A shelter coordinator in Martha’s Vineyard says the area is already overwhelmed and has no housing available for immigrants who were transported to the Massachusetts island.
Lisa Belcastro, the island’s shelter coordinator, told reporters Thursday that the wealthy community is experiencing a housing crisis and cannot handle the 50 immigrants from Venezuela who were flown in the day before.
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Martha’s Vineyard homeless shelter coordinator:
“We don’t have the services to take care of 50 immigrants … We’re in a housing crisis as we are on this island. pic.twitter.com/xylZ8LRhmI
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“The difficult challenges are at some point they have to move somewhere else. … We cannot — we do not have the services to take care of 50 immigrants, and we certainly don’t have housing. We’re in a housing crisis as we are on this island, and so we don’t … have housing for 50 more people,” Belcastro said.
The immigrants were sent on two planes. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has claimed credit and defended the flights at a press conference Thursday.
“The minute even a small fraction of what those border towns deal with every day is brought to their front door, they all of a sudden go berserk, and they’re so upset that this is happening. And it just shows you, you know, their virtue signaling is a fraud,” DeSantis said.
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The flights are part of a trend of red state governors who have bused or flown immigrants to blue cities in what they say is an effort to highlight the border crisis and local communities who often are left with dealing with an influx of immigrants. States including Texas and Arizona have sent buses of immigrants to Washington, D.C., New York City, and Chicago in recent months.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) requested that the Department of Justice investigate what he said were “inhumane efforts to use kids as political pawns.”
