Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is defending his actions after sending two planes of immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard, as Democrats are denouncing the action. At a news conference Thursday, DeSantis reiterated that the state was sending the immigrants to a “sanctuary” destination. “We are not a sanctuary state and it’s better to be able to go to a sanctuary jurisdiction, and…
At a news conference in South Florida Thursday, Adelys Ferro, director of the Venezuelan American Caucus, said DeSantis was treating Venezuelan immigrants like pieces"on his political game board, to get headlines and to get political points in his eagerness to become the Republican nominee for the 2024 presidential election."
“Immigrants and asylum-seekers are people — period," Carol Rose, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, said in a statement. “It is cruel and immoral that some governors are involuntarily flying and busing people and families to other states, based on their perceived immigration status.”
U.S. Rep. Bill Keating, a Massachusetts Democrat, tweeted: “History does not look kindly on leaders who treat human beings like cargo, loading them up and sending them a thousand miles away without telling them their destination. Still, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made that choice today.” "There is nothing that DeSantis won’t do, and nobody that he won’t hurt, in order to score political points," said Manny Diaz, the chair of the Florida Democratic Party."He took dozens of families and children, reportedly from Venezuela and Colombia, away from everyone that they know, flew them across the country, and left them by the side of the road without shelter or direction – all in order to score political points.
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