- Nantucket is a well-to-do Massachusetts vacation island like Martha’s Vineyard, where Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis last week sent about 50 migrants.
- Nantucket residents and visitors are generally considered more Republican- or conservative-leaning than those in Martha’s Vineyard.
- “It may seem burdensome, but if those southern governors thought they were putting a burden on our community, well, they were wrong,” Nantucket Police Chief Bill Pittman said late last week. “We’re ready for it.”
- Vineyard officials sent the migrants to a joint military base on the mainland, Cape Cod, arguing they could be better cared for there.
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