Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Plans to Resume Migrant Flights; Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Will Fly Migrants to Illinois and Delaware

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to resume migrant flights:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to resume flights of migrants to Democratic-led areas once his state is done cleaning up from Hurricane Ian, an aide said.
Two flights to Delaware and Illinois were supposed to take place earlier but were postponed when the storm hit, documents show.
“While Florida has had all hands on deck responding to our catastrophic hurricane, the immigration relocation program remains active,” DeSantis Communications Director Taryn Fenske told The Associated Press.
The Republican governor raised eyebrows in mid-September by sending a plane full of Venezuelan migrants to Martha’s Vineyard without advanced notice.
The tony Massachusetts enclave provided the migrants with food and shelter before sending them to locations on the mainland. --->READ MORE HERE
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Florida governor Ron DeSantis will fly migrants to Illinois and Delaware
The Republican governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, plans to continue flying undocumented migrants to Democratic strongholds, his spokeswoman said on Saturday, a day after released records showed the state paid nearly $1m to arrange two sets of flights to Delaware and Illinois.
Documents released on Friday showed that the planned flights will transport about 100 migrants. They were scheduled for before 3 October but were halted or postponed. The contractor hired by Florida extended the window for the trips until 1 December, according to memos released by the state transportation department.
Asked why the flights were postponed, DeSantis’s communications director, Taryn Fenske, said Florida had been busy dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Ian.
“While Florida has had all hands on deck responding to our catastrophic hurricane, the immigration relocation program remains active,“ Fenske said.
The flights would be a follow-up to 14 September flights from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, that carried 49 mostly Venezuelan migrants to the island where the former president Barack Obama owns a home. Local officials were not told in advance that the migrants were coming. --->READ MORE HERE
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