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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,922 posts)
Fri Sep 16, 2022, 12:50 PM Sep 2022

Martha's Vineyard homeless shelter coordinator says the island doesn't have the housing for migrants

after locals jumped in to help them: 'They have to move from here to somewhere else'

A homeless shelter coordinator for Martha's Vineyard said the posh Massachusetts island does not have the housing for the dozens of migrants who were flown there as part of a political stunt by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Lisa Belcastro, the coordinator of the Harbor Homes winter shelter on the island, told reporters that the upscale enclave does not have the "services to take care of" the 50 migrants who were flown on two chartered planes from Texas to Martha's Vineyard on Wednesday.

"The difficult challenges are, at some point in time they have to move from here to somewhere else," Belcastro told reporters on Thursday, according to a now-viral video clip.

Belcastro added, "We don't have the services to take care of 50 immigrants, and we certainly don't have housing — we are in a housing crisis as we are on this island."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/martha-s-vineyard-homeless-shelter-coordinator-says-the-island-doesn-t-have-the-housing-for-migrants-after-locals-jumped-in-to-help-them-they-have-to-move-from-here-to-somewhere-else/ar-AA11UEd4
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Martha's Vineyard homeless shelter coordinator says the island doesn't have the housing for migrants (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2022 OP
Now they funny too. CentralMass Sep 2022 #1
The migrants have left for the Cape, to the joint command base. Croney Sep 2022 #2
Of course they don't have the faculties to handle these human beings LakeArenal Sep 2022 #3
Yup. 2naSalit Sep 2022 #5
send texas and florida the bill for these people there AllaN01Bear Sep 2022 #4
Biden should yank funding from Texas Johnny2X2X Sep 2022 #6

Croney

(4,657 posts)
2. The migrants have left for the Cape, to the joint command base.
Fri Sep 16, 2022, 01:00 PM
Sep 2022

I'll be watching for some to end up here in Cambridge--where they would be most welcome. I just hope they will be well informed about their choices, and that the choices will be many.

LakeArenal

(28,817 posts)
3. Of course they don't have the faculties to handle these human beings
Fri Sep 16, 2022, 01:09 PM
Sep 2022

That’s why he sent them there. Knowing that the residents of the Vineyard will look like they are the assholes when the say they don’t have the facilities.

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