selflessness and humanity that has long defined who we are as a Commonwealth, Islanders and people across Massachusetts have joined together to assist migrants that have arrived. I am grateful to these community leaders. This is something we can do – work together, remember our values, put aside the politics and support the people who need our help.”
A day later, perhaps “in the spirit of selflessness and humanity that has long defined” Massachusetts, the latte leftists at Martha’s Vineyard kicked out the 50 or so migrants with assistance from the Mass. National Guard, with the destination being Joint Base Cape Cod:
One of the big problems with Warren’s rant and all the others on this issue is that contra to what rabid critics either outright said or implied—including filmmaker Ken Burns who on CNN likened DeSantis’ actions to Nazi Germany—the migrants are glad they are there and apparently don’t feel “exploited” at all.
As the MSNBC reporter in the below clip reported, illegal immigrants who were flown to Martha’s Vineyard are “not angry at Ron DeSantis.” She said some are “actually thanking him” for the trip to the purported “sanctuary” community:
Further, and as Breitbart News pointed out, Warren’s outrage on this issue has been rather selective:
Warren, though, has stayed silent as Biden has sent over a million border crossers and illegal aliens to almost entirely working- and middle-class communities since taking office. Those communities are oftentimes left with no resources or infrastructure to face such an influx of illegal immigration.
Indeed, in addition to Texas and Florida, some of the states the Biden administration has bused or flown migrants to—oftentimes arriving in the dead of night and without advance notice—are Indiana, Tennessee, Iowa, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
Massachusetts got 50 illegal immigrants on a Thursday and called it a “humanitarian crisis” while during any given month cities in Texas get them by the tens of thousands. Quite the stark contrast when things are put in perspective, something Democrats and the MSM are well-known for being in short supply.
Abbott’s and DeSantis’ actions are a direct response to the Biden administration purposely and routinely dropping off illegal immigrants in Texas border towns that don’t have the resources to accommodate the influx as well as in Jacksonville, Florida. In fact, News 4 Jacksonville documented nearly a year ago how some 78 flights had made their way into the city over the course of several months, usually landing at night when they thought no one would be looking: “News4Jax found these charter flights have been coming and going from Jacksonville International Airport for months usually at night.”
As I’ve said before, if anyone should be read the riot act here over busing and flying migrants all across the country allegedly under false pretenses it should be the Biden administration, who have made it their official policy for well over a year now and who have mostly been able to escape media scrutiny over it except in rare instances like this one:
As usual, it’s always “okay” when Democrats do it but not when Republicans do it. They never hold themselves to the standards they hold others, which is why red state governors like DeSantis and Abbott could not care less as to how they feel about what they’re doing to protect the people in their state and to make sure migrants get to those sanctuary cities.
But it is interesting when you think about it how the one time Joe Biden and the outrage mob sprung into action to investigate how migrants got over the border was when they were sent to the backyards of Democrat elitists.
“It’s only when you have 50 illegal aliens end up in a very wealthy, rich, sanctuary enclave that [Biden] decides to scramble on this,” DeSantis said during a Friday presser.
Hmmm, wonder why that could be? I’ll leave it to readers to speculate . . . .
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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