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  • June 11, 2023
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Some migrants contacted by “contractors” near a Catholic orphanage in El Paso (Texas, USA) They turned down an offer to fly to Sacramento, California. fearing they were drug

Migrants refuse DeSantis flights for fear they are from drug dealers

Some migrants contacted by “contractors” near a Catholic orphanage in El Paso (Texas, USA) They turned down an offer to fly to Sacramento, California. fearing they were drug or organ dealers, unaware that the trips were part of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ controversial program.

Interviews given by the newspaper Los Angeles Times these migrants, who wish to remain anonymous, demonstrate their complete disregard for the fact that they flew under contract from Florida, because the two men and two women who recruited them gave vague explanations about the transfer.

Flights finally started on June 2 and 5. a total of 36 migrants, many of whom are Venezuelans and Colombians, and arrived in Sacramento, where they caught the local authorities by surprise.

Both were operating in the same manner as another flight that left Texas last September for Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, with about 50 migrants, for which the Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR) sued the DeSantis government.

The Republican running for president in 2024 and his Texas counterpart, Greg Abbott, in 2022. transportation of migrants by planes and buses, respectively, to Democratic jurisdictions to protest the immigration policies of President Joe Biden.

While traveling, migrants do not know they are part of this political struggle and do not distrust the pressure to get on these flights, but Given the lack of options, they eventually agree, according to an interview conducted Los Angeles Times.

Both California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Sacred Heart of El Paso, where numerous migrants gather after crossing the border and before continuing their journey to other places in the United States, They criticized the use of vulnerable migrants for political purposes.

Democrat Newsom called the move a possible “kidnapping” while California investigates this fact.

The Florida government confirmed a few days after the flights that the trips part of its migrant resettlement program and that they traveled voluntarily.

(EFE)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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