{"id":7869,"date":"2022-09-16T22:53:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T16:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=7869"},"modified":"2022-09-16T22:53:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T16:53:59","slug":"massachusetts-gov-calls-up-national-guard-over-50-marthas-vineyard-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/world\/2022\/09\/16\/news\/7869\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts gov calls up National Guard over 50 Martha\u2019s Vineyard migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker will activate up to 125 National Guard members to accommodate the migrants.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Broadcasting News Corporation : Massachusetts called in the National Guard on Friday to deal with the \u201chumanitarian crisis\u201d that locals claim was set off by just 50 migrants being flown to Martha\u2019s Vineyard by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis \u2014 before the deep-blue state shifted the new arrivals to Cape Cod. Three buses rolled up to St. Andrew\u2019s Episcopal Church in Edgartown to take the mostly Venezuelan migrants on the first leg of their journey from the elite island of multimillion-dollar mansions \u2014 including a seven-bedroom home owned by former President Barack Obama \u2014 to Joint Base Cape Cod on the mainland. The National Guard members will supplement work already underway by the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, Gov. Charlie Baker\u2019s office said in a statement. \u201cOur Administration has been working across state government to develop a plan to ensure these individuals will have access to the services they need going forward, and Joint Base Cape Cod is well equipped to serve these needs,\u201d the governor said. Baker added that the state emergency agency \u201cis coordinating efforts among state and local officials to ensure access to food, shelter and essential services for these men, women and children.\u201d It\u2019s unclear what duties would be performed by the National Guard members.
\nBaker said removing the migrants to Cape Cod was necessary because \u201cthe island communities are not equipped to provide sustainable accommodation, and state officials developed a plan to deliver a comprehensive humanitarian response.\u201d Baker and DeSantis are both Republicans, but the Florida governor this week sent two planeloads of migrants to Martha\u2019s Vineyard to show solidarity with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott\u2019s longer-running campaign to bus migrants to Washington, DC, New York City and Chicago in a bid to pressure Democrats into tightening border policies. Abbott and DeSantis say they are shipping migrants north to help educate others about the strain experienced by border states. This year has already seen an all-time record number of illegal border crossings. Fiscal year 2022, which ends Sept. 30, is expected to record more than 2 million migrant encounters along the US-Mexico border, an increase from 1.7 million in fiscal 2021, fewer than 500,000 in fiscal 2020 and nearly 1 million in fiscal 2019. Critics blame President Biden\u2019s border policies and his more welcoming rhetoric to migrants. The Biden administration has relaxed a Trump-era policy of turning away all illegal border-crossers, citing a CDC COVID-19 rule, and ended a policy of requiring migrants to remain in Mexico to await court rulings on their asylum claims. DeSantis spokeswoman Taryn Fenske said the flights to Martha\u2019s Vineyard were \u201cpart of the state\u2019s relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations.\u201d \u201cStates like Massachusetts, New York and California will better facilitate the care of these individuals who they have invited into our country by incentivizing illegal immigration through their designation as \u2018sanctuary states\u2019 and support for the Biden administration\u2019s open border policies,\u201d Fenske said. Abbott\u2019s efforts to bus migrants to Washington, New York City and Chicago sparked panic and anger among local mayors. Democratic DC Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a \u201cstate of emergency\u201d and Chicago\u2019s Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot allegedly put migrants back on a bus \u2014 to a Republican-leaning suburb. On Thursday, Abbott\u2019s administration delivered 101 migrants to Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 official residence in Washington, saying, \u201cWe\u2019re sending migrants to her backyard to call on the Biden Administration to do its job & secure the border.\u201d
\nBiden tapped Harris last year to lead efforts to address the \u201croot causes\u201d of migration, but the crisis at the border instead worsened. Biden on Thursday night slammed Abbott and DeSantis, telling a Hispanic Heritage Month gala in DC that his administration has \u201ca process in place to manage migrants.\u201d \u201cRepublicans are playing politics with human beings, using them as props. What they\u2019re doing is simply wrong, it\u2019s un-American, it\u2019s reckless,\u201d Biden said. \u201cAnd we have a process in place to manage migrants at the border. We\u2019re working to make sure it\u2019s safe and orderly and humane.\u201d Biden added, \u201cRepublican officials should not interfere with that process by waging these political stunts. It\u2019s long overdue for Senate Republicans to come to the table to provide a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers, those on temporary status, farmworkers and essential workers. We need to modernize our laws so businesses get workers they need and families don\u2019t have to wait decades to be brought back together. It\u2019s time to get it done. That\u2019s why we have to win this off-year election.\u201d NEWS COLLECTED FROM NEW YORK POST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Broadcasting News Corporation : Massachusetts called in the National Guard on Friday to deal with the \u201chumanitarian crisis\u201d that locals claim was set off by just 50 migrants being flown to Martha\u2019s Vineyard by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis \u2014 before the deep-blue state shifted the new arrivals to Cape Cod. Three buses rolled up to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869","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=7869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7871,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869\/revisions\/7871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}