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October 1, 2023

If you are an illegal alien lucky enough to be picked for rescue by a wealthy, white, virtue-signaling Massachusetts resident — who also happens to be a cable news talking head and immigration attorney — you may be able to spend the rest of your life on one of the most beautiful spots on the East Coast.

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That’s what happened when Rachel Self, an immigration lawyer and occasional contributor to Fox News and CNN, decided to help a handful of illegals who ended up in Martha’s Vineyard a year ago.  While Self may have thought she would get points for putting her money where her mouth is, her radical progressive views make her a poor candidate to be applauded in these circumstances.  Case in point: Here she is on Fox News saying that the United States Constitution applies to all people, even illegals within our borders.  She seems clueless that she’s using illegal entry across America’s border as the basis for determining legality within the Constitution.  The reasoning is so bizarre as to be comical if it weren’t so dangerous to our rule of law.

Then again, as the Hoover Institution’s Victor Davis Hanson noted recently, “[h]uman rights activists insist that the borders themselves are nineteenth-century relics.  And the global poor and oppressed thus have a human right to enter the affluent West by any means necessary.”

Self’s story was featured in a New York Times article in June, when they did a follow-up piece on what became of illegals flown to Massachusetts as part of Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s relocation program to transport illegal migrants to sanctuary destinations.

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While most of the migrants were shipped from the island to places like New York, Washington, and Michigan, a handful took up residence in Martha’s Vineyard, under the protective watch of Self.

The migrants who stayed behind were quoted as saying that they wanted to “reach the American dream like everyone else.”  They also complained that Martha’s Vineyard was “not the place they had imagined for themselves” and said they were finding it hard to trust strangers after “being cast adrift” and used as “political pawns.”

Keep in mind that they will probably bring their extended families to live on Martha’s Vineyard.  It’s hard to sympathize with their comments when Americans themselves are unable to figure out what the “American dream” even means anymore.  As the success of Oliver Anthony’s recent songs has showcased, struggles with finances, depression, drugs and alcohol, and a myriad of deeply disturbing cultural issues are increasingly leaving Americans dazed and confused.

Meanwhile, a ferry ride away on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Gov. Maura Healey (who won her office by a landslide in 2022) is squeezing illegals in a little at a time.  Healey’s office started out slow, placing six Haitian families at the Harborside Suites motel in South Yarmouth and warning that more families may arrive.

Yarmouth, one of fifteen towns in Barnstable County that make up the area known as “Cape Cod,” saw dozens of residents turn out earlier this month to protest their town being used as emergency housing for illegals.

The Yarmouth Board of Selectmen (a surprisingly outdated and sexist term for so progressive an area) sent a letter to the governor, whining that the motel she chose has had zoning violations in the past and is therefore not a suitable place for migrant families.