Some Blue State Libs Put Their Money Where Their Mouths Are on Housing 'Refugees.' But Is It Safe?

It's becoming more apparent by the day that one of the major issues of the 2024 presidential campaign will be illegal immigration and the horrible mess on our southern border. It may well be the issue of this fall's election. Our major cities, many of them once pompously proclaiming their "sanctuary" status, are failing to deal with the influx. They are quickly running out of room to house the people who flocked to the "sanctuary cities," and are putting them up in airports, among other places.

Now, though, after calls from some big-city mayors, some of the inhabitants of those cities - and I give them credit for putting their money and homes where their mouths are - are opening their homes to help house the illegal aliens. But, as Substack author and retired newspaperman Don Surber points out on his site, there are some... issues.

Boston TV stations are airing “exclusives” this Valentine’s Week about area residents taking illegal aliens — refugees in wokespeak — into their homes.

As I said, they are putting their money - and possibly their necks - where their mouths are. Full credit for that; it's unusual, for people on the left.

Here's the onion:

Warning: coarse language

Brookline is the home of Mike Dukakis. The story flashed back to me his What Me Worry? ride in a tank. Quartering illegals in homes, too, is a disaster waiting to happen as liberals spin the dial of strangers in the house and someone gets macheted.
But that is the chance you take when you want free labor.
The NBC station’s report began:
A migrant family from Haiti spoke exclusively with NBC10 Boston about their experience in the Boston area. They recently found a host home in Brookline, Massachusetts, and they’ve been searching for jobs.
It's been an emotional few weeks for Wildande Joseph and her husband. First, they slept on the floor at Boston Logan International Airport and then in children’s hospital, with their 2-year-old daughter who got very sick.
However, things are now looking much brighter as they’ve been welcomed into Lisa Hillenbrand’s Brookline apartment.
She said her daughter is very happy. When she wakes up in the morning, she says, “Hi, Lisa” and everyone starts the day smiling.
The story also said, “Hillenbrand said she feels like she has her own personal chef as Wildande loves cooking. In fact, her goal is to open a restaurant.”
Her own personal chef!
As the tweet said, “Holy shit. They found a way to bring back slavery and make it woke.”

Wow. Just... wow.

Of course, the comparison to slavery is a bit much; Wildande Joseph and her family could, presumably, leave Lisa Hillenbrande's home whenever they please, and go... Where? Back to the airport? For people like this with very few options, a life of working for no pay for a wealthy Boston liberal might not seem so bad to them. They get the proverbial three hots and a cot, a roof over their heads when it rains. When you compare that to Haiti, it probably seems great. And Lisa Hillenbrande gets a free cook!

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Of course, a few of these folks aren't so well-meaning; about a year ago we heard of the story of New York's Annie George, who kept her domestic servant/illegal alien as a virtual slave for over five years.

The well-meaning part, though, cuts both ways. It seems naïve to just welcome refugees from the Third World into your home, unscreened, unvetted, with no clue as to their backgrounds or intent. A family with a small child would likely be less likely to cause trouble, though, right?

Right?

These homeowners are, of course, free to do as they please, and nobody has any right to tell them otherwise; their homes are, after all, their castle. But when speaking of castles, I'd remind them of the cautionary tale of the fall of Troy, from which we derive the saying "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts." (It would be more apt to say, "Beware of Trojans, they're complete knuckleheads.") Some of these well-meaning people may awake one night to find that a big wooden horse was bearing an unpleasant surprise. As Surber points out:

Of course, for every nice illegal alien who cooks, Democrats let in a gangbanger, a drug dealer, a Chinese spy and a Muslim terrorist. Nightly soft-focus exclusives on Boston TV stations won’t change that.

It's as I have been saying for months - years - now. We are letting in literally millions of people. We don't know who most of them are. We don't know where they intend to go or what they intend to do when they get there. And there is little or no appetite in Washington to cut off the flow.