A Texas county sheriff's office on Monday announced it would investigate the transportation of Venezuelan migrants to Martha's Vineyard last week, a controversial operation Florida's Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, took credit for.
"The Bexar County Sheriff's Office has opened an investigation into the migrants that were lured from the Migrant Resource Center, located in Bexar County, TX, and flown to Florida, where they were ultimately left to fend for themselves in Martha's Vineyard, MA," the office said in a statement.
The incident also reignited a national debate over U.S. border policy, with Massachusetts officials, the Biden administration and Democrats accusing Florida of using desperate asylum-seekers as props in a political stunt. "Unless the MA national guard has abandoned these individuals, they have been provided accommodations, sustenance, clothing and more options to succeed following their unfair enticement into the United States, unlike the 53 immigrants who died in a truck found abandoned in Bexar County this June," Fenske said in a statement to CBS News.
While advocates of asylum-seemed have denounced the busing operation by Texas and Arizona, which the states have said are voluntary, their criticism of the Martha's Vineyard drop-off has been more pronounced, given the accounts of migrants sent there.
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