Martha's Vineyard

Tricked by white supremacists with promises of work and housing, Black families were dropped in Cape Cod with nothing. Sound familiar?

In the 1960s, the buses were funded by anonymous people donating to private segregationist groups. DeSantis has not said how the flights he arranged to Martha’s Vineyard were funded, but Tex. Greg Abbott (R) has used state resources and donations for the buses. Days later, disembarking with her eight children, she had little idea where she was, that a president had a family compound down the road, or that she was a “pawn,” as locals told the New York Times, in a political stunt. The welcome was not universal. Then, as now in Cape Cod, many residents of Hyannis met the riders with open arms. He urged residents to “show understanding and compassion.” Racist White neighbors resented their presence in public schools and harassed them. Ron DeSantis ](https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2022/09/16/migrants-desantis-marthas-vineyard/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4)(R). [Martha’s Vineyard](https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/09/16/marthas-vineyard-housing-rentals-crisis/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4) — a resort island off Cape Cod where former president Barack Obama has a home — courtesy of a flight arranged by [Florida Gov. “The only way to meet such cruelty is by wisdom and love,” Episcopal Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes Jr. Eliza Davis was bewildered the day she arrived in a wealthy tourist town on Cape Cod.

The flights follow a busing scheme by the Republican governors of Texas and Arizona that has sent more than 10,000 migrants to the Democrat-controlled cities of ...

Residents lined up at a table to donate money, toiletries and toys for the migrants. The woman persuaded them to board the flights by misleading them into thinking they were heading to Boston and would be provided shelter and assistance finding work for three months, they said. Many migrants are immediately expelled to Mexico or other countries under a COVID-19 pandemic policy. "I want them to come to America and be embraced. President Joe Biden's failure to secure the U.S.-Mexico border amid record attempted crossings. "I want them to have a good life," said Lisa Belcastro, who helped organize cots and supplies at St.

The migrants will be brought to an emergency shelter at Joint Base Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, which served as an alternative medical care ...

“Our administration has been working across state government to develop a plan to ensure these individuals will have access to the services they need going forward, and Joint Base Cape Cod is well equipped to serve these needs.” “Because these governors care more about creating political theater than creating actual solutions to help.” “These are the kinds of tactics we see from smugglers in places like Mexico and Guatemala. Those governors, Jean-Pierre said, “treated [the migrants] like chattel in a cruel, premeditated political stunt.” The Republican-led Florida Legislature had previously approved $12 million to go toward moving migrants out of Florida to other states. “Our administration has been working across state government to develop a plan to ensure these individuals will have access to the services they need going forward," Massachusetts Gov.

The migrants will have temporary housing on Joint Base Cape Cod in Buzzards Bay.

“We are grateful to the providers, volunteers and local officials that stepped up on Martha’s Vineyard over the past few days to provide immediate services to these individuals,” Governor Charlie Baker said in a statement Friday morning. lawmakers knock ‘political games’ that sent migrants to Massachusetts](https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2022/09/15/mass-lawmakers-knock-political-games-that-sent-migrants-to-massachusetts) [Plane of migrants arrives on Martha's Vineyard unannounced, island mobilizes with aid](https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2022/09/15/migrants-plane-lands-on-marthas-vineyard-as-island-mobilizes) [Migrants sent north by Texas governor have begun appearing in Boston hospitals seeking help](https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2022/09/14/migrants-sent-north-by-texas-governor-have-begun-appearing-in-boston-hospitals-seeking-help) [Texas Gov. Though they had a place to sleep, the shelter had only one shower, officials said. Instead, they were dropped on Martha’s Vineyard with no notice to local government or social services officials, leaving people on the island scrambling to provide food, shelter and basic needs. Abbott uses Martha's Vineyard migrant flights as rallying cry](https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2022/09/15/texas-gov-greg-abbott-uses-marthas-vineyard-migrant-flights-as-rally-cry) Officials announced the migrants will have temporary housing on Joint Base Cape Cod in Buzzards Bay.

Democrats outraged at the 'reckless' and 'soulless' actions and question the legality of what some called a political stunt.

This was obviously a sadistic lie,” Rachel Self, a Boston immigration attorney assisting with the migrants’ cases, said at a press briefing. It’s un-American, it’s reckless and we have a process in place to manage migrants at the border. We’re working to make sure it’s safe and orderly and humane. Migrants are regularly tricked and defrauded as part of their trafficking experience, with traffickers and exploiters taking advantage of their recent arrival, limited English proficiency, and unfamiliarity with our government systems and labor laws.” “Unfortunately, this tactic is one that we know far too well in the anti-trafficking world. In what immigration activists and Democratic politicians have decried as a “political stunt”, DeSantis, who is expected to run for the Republican party’s presidential nomination in 2024, arranged for two charter planes of about 50 migrant adults and children to fly from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday.

The immigrants who were sent from Texas to Martha's Vineyard by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will now be housed in Joint Base Cape Cod.

"We are grateful to the providers, volunteers and local officials that stepped up on Martha's Vineyard over the past few days to provide immediate services to these individuals," Baker said in a statement. [were surprised themselves, since they had been told](https://www.npr.org/2022/09/16/1123369533/migrants-marthas-vineyard-community-help) they were being sent to Boston for work opportunities. There, the state will provide shelter, food and other essential services, Baker said.

The flights, arranged by Florida's Republican governor, underscored how easily the fate of immigrants can be swept up in politics.