New York has issued 4,507 one-way tickets to Texas through a voluntary program that transfers asylum seekers out of the city, according to Mayor Eric Adams' office.
@#7 ... This is America, you should be able to go where you want! ...
So ...
Why did the Governors of Florida and Texas apparently mislead the immigrants of what was happening to them?
Or were those Governors kidnapping those people and shipping them elsewhere for political purposes?
The Story Behind DeSantis's Migrant Flights to Martha's Vineyard (2022)
www.nytimes.com
... "We were tricked," one migrant said. ...
In June, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a budget that set aside $12 million to create a program for transporting unauthorized migrants out of Florida. He touted it as the highlight of the state's new spending when it came to immigration.
But just three months later, the money was being used in a place far from Florida, in a very different way: rounding up Venezuelan asylum seekers on the streets of San Antonio and shipping them on private planes to Massachusetts.
The flights last month, carrying 48 migrants, attracted international attention and drew condemnation from Democrats as well as several legal challenges. Mr. DeSantis immediately claimed credit for what appeared to be a political maneuver " dumping dozens of asylum seekers on the doorstep of Northeastern Democrats who have resisted calls to clamp down on immigration.
Florida officials have provided little information about the program or how it was engineered. But details have begun to emerge ...
... Florida officials have provided little information ...
Yeah, that seems to be a speciality of Florida's government.
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