In a statement, Abbott's office encouraged other governors to join in his migrant-relocation crusade. GregAbbott RonDeSantis SanAntonio SATX SanAntonioTX Immigration MarthasVineyard Texas Florida Migrants
Gov. Greg Abbott has drawn criticism for his program of busing asylum seekers out of Texas and dropping them off in Democrat-controlled cities.
On Wednesday, some 50 migrants arrived by plane at Martha's Vineyard, an affluent island enclave off the coast of Massachusetts,Although DeSantis took credit for the stunt and admitted to paying for the flights, several of the migrants, most of whom are Venezuelan, told reporters that they had flown from San Antonio,According to online flight records, the planes departed from the Alamo City, making stops in Florida and South Carolina along the way.
DeSantis now joins Abbott and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, another Republican anti-immigrant hardliner, in expelling migrants from their states in what critics call a pricy and cruel game of political grandstanding.
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