Ron DeSantis’s latest political stunt—transporting undocumented migrants to Martha’s Vineyard—provides a preview of the 2024 Presidential campaign, in which the Florida governor is likely to feature prominently.
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. DeSantis was not even relocating the group from his own state—the flights originated in Texas.
The U.S. 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.
In trying to position himself as a viable conservative alternative to Donald Trump, DeSantis is using emotive issues such as immigration and abortion and school curriculums to raise his national profile as a culture warrior. His strategy reflects the makeup of today’s Republican Party. As my colleague Benjamin Wallace-Wellsin a piece earlier this week, on the midterms, focussing on culture-war issues enables the G.O.P.
In addition to calling into question the legality of the transport flights, Democrats pointed out that DeSantis and his fellow G.O.P. governors are playing politics with vulnerable and defenseless migrants. “I think DeSantis and Abbott are overplaying their hands,” Cristóbal Alex, a former senior official in the Biden White House, who worked on immigration issues, told Politico. “They are using families, children as political pawns. It’s shameful—and will backfire on them.
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