The Florida governor’s move, for which he is risibly already being investigated and sued, has successfully shone a massive spotlight on America’s immigration mess. It has dominated headlines for a full week now, garnering mass plaudits from those on the right and performative shrieks of hysteria from those on the open-borders left.

By choosing Martha’s Vineyard, the iconic liberal elitist bastion and summer home of former President Barack Obama, the Republican governor stuck a dagger deep into the heart of the American liberal psyche. Better yet, he highlighted the unbearable hypocrisy and “NIMBY”-ism of liberal elites—those contemptible yuppies who would publicly clamor for unfettered migration while privately bewailing the fact that their resort town must now bear the burden of a mere 48 aliens.

Indeed, the migrants remained on the Vineyard for less than 36 hours; they were quickly deported to the Massachusetts mainland, assisted by 125 National Guardsmen. That’s more than 2.5 guardsmen per illegal. Turns out unvetted illegal immigration is a big problem, after all.

DeSantis thus forced a national conversation on the unsustainable, egregious situation at America’s southern border. And in so doing, he cleverly guided the conversation to political turf that redounds, in the lead-up to the pivotal 2022 midterm elections, to Republicans’ benefit.