The island of Martha’s Vineyard is not itself a city. It’s made up of six small towns, three of which voted to adopt sanctuary area policies in 2017. Migrants stayed at a shelter in one of the towns for two nights.
GOP leaders pushed back with a repeated claim — that the island had already declared itself a sanctuary destination.
Peggy Hubbard, a former Illinois candidate for U.S. Senate, expressed the claim on Facebook."Martha's Vineyard declared itself as a sanctuary city until the buses arrived," she wrote in aThe post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. In this case, there’s some basis for the claim that the island has embraced sanctuary policies, but the description could benefit from more context.We didn’t find evidence that Martha’s Vineyard as a whole has officially embraced sanctuary status. But, in 2017, three towns on the island did — including Edgartown, where the Venezuelan migrants were
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