
DeSantis, this is his baby, this is his project, his fingerprints are all over it,” Bonta told the Los Angeles Times. “The waivers, which echo documents carried by migrants in previous transport cases, did not mention jobs, he said, and released Florida and Vertol of any liability,” The New York Times said.īonta appeared confident that the trail leads back to Florida. Bonta said that before leaving, migrants were also told to sign forms they didn’t understand. The same private contractor used by Florida during the Martha’s Vineyard operation, Vertol Systems Co., again transported migrants out of the state. While the Los Angeles Times says that migrants were promised help with finding work, The New York Times reports migrants were also promised “shelter, clothing and other necessities” in addition to jobs. A statement from his office said officials confirmed “these individuals were in possession of documentation purporting to be from the government of the State of Florida.”īoth the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times report that like the Martha’s Vineyard stunt, the migrants were originally lured in Texas. Rob Bonta said,” the Los Angeles Times reported. “The documents appear to show that the flight was arranged through the Florida Division of Emergency Management and that it was part of the state’s program to relocate migrants, mostly from Texas, to other states, Atty. Ron DeSantis again appears to be the culprit, California officials said. If this sounds like the cruel, political stunt last year where migrants were used as human props and tricked onto flights from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard, that’s because the administration of Florida Gov. Since then, a second flight has arrived to Sacramento. When a door at the Roman Catholic Diocese opened, the two men who transported the migrants drove off, leaving the group empty-handed.

But those promises turned out to be lies.

Late last week in California, a group of 16 Venezuelan and Colombian migrants were dumped outside the door of a Sacramento church, after they were apparently transported to the state on a private flight after being cajoled with promises of work and other assistance.
