Ron DeSantis sent a planeload of asylum-seekers to Martha's Vineyard and dropped them off unannounced.
Ha!
It was political theater. DeSantis could show up those liberal "sanctuary state" governors as sanctimonious hypocrites. The more they complained, the better. Watch liberals cry.
The people seeking asylum from Venezuela were props in the drama. Extras. They were told they were going to Boston where they would get help filling out paperwork so they could get jobs. Fooled!! Suckers!!
Maybe this wasn't just about liberal tears. What about the refugees? What about feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, caring for the sick, and welcoming the traveler? The migrants are people. Wasn't this cruel to them? Didn't Jesus speak directly to this?
Matthew 25: 44-46
44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’
45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment.
The week's events generated revised attention and circulation of this video on YouTube: Republican Jesus.
I am not Christian, but I was brought up Christian. I have a moral sense that gratuitous cruelty is wrong. It was wrong to mislead those people about where they were going and why, wrong to drop them off unannounced and confused in a strange place, wrong to use fellow humans as props. Making the lives of miserable creatures—farm animals, pets, children, adults, the poor, the desperate—even worse and even more miserable? Well, it is simply wrong.
That video is priceless. Too bad it can't be played in every Christian church before their next service!