For the past day, we have seen a parade of screaming MV residents, and officials, stressing out at the catastrophe sent their way by Governor De Santis.

The population of Martha's Vineyard is about 17,000. A total of 50 illegals arrived there. That means there would have been only one immigrant for every 340 highly affluential MV residents!

In reality, De Santis gave the liberals and MV residents an opportunity on a golden platter. They easily could have caused this political action to backfire, but they completely failed. For optics purposes only, it would have been so easy to show how they were wonderful people opening their houses, summer homes, to these weary, forlorn travelers. 50 immigrants is not a wave or an emergency! Most family reunions have more people show up that than!

Instead, their first and only instinct was revulsion, panic, and the necessity to have these people removed.

We in the mid-west are not unfamiliar with taking huge numbers of strangers into our communities after flood or tornadoes. If I recall correctly, the churches, and volunteers of Texas willingly took in over 100,000 (people of color) evacuees after hurricane Katrina. That's how America is.

But these Martha Vineyard are cut from a very different cloth. Was there a single pastor saying they could take in a dozen people? Why was there no school administrators offering a gymnasium for temporary shelter?

It would have been so easy for MV to publicly embrace these visitors for the cameras, while they discreetly worked with other facilities around the country to move them to, but decided to only complain to the cameras of their misery.

To the people of Martha's Vineyard. You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting