A Florida emergency management official confirmed that the state had transported migrants from Texas to Sacramento recently, defending the controversial flights as voluntary even as California investigators considered whether the movements broke the law.
“Florida’s voluntary relocation is precisely that — voluntary,” Alecia Collins, a spokeswoman for Florida’s Division of Emergency Management, said in a statement released Tuesday to The Washington Post. “Through verbal and written consent, these volunteers indicated they wanted to go to California. A contractor was present and ensured they made it safely.”
The movement of the migrants by Florida followed its decision last year to transport 49 migrants from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard, the tony resort off the coast of another Democratic state, Massachusetts. And it has revived a battle between Florida’s Republican Gov., has not commented on the California flights. Newsom used them to belittle his counterpart.
“They are trying way too hard to demonstrate that [the migrants] came to California voluntarily,” Bonta said, referring to Florida officials. “You cannot have consent to travel if it’s based on deception.” Migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard have sued DeSantis, Vertol and a recruiter in federal court in Massachusetts, arguing they were tricked onto the planes, according to Lawyers for Civil Rights, the Boston-based legal group representing them. DeSantis’s attorneys dispute those claims and have tried to get the case dismissed or transferred to Florida — so far, unsuccessfully — arguing the Boston court lacks jurisdiction.
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