{"id":7866,"date":"2022-09-16T22:45:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T16:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=7866"},"modified":"2022-09-16T22:45:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T16:45:31","slug":"marthas-vineyard-local-calls-on-obamas-to-open-their-12m-home-to-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/national\/2022\/09\/16\/news\/7866\/","title":{"rendered":"Martha\u2019s Vineyard local calls on Obamas to open their $12M home to migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chittik said the Obamas should open their $12 million home (above) to the arriving migrants and set up a camp for them on the property.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

WASHINGTON, Broadcasting news corporation : A longtime Martha\u2019s Vineyard resident says she supports Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019 move to relocate migrants to the vacation island as a way of highlighting the border crisis \u2014 and says the Obamas should open their $12 million home to the newcomers. The idyllic enclave was plunged into chaos and the local tourist board declared a \u201chumanitarian crisis\u2019\u2019 Thursday after just 50 Venezuelan migrants landed there. Jane Chittick, a former town official-turned-crime novelist, has lived in Martha\u2019s Vineyard for 42 years but now spends part of the year in Florida. Speaking to The Post on Friday, Chittick said: \u201cI don\u2019t think people like the Obamas with huge estates who live here in the summer will care (about the migrants). \u201cThey have all these signs: \u2018Private Property,\u2019 \u2018No Trespassing,\u2019 \u2018Do Not Come,\u2019 \u2018Police Are Patrolling.\u2019 They\u2019re not going to be on the streets in town or the church where a lot of the migrants were put last night.\u201d Former President Barack Obama owns a $12 million estate on the island, where he famously threw a massive party celebrating his 60th birthday amid the coronavirus pandemic in August 2021, attended by hundreds of his celebrity friends. \u201cI would love to see the Obamas open up their huge property and erect tents and look after all these people while they\u2019re being processed,\u201d Chittick said. Despite calls to keep the migrants on the island, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency started moving them from the island to a military base on Cape Cod that houses an emergency shelter, putting them out of sight of the island\u2019s deep-pocketed and well-connected inhabitants, who include former Secretary of State John Kerry, comedians Amy Schumer and Seth Myers, director Spike Lee and ex-Obama aide Valerie Jarrett. \u201cThe people who live there are rich and removed from real life,\u201d Chittick said, labeling them all \u201cphonies.\u201d \u201cThese people will love the fact the immigrants have been dropped off on their island, because now they can feel like part of the solution, helping these few people. But they\u2019d never let them into their houses unless they were working.\u201d
\nChittick told The Post that the moneyed elites started to move to Martha\u2019s Vineyard a little more than decade ago, seeking a peaceful island lifestyle \u2014 and pricing out most working-class residents in the process.
\nOn Thursday, DeSantis chartered two planes to transport around 50 migrants from Texas via Florida to Martha\u2019s Vineyard to taunt Democratic leaders and stoke opposition to President Biden\u2019s lax border policies.
\nThe stunt sparked outrage among liberals, who accused DeSantis of using the migrants as \u201cpolitical pawns.\u201d A defiant DeSantis told a crowd of supporters on Thursday that his critics were hypocrites for crying foul over the arrival of migrants in their state, even as border towns in Arizona and Texas are being overwhelmed with foreign nationals. \u201cThe minute even a small fraction of what those border towns deal with every day is brought to their front door, they go berserk, and they\u2019re so upset that this is happening,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd it just shows you that their virtue-signaling is a fraud.\u201d Chittick suggested that Martha\u2019s Vineyard\u2019s wealthy residents should use their resources to set up camps with food, clothing and sanitary facilities on their vast properties, \u201cnot just for publicity, for a photo opportunity.\u201d The island\u2019s officials proclaimed the arrival of the 53 migrants a \u201chumanitarian crisis,\u201d but Chittick pushed back against that label. \u201cIt\u2019s not a crisis for the people in Martha\u2019s Vineyard,\u201d she argued. \u201cThey will easily be able to take care of the immigrants. I\u2019m sure people will be donating plenty of money, blankets and everything they need. They will be some of the best cared for of the immigrants to cross the border.\u201d Chittick compared the small number of migrants who were flown by DeSantis to Martha\u2019s Vineyard on Thursday to the \u201cthousands who are pouring into El Paso\u201d in Texas. NEWS COLLECTED FROM NEW YORK POST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON, Broadcasting news corporation : A longtime Martha\u2019s Vineyard resident says she supports Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019 move to relocate migrants to the vacation island as a way of highlighting the border crisis \u2014 and says the Obamas should open their $12 million home to the newcomers. The idyllic enclave was plunged into chaos and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7868,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7866\/revisions\/7868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}