Perla Huerta, the public face of the controversial flights, breaks silence as her lawyers move to dismiss lawsuit against her.
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is betting that flying two planeloads of migrants from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard will not hurt his reelection campaign or his presidential ambitions.The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office has handed District Attorney Joe Gonzales its findings from a criminal investigation into last fall’s politically charged flights of stranded immigrants from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., orchestrated by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Numerous attempts to contact Huerta for comment have been unsuccessful. But her lawyers, in recent documents seeking to have a lawsuit over the flights dismissed, said the migrants complained about it because they don’t agree with DeSantis’ politics. Salazar announced the investigation shortly after a contract firm working on behalf of the DeSantis administration in September recruited the migrants from outside the center on San Pedro Avenue. Most were from Venezuela and had arrived in San Antonio after being cleared by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to continue their claims for asylum within the United States.
The migrants were put up in a South Side hotel near Kelly Field, starting Sept. 14, for what was to be the first of several flights that DeSantis planned. The idea was to drop them off at locations mocked by Republican politicians as sanctuaries for immigrants due to their liberal politics. The planes arrived in Martha’s Vineyard, an island off the Massachusetts coast frequented by the wealthy. Massachusetts officials were not notified and were caught off guard, setting off a scramble to house and feed the migrants.
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