{"id":1777878,"date":"2022-12-16T12:44:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T17:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1777878"},"modified":"2022-12-16T12:48:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T17:48:27","slug":"marthas-vineyard-residents-awarded-bostonians-of-the-year-for-48-hour-encounter-with-illegal-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marthas-vineyard-residents-awarded-bostonians-of-the-year-for-48-hour-encounter-with-illegal-aliens\/","title":{"rendered":"Martha&#8217;s Vineyard Residents Awarded &#8220;Bostonians of the Year&#8221; for 48-Hour Encounter With Illegal Aliens"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fmarthas-vineyard-residents-awarded-bostonians-of-the-year-for-48-hour-encounter-with-illegal-aliens%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=1777878&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/12\/Untitled-design-2022-12-16T091457.687.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Remember when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/welcome-home-now-get-the-hell-out-illegal-aliens-already-bused-out-of-marthas-vineyard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Martha\u2019s Vineyard residents<\/a> had to deal with illegal aliens for two days in September courtesy of one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ron-desantis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL)<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>This was after Labor Day and \u201cthe season\u201d was starting to slow down. Suddenly, 49 men, women, and children appeared on the island. None of these liberals had ever seen anything like it \u2014 perhaps because they are on a literal island secluded from the Democrat policies causing the flood of illegal aliens.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, those hearty New Englanders dealt with the newcomers for a paltry 48 hours the best that they could.<\/p>\n<p>For that Herculean task, The Boston Globe \u2014 the region\u2019s largest Left-wing rag \u2014 has awarded the citizens of Martha\u2019s Vineyard the title of \u201cBostonians of the Year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that past recipients include Monica Cannon-Grant \u2014 a BLM-aligned activist who was arrested last May along with her husband Clark Grant. The two were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/progressive-activist-a-2020-bostonian-of-the-year-arrested-on-federal-charges-of-fraud-conspiracy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federally charged and arrested<\/a> on 18 counts of fraud and conspiracy in relation to her non-profit, Violence in Boston (VIB).<\/p>\n<p>Over the summer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcboston.com\/news\/local\/violence-in-boston-shuts-down-as-its-leaders-face-fraud-conspiracy-charges\/2768506\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VIB shut its doors<\/a> and Cannon-Grant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2022\/08\/17\/monica-cannon-grant-wants-unemployment-assistance-as-she-fights-federal-fraud-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">requested unemployment assistance<\/a> from the state.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Cannon-Grant\u2019s troubles of her own making are nothing compared to the plight that the denizens of the lily-white vacation spot of climate car John Kerry and the Obamas had to go through (a fiasco also of their own making).<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how The Globe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2022\/12\/16\/magazine\/political-stunt-sent-49-migrants-marthas-vineyard-open-arms-welcomed-them\/?camp=bg%3Abrief%3Arss%3Afeedly&#038;rss_id=feedly_rss_brief&#038;s_campaign=bostonglobe%3Asocialflow%3Atwitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article starts off<\/a>, which should let readers from Stamford, Connecticut, to Saco, Maine, know that they are in for a real treat:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>LISA BELCASTRO HAD JUST finished teaching a karate class when she checked her phone and saw an urgent text. It was from a friend at Martha\u2019s Vineyard Community Services, the island\u2019s safety-net nonprofit. \u201cWe have about 50 Venezuelans here,\u201d her friend said. \u201cWe don\u2019t know why they\u2019re here or how they got here, but we have to take care of them.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You might recognize the name Belcastro because she is the same broad who exasperatingly told the press that sooner or later, those pesky South American visitors would have to say, \u201c\u00a1<em>Vamos! \u00a1Adios!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt some point in time, they have to move from here to somewhere else, right?\u201d Belcastro said at the time. \u201cWe don\u2019t have the services to take care of 50 immigrants. And we certainly don\u2019t have housing \u2014 we\u2019re in a housing crisis as we are on this island.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wow! This Martha\u2019s Vineyard Democrat doesn\u2019t seem very welcoming or progressive. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have housing for 50 immigrants.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Uh, don\u2019t the Obamas have a 10 bedroom mansion there? That will fit half of them. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NDFtx4eTT7\">pic.twitter.com\/NDFtx4eTT7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christina Pushaw \ud83d\udc0a \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@ChristinaPushaw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristinaPushaw\/status\/1570498549057716225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And they did leave soon after. The illegal immigrants were on a bus flanked by the national guard the next day. Where those people are now, nobody knows.<\/p>\n<p>One thing is for sure, they aren\u2019t hanging around Martha\u2019s Vineyard \u2014 and thank God for that, Belcastro must be thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the summer population hovering around 200,000 \u2014 and the offseason having only 20,000 \u2014 the townsfolk said they could not possibly find housing or anything for these folks. The idea of using their own money and housing for an extended period of time \u2014 not the taxpayers\u2019 moolah \u2014 never occurred to them.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, The Globe thought their efforts deserved recognition.<\/p>\n<p>The main resting place for these Hispanic sojourners was the basement of a small chapel. Again, the island is littered with gigantic mansions and numerous bed &#038; breakfasts, but for some reason, the best they could do was the bowels of a tiny church. It was one of the wildest things The Vineyard had ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>And boy did people flock once they got wind some exotic visitors had arrived. Everybody just had to see the latest attraction.\u00a0It was even more exciting than seeing former President Barack Obama go out for a walk on the beach.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not a joke. That\u2019s nearly a direct quote from the paper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Belcastro, Baker, and other volunteers dusted off cots and inflated air mattresses in St. Andrew\u2019s basement, reports of the surprise visitors began to ripple across the island,\u201d the paper read. \u201c<strong>That attracted residents to the church with the same urgency that an Obama sighting mobilizes tourists in the summer.<\/strong>\u201d <em>(emphasis added)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Besides highlighting one guy who spoke Spanish and another volunteer who didn\u2019t eat a crumb all day, the paper did admit that America\u2019s immigration system is not working:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>THERE\u2019S AT LEAST one point of agreement for opponents in the nation\u2019s immigration debate: Our system is broken, and opportunists are exploiting the crisis.\u00a0Who\u00a0the opportunists are is up for grabs. Some fault all the migrants pouring over our porous Southern border; others fault hard-right lawmakers for being indifferent to human suffering, focusing instead on scoring political points.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You will note that the words \u201cJoe Biden\u201d or \u201cDemocrats\u201d are not factored into The Globe\u2019s analysis as to who is to blame for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/a-big-house-sized-deluge-of-illegals-migrants-is-about-to-hit-americas-border-every-9-days\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crisis that could swell to 14,000 border crossers per day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You also won\u2019t find any of the citizens of Portland, Maine, recognized as a \u201cBostonian of the Year\u201d for how they\u2019ve had to handle illegal immigration. Since 2019, the largest city in the 44th poorest state in America has spent more than $60 million dealing with \u201casylum seekers\u201d as the Left loves to call them.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;In Portland alone, the city spent more than $60 million between July 2019 and June 2022 housing asylum seekers \u2013 about 76 percent of its social services expenditures during that timeframe.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>That is not just or virtuous. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ovflo51Vdt\">https:\/\/t.co\/ovflo51Vdt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tim Meads (@TimMeadsUSA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimMeadsUSA\/status\/1602368930823430144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nor will The Globe recognize towns like the once-prominent milltown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/news\/releases\/ice-federal-authorities-arrest-dozens-massachusetts-operation-targeting-drugs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lawrence, Massachusetts,<\/a> that have been ravaged by illegal aliens bringing in deadly drugs like fentanyl into the country.<\/p>\n<p>All of that is because of a southern border that has been ignored for decades by Democrats, as well as some establishment Republicans. When President Donald J. Trump tried to tackle it, he was vilified as a Nazi for four years straight by the kind of folks who read The Globe on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>But hey, for 48 hours, Martha\u2019s Vineyard residents got a taste of their own medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, their main takeaway from the experience was that they are modern-day Mother Teresas. You\u2019d think they would conclude they should stop voting Democrat so that poorer places strewn throughout America don\u2019t have to deal with the same problem 24\/7 and 365. But they\u2019d have to stop kissing their own behind for that to happen.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when Martha\u2019s Vineyard residents had to deal with illegal aliens for two days in September courtesy of one Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL)?This was after Labor Day and \u201cthe season\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1777883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[9700,9703,5835,9701,5458,9699,4207,9697,3819,4647,9698,5734],"class_list":["post-1777878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bostonians","tag-48-hour","tag-aliens","tag-awarded","tag-bongino","tag-encounter","tag-illegal","tag-marthas","tag-report","tag-residents","tag-vineyard","tag-year"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777878","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1777883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}