DeSantis sends two planes with migrants to Martha's Winery

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) despatched two planeloads of migrants to Martha's Vinyard on Wednesday.

Video displaying the arrival of the planes was obtained by Fox News, which additionally reported an announcement from the governor's workplace. Roughly 50 migrants, together with youngsters, arrived at Martha’s Winery Airport in Massachusetts, in keeping with the Martha's Winery Occasions.

The trouble seems to be a part of Republican states' efforts to convey elevated consideration to the migrant disaster, most notably seen by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), who has bused migrants to the Democratic-run cities of New York, Washington, D.C., and Chicago. The Florida governor mentioned again in April that the state finances had allotted $12 million to the Florida Division of Transportation, naming Delaware and Martha's Winery particularly as potential migrant relocation locations.

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"Sure, Florida can verify the 2 planes with unlawful immigrants that arrived in Martha’s Winery right this moment had been a part of the state’s relocation program to move unlawful immigrants to sanctuary locations," DeSantis's communications director, Taryn Fenske, instructed Fox News. "States like Massachusetts, New York, and California will higher facilitate the care of those people who they've invited into our nation by incentivizing unlawful immigration by way of their designation as ‘sanctuary states’ and assist for the Biden administration’s open border insurance policies."

"As you could know, on this previous legislative session, the Florida legislature appropriated $12 million to implement a program to facilitate the transport of unlawful immigrants from this state in line with federal legislation," she added.

Martha's Winery, located simply south of Cape Cod, is a high-end neighborhood that many conservatives see as synonymous with liberal elites. Former President Barack Obama bought a virtually $12 million mansion there, stirring controversy in 2021 when he held a sixtieth birthday bash on the property throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

Reporter David Wade confirmed the arrival of fifty migrants to Martha's Winery by aircraft, including that they had been being helped by a church. The migrants instructed translators that they had been from Venezuela and had been flown in from Texas. Most did not know the place they had been, the reporter added.

“The Baker-Polito Administration is in contact with native officers concerning the arrival of migrants in Martha’s Winery," mentioned an announcement from a spokesman for Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (R). "Right now, short-term shelter companies are being supplied by native officers, and the Administration will proceed to assist these efforts.”

Fox News Digital obtained footage of the migrants arriving at an airport after which being loaded aboard vans.

The latest incident is the primary time a crimson state governor has despatched migrants to majority-liberal areas by aircraft fairly than bus. DeSantis, who is usually considered a top-tier presidential contender if he runs in 2024, is searching for reelection as governor this yr.

A "firm" organized the flights, the Martha's Winery Occasions was instructed, and Geoff Freeman, the native airport director, mentioned the identify of the constitution was Extremely Air Charters.

“It seems that one if not many Republican governors or operatives chartered flights from the south to come back and drop undocumented or documented, I’m unsure, immigrants on Martha’s Vineayrd,” mentioned state Rep. Dylan Fernandes (D), in keeping with the report. “These governors or whoever it's, all they care about is scoring some political factors on Tucker Carlson and Fox News and the truth that they're utilizing human lives — ladies, youngsters, males — as pawns in that and simply actually abusing these individuals dropping them off in a spot the place they don’t know the place they're with no meals and water simply to have the ability to get in Tucker Carlson and Fox News’s good graces is disgusting. It’s inhumane. These individuals declare to be Christians? That is about as unChristian a factor as you might be doing. It’s evil.”