

The battle for Martha’s Winery
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The 50 migrants who landed on Martha’s Winery in Massachusetts final week had been shipped off the island so quick one native resident was left lamenting she did not have time to assist.
“I want that I had been extra concerned, that I had heard [about] it when it [the migrants’ arrival on the island] initially occurred,” Joyce Dresser instructed Fox Information Digital on Saturday as she bought books throughout a avenue pageant in Oak Bluffs.
That island city is known for its colourful “gingerbread home” Victorian properties.
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Dresser mentioned she realized of the newcomers’ arrival solely hours after they landed.
By then, the unlawful immigrants — most of them Venezuelan nationals — had been already within the care of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Edgartown.

A Venezuelan migrant is led to a bus at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church on Sept. 16, 2022, in Edgartown, on the island of Martha’s Winery.
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“I believe in the long term these individuals are going to luck out,” she mentioned. “They’re getting extra providers than they might have gotten down south.”
The migrants spent simply 44 hours on Martha’s Winery earlier than they had been despatched by ferry and bus to Joint Base Cape Cod on the Massachusetts mainland.
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There, Gov. Charlie Baker activated 125 members of the Nationwide Guard to assist present providers to the migrants.
“I am very happy with what Martha’s Winery has performed,” mentioned Dresser.

Martha’s Winery resident Joyce Dresser mentioned migrants will get extra assist in Massachusetts than they might have acquired “down south.”
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“I am hoping to get some garments collectively, and hopefully they’ll distribute them; as a result of they don’t seem to be dressed for New England,” she added.
The migrants had been despatched from Florida by Gov. Ron DeSantis to Martha’s Winery to spotlight the plight confronted by U.S. border cities and different southern communities which have been overwhelmed by unlawful immigrants.
Greater than 2.2 million folks have illegally crossed into U.S. border cities by way of July of this yr alone, in keeping with U.S. Customs and Border Safety.
Massachusetts officers and residents mentioned the six cities of Martha’s Winery, which embody among the wealthiest communities in the USA, didn’t have the flexibility to deal with the pressure on assets brought on by the sudden arrival of fifty migrants.
The Martha’s Winery Chamber of Commerce referred to as it a “humanitarian disaster.”

Victorian gingerbread cottages are proven in Oak Bluffs, on the island of Martha’s Winery.
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“Now we have a significant housing disaster as it’s,” one native resident, Rachel Hines, who works for nonprofit Winery Preservation Belief, instructed Fox Information Digital.
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One other native resident, an artist often called “Z” Leach, mentioned Martha’s Winery “shouldn’t be one of the best place for them to start out recent.”
She added, “There’s no place to reside right here. Housing is unhealthy,” she mentioned.
“It is a very caring group and all people pitches in when there’s an issue.”
Dresser, for her half, instructed Fox Information Digital that if extra migrants arrive, Martha’s Winery islanders will probably be prepared to assist once more.
“I believe [the islanders] did all the pieces they might,” she mentioned, referencing final week’s exercise.
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“I simply want I had been part of it,” she mentioned.
“It is a very caring group and all people pitches in when there’s an issue.”