Ron DeSantis news – latest: Migrant flight funding revealed
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A group of 48 mostly Venezeulan migrants who the state of Florida transported in a surprise flight to Martha’s Vineyard last week have sued governor Ron DeSantis for the “fraudulent and discriminatory scheme.”
The class- action lawsuit comes as at least two law enforcement agencies are also investigating the actions of Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott for potential illegality.
A new report has revelaed the funding for Mr DeSantis’s migrant flights. The contractor hired by the governor is a longtime GOP donor.
Meanwhile, a plane reportedly full of asylum-seekers heading from Texas to Delaware so far hasn’t materialised, even as officials there worried they’d be the latest to be surprised with Florida’s highly controversial scheme of flying migrants unannounced to liberal jurisdictions.
Governor DeSantis and his aides have defended sending migrants to Democratic-leading states and cities in protest of what they characterise as the president’s “open border” policy.
Texas sheriff faces ‘influx’ of threats for investigating migrant flights
Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar’s office has reportedly received numberous “hateful emails” and threats after announcing an investigation into migrant flights out of San Antonio, coordinated by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s administration, several states away.
Texas sheriff threatened for investigating DeSantis’s migrant flights
The Florida governor claims that the migrants boarded the flights willingly
Alex Woodward22 September 2022 15:30
False promises, a legal investigation and a mystery woman: Unanswered questions about Ron DeSantis’s migrant flights
After two nights in a church shelter, migrants who arrived in Massachusetts were moved to a larger shelter operation on the mainland, with separate rooms and medical and legal support. State officials report that the families are in “good health and good spirits,” with access to legal services, humanitarian aid and interpreters.
But so much remains unclear about the migrants’ journey, how Florida officials are identifying and collecting migrants in other states as part of the Republican governor’s state-sanctioned plans to send them to Democratic-leading states and cities, and how funding earmarked for his scheme is paying for it from several states away.
Alex Woodward22 September 2022 15:00
Holly Baxter: ‘Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott seem to be using migrants to put across their extreme views’
Writing for The Independent Premium, US editor of Voices Holly Baxter writes how two Republican governors are ramping up political stunts ahead of the midterms at the expense of vulnerable migrants and their families:
DeSantis and Abbott using migrants to put across their extreme views | Holly Baxter
Republican governors are ramping up political stunts ahead of the midterms, thinks Holly Baxter
Alex Woodward22 September 2022 14:24
Migrant says he was paid to recruit migrants for Florida’s controversial Martha’s Vineyard flights
A 27-year-old Venezuelan migrant says he was given…
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