The late-day sun coaxes a rainbow of colors out of the eroding cliff at Aquinnah, a town on the western tip of Martha's Vineyard. The soil, thrust upward millennia ago by a glacier, is spotted with glowing red clay, chalk white crevices and touches of gray, brown and black.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis spent taxpayers' money on flying migrants to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts and some of those people are "still going to wind up in Florida anyway," said Domingo Garcia, the president of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC).
In the 24 hours or so since Ron DeSantis sent two planes carrying migrants to Martha's Vineyard, the move has dominated the political world. Every newspaper and cable channel is filled with thoughts about the move, with much of that opinion tilting toward outrage over the Florida Republican governor treating people like political pawns.
The arrival of a clutch of migrants to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City -- sent from a southern state that did not want them as residents -- triggered outrage from city leaders and civil rights activists. A US senator from New York denounced it as a "heartless display of theatricalism."