Look at this, these folks were in Texas, not Florida, Texas!
They were promised, housing, jobs, money. They were lied to, no one was expecting them.
Fortunately, once there, the people in the area rallied to get them help.
They are seeking asylum, legally.
Talk about a political stunt...
Florida budget language that created migrant relocation program would not permit DeSantis’ Massachusetts flights stunt
The budget language that appropriated the money for Florida’s migrant relocation program would not permit two flights this week, for which Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has claimed credit, or the relocation of some of the migrants recruited for them, CNN has learned.
Two planes carrying about 50 migrants arrived at Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts earlier this week. The DeSantis’ administration had secured $12 million in the state budget to pay for migrant relocation, and the governor had repeatedly threatened to use the money to send them to liberal strongholds.
DeSantis said he arranged for the two flights which landed in Massachusetts, but the migrants had actually been in Texas.
Florida’s migrant relocation program, according to the budget language which DeSantis signed into law, says the program should move migrants who are “unlawfully present” in the United States “from this state,” meaning the flights from Texas to Massachusetts would not have been covered by the budget, language and anyone relocated as part of the program was not legally allowed to be in the US.
more:
http://www.cnn.com/2022/09/16/us/marthas-vineyard-migrants-florida-budget-language/index.html
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