This makes perfect sense. The elites at The Boston Globe have chosen their “Bostonians of the Year.” They picked the well-heeled elites on very exclusive Martha’s Vinyard. Their feat? Perp-walking two planes filled with illegal immigrants off their island in record time surrounded by armed National Guardsman.
That’s not how the Globe framed it.
DeSantis had wagered that making the migrant crisis real, instead of theoretical, would unleash a spasm of NIMBYism among the island’s pampered progressives. But it was precisely because the migrants who had been flown there under false pretenses were real human beings, and not props, that the Vineyard’s year-rounders rushed in to help. (Also: the pampered people tend to clear out by Labor Day.)
Most of the piece paints a picture of caring one-percenters trying to do good despite the deceptions of right-wing hooligans like DeSantis. But we watched this in real-time, and the Globe’s reimaging is laughable. Martha’s Vineyard styles itself as a Sanctuary for Illegals, but in less than two shakes of a lamb’s tail, they’d expedited these “migrants” to someone else’s sanctuary.
Wow! This Martha’s Vineyard Democrat doesn’t seem very welcoming or progressive.
“We don’t have housing for 50 immigrants.”
Uh, don’t the Obamas have a 10 bedroom mansion there? That will fit half of them.
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) September 15, 2022
Given that Martha’s Vineyard isn’t in Boston, The Globe could have found better fodder. There are border towns in Texas with hundreds of illegals wandering in daily, thousands a month, hundreds of thousands since Biden opened the border. Human trafficking, drug and gang crime, the dead.
There’s nothing noble about this, and recognizing a handful of silver-spoon elites because they didn’t have the resources but found a way to deal is ridiculous. But maybe it’s the right thing to do after all. As the Daily Wire notes, “past recipients include Monica Cannon-Grant — a BLM-aligned activist who was arrested last March along with her husband Clark Grant. The two were federally charged and arrested on 18 counts of fraud and conspiracy in relation to her non-profit, Violence in Boston (VIB).”
It’s okay. The Globe’s rose-colored glasses come with blinders. We’re still waiting for them to ask Obama how, given the climate crisis, he could spend 12 million on sea-level property. Is it because its estimated worth is now 19 million?
Did you catch that? Despite our desperate climate straights, the value of Obama’s ocean-level mansion has increased by at least seven million since he bought it in 2017. On land with plenty of space for an illegal alien sanctuary. But that would affect the property values, the values The Globe recognized.
HT | Daily Wire
