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For several years, many businesses and homes in Martha's Vineyard have displayed the above sign with various inclusive messages, including welcoming immigrants
Posted on 09/15/2022 12:07:30 PM PDT by dennisw
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 giving support and shelter to the group in the wake of their arrival
Conservatives have joked that Martha's Vineyard residents will be tearing down woke yard signs proclaiming that refugees and migrants are welcome after Ron DeSantis flew 50 of them to the wealthy island.
'Whole lotta Martha's Vineyard residents about to take down the 'all are welcome here' lawn signs sitting in front of their mansions,' joked Andrew Wagner, a GOP operative in Minnesota, in a tweet.
He was referring to a poster created by the Island's Hebrew community center, and subsequently adopted by many local homeowners and businesses.
It lists support for black people, the LGBTQ community, migrants, refugees, indigenous people and adds: 'All are welcome here.' Other, more generic, versions of the same sign have also popped-up in backyards across the US in recent years.
Many Americans are now keeping an eye on Martha's Vineyard businesses and homeowners to see just how well they'll treat the new arrivals.
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The move by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to send the planeload of unauthorized immigrants, mostly from Venezuela, to the island on Wednesday came as a surprise in the affluent community - where prominent liberals such as the Obamas, Oprah Winfrey and Larry David all have homes.
But supporters of DeSantis pointed out that for years, many homes and businesses on the island have displayed a sign with various inclusive messages, including ‘we stand with immigrants’ and ‘all are welcome here.’
‘I wonder how quickly those ‘All are welcome here’ signs disappeared from the various Martha’s Vineyard properties?’ one Twitter user joked.
Officials on Martha’s Vineyard have slammed the airlift as a ‘cruel and inhumane’ stunt that uses human beings as ‘political pawns’ — but insist that they are welcoming the migrant group with open arms.
‘This is a community rallying to support immigrants children and families. It is the best of America,’ tweeted state Rep. Dylan Fernandes on Thursday morning.
Following their arrival on Wednesday, the migrants stayed overnight at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Edgartown, which provided emergency shelter by clearing out the parish hall and setting up cots.
On Thursday morning, they enjoyed a breakfast of cereal and milk on the
The small downtown parish is located on a quiet tree-lined street and nestled between multi-million homes, with one five-bedroom house next door currently listed for sale at $3.95 million, and another sold last year for $4.6 million.
St. Andrew’s is also just over three miles away from the Obama family’s $11.75 million vacation compound, which is situated on the coastal outskirts of Edgartown.
Martha’s Vineyard residents and local officials have been quick to voice outrage at DeSantis and other GOP governors for their migrant transplant programs, with Fernandes calling the move ‘evil and inhumane’.
‘Republicans who call themselves Christians have been plotting for some time to use human lives - men, women, and children - as a political pawns,’ he said in a tweet.
‘They look at us as rich, liberal enclaves,’ said the Democrat, whose district includes all of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, in remarks to the Boston Globe.
Bunch of NIMBY leftists. Planeloads of these “migrants” should be landing every single day.
Enjoy the SUCK!
For several years, many businesses and homes in Martha's Vineyard have displayed the above sign with various inclusive messages, including welcoming immigrants
When are they going to build HUD housing there? Even 20 or 30 units?
They should provide each illegal with this printed when they go there to show why they’re there.
Send more and more to these snotty ass wipe libs....eat shit and root with the hogs...NOW!
Oh happy day.....
Hope DeSantis sends 300-400 more
What a great opportunity for the enlightened cloud-dwellers of Martha’s Vineyard to show the world how the “give sanctuary” to “migrants.”
Oh man that’s priceless!
I don’t understand. Diversity is our strength. Why are they upset that DeSantis is making Martha’s Vinyard stronger?
At least 13 families per house. Comrade Kaprugina demands!
These two planes were full of illegal alien Venezuelans. Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard already have tons of Brazilians as their prime Hispanic immigrant demographics.
Send more plane loads please— To Martha’s Vineyard! From Florida and Texas and any other states. Arizona perhaps?
There are probably existing slave quarters - er, I mean servant quarters.
About all I can say:
ROFLMAO.
*Grabs popcorn and waits to see what happens*
You are a rich liberal enclave — and as far as using people as pawns, well, you people started it by inviting and dumping the wetbacks in conservatives neighborhoods and states under cover of darkness.
You are simply being repaid in kind.
(Personally I think it is hilarious.)
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