Press sec. Karine Jean-Pierre excoriates GOP governors DeSantis, Abbott over migrant relocations, calling the move 'the kinds of tactics we see from smugglers.'
September 16, 2022, 4:13 PMRay Ewing/Vineyard Gazette via Reuters
SEN. CYR: I received a call from the sheriff here on Martha's Vineyard, who just an hour earlier, just after a little bit after three in the afternoon, [said] two chartered jets landed at Martha's Vineyard Airport. There was some level of coordination. Actually, a camera crew was on site to film these migrant families who were disembarking from the plane. And these 43 [to] 44 migrants ended up at Martha's Vineyard Community Services unannounced, essentially.
But they did not necessarily know where they're going. Actually, one of the migrants when we were speaking with them referred to a feeling of essentially being kidnapped. And this clearly appears, especially after seeing what Gov. Ron DeSantis has put out. This appears to be a political move, capitalizing on people in difficult circumstances for sort of a gotcha moment or a political stunt.
In the 1960s, segregationists tricked 96 Southern Black families into relocating to Hyannis. Hyannis, of course, [was] close to the then-President John F. Kennedy's home, and [it] was really an attempt by the segregationists to show Northern white liberals as hypocrites. What actually happened to those 96 families [is that] the community responded and rallied around them here on Cape Cod. They helped them find homes [and] get settled.
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