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DeSantis news: Martha’s Vineyard migrant survived torture in Mexico as Delaware flight ‘scam’ revealed

Civil rights groups sue the governor, alleging asylum seekers were victims of a fraudulent scheme exploited for a political stunt

The Independent UK

Florida's DeSantis traverses the U.S. as 2024 White House talk advances

Days after sending two planeloads of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis flew 1,000 miles (1,600 km) across the country to speak to voters in a Kansas hotel ballroom.

Reuters

Search interest in abortion falls as the border rises

The midterm election is just seven weeks away.

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Scott Maxwell: DeSantis relocates Texas migrants, lets Florida businesses keep using illegal labor

By now, you’ve heard plenty about Ron DeSantis’ stunt where he used Florida tax dollars to fly a plane full of migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard.

Orlando Sentinel

Michael Hiltzik: The saga of DeSantis' migrant flights gets uglier

Earlier this week, we speculated that the saga of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's migrant flights was bound to look uglier with time.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Texas sheriff’s probe of DeSantis’ heartless Vineyard stunt a long shot, but could unearth answers

The legality of what occurred last week, when a group of 48 Venezuelans were flown from Texas and dumped on swanky Martha’s Vineyard — a heartless relocation effort financed by the state of Florida and crowed about by Gov. Ron DeSantis — is being investigated. Good, we need more answers,…

Tribune News Service

DeSantis news - live: Migrant flight funding revealed as Florida governor’s polls surge

Delaware agencies were preparing for another potential flight due to arrive on Tuesday near President Joe Biden’s beach home in Rehoboth Beach

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Venezuelan migrants flown to California from Texas not part of GOP operation, activists say

Two groups of Venezuelan migrants flown separately to Sacramento, California, last week were sent by a Texas agency directing the travelers to a nonexistent immigration check-in location, an advocacy group told the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday.

Los Angeles Times

Are Ron DeSantis' Migrant Flights Legal?

Critics of the Martha’s Vineyard flights are raising a bevy of questions about the finances and alleged deception behind the scheme.

Reason

Expert: DeSantis stunt may be illegal

Is it legal to move migrants potentially against their will? An immigration lawyer weighs in

Salon

Ron DeSantis chartered migrant flights from GOP donor, report finds

An aviation company hired by the administration donated thousands of dollars to Republican causes, including the governor’s campaign and a state lawmaker central to his legislative agenda

The Independent UK

Influx of migrants from GOP-led states tests Dem strongholds

There are few places in the U.S. with a more deeply ingrained reputation as a refuge for immigrants than New York City

The Independent UK

Jon Stewart blasts DeSantis over ‘d***ish’ migrant flights

‘This stunt did exactly what he wanted it to do, which is jumped his profile, made him a hero amongst those, for whom d***ishness is one of those sole characteristics that they’re looking for in their leaders’

The Independent UK

The Republican party's cruel migrant stunts have very deep roots

The Republican governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, is facing a criminal investigation for sending two planes full of Latin American asylum-seekers to Martha’s Vineyard, a wealthy Massachusetts island where former president Barack Obama owns a home.

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The Independent UK

Texas Sheriff faces ‘influx’ of threats for investigating DeSantis sending migrant flights to northeast

The Florida governor claims that the migrants boarded the flights willingly

The Guardian - US

Trevor Noah on Adnan Syed: ‘Podcasts need to become part of the justice system’

Late-night hosts discuss the release of Serial subject after 22 years in prison, Biden declaring the end of the pandemic and Trump’s feud with DeSantis

The Independent UK

Jared Kushner condemns DeSantis’s migrant flights

The Florida governor is seen as a potential challenger to Donald Trump in 2024.

Reason

'This Is Not a Bluff': Putin Amps Up Nuke Threats

Plus: Migrants sue DeSantis, Justice Department undercounts jail and prison deaths, Juul sues for FDA records, and more...

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Axios

New poll shows DeSantis leading Trump in hypothetical Florida primary

In a hypothetical 2024 primary in Florida, DeSantis leads Trump 48% to 40%.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Abbott and DeSantis can’t have it both ways on migrants fleeing communism

Politicians in the Party of Trump are consistently unbothered by their own hypocrisy. Even still, it’s incredible to watch Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — who never miss an opportunity to harp on the socialist leanings of political opponents and who’ve each officially recognized “victims of…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: DeSantis draws from white segregationist playbook for his latest political ploy

Whether out of ignorance or deliberate intent, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis drew from a white supremacist playbook when he tricked 50 immigrants into boarding a plane in Texas so he could stage the stunt of delivering them to wealthy vacationers at Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The similarities are too striking to…

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: There’s a crisis at the border all right, but one created by political posturing

Despite widespread outcry, the governors of Florida and Texas say they will continue to bus or fly more migrants to unexpected locations across the nation to raise awareness about the crisis at the border. Using vulnerable humans as pawns in a political game is morally wrong and further destabilizes an…

Salon

Migrants flown to Mass. suing DeSantis

Plaintiffs accuse DeSantis of using flight to push "hate-driven agenda intended to create confusion and rejection"

Los Angeles Times

Column: Newsom for president — is he or isn’t he? Maybe it’s both

Is he or isn’t he?

Tribune News Service

Tyler Cowen: When immigration hypocrisy landed on Martha’s Vineyard

When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis spent public money to fly about 50 Venezuelan asylum seekers from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, the ostensible point — besides trolling and publicity, of course — was to show that immigrants are a burden on red-state resources. But his stunt reveals a political…

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