![]() ![]() He glibly framed the move as an act of service: “We are not a sanctuary state,” he said. DeSantis, who is currently running for reëlection, remains utterly unrepentant about exploiting as political props a group of migrants, some of whom were apparently misled into thinking they were headed to Boston, and told they would receive jobs and housing. ![]() ![]() Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Rachael Rollins, said she is looking into the legality of the flights, and Gavin Newsom, the Democratic governor of California, has called on the Justice Department to explore the possibility of bringing federal kidnapping charges. Massachusetts authorities moved the migrants to the mainland on Friday, and, as the migrants settle into a military base on Cape Cod, there are still myriad unanswered questions about the flights: Who exactly organized them? Were any Texas officials involved? What, if anything, did federal immigration authorities know about the maneuver? And were they even legal? In drawing up Florida’s state budget for 2021-22, the Republican-controlled state legislature allocated twelve million dollars of interest generated from unspent COVID-relief funds for the transportation of migrants, but the legislation said this money would be used to move “unauthorized aliens from this state”-not from Texas. DeSantis was not even relocating the group from his own state-the flights originated in Texas. A couple of weeks back, The Economist published a long cover story on “The Disunited States of America,” detailing how, on issues such as abortion, guns, voting rights, and immigration, America’s red and blue states are engaged in a “new politics of confrontation.” As if on cue, Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor who often seems as if he is campaigning to succeed Donald Trump as the nation’s Provoker-in-Chief, staged his latest political stunt: using Florida taxpayers’ money to charter two planes to fly about fifty undocumented migrants, mostly Venezuelan, to Martha’s Vineyard. ![]()
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