Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday on social media that migrants had been transported from Texas to Los Angeles
Migrants in Texas say contractors working for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed them to board flights to California, promising shelter and immigration aid.The group included more than 40 people, including a number of minors, according to two people familiar with the situation.Abbott’s announcement comes after two planes carrying migrants arrived in Sacramento with transportation arranged by the state of Florida.
In the first flight, more than a dozen migrants from South America were flown on a chartered jet from New Mexico and dropped off in Sacramento. Documents carried by the migrants appeared to show that the flight was arranged through the Florida Division of Emergency Management and that it was part of the state’s program to relocate migrants, mostly from Texas, to other states, California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said. Florida officials later took responsibility for the chartered flights.
The contractor for the program is Vertol Systems Co., which coordinated similar flights that took dozens of Venezuelan asylum seekers from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts last year, he said. A spokesman for Gov. Gavin Newsom criticized the DeSantis administration for using Florida taxpayers’ dollars to send migrants from “Texas through New Mexico to California to get votes in Iowa and New Hampshire” — a swipe at the Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate campaigning in those pivotal states to secure the GOP nomination.
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