Metaphors and similes can be difficult. I get it. But even a dunce should know that comparing human beings to refuse is a no-no.

An immigration activist did so in an attempt to attack Governor DeSantis’ “freedom flights” for illegal immigrants to help them arrive at sanctuary cities, and NBC News picked up the ball and ran with it. By flying immigrants to places they would be welcomed with open arms, DeSantis is being accused of throwing his trash into his neighbor’s yard.

Nice metaphor.

NBC took a lot of flack for using this quote, for obvious reasons, and they deleted the tweet. The Internet is forever, of course.

Equally shocking is that they still lead off their article on the mess in Martha’s Vineyard with this angle. Apparently they think it is clever and will make sense to their audience, at least some of whom are comfortable with comparing human beings to refuse.

After Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sent two planes of mostly Venezuelan asylum-seekers to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, advertising executive Max Lefeld slammed the move as a political stunt.

“It’s like me taking my trash out and just driving to different areas where I live and just throwing my trash there,” said Lefeld, a Venezuelan American who’s a founding member of the Casa Venezuela Dallas foundation, which helps recent refugees.

The shuffling of asylum-seekers from the U.S. border to Democratic states by DeSantis and Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott, both Republicans, is intensifying debate among U.S. Venezuelans and sharpening their divisions over rising arrivals of people from their country.

The divisions largely fall along political lines, with Venezuelan Republicans defending DeSantis and Democrats blasting the move.

Patricia Andrade, who has been helping recently arrived Venezuelans for over seven years through her nonprofit, Raíces Venezolanas, in Miami, said she feels bad for the Venezuelans who were flown to Martha’s Vineyard but added DeSantis was trying to bring attention to a problem that “the Biden administration does not want to take on.”

Andrade said many of the Venezuelans she helps with donations of food and household items say they came with the understanding that the U.S. government would give them food and housing.

“But what I am seeing is that many of the Venezuelans who come end up in the streets,” she said.

She said the most recent wave of Venezuelans coming to the U.S. have polarized the community, with some believing that some of the migrants are “delinquents” and are coming to the U.S. as an “adventure” rather than a planned move.

“If the U.S. government is going to allow them in they should screen them for criminal background and have infrastructure in place to offer them shelter and food,” she said.

To be honest it is the federal government and the American socialists who have taken over our government who are actually treating the refugees as trash. They release people who illegally crossed the border by the thousands onto the streets of American cities, fail to track them, and many of them wind up living under bridges and/or sleeping rough on the streets. There is simply no way that importing millions of largely impoverished non-English speaking migrants into border towns is a compassionate policy for anybody–not American citizens, and not for the people coming here for a better life.

Even legal Venezuelan immigrants who disapprove of DeSantis’ move admit he is making a good point: the Biden policies are a disaster for everybody involved.

José Antonio Colina is a former Venezuelan army lieutenant who now heads Veppex, a Venezuelan exile organization in Miami.

Colina does not support what DeSantis did, which is “not consistent with what DeSantis has expressed in the past.” He called it a “political stunt.”

But, he said that prior to DeSantis’ actions, his organization as well as other groups had expressed concerns to the Department of Homeland Security that among those being released in the U.S. were former members of  Maduro’s paramilitary group and former officials in the police force, as well as individuals who had been released from prison.

“It’s dangerous for those who are seeking political asylum and it’s a danger for U.S. national security,” Colina said.

He said the Venezuelan community is “confused” and that “the real problem is that there is massive migration of Venezuelans through the border and DHS is not capable of controlling it or dealing with it properly.”

As usual it is the liberals who are projecting their own feelings and beliefs onto their opponents.

DeSantis is simply taking the Left at its word that it welcomes illegal immigrants with open arms because diversity makes us stronger. He helps volunteers seek a better life among those who say they want them to come. Better yet, he sends them to a place where the residents are so lavishly resourced that serving nothing but brie, fine wine, and Steak Diane wouldn’t put a dent into a single resident’s caviar budget. Hotel rooms abound, as it is off season. It’s perfect!

Instead of celebrating their luck at improving their communities through diversity, liberals go nuts, comparing the immigrants to trash dumped in their yard, activate the National Guard and ship them off to a military base to be guarded by almost 3 soldiers per illegal immigrant. Then they congratulate themselves for compassionately dealing with the problem. They are practically Jesus Christ themselves.

Quick question for the conservative Christians — who better fit your vision of Jesus, Ron DeSantis who used 50 migrants as pawns to make a political point or the people of Marta’s Vineyard who welcomed them, fed them, clothed them and gave them shelter?

— Stan Van Gundy (@realStanVG) September 16, 2022

Actually the residents of Martha’s Vineyard didn’t even provide the refugees a manger. They packed them up to a military base.

Let’s face it, those “we believe” Liberals aren’t just hypocrites–we all can be hypocrites because being virtuous is difficult and we all like to think well of ourselves–they are something much worse: people who are ostentatious in their belief that other people are evil for not cleaning up the mess they insist on creating.

They open the border despite opposition; they encourage migrants to make a difficult and dangerous journey through deserts infested with murderous drug cartels, lure them into crossing an overwhelmed border, and shrug when they are forced to live under a bridge. Their contribution is entirely negative, except for providing MSNBC with outraged interviewees to blast the average Americans who are forced to deal with the crisis. All while feeling virtuous for “caring.”

Leftists actually do believe the migrants are trash–just as they believe that you and I are trashy “deplorables.”

Usually they are careful to avoid saying it out loud. Every once in a while they do, and it is our job to make them pay for it.