Migrants (from left) Aguilar, Daniel Cauro and Deici Cauro having lunch with immigration lawyer Self at the home they are renting in Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. The government of Florida chartered flights from Texas that dropped the migrants off on Martha’s Vineyard, a liberal enclave that until then had little firsthand experience with the surge in migration on the US-Mexico border. — ©2023 The New York Times Company
ON a sprawling Martha’s Vineyard estate not far from the seashore in Edgartown, Massachusetts, 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.
“Pots!” her employer called, and she motioned for Cauro to follow her to another garden nearby.
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A new life
People walk on a street in Edgartown, a town in Martha’s Vineyard. Florida flew 49 migrants from Texas to the liberal enclave last year.
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Daniel working on a construction job in Martha’s Vineyard. — ©2023 The New York Times Company
Deici (right) working during a landscaping job in Martha’s Vineyard last month. — Photos: ©2023 The New York Times Company
Venezuelan migrant Daniel Cauro shows a photo of his son Reynaldo, who is still back in Venezuela.
People jump off the now iconic Jaw's Bridge in Edgartown.
Father Chip Seadale of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Edgartown.
