Flying 50 immigrants to Martha's Vineyard is a serious solution?
He's making the point that letting them stay here would be a better use of the $12mm and that Gainesville can easily absorb another 50 Venezuelans above the thousands already living in Florida.
I don't think anyone would say (seriously) the MV flight was not a stunt. I think he proved his point more than adequately. People are all hot and bothered about the inhumane nature of it, calling it "trafficking" and the like, when the conditions for immigrants are far more inhumane and far worse flights/bus rides have been going on for ages in far greater numbers and worse conditions. These immigrants arrived in a beautiful place and were *very* quickly removed from MV to a military base, while border towns are getting no such fast relief.
I'm far more "liberal" on immigration than the general consensus on the right is, but it has to be done with a seder and a policy, not just an open border with no real policies being enacted to control the situation.