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Judge allows migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard by DeSantis to sue plane firm

About 50 people sent to island in 2022 in DeSantis’s ‘relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations’

The Guardian - US

California's Newsom threatens Florida's DeSantis with kidnapping charges over migrant flights

"DeSantis you small, pathetic man," the California governor said as 2nd migrant flight in days arrived in Sacramento.

Axios

Emails show use of private emails, encryption app in discussing Florida’s migrant relocations

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Newly released records from Gov. Ron DeSantis confirmed that his public safety czar, Larry Keefe, communicated with a Destin-based contractor hired to fly migrants from Texas to Massachusetts using a private email account with the call name “Clarice Starling.”

Orlando Sentinel

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Editorial: On migrant flights, what is DeSantis hiding?

You can see why Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to prevent Floridians from learning more about the flights that took migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard.

Orlando Sentinel

DeSantis’ chief of staff, public safety czar now named in lawsuit over migrant flights

MIAMI — Two members of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration are among new defendants named in a class-action lawsuit filed against the governor over the plan to fly 49 migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard earlier this year.

Miami Herald

Top DeSantis advisers played hands-on role in migrant flights to Martha’s Vineyard

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida’s public safety czar Larry Keefe was in San Antonio nearly two weeks before Gov. Ron DeSantis transported 48 migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard, and he may have traveled back to Florida with the migrants, records released late Friday suggest.

Orlando Sentinel

Watchdog group sues Gov. DeSantis, claims public records law was violated over migrant flights

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A nonprofit government watchdog group has filed a lawsuit alleging Gov. Ron DeSantis and his staff violated the state public records law for failing to produce documents and other material it requested related to two flights relocating migrants from Texas to Massachusetts.

Orlando Sentinel

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Ron DeSantis' migrant flights questioned after new documents released

The state records show that Florida paid Vertol Systems $615,000 for the September flights.

Axios

DeSantis migrant flights could last until June, records show

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Vertol Systems has until the end of next June to run through the $12 million approved by the Legislature for what critics have called a “political stunt” — relocating as many migrants as it can from Florida to other states and the District of Columbia, records released…

Orlando Sentinel

Ex-US army medic allegedly lured migrants on to flights to Martha’s Vineyard

Perla Huerta was reportedly sent to Texas from Florida to fill planes chartered by DeSantis, offering gift cards to asylum seekers

The Guardian - US

Martha’s Vineyard migrants demand flight companies preserve records or risk ‘federal court sanctions’

Lawyers suing DeSantis administration urge two firms to preserve records

The Independent UK

Company hired to arrange Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ migrant flights is tied to high-level state official

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration needed a company it could trust to carry out a controversial program to transport migrants to other states, it chose an unusual option.

Miami Herald

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

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