A Texas sheriff said Monday evening his agency will open an investigation into the transportation of 48 Venezuelan migrants from the state to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar, a Democrat, told reporters at a Monday news conference that his understanding was that on Wednesday a Venezuelan migrant was paid a fee to recruit migrants from a resource center in San Antonio. The sheriff believes not only Bexar County but also federal laws were broken. Salazar claims the migrants were flown to Florida and then to Martha’s Vineyard under false pretenses, used for a photo-op, and then stranded.
The sheriff has been speaking with an attorney who represents some of the migrants, in order to gain first-hand accounts of what took place. Salazar claims the allegations he's heard are violations of human rights.
Florida (Republican / antedeluvian) Governor DeSantis defended his decision to use Florida taxpayers' dollars to fund this most recent example of political opportunism. They all signed consent forms (which were very misleading and on some points out-and-out lies) to go. Then the vendor that is doing this for Florida (with taxpayers' money approved be DeSantis) provided them with a packet that had a map of Martha’s Vineyard … and the number for different services that are on Martha’s Vineyard, DeSantis said.
Why wouldn’t they want to go, given where they were? They were in really, really bad shape and they got to be cleaned up, everything, treated well, he added.
Again not true. DeSantis portrays these folks as if they were migrant farm workers who'd just forded the Rio Grande. In reality, they're political migrants, fleeing the leftist government in Venezuela, and seeking asylum in the U. S.
Sorry, Ron. They weren't in really, really bad shape, nor did they need to be cleaned up.
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