Texas authorities have opened a prison investigation into Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ cargo of almost 50 migrants from Texas to Florida to Martha’s Winery final week.
The Bexar County Sheriff’s Workplace is probing whether or not the migrants, primarily from Venezuela, had been victims of crimes, Sheriff Javier Salazar stated Monday.
Salazar stated the migrants had been “lured” to board flights from San Antonio in Bexar County with false guarantees of employment and alternative when in actuality, he stated, they had been used as political pawns.
“Anyone got here from out of state, preyed upon these individuals, lured them with guarantees of higher life,” Salazar stated at a information briefing.
A migrant who had been paid a “bird-dog payment” recruited the Venezuelans from a migrant useful resource heart in Texas beneath false pretenses. The 48 migrants who had been recruited had been then hosted in a resort for a couple of days earlier than they had been flown first to Florida and then to the Winery for “little greater than a photograph and video op,” the sheriff stated.
Salazar — who didn’t title DeSantis — stated the migrants had been “exploited and hoodwinked into making this journey to Florida after which onward to Martha’s Winery for what I consider to be little greater than political posturing to make a degree.”
In a Monday night time interview with Fox Information’ Sean Hannity, DeSantis known as the outrage surrounding his cargo of migrants to Martha’s Winery “irritating” and questioned the dearth of anger from Democrats over previous immigration developments affecting the US.
“Tens of millions of individuals since Biden’s been president, illegally coming throughout the southern border. Did they freak out about that? No. You had migrants die within the Rio Grande. You had 50 die in Texas in a trailer as a result of they had been being uncared for. Was there a freakout about that? No there wasn’t,” DeSantis stated.
The Florida governor then once more accused Democrats of “advantage signaling” and blasted Martha’s Winery officers for the way in which they dealt with the arrival of the migrants.
“It’s solely when 50 [migrants] get put into Martha’s Winery — which wasn’t saying they didn’t need this, they stated they wished this, they stated they had been a sanctuary jurisdiction — these had been individuals who had been mainly destitute, after which put in a scenario the place they might have succeeded, however that was all advantage signaling,” DeSantis stated.
“And never solely did they not welcome them, however they deported them the subsequent day with the Nationwide Guard. Give me a break,” he added.
Earlier Monday, DeSantis’ communications director Taryn Fenske had struck an analogous tone in response to Salazar’s accusations.
“Immigrants have been greater than keen to depart Bexar County after being deserted, homeless, and ‘left to fend for themselves,'” Fenske stated in a press release. “Florida gave them a chance to hunt greener pastures in a sanctuary jurisdiction that provided higher assets for them, as anticipated.”
Salazar stated the migrants had been “left to fend for themselves” on the small Massachusetts island, however DeSantis’ workplace disputed the declare.
“Except the MA nationwide guard has deserted these people, they've been offered lodging, sustenance, clothes and extra choices to succeed following their unfair enticement into america, in contrast to the 53 immigrants who died in a truck discovered deserted in Bexar County this June,” Fenske stated.
Through the press convention, Salazar stated the migrants have authorized standing within the US — after presenting themselves to American authorities and in search of asylum standing — but they had been nonetheless focused and allegedly exploited.
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“Once you’re enjoying with human lives, folks that have each proper to be right here, that does are inclined to trouble me fairly a bit,” he stated.
“These individuals had been right here legally. They had been documented,” he added. “They'd the proper to stroll across the streets free and never be transported throughout the nation for it to be a media occasion. That’s a tragedy.”
DeSantis stated the 2 flights had been a part of Florida’s program to relocate migrants from Florida to sanctuary cities regardless of Salazar’s claims that the migrants originated in Texas.
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