"Despicable stunt" or "stroke of good luck"? Ask the immigrants

The Washington Post editors serve up a particularly shrill example in this editorial called (in the paper edition) “Made for TV Cruelty.” For those on whom the Post’s subtlety is lost, the subtitle is “Mr. DeSantis uses asylum seekers as props in a despicable stunt.”

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For a good laugh, check out the photo the Post used in the internet version of the editorial. It’s downright bucolic. The immigrants pictured look about as happy as they could be.

The picture doesn’t lie. It turns out that the Venezuelan immigrant asylum seekers don’t think DeSantis’ “stunt” is despicable at all. MSNBC reports that “Migrants are actually thanking Gov. Ron Desantis for having brought them to Martha’s Vineyard.”

The Washington Post reported the same thing. Some immigrants, it says, are calling it “un golpe de buena suerte” — a stroke of good luck — that they had landed at Martha’s Vineyard.

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