Florida’s Emergency Management Agency confirmed the agency’s role in transporting migrants to Sacramento, California, but 2024 presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has so far said California Watching the ripples of attacks from Governor Gavin Newsom, we are instead focusing on: He criticized the perceived failure of President Biden on the border crisis.
Florida Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Amelia Johnson said in a statement to Fox News Digital on Tuesday that the migrants flew in private jets and departed voluntarily.
“As you can see in this video, voluntary immigration in Florida is truly voluntary,” she said. “These volunteers expressed through verbal and written consent that they wanted to go to California. A contractor was present to make sure they could reach a third party NGO safely. catholic charity, Used and funded by the federal government. ”
“The migration of people who have illegally crossed the U.S. border is nothing new, according to left-wing mayors of El Paso, Texas and Denver, Colorado. illegal imprisonment and kidnapping,” the spokesperson wrote.
Newsom threatens DeSantis with ‘kidnapping charges’ over immigration flight to Sacramento
Mr Johnson shared a video of migrants smiling, waving and signing applications in a limousine-like vehicle. A still photo in the clip showed the migrants smiling and giving a thumbs-up to the camera inside the jet. “We’ve arrived in California! Oh, thank God!” One immigrant says he recorded his voice after landing.
Another migrant, taped in a hotel room, expressed gratitude for the opportunity, saying the flight saved him from Central American militias. MS-13 gang violence. “Have you ever felt mistreated?” a woman asks a migrant group in a video. “No. No, they treated us very well,” one of the immigrants replied in what appeared to be an office.
It is not clear when or where the clip was recorded.
DeSantis so far has not responded after Newsom labeled the governor of Florida as a “poor little man” and threatened him with kidnapping charges on Monday. California Attorney General Rob Bonta claimed Saturday that a group of immigrants arrived in Sacramento “with documents purportedly from the Florida government.”
“State-sanctioned kidnapping is not a public policy choice, it is an immoral and abominable practice,” Bonta wrote.
Two planes arrived in Sacramento on Friday and Monday, each carrying asylum seekers, mostly from Colombia and Venezuela. Bonta said the individuals were picked up in El Paso, Texas, transported to New Mexico, and then put on a charter flight to Sacramento, California’s capital. Violation of criminal or civil law Occurred.
Bonta told CNN late Tuesday that he would request the unedited video footage of the group held by the state of Florida.
Mr. Johnson posted a chart titled “History of Illegal Immigration Traffic across the United States,” pointing out that Florida is not the only government agency moving immigrants.
According to this graph, Texas Governor Greg Abbott bussed 8,500 immigrants to Washington, DC. 4,000 to New York City. 1,300 to Chicago. 260 to Philadelphia.
El Paso Democratic Mayor Oscar Reeser sent 10,700 immigrants to New York City and 3,250 to Chicago, according to the Florida Emergency Management Agency. New York City Mayor Eric Adams, also a Democrat, has so far bussed 340 immigrants to other parts of New York state, according to Johnson, and an unknown number of immigrants have made it to Canada. said.
California officials investigate immigration to Sacramento ‘without prior warning’
Meanwhile, DeSantis hosted a roundtable on the Arizona border crisis on Wednesday. Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody was also present. Cochise County, Arizona, Sheriff Mark Danells. Sheriff Grady Judd of Polk County, Florida. and Sheriff Wayne Ivey of Brevard County, Florida.
In his opening remarks, Mr. DeSantis mentioned California’s practice of issuing ID cards to illegal immigrants, but not Newsom. DeSantis said Florida released a report to a statewide grand jury last year “on the treatment of some people coming across the border who are basically being trafficked.”
“A lot of that is directly attributable to the policies of the Biden administration,” DeSantis said.
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DeSantis signed into law in early May, just weeks before announcing his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, providing $12 million for his immigration migration program. On the campaign trail, he told how Florida flew 49 immigrants, mostly from Venezuela, to the state of Massachusetts. Martha’s Vineyard To protest federal immigration and sanctuary policies.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
