According to the California attorney general’s office, a second plane with about 20 migrants on board landed in Sacramento, California, on Monday.
The travelers had identity cards that showed they were from Florida. Office representatives, special agents from the California Department of Justice were there with the migrants at the airport.
Plane with Migrants Lands in Sacramento
After 16 migrants from Venezuela and Colombia were dropped off at a Catholic church on Friday after arriving by plane, the information was only learned on Monday.
The migrants were picked up in El Paso, Texas, and each of them had identification cards that were connected to both Florida’s emergency management division and the contractor Vertol Systems Company, which planned the journey.
Florida’s Republican governor and 2024 presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis has not yet made a public statement on the subject.
A succession of inquiries from Insider went unanswered, but the governor revealed in September that his government had organized another flight carrying 49 migrants from San Antonio, Texas, to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.
DeSantis regularly boasts in speeches about the misadventure on Martha’s Vineyard, especially while he is vying for the presidency in 2024.
One of several unexpected announcements DeSantis made during his first term was this one.
These statements elicit vehement responses, garner media attention, make national news, enrage liberals while converting him to conservatism.
He used the tactic in the 2022 election to win by about 20 points over former Rep. Charlie Crist of the Democratic Party.
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Sanctuary Cities Amid Border Crisis
It is now unclear who is to blame for the journey to California, despite an increase in migrant crossings at the US-Mexico border, as other states have moved immigrants to sanctuary cities including New York City, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.
Texas’ Republican governor, Greg Abbott, has declared that he will keep busing migrants into these communities until the federal government finds a solution to the problem at the border.
The Texas migrant relocations began last summer. The southern border immigration dilemma has also spread to states that do not border Mexico.
Earlier this year, Colorado Democrat Gov. Jared Polis moved migrants to sanctuary communities, while Florida Republican Gov. and presidential aspirant Ron DeSantis flew migrants from the Sunshine State to Martha’s Vineyard last October.
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