The left's attempt to criminalize DeSantis

 National Review:

When Florida governor Ron DeSantis sent just 50 migrants to Martha’s Vineyard last week, liberal turmoil ensued.

The Chamber of Commerce of Martha’s Vineyard said the island was facing a “humanitarian crisis” after the migrants arrived.

Massachusetts state representative Dylan Fernandes, whose district includes Martha’s Vineyard, called the move “morally criminal” and suggested there are “legal implications around fraud, kidnapping, deprivation of liberty, and human trafficking.” He called on the Department of Justice to investigate DeSantis.

Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker, a moderate Republican, on Friday announced plans to deploy up to 125 National Guard members in response to the migrants’ arrival.

Yet compare the burden to the island off the Atlantic coast to that faced by Del Rio, Texas, on the U.S.–Mexico border. The Del Rio area had more than 49,500 migrant encounters in July alone — more than the city’s entire population of just over 34,500 people. By contrast, the year-round population of Martha’s Vineyard is 17,000 people, and the island received just 50 migrants when the “humanitarian crisis” was triggered.

To bring the migrant-to-resident ratio on Martha’s Vineyard into rough parity with that of Del Rio, more than 24,000 migrants would need to arrive on the island over the course of the next month.

House Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee tweeted Friday: “If there is a humanitarian crisis in Martha’s Vineyard, wouldn’t it stand to reason there is a drastically more significant humanitarian crisis at the Southwest border?”

Meanwhile, roughly 24 hours after their arrival from San Antonio, Texas, the group of Venezuelans were transported on buses from St. Andrews Church in Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard to Joint Base Cape Cod.

While the move provided a blue state with just an infinitesimal taste of the chaos at the southern border, the media went into a frenzy.

The New Yorker wrote, “DeSantis’s Heartless Migrant Stunt Provides a Preview of 2024.” The Atlantic’s Tom Nichols called it a “sadistic immigration stunt,” of which “even border security hawks should be horrified.”

“I am against illegal immigration,” Nichols wrote. “But I am against the intentional tormenting of other human beings—especially children—even more.”

CNN published a (tone-deaf) headline: “‘They enriched us.’ Migrants’ 44-hour visit leaves indelible mark on Martha’s Vineyard,” quoting a volunteer who worked with the migrants.

Democratic strategist Lis Smith tweeted the cover of the New York Post, which read: “So much for ‘sanctuary’: Liberals deport migrants. Hypocritical rich Dems of Martha’s Vineyard ship them off by ferry.” Smith commented, “Trap laid, bait taken, right wing gets their headline.”
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There is much more.

DeSantis was able to expose liberal hypocrisy on the immigration issue with their boldface response to getting a handful of migrants.   Their reaction to the border crisis that Biden precipitated was to try to criminalize DeSantis for exposing their hypocrisy on the issue.  It was similar to their response to Trump.  It is the product of a weak mind to try to criminalize the policies of a political opponent  It is even more ridiculous when they are trying to criminalize the response to their own complicity in the illegal immigration coming into this country.