Immigration rights advocates and lawmakers are questioning whether Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis violated any laws when he unexpectedly flew nearly 50 migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard this week.
A migrant from Venezuela walks across Winter Street to St. Andrew’s Parish House in Edgartown.
Florida state Sen. Tina Polsky also questioned whether the DeSantis administration violated laws by misleading migrants into flying to Massachusetts. “You think of human trafficking. You think of kidnapping. These people were certainly lured.” this year to the Florida Department of Transportation to transport unauthorized immigrants out of Florida.
Florida also passed a law this year barring government entities from contracting with airlines that “willfully” carried people who entered the U.S. illegally into Florida, unless it was to “facilitate the detention, removal, or departure of the person from this state or the United States.” California Gov. Gavin Newsom also asked the Department of Justice to investigate whether the transport violated any civil rights laws or could be considered kidnapping.
And last December, DeSantis bragged about using state money to send immigrants who crossed America’s southern border illegally to Democratic states.
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