It's the week when America's border crisis, completely fueled by President Joe Biden's open border policies, crashed right onto a swanky and liberal vacation destination.
On Thursday, the island of Martha's Vineyard declared the area was experiencing a "humanitarian crisis" after 50 illegal immigrants were dropped off at the direction of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
The local shelter immediately became overwhelmed, prompting the coordinator to quickly explain why they couldn't stay.
"We don't have housing for 50 immigrants," coordinator Lisa Belcastro told a local news station. "At some point in time, they have to move on from here to somewhere else."
Over at the White House, Biden officials became enraged.
"Using migrants as political pawns is shameful, is reckless, and just plain wrong," White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters. "They deserve better than being left on the streets of D.C. or being left in Martha's Vineyard. They deserve a lot better than that."
Ah, yes. Sending illegal immigrants to Martha's Vineyard is far crueler than emboldening a brutal $1 trillion trafficking and smuggling cartel industry that thrives under Biden's open border policies.
Laughably, and in an effort to gain relevance ahead of a potential 2024 presidential run, California Governor Gavin Newsom is demanding the Department of Justice look into kidnapping charges for Republican governors flying or busing illegal immigrants to Democratic sanctuary cities. If that's the standard, then Biden and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas also qualify for investigation.
During their lectures about morality, Biden's press secretary and Newsom left out a crucial fact. For a year and a half, the Biden administration has been flying illegal immigrants around the country and dropping them off in the middle of the night.
"Tennessee lawmakers are expressing alarm after videos emerged showing airplanes quietly transporting unaccompanied illegal immigrant children into the state in the dead of night — after the state's governor told the president last week not to bring them there," the New York Post reported in May 2021. "In videos obtained by local station WRCB-TV Channel 3 Wednesday, multiple planes carrying the minors could be seen arriving at Wilson Air Center in Chattanooga in the middle of the night."
"Planeloads of underage migrants are being flown secretly into suburban New York in an effort by President Biden's administration to quietly resettle them across the region, The Post has learned," another report from the paper states, dated October 2021. "The charter flights originate in Texas, where the ongoing border crisis has overwhelmed local immigration officials, and have been underway since at least August, according to sources familiar with the matter."
The only difference now is that leaders like Governor Ron DeSantis and Governor Greg Abbott of Texas are flying people in the middle of the day to places like Martha's Vineyard and Washington, D.C., including to the residence of Vice President Kamala Harris.
They're doing this so the American people can see what's actually going on, to ease the crisis placed on their own communities by the federal government, and to point out the overwhelming burden the Biden administration and Democrats expect border towns to endure. They've been exposed, which is why they're so angry.
The solution to White House outrage over illegal immigrants landing in their front yards is for Biden to change his border policy. But that would mean admitting failure, acknowledging current policy is inhumane, and reverting to what worked under President Donald Trump. They can't have that, so the crisis will continue in American communities across the country. It sounds like Martha's Vineyard should stop complaining and get used to the new status quo they used to refer to as embracing diversity.
For years, Democrats have proudly touted their approval and embrace of sanctuary cities while calling communities concerned about overwhelmed resources racist and xenophobic. They've made this bed and don't like having to lay in it.