If DeSantis expects his latest comments about migrants to be persuasive, he’s going to be disappointed. (via MaddowBlog)
surrounding the incident, it’s possible the governor’s attorneys have encouraged him not to talk too much about what transpired.public comments. They just haven’t been especially good comments.
Late last week, for example, reporters asked him why he focused on Texas instead of apprehending migrants in Florida — a state with a large population from Venezuela and other Latin American countries. DeSantis said he had dispatched investigators to Texas — presumably with public funds — where they worked “for months.
“The problem is, we’re not seeing mass movements of them into Florida, so you end up with a car with maybe two,” DeSantis told reporters at a news conference. ... “It’s just coming in onesie, twosies,” he said.But aside from the odd phrasing, the governor’s comments didn’t constitute much of a defense. According to DeSantis, the whole point of his policy is to address Florida’s immigration problem.
It’s apparently why the Floridian invested resources in Texas, where Team DeSantis searched for migrants whoIf the Republican expects this to be persuasive, he’s going to be disappointed. There are asylum seekers in Florida. For reasons the governor hasn’t fully explained, he’s not trying to dump them in Northern communities, at least not right now. Instead, DeSantis’ focus has been on an entirely different state, where his representatives allegedly lied to desperate people in order to lure them onto airplanes as part of an exploitative scheme.
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