today governor desantis defended his actions. we are not a sanctuary state. and it s better to be able to go to a sanctuary jurisdiction. and yes, we will help facilitate that transport for you to be able to go to greener pastures. the critics call it a stunt. we should point out that last month, 1.8 million arrests, apprehensions or encounters on the southern border were reported for the physical year to date. that s according to customs and border protection. and that is an increase from the last fiscal year, and this one isn t even over yet. the move from desantis mirrors bus trips texas governor greg abbott began months ago sending immigrants to other areas, mainly new york city and the nation s capital. today at least two more buses arrived in washington, d.c., this time outside the u.s. naval observatory, the residence of vice president kamala harris. it comes after she made comments that the southern border was, quote, secure. so far as the florida chartered flight
dump them in another state, so-called sanctuary cities so that they can figure it out. what i just described is exactly the strategy of some republicans governors on the far right of this divide, governors like you see on the screen, governor greg abbott of texas and ron desantis of florida. the latter declaring quote, every community in america should be sharing in the burdens. it shouldn t fall on a handful of red states. the real question is, for many americans out there, do you think desantis is right? we re going to hash that out in moment here. buz was it right for he and abbott to do the following? texas governor sent two buses of asylum seekers to the home of vice president kamala harris. it happened today. and then drove away, left them there. they apparently had no idea where they were or why they were at that particular location, let alone, perhaps, its significance politically speaking. and last night, florida s governor flew two planes with an estimated 50 migran
planes of migrants to martha s vineyard, massachusetts. it s still not clear why the florida governor organized flights for migrants from texas but he made clear he doesn t want them in his state. we are not a sanctuary state. it s better to be able to go to a sanctuary jurisdiction. and we will help facilitate that transport for you to be able to go to greener pastures. there are some signs those on martha s vineyard may have been misled. when he got off the plane, i asked what do you think of this? he said beautiful. there were three options. the plane left and brought us here. we re joined live from edgartown on martha s vineyard. miguel, what are you seeing and hearing this morning? reporter: well, this is their second night here. the bottom line is all 50 that arrived here are well cared for. there were seven families, four kids between 3 and 8 years old. they are getting settled in. the question is where do they go from here? lawyers who met with all these mig
but despite their very best efforts over many years, diversity neverr came to martha s vineyard. it was tragic. imagine an 18th century british frigate adrift on the high seas with no lyme s sailors slowly going mad , convulsing, dying,u excruciating deaths from scurvy. that was martha s vineyard, except it wasn t lime juiceonic they lacked.wi they had plenty of thatth because you can t make a ginou and tonic without what martha st vineyard lacked was diversity, which is to say strengthhi. yesa martha s vineyard was a very weak place as of yesterday. morning.white. that island was 89% white monochrome and utterly homogenous. nearly everybody there was ev a rich democrat. 80% voted for joe biden. the median home price was over a million dollars. and then in a single blessed moment, everything changed. ived relief arrived from an unlikelyl source, governor rhonda santurceysource of florida, havg made his own state of paradise, decided to help otherr states desperate in need
the elite residents there and not actually all that inclusiviney aree, they are notl that welcoming and they don t really stand with thethem immigrants and refugees and now they want them non . take a look. diffi the difficult challenges arecu e have at some time they have to. be somewhere else, right? we we cannot we don t have t the services to take carake ofd the immigrants. and we certainly don t havewe r housining. we re in t a housing crisis as e are on this island.e t we ca everyone here that and we don t we can t please everyone here that lives here and works here. w ie don t have housing forsd fifty more people now. for years, i ve alwaysar had liberals are generouss with other people s money in this particulapartr case, they e all, let s see, pro immigrant and sanctuar y cities, but not their city. they have to move from here toa5 somewhere else. 0 they can t be here at only 50 people remember arizona, texas, they re dealing with millions. they don t have s