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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ resolution to ship two planes of about 50 Venezuelan migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, a visit some migrants stated they took as a result of they have been instructed jobs and alternatives could be ready on the opposite facet, echoes related occasions that occurred on Cape Cod roughly 60 years in the past.
In 1962, a bunch of southern white supremacists generally known as the White Residents Council positioned pretend adverts in newspapers to get Black households to maneuver from Louisiana to Hyannis, Massachusetts as detailed by a 2004 article within the Journal of American Research.
The phony advert learn, “President Kennedy’s brother assures you a grand reception to Massachusetts. Good jobs, housing, etc. are promised.”
The advert was meant to retaliate in opposition to the Freedom Riders, a bunch of white and African American civil rights activists who rode across the South in 1961 protesting segregated bus terminals.
The White Residents Council used Greyhound buses to move southern Black households up North. This was generally known as the Reverse Freedom Rides.
Over the course of a number of months, the council despatched 96 African People to Hyannis. To accommodate them, the neighborhood positioned them in dormitories on the Cape Cod Neighborhood School after which later at Camp Edwards close to the Otis Air Power Base. Sadly, for them, there was no work.
When winter arrived, excessive unemployment led the African People to go away Hyannis to seek for new alternatives.
Bobby Jean Jackson, one of many African People who traveled from New Orleans to Hyannis, spoke to reporters as he received on a bus for Boston. He stated, “I’d like to get my hands on those two men who shot me full of baloney about coming up here.’’
By 1965, out of the 96 individuals who came north to Hyannis, only one African American family remained.
DeSantis’s statement regarding Wednesday’s flight of the nearly 50 migrants, who are still seeking shelter and work, indicated he disagrees with American immigration policy and implied that he had sent the migrants to Martha’s Vineyard in protest of that policy.
“States like Massachusetts, New York, and California will better facilitate the care of these individuals who they have invited into our country by incentivizing illegal immigration through their designation as ‘sanctuary states’ and support for the Biden Administration’s open border policies,” DeSantis wrote.
Martha’s Vineyard officers weren’t instructed upfront concerning the group of migrants coming in, forcing many state, native and neighborhood leaders to scramble to offer assist and reduction to the Venezuelan immigrants. Upon arrival, lots of the immigrants have been even confused as to the place they even have been.
“They were told people were going to meet them here and they’d have resources and the like,” Rep. Dylan Fernandes, who represents Martha’s Vineyard instructed the Boston Globe.
On account of inadequate assets obtainable on Martha’s Vineyard, Gov. Charlie Baker solidified a plan on Friday to make use of Joint Base Cape Cod on Bourne as a short lived shelter and humanitarian useful resource hub for the migrants.
Massachusetts officers on Friday solidified their plan to make the most of Joint Base Cape Cod as a short lived shelter and humanitarian assets hub for the roughly 50 Venezuelan migrants who unexpectedly arrived on Martha’s Vineyard earlier this week.
Baker, who floated the shelter thought Thursday, will now activate as much as 125 members of the Massachusetts Nationwide Guard to jumpstart the emergency initiative, the administration introduced Friday morning.
“We are grateful to the providers, volunteers and local officials that stepped up on Martha’s Vineyard over the past few days to provide immediate services to these individuals,” Baker stated in an announcement Friday. “Our administration has been working across state government to develop a plan to ensure these individuals will have access to the services they need going forward, and Joint Base Cape Cod is well equipped to serve these needs.”
There’s even a Louisiana connection. Joint Base Cape Cod was beforehand used to assist Louisiana residents within the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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