This has been going on for a while but recently made headlines because instead of the usual big city destinations, this time a plane of migrants, mostly from Venezuela, were sent to Martha’s Vineyard, an island off the coast of Massachusetts that has a small year-round population and doesn’t have the infrastructure and resources to support incoming migrants in these numbers.

Ron DeSantis (who else?) has taken credit for it, despite the flight apparently originating in Texas. As far as he is concerned, Massachusetts has billed itself as a “sanctuary”, so they should not be bothered by receiving planeloads of illegal immigrants (that GOP governors obviously want out of red states like Arizona and Texas, for fear that they may become Democratic voters). This was supposedly done with the migrants’ consent, though some are claiming they were told they were going to Boston.

Is this simply what happens when border security is lax? Are blue states realizing the downsides of claiming to be a sanctuary? Is there any legal way to stop this from happening?

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