TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis known as it “absurd” for California Gov. Gavin Newsom to ask for a federal investigation into Florida directing flights of migrants previous thirty day period from Texas to Sacramento.
Showing Monday on Fox Small business, DeSantis defended Florida’s use of a taxpayer-funded application to transport migrants, when criticizing California as a “sanctuary” point out.
“They’re serving seriously as a magnet for people to cross our border illegally,” DeSantis explained.
As he operates for the Republican presidential nomination, DeSantis has created President Joe Biden’s handling of immigration and the Southwest U.S. border a critical marketing campaign difficulty.
Newsom and California Attorney Basic Rob Bonta, equally Democrats, questioned U.S. Lawyer Standard Merrick Garland to look into the June 2 and June 5 migrant flights to California.
Those people flights adopted Florida flying migrants from Texas to Martha’s Winery in Massachusetts previous September. Critics have reported DeSantis has made use of migrants as “pawns.”
Attorneys for some of the migrants sent to Martha’s Vineyard and the advocacy group Alianza Americas submitted a probable course-motion lawsuit, alleging the asylum seekers were being “tricked” into heading from Texas to Massachusetts.
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