The woman known as “Perla” has been identified as former U.S. Army combat medic and counter-intelligence specialist Perla Huerta.
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Perla was photographed by various migrants she approached outside the shelter, where she had also enlisted other migrants to aid her in gathering volunteers for the flights. Those photos were passed along to attorneys representing the migrants who would eventually be abandoned by flight organizers on Martha’s Vineyard, who matched them to social media images of Perla Huerta, a Tampa, Florida, resident.
An Army spokesperson confirmed to CNN that Huerta spent more than two decades as “a Combat Medic Specialist and Counterintelligence Agent in the regular Army from April 2002 to August 2022,” and had achieved the rank of master sergeant. It is still unclear how Huerta is connected to or being compensated by the Florida government, who has claimed responsibility for the flights.
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