When Deici Cauro fled Venezuela, she never imagined that one day she would be working and living on a wealthy island south of Cape Cod, surrounded by boats and mansions. How migrants flown to Martha's Vineyard came to call it home:
EDGARTOWN, Mass. — On a sprawling Martha’s Vineyard estate not far from the seashore, Deici Cauro adjusted a baseball cap to keep the burning sun at bay. She was crouching to pull weeds with her bare hands when a familiar voice called out from the other side of the yard.“¿Vamos?” Cauro replied in Spanish, wondering if they had decided to move.“Sí, vamos, I guess, whatever that means,” her boss replied, prompting both women to share a hearty laugh.
But neither was the destination; it was Martha’s Vineyard, and it was the end of the busy summer season when vacationers begin retreating home to offices and schools. There were no jobs and no places for them to stay. Volunteers put the new arrivals up at a local church and arranged for transportation.
The flights arranged by Florida came as the Republican governors of Texas and Arizona were busing thousands of migrants away from the border, straining support systems in cities like New York, Washington and Chicago. The four migrants who managed to stay on the island have also had challenges. Cauro said she still found it hard to trust strangers after the deeply unsettling sense of being cast adrift by people who she now thinks used her and her relatives as political pawns.
Her brother, Daniel, had left behind a wife and two children, Daniela, 8, and Reynaldo, 2. They traversed the Darien Gap, a treacherous strip of jungle that connects South and Central America. In Mexico, the group jumped on La Bestia, a network of cargo trains headed north where many migrants have lost their limbs and even their lives.
But 15 minutes before their plane was to land, they said, something felt wrong. Cauro and his group were handed red folders with a cover that proclaimed, “Massachusetts Welcomes You.” “The community came together,” Seadale said. Whatever was the intention of DeSantis, he said, “he raised a level of awareness and consciousness. To this day, whenever I go and I say that I’m from Martha’s Vineyard, people congratulate me for the way we handled it.”One longtime resident, Angela Cywinski, said the situation put the community in a tough position, trying to accommodate people who could not legally be hired at restaurants or hotels.
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