Martha's Vineyard merchant says there's a ‘process’ for coming to America, 'follow that'

One person on the island blames federal officials for the illegal immigration crisis that made Martha's Vineyard famous.

The Massachusetts island is home to one of the wealthiest and most hard- left voting blocs in the nation.

"I think it was a political stunt," Paul Sinclair of Rhode Island told Fox News Digital on Saturday, as he sold T-shirts and surf gear during a street festival on Circuit Avenue in Oak Bluffs.

Martha's Vineyard gives immigrants relief by shipping them to the military base.

Make it visible if you want to fix it. The problem was visible.

On the island, the phrase "political stunt" has been used to criticize DeSantis.

The "stunt" was intended to make voters in the northeast pay attention to the burden faced by small border communities in the southwest.

Sinclair said that he has no issues with coming to America. There is something going on. You should follow the path that's there. Go ahead and follow that. It's important to document the process for coming over.

The US attorney's office claims that the DOJ "insulted" them by saying that migrants were taken from Martha's Vineyard to the US military base.

Martha's Vineyard is 2,200 miles from the nearest border crossing with Mexico.

The island is about as far away from the border as you can get in the lower 48 states.

The migrants, mostly from Venezuela, were taken to St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in exclusive Edgartown, where they were given shelter and food for two nights.

Republican governors are facing a border crisis.

In Martha's Vineyard's six communities, voters chose Biden and his policies over Trump.

After arriving on the island last week, migrants were quickly shipped by bus and ferry to a military base on the Massachusetts mainland.

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The National Guard was called in by the governor of Massachusetts to help relocate the migrants to the mainland.

Many lamented the "housing crisis" on Martha's Vineyard, even though more than half of the homes on the island are secondary or vacation homes.

Sinclair said the islanders could have done a better job.