{"id":1642752,"date":"2022-09-16T12:37:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T16:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1642752"},"modified":"2022-09-16T12:38:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T16:38:05","slug":"i-have-a-few-questions-about-the-marthas-vineyard-migrant-kerfuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-have-a-few-questions-about-the-marthas-vineyard-migrant-kerfuffle\/","title":{"rendered":"I Have A Few Questions About The Martha\u2019s Vineyard Migrant Kerfuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-have-a-few-questions-about-the-marthas-vineyard-migrant-kerfuffle%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1642752&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A person can make a compelling case that dropping unsuspecting migrants off in places like Chicago or San Francisco is cruel, but Martha\u2019s Vineyard? Isn\u2019t it more humane to send migrants to well-heeled communities than to allow them to live in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/09\/17\/us\/texas-del-rio-migrants-bridge\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">squalor<\/a>\u201d in makeshift tent cities under highway overpasses? I rarely hear the left worry about the latter. <\/p>\n<p>Then again, why has a story about 50 migrants spending a couple of days on Martha\u2019s Vineyard garnered far more coverage and outrage from left media and punditry media than 51 migrants being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2022\/06\/28\/san-antonio-truck-dead-migrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cooked<\/a> alive in a tractor-trailer only last month?<\/p>\n<p>If the governor of Florida is guilty of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/09\/gavin-newsom-migrants-texas-florida-1235120103\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">human trafficking<\/a>\u201d for flying 50 migrants to one of the wealthiest communities in the United States, as numerous politicians and commentators have contended, what do we call the Biden administration\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/11\/06\/desantis-office-claims-border-officials-secretly-sent-70-planes-of-migrants-to-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">policy<\/a> of sending 70 secret chartered planes of migrants to Florida in the middle of the night? <\/p>\n<p>Chuck Todd <a href=\"https:\/\/twitchy.com\/brettt-3136\/2022\/09\/15\/nbc-news-chuck-todd-marthas-vineyard-is-a-literal-island-that-doesnt-have-any-infrastructure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claims<\/a> sending migrants to Martha\u2019s Vineyard is \u201cinhumane\u201d because it\u2019s \u201ca literal island that doesn\u2019t have any infrastructure.\u201d If the island can\u2019t handle an influx of 50 migrants, a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VisitMV\/status\/1570435280208904192\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">humanitarian crisis<\/a>\u201d it claims, how on Earth is it able to host 150,000 tourists every summer? Scratch that, how can it host the thousands of tourists who continue to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/marthas-vineyard-in-the-fall-an-insiders-guide-11630675896\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">visit the island<\/a> in the Fall? There are numerous rentals and hotels in operation right now that could easily house 50 people. (Instead, they\u2019re being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxan.com\/news\/national-news\/ap-migrants-flown-to-marthas-vineyard-moving-to-military-base\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sent<\/a> to a military base off the island.)<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, why is it barely news that we dumped 1,000 migrants into the streets of El Paso to fend for themselves the <a href=\"http:\/\/let%20loose\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">same<\/a> day 50 people arrived in beautiful Martha\u2019s Vineyard? Is it humane that some Texas cities see 200,000 newcomers every month or that places like Del Rio, Texas, with a population of nearly 35,000, are forced to house nearly 50,000 newcomers in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/16\/us\/texas-migrants-del-rio.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">squalid co<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/16\/us\/texas-migrants-del-rio.html\">nditions<\/a>\u201d when pristine sanctuary cities are asked to do nothing?<\/p>\n<p>And if wealthy cocooned left-wing voters support <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/fairness-justice\/border-disorder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">anarchy<\/a> at the border, don\u2019t they have a moral and societal obligation to also take on the burden of helping integrate, care and guide those newcomers? We\u2019re in this together, after all. Shouldn\u2019t municipalities that virtue signal by declaring themselves \u201csanctuary cities\u201d be prepared to live up to their designation?<\/p>\n<p>If the people of Martha\u2019s Vineyard are welcoming generous salt-of-the-earth types, why is it \u201ccruel\u201d to send them immigrants? How many of these migrants are going to end up settling down on the island? If they, unlike nefarious Republicans, are the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SykesCharlie\/status\/1570485252333932544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">true Christian<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SykesCharlie\/status\/1570485252333932544\">s<\/a> for hosting 50 people <em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samanthajgross\/status\/1570772182732771328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">for t<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samanthajgross\/status\/1570772182732771328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>w<\/em>o<\/a> days, what does that make the citizens of Texas border towns or the people of Arizona, New Mexico, or Florida, who house hundreds of thousands of amnesty seekers and illegal immigrants?<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, I\u2019m begging the questions.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist. Harsanyi is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of five books\u2014the most recent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eurotrash-America-Reject-Failed-Continent\/dp\/0063066017\/\">Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent<\/a>. His work has appeared in National Review, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Reason, New York Post, and numerous other publications. Follow him on Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidharsanyi\/\">@davidharsanyi<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A person can make a compelling case that dropping unsuspecting migrants off in places like Chicago or San Francisco is cruel, but Martha\u2019s Vineyard? Isn\u2019t it more humane to send<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1642752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}