California probing whether Florida sent migrant flight to Sacramento

Representatives of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis didn’t in an instant reply on Sunday to a request for remark.

DeSantis ultimate yr organized to shipping dozens of migrants to the Massachusetts holiday island of Martha’s Vineyard as a part of a marketing campaign via Republican governors in Texas and Florida to shift one of the crucial immigration burden to Democratic-run towns additional north.

The buses and planes of migrants have greater partisan pressure on immigration, as DeSantis pursues the 2024 Republican nomination for president.

Sixteen asylum seekers from Venezuela and Colombia have been dropped off on the doorstep of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento on Friday, the Los Angeles Times reported, bringing up officers.

They had to start with been taken via bus from Texas to New Mexico after which flown via personal jet to Sacramento, California Governor Gavin Newsom stated in a remark issued on Saturday.

Attorney General Rob Bonta, additionally a Democrat, stated in a separate remark that California was once investigating whether there was once prison or civil legal responsibility for individuals who organized the flight.

Initial findings printed the migrants possessed documentation “purporting to be from the government of the State of Florida,” Bonta stated.

“While we continue to collect evidence, I want to say this very clearly: State-sanctioned kidnapping is not a public policy choice, it is immoral and disgusting,” Bonta stated, including that California would welcome the migrants “with open arms.”

Responding to the Martha’s Vineyard incident, DeSantis informed supporters ultimate yr that, “There may be more flights, there may be buses.”

Florida paid $615,000 to an aviation corporate as a part of a “relocation program of unauthorized aliens,” Florida state knowledge confirmed.

(Reporting via Daniel Trotta; Editing via Christopher Cushing)