President and first lady Joe and Jill Biden, as they have done for years, are spending their Thanksgiving holiday on the generally wealthy and upscale Massachusetts island of Nantucket.

The typically quiet island favored by liberal elites was rocked in recent months with a series of arrests of criminal illegal migrants, some of whom were charged with terrible sex crimes or were known members of violent gangs, Fox News reported.

Those illegal migrants were able to commit their crimes on Nantucket thanks in large part to Biden's lax enforcement policies for border security and immigration laws that allowed them to enter and remain in the country instead of being turned back at the border or deported to their nations of origin.

Bidens spend Thanksgiving on Nantucket Island again

The Nantucket Current reported that President Biden, the first lady, and other members of the Biden family arrived on Tuesday to continue their decades-long Thanksgiving holiday tradition of spending much of the week on the island.

As they have done for the past three years, the Biden family will stay at a sprawling compound overlooking the harbor that is owned by liberal billionaire and philanthropist David Rubenstein, who is also a top Democratic donor.

Joining the Bidens, and filling up most of the available rooms of the island's hotels and inns, are dozens of Secret Service agents, law enforcement personnel, aides, staffers, and reporters. They and all of their equipment and vehicles have been flown or ferried in to Nantucket over the past several days.

The Bidens are expected to spend Thanksgiving Day making calls to military servicemembers deployed overseas before enjoying a private family meal together. They will then spend Black Friday by doing some dining and shopping before attending a public Christmas tree lighting ceremony -- which will be heavily secured and closely monitored by Secret Service and law enforcement -- after which they will return to the White House on Saturday.

Several illegal migrants arrested on Nantucket in recent months

While all of that sounds rather idyllic, there has been upheaval on Nantucket over the past few months as at least eight illegal migrants were arrested there for various crimes between August and October, according to Fox News, including five during a two-to-three-day stretch in mid-September.

Some of those arrested included Salvadoran migrant Bryan Daniel Aldana-Arevalo, 28, who has been charged with child rape and indecent assault and battery on a child who was just 12. Similarly, Salvadoran migrant Elmer Sola was picked up on 11 counts of sex crimes against a child, though he was arraigned and released only to be arrested again for violating the conditions of that release.

Also arrested were Brazilian migrant Geon do Amaral Belafronte and Guatemalan migrant Felix Alberto Perez-Gomez, both of whom were charged with committing sex crimes against adult residents of the island.

Then there was Salvadoran migrant Angel Gabriel Deras-Mejia, a reputed member of the ultra-violent MS-13 gang, who was arrested twice this year -- first in July following a public altercation with the mother of his child and then again in August for assaulting a member of his household.

People need to "not be afraid to speak up"

Fox News reported separately in October on the spate of arrests of criminal illegal migrants on Nantucket Island and spoke with Nantucket GOP Chairman Toby Brown, who said, "We need to have this conversation and not just keep having this ... idea that if you're somehow worried, you're a racist … people just need to not be afraid to speak up."

"This island was more worried about when Kevin Spacey got charged back in 2016," he continued with a reference to the Hollywood actor accused of sexual misconduct with young men, rather than the illegal migrants charged with sex crimes against both children and adults.

"This was not a surprise to us. When you follow the court reports in the last year or so, there have been quite a bit of violent arrests … maybe it was surprising ICE came out here, but not surprising that they had to come out here," Brown said as he differentiated between criminal illegal migrants and others who "just want a better life. And they come here and they're doing the best they can. They raise their children here and they don't want this crime. They didn't come to Nantucket to live the way they did back in El Salvador or Mexico or wherever they came from."