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NEW YORK - New York City is eyeing legal action to stop Texas Gov. Greg Abbott from sending more buses full of asylum seekers to the city, Mayor Eric Adams said Sunday. As at least six more buses from Texas arrived in the city Sunday morning, Adams also floated the idea of using cruise ships to house migrants who have been entering city homeless shelters by the thousands. “Our legal team is looking at legal challenges we could do with Texas,” Adams said in an appearance on CBS 2. “We believe there are some options we have, because when you...

OAK BLUFFS, Mass. – At least one person on this oasis of leftist elites blames federal officials for the illegal immigration crisis that thrust Martha’s Vineyard into the national spotlight. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sent 50 migrants by plane Wednesday to the Massachusetts island, which boasts one of the wealthiest and most hard-left voting blocs in the nation. "I think it was a political stunt," Paul Sinclair of Rhode Island told Fox News Digital on Saturday, as he sold t-shirts and surf gear during a street festival on Circuit Avenue in Oak Bluffs, one of the commercial hubs of Martha’s...

The meltdown over the 50 illegals flown to Martha’s Vineyard is fun to watch. On Wednesday, Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent two planes carrying illegal immigrants to the island of Martha’s Vineyard. The racist white limousine liberals on Martha’s Vineyard are not happy about their new poor, brown neighbors. Martha’s Vineyard Homeless Shelter Coordinator Lisa Belcastro melted down over the 50 illegals during an interview with the Cape Cod Times. “The difficult challenges are — we have to, at some point in time they [illegals] have to move from here to somewhere else – we cannot, we don’t have...

Recently, the entitled, affluent, white residents on Martha's Island narrowly avoided a disaster of epic proportions. Apparently, 50 (that's f-i-f-t-y) illegal aliens were FedExed by Governor DeSantis to the enclave of the rich and famous. Panic and a mass meltdown ensued. Prior to their unwelcome arrival on the island, the Emergency Alert System (ELS) was initiated to warn residents of the impending invasion. Doors were locked, windows shuttered and beloved pets were rushed to safety. Terrified residents immediately fled to the safety of their panic rooms where they were forced to eat caviar on stale Ritz crackers and drink tap...

Longtime Martha’s Vineyard residents hailed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ move to relocate migrants to the vacation island as a way of highlighting Biden’s border crisis — with one suggesting that Barack Obama’s $12 million estate should have been used as a processing center. The idyllic enclave off the coast of Massachusetts was plunged into chaos and the local tourist board declared a “humanitarian crisis’’ after just 50 Venezuelan migrants landed there. ... Bostrom added, “I don’t blame DeSantis one bit.” “He’s trying to draw attention to the problem America has currently,” . “It’s not an anti-immigration move. It’s bringing the...

Imagine being loaded onto a plane and promised what? A job? A new life? A way out of a crowded refugee camp? And then landing on an island off the coast of Massachusetts where no one was expecting you and few speak your language. For more than 40 mostly Venezuelan refugees, including a number of children, who landed in Martha’s Vineyard midday Wednesday, this was no magical mystery tour. Some thought they were headed for Boston. Most had no idea where they were when they landed. No wonder the incident has caught the eye of federal law enforcement. Imagine the...

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said he is perplexed to see President Biden scrambling to get his Cabinet together due to migrants being sent to a “wealthy, rich sanctuary enclave,” highlighting the hypocrisy of the elites who already shipped the migrants, who they claim to care about, away “within 48 hours.” The far left experienced a collective freakout on Wednesday after learning that the DeSantis administration had sent dozens of migrants to the Obamas’ favorite vacation spot, Martha’s Vineyard — a proposal he floated over six months ago. The pearl-clutching reaction from those who champion sanctuary policies made national headlines —...

The good-hearted liberals of Martha’s Vineyard have experienced a tiny fraction of what’s been going on at the border for years and they’ve already had enough. Migrants who landed on the island about 48 hours ago, are reportedly being moved to Joint Base Cape Cod, a military base on the mainland. CBS News in Boston reports: Migrants on Martha’s Vineyard offered shelter at Joint Base Cape Cod About 50 migrants who arrived unexpectedly on Martha’s Vineyard Wednesday are now being offered shelter at Joint Base Cape Cod. Gov. Charlie Baker said moving to the temporary shelter on Cape Cod will...

Now residents demand immigrants be removed to somewhere else Amid the new war that has broken out just this week over Joe Biden's decision when he took office to trash all of President Trump's border security measures like Remain-in-Mexico and the border wall construction, an interesting detail has emerged. Martha's Vineyard, that expensive locale where houses cost upward of a million dollars and residents are wealthy enough to fund them, reacted with demands that 50 illegal aliens delivered to that location by a program set up by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to have other parts of the U.S. share the...

After declaring a “humanitarian crisis,” the outcry from Martha’s Vineyard over just 50 illegal alien arrivals has prompted Gov. Charlie Baker (R) to deport the group from the elite island off the coast of Massachusetts to a nearby military base. [cut] Democrat officials on Martha’s Vineyard immediately declared a “humanitarian crisis” even as the 50 illegal alien arrivals are a drop in the ocean compared to the nearly 6,000 border crossers and illegal aliens that American border towns are subjected to every day. In response, Baker bused the illegal aliens off Martha’s Vineyard to Joint Base Cape Cod following Democrats’...

A strange thing happened. After lecturing the nation on the virtues of mass migration, the white liberal democrats on Martha’s Vineyard did not celebrate the arrival of the non-white immigrants they have been demanding for years. Fox News host Tucker Carlson noted in his monologue that Martha’s Vineyard famous nimby residents, including former President Barack Obama, did not welcome the people of color as one would expect.

Democrats on Martha’s Vineyard, the elite vacation hub of the nation’s wealthiest residents, are praising themselves as do-gooders for coming to the aid of illegal aliens sent to the island before having them shipped to a nearby military base. This week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) flew about 50 illegal aliens to Martha’s Vineyard — a wealthy enclave of liberals and home to former President Obama who owns a nearly $12 million estate. Even as Martha’s Vineyard residents vote almost entirely for Democrats, local officials put pressure on Gov. Charlie Baker (R) to intervene and have the illegal aliens deported...

You asked for it! Wealthy Martha's Vineyard residents face pressure to welcome migrants into their multi-million dollar homes after proudly displaying signs saying 'we stand with immigrants... all are welcome here' Conservatives are finding mirth in Florida's migrant airlift to Martha's Vineyard on Wednesday evening Florida Gov. DeSantis sent about 50 migrants to the wealthy island enclave aboard a chartered aircraft Many on the island have long displayed signs proclaiming 'all are welcome here' - including immigrants Now DeSantis supporters joke that those signs will be quickly torn down by local residents But officials on they island say they are...

Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Republicans are hypocrites for attacking former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for her handling of classified materials. At the same time, they defend “disgusting” former President Donald Trump in light of the documents removed from Mar-a-Lago. Anchor Chuck Todd said, “Let me start with the affidavit with you. It seems as if Justice wanted to charge the former president with a crime. Doesn’t it appear they already have enough evidence just simply on the mishandling of thes

With news of the FBI raiding Mar-a-Lago, buzz quickly bubbled up Monday evening about whether former President Donald Trump could be disqualified from holding office again. The FBI search of the Florida resort was related to Trump's handling of presidential records, including classified documents, after leaving office, sources told CNN. The search warrant was connected to the National Archives, a senior government official told NBC News. Such reporting had Marc Elias, the top lawyer for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign who has drawn scrutiny for his role in pushing Trump-Russia collusion claims, pointing to U.S. Code Title 18, Section 2071....

Billionaires, Hollywood celebrities, and climate activists share fame, fortune, and a profile they work hard to control. All of which is why so many are calling on a public company not to track their flights and expose their carbon footprints. AFP reports flight-following websites and Twitter accounts that offer real-time views of air traffic are on the end of regular pushback ranging from complaints to gear seizures by those who would rather their movements are not in the public domain.

[Episcopal News Service] A group of clergy and lay people from across the church have created a liturgy template that Episcopalians are invited to use in response to the June 24 Supreme Court decision overturning the right to abortion in the United States. The liturgy is titled “A Service of Lament and Healing” and includes suggested prayers and readings, a litany based on the prayer of St. Francis, and a time for people to express their feelings through activities like writing or lighting candles. The template is available as a Google Doc in English and Spanish. An introduction to the...

Patrisse Cullors took to Instagram today to expose the agenda of the right-wing media. In a seven-minute video, she explained that upon waking up this morning, she discovered Candace Owens, a conservative influencer, outside of her home along with a news crew.

The demands that Justice Thomas recuse himself from a case involving the January 6 incident because of his wife's activities are silly. Similar demands for recusal of a prominent member of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals because of his wife's related activities were dismissed out of hand, to the approval of the media, the legal establishment, and academia. See Salon, December 2, 2010:An attempt to oust a liberal judge from hearing a landmark gay marriage [sic] case in California ended Thursday almost as quickly as it began.Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied a...

Meta Platforms will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of the Ukraine invasion, according to internal emails seen by Reuters on Thursday, in a temporary change to its hate speech policy. The social media company is also temporarily allowing some posts that call for death to Russian President Vladimir Putin or Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in countries including Russia, Ukraine and Poland, according to a series of internal emails to its content moderators. These calls for the leaders' deaths will be allowed unless they contain other...