There are those who believe that the actions of Abbott and DeSantis with regards to Migrants was to ‘distract’ folks from the Abortion issue, which is a loser for the GOP. And, it might be true, because when all else fails, the GOP always brings up caravans, but, that issue wasn’t making a splash, because 46 and his Administration have been able to get things in check, and process people pretty quickly. And, if the MSM can’t blame 46 and his Administration, they weren’t getting any attention outside of Fox News.

Hence, their new trick – putting Migrants on busses and dropping them off in liberal cities, usually without notifying said city that they were coming. They have been doing this, and the cities have been sighing and taking care of the migrants dumped into their midst. This week, they decided to up the ante. Abbott sent folks to the National Observatory – which is the home of the Vice President of the United States.

DeSantis topped that by chartering private planes and dropping off Migrants at Martha’s Vineyard.

This story in America of Florida Republican governor DeSantis actively searching out asylum seekers to humiliate is extraordinary. Note this VERY relevant paragraph, the content of which will be very familiar to readers of my book, #QAnonAndOn. https://t.co/VY6YHUEPYP pic.twitter.com/KYeGtYk5dK

— Van Badham ✊ (@vanbadham) September 17, 2022

The moment that I heard this story, it made no sense. Florida doesn’t have a border to be overrun – it’s surrounded by water and its only border is the northern one with OTHER AMERICAN STATES. So, my first question was where did the migrants cross a ‘ Florida border’.
Then, I found out that they weren’t from FLorida. They were from TEXAS. HOW did Migrants from TEXAS wind up on planes paid by the state of FLORIDA, going to MASSACHUSETTS?

I do think that the Martha’s Vineyard ploy has people asking all the right questions. Like how isn’t this kidnapping and human trafficking? And, who went along with this illegality?

Ron DeSantis’s human trafficking BACKSTORY:

📌Coordinated

📌Planes picked up migrants in Texas

📌Lies of work, housing & destination

📌Some paid $50

📌One migrant paid to lure other migrants

📌No notice given to Martha’s Vineyard

📌Alerted Fox

📌Hired videographer pic.twitter.com/lpavMA7Drw

— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline) September 17, 2022

No agencies were notified that 50 immigrants were being sent to Martha’s Vineyard.

Yet there were Fox News cameras taping their arrival.

— Jay Arnold (@jayfarnold) September 17, 2022

Stop and watch this video.

Whatever you thought about the governors' stunt… it turns out it was worse.pic.twitter.com/GASpsChOzl

— John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) September 16, 2022

Both Abbott and DeSantis are abusing these Migrants. Using them as pawns. Using them as pawns in their pandering to their Racist MAGA Republicans. I won’t say base. They are pandering to the entire party. And, we have a ‘ both sides’ MSM, who won’t call them on the cruelty. They cover it in terms of ‘ politics’, when it’s actually inhumane conduct by both of them, treating these Migrants as nothing more than chips in their racist immigration game. In their bids to be seen as
‘Presidential Material’ by the Republican Party.

If Republicans just lie and claim the migrants are "illegals", they can pretend the answer is just more "border security".

"Border security" is popular in polls.

Shutting down the *legal* immigration system is not.

— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) September 17, 2022

And the entire premise is stupid in the first place because most of the states with the largest # of migrants are blue states, and most of the southern border crossings are in blue cities.

Liberals have been helping migrants ever since our country adopted its current borders!

— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) September 17, 2022

MAGA world seems less angry about immigration and more pissed that DeSantis's expensive and hateful stunt of sending people to an off-season island didn't own the libs, who instead did the Christian thing and took in the strangers and made sure they had food and shelter.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) September 15, 2022

We have problems with our Migrant policy, because we have a broken immigration system overall. It needs to be overhauled. It’s been needing to be overhauled. George W. Bush lied us into TWO WARS, and he was the last Republican to seriously attempt to overhaul the immigration system. He failed due to the racist anti-immigrant sentiment that overruns the Republican party. Any serious attempt at overhauling the immigration system has been left with absolute obstruction from the Republican Party, and the MSM continues to blame it as a failure of ‘ Congress’. It’s NOT a failure of ‘Congress’. It’s a FAILURE OF THE DELIBERATE SABOTAGE BY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

Always the Same Dems are forced to govern alone, republicans obstruct and Dems catch all the blame and heat for the inaction. https://t.co/7yn3ZbzmaU

— Bad Faith ✝️🐴🇺🇲🌻🇺🇦 (@Jeffdc5) September 18, 2022

VP Harris is correct.. https://t.co/LybEWh7Jta

— 💙🦋 Lovey Blue, Call me Kellz💙 🦋 (@LoveyBlue727) September 18, 2022

Even George W. Bush had an immigration reform bill in Congress and the GOP in the House and Senate blocked it. Obama had a immigration reform bill, the GOP in the House & Senate blocked it. It is the GOP that is stopping immigration reform for politics & then blame Democrats.

— Johnson J (@DuhartKimberlie) September 16, 2022

Now that people are finally asking the right questions, the GOP is lying and scrambling.

Florida Lt Gov Jeanette Nunez claims on Fox & Friends that it's "categorically false" migrants Florida paid to have transported to Martha's Vineyard were misled. (This is contradicted by what the migrants themselves say.) pic.twitter.com/JsfMY8xZwb

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 18, 2022

What allows for the sadism of GQPrs again people seeking asylum is that they are lied to that:
1. These people are here illegally – it is legal in all of the developed world for people to cross borders seeking asylum.
2. We have “open borders”

Fox News/GQP lies incite cruelty.

— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) September 17, 2022

And, this is curious, isn’t it?

Uh huh
Uh huh

Have you ever noticed Democratic governors of border states such as New Mexico’s Michelle Lujan Grisham and California’s Gavin Newsom never have border crises?

— Little Jackie Paper 🟧 (@s_schuckman) September 17, 2022

This entire process has been heinous, but, it also has racist roots – surprise surprise.

“Reverse Freedom Rides”: Tricked by white supremacists with promises of work and housing, Black families were dropped in Cape Cod with nothing, an echo of Martha’s Vineyard migrant flights 60 years ago https://t.co/c1ZlJHoABA

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 16, 2022

the entire point of the stunt was to make accusations of "liberal hypocrisy" on the grounds that liberals hate migrants just as much as Republicans do. It's not true, of course, but truth is irrelevant. They will lie, and their media organs will perpetuate the lie.

— 🕷Dante Atkins🕷 (@DanteAtkins) September 17, 2022

asylees could not be traced. That is a little TOO CLOSE for comfort to what the Nazis did. I wouldn't be surprised if someone told the asylees that work would set them free! We are not that far from the unimaginable.

— Joyce Park (@troutgirl) September 17, 2022

I get mail asking “how would you feel if New York was full of immigrants”. Also “how would you feel if foreigners were taking a lot of academic positions” https://t.co/Xu4wBJPIRM

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) September 16, 2022

.@NYCMayor says Covid positive immigrants were put on buses and others were severely dehydrated. They were tagged like “animals.” “Many wanted to go to other destinations and they were not allowed to do so.”

— Erin Durkin (@erinmdurkin) September 18, 2022