It’s a shame Kamala Harris did not stop over at Logan Airport en route to Martha’s Vineyard last weekend.

Had she done so she could have picked up an illegal immigrant family or two and connected them to welcoming families living on the affluent island.

Harris is, after all, Joe Biden’s border czar charged with rooting out the causes of illegal immigration, one of which is the open southern border.

That way she would have helped answer Gov. Maura Healey’s call for Massachusetts residents to take in families of illegal immigrants to ease the flood of immigrants that have overwhelmed the state’s shelter system.

Or as Kim “Ditto” Driscoll, the lieutenant governor, put it when Healey called a state of emergency, “If you have an extra room or suite in your home, please consider hosting a family.”

It is costing Massachusetts taxpayers $45 million a month to house the influx of illegal immigrants. Shelters are overflowing and hotels and motels are booked.

Next thing you know legitimate tourists, if they are still coming, will be sleeping in their cars.

Massachusetts is the only state that has a right-to-shelter law that guarantees the homeless the right to housing. And everybody now knows it, which is why the state is being overwhelmed with illegal immigrants,

Although at times it may not appear so, Martha’s Vineyard is part of Massachusetts.

While Massachusetts families with extra rooms in their homes are not breaking down doors to take in the newcomers, residents of Martha’s Vineyard like Barack Obama and John Kerry, who live in roomy palaces, could have set an example. Both empty suits have empty suites.

Or she could have asked her sister Maya Lakshmi Harris to open her summer home in Katama, which she shares with her husband Tony West, to an illegal immigrant family. Katama is a residential area of Edgartown.

Also, island residents could have redeemed their image that was shattered when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis flew in some 50 illegal immigrants, mostly Venezuelans, to the island last September.

While welcoming the immigrants at first, which was proper, the islanders could not get them off the toney island fast enough.

In less than 24 hours of their arrival, then-Republican Gov. Charlie Baker declared his own “state of emergency.”

He called out 125 troops of the National Guard to escort the immigrants from the island to the mainland at Joint Base at Cape Cod. Some of them are still there and are being joined by more immigrant families sent down from Boston.

While Sen. Elizabeth Warren called DeSantis’ plan a “repulsive and cruel” political stunt, Baker did the same thing. Only he used a boat instead of a plane.

Repulsive and cruel as DeSantis might have been in sending the immigrants north to the Vineyard, none have sought to return to Venezuela or anywhere else.

Massachusetts is just fine, thank you.

Harris was on the island over the weekend with her husband Douglas Emhoff, who out of compassion we will not refer to as the Second Gentleman.

The vice president was there to attend two “grassroots” fundraisers for the Biden Victory Fund, one of which was questionably held at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, a public facility.

Donations ranged from $50, which got you in the door, to $10,000, which got you a photo.

Harris, in speaking to supporters, avoided serving up any word salads, but stuck to attacking Republicans and pointing out accomplishments of the Biden/Harris administration.

She did not talk about illegal immigration, though, or the open southern border, let alone the mini-immigrant crisis that startled Martha’s Vineyard a year ago.

And, like Joe Biden, Harris had little or nothing to say about the horrific Maui firestorm that killed hundreds of Hawaiians and destroyed Lahaina.

She could have donated the money she raised at Martha’s Vineyard to go to the stricken people in Maui.

It might be, though, that Harris just went to the wrong island, seeing that they both begin with M.

Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.