'60 Minutes' Adds up the Bill for Flying Illegal Immigrants to Martha's Vineyard

This threw us for a bit of a curve. When we started reading the tweet from “60 Minutes,” we thought it would have something to do with the cost of Air DeSantis flying some 200 Americans home from Israel. Actually, “60 Minutes” is still investigating the cost for Ron DeSantis to fly around 50 migrants to Matha’s Vineyard this year. As you will have seen in the news, the friendly folks of sanctuary city Martha’s Vineyard welcomed the migrants, mostly Venezuelans, and showed them some true liberal American hospitality, waiting a whole day for a bus to pick them all up and transport them to a military base.

Those flights cost about $12,000 per migrant, and the migrants had permission to be in the U.S. as they have pending asylum hearings — which goes for about every migrant who went through a legal port of entry. And those asylum hearings are years off.

The migrant flights to Martha’s Vineyard cost Florida more than $600,000 dollars, about $12,000 per migrant, according to public records. The migrants all had permission to be in the United States, pending asylum hearings. pic.twitter.com/duYfNruqTF

— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 16, 2023

Ok, and?

— Scott Coleman (@bandphan) October 16, 2023

So nice to see you focusing on efficiency of government spending. Funny how it’s on only this one story though

— Razor (@hale_razor) October 16, 2023

Much cheaper than the cost of keeping them in florida

— TakemetoTexas (@takemeto_texas) October 16, 2023

Whatever the flights and buses have cost to give blue sanctuary cities a taste of the administration’s immigration policy, it was worth it.

A brilliant use of tax dollars along with the bus loads of illegals sent to sanctuary cities by both DeSantis and Abbott – now the border is everyone’s problem.

— FugitiveMama (@fugitivemama) October 16, 2023