Kevyn wrote:
Donald Trump isn’t the only 2024 presidential contender facing legal trouble. The Guardian’s Adam Gabbatt reports that Florida’s Republican governor Ron DeSantis may be in hot water over his involvement in flying migrants around the United States:
A Texas sheriff’s office has recommended criminal charges over flights that the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, arranged to deport 49 South American migrants from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard, in Massachusetts, last year.
In a statement on Monday, the Bexar county sheriff’s office said it had filed a criminal case with the local district attorney over the flight. The Bexar county sheriff, Javier Salazar, has previously said the migrants were “lured under false pretenses” into traveling to Martha’s Vineyard, a wealthy liberal town.
The recommendation comes after the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, threatened DeSantis with kidnapping charges on Monday, after Florida flew a group of people seeking asylum to Sacramento. It was the second time in four days Florida had used taxpayer money to fly asylum seekers to California.
Why would the taxpayers of Florida be burdened with the cost of DeSantas ordering the kidnapping of migrants in Texas and taking them to California? This is wrong and criminal on so many levels.
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