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Welcome to Martha’s Vineyard, amigo

May I ask an impolite question? Thank you.

It is not a vacation on the Vineyard (Photo: The New York Times)

When Presidential Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre (the first Haitian-immigrant-lesbian to hold that post, in case you forgot how many Indentity boxes she checks) says that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Texas Governor Greg Abbott are “playing politics” by shipping illegals undocumented people to sanctuary cities, how is that different from the Biden Administrative shipping the same kinds of people all over the country, with no public notice as to how many are sent where and when?

The feds can ship people like UPS, but the states can’t?

Despite lying  unbelievable claims that the border is “closed,” by government officials such as Vice President Kamala Harris (a/k/a the Border Czarina who avoids it like exzuma) and Department of Hopeless Security director Alejandro Mayorkas, we know it is a sieve. The same people who denied it was a “crisis,” now try to blame Donald J. Trump for the crisis, despite that under his presidency illegal border encounters were the lowest in decades.

In Joe Biden’s first year in office, “Southwest border encounters increased to their highest recorded level in fiscal 2021. The Border Patrol reported 1,659,206 encounters with migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border last fiscal year, narrowly exceeding the prior highs of 1,643,679 in 2000 and 1,615,844 in 1986,” says Pew Research. It is higher this year.

“Their highest recorded level.” Got that, Ms. Jean-Pierre?

For some weeks, Abbott has been transferring illegals from his swamped border towns to New York, Chicago, and Washington, self-proclaimed “sanctuary cities,” that suddenly crapped themselves when the illegals started arriving by bus.

They started screaming unfair, when all Abbott was doing was testing their hospitality. (I was a little peeved at Abbott – and told him so — for failing to send any of his cargo to Philadelphia, with our jig-dancing, virtue-signaling mayor.)

Abbott was exposing progressive hypocrisy, when DeSantis raised the ante by sending a mere 50 to — guess where — Martha’s Vineyard, playground of the progressive Democratic elite. Sanctuary was easy when hundreds of thousands were on someone else’s doorstep. Less so now,

Why Martha’s Vineyard? The entire state of Massachusetts is a so-called “sanctuary,” which means local officials refuse to cooperate with ICE, an arm of the Department of Homeland Security.

Sanctuary entities call themselves “welcoming,” meaning they welcome people who come here illegally, creating mini stans of Open Borders.

Philly won’t even turn over convicted foreign felons over to ICE. 

Up in the Vineyard, the “season” (summer) is over.

While it hosts 200,000 people during the summer, the year-round population is a mere 17,000.

How can they care for the 50 who volunteered for the free flight to the resort? Where will they stay? How about in the vacated homes of the rich?

For starters, let’s put a dozen in the  sprawling, $12-million waterfront mansion owned by Michelle  and Barack Obama. Waterfront? I guess they haven’t heard that “climate change” will raise the sea level by three feet sometime next year, or next century.

Caroline Kennedy wants to sell her mother’s 340-acre estate with a 6,456-square-foot main house, guest house, hunting cabin, barn, boathouse, storage building, and two garages. Let’s put 25 there.

Spike Lee’s small joint can take five.

Larry David has a 70-acre spread. He’d welcome one sexually available housekeeper.

Carly Simon will take five, as will James Taylor. It is doubtful any of their guests have heard of them.

David Letterman says no, gracious.

Everyone squared away?

Stu Bykofsky

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