Gavin Newsom îl numește pe DeSantis „omul mic și patetic” pentru că ar fi trimis imigranți în California

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California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom slammed 2024 GOP candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Monday for allegedly sending migrants on a plane from Florida to Sacramento, calling his long-time political rival a “small, pathetic man” and floating possible kidnapping charges against DeSantis.

Fapte-cheie

Newsom, who has made national headlines for targeting DeSantis, including in his famous “Join us in California” TV ad last summer, slammed DeSantis in a tweet, saying, “This isn’t Martha’s Vineyard,” where DeSantis took credit for a controversial initiative to send nearly 50 migrants on flights from Texas and through Florida in September.

California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta blamed Florida for allegedly sending migrants from Texas to California on board a charter flight, saying in a statement his office is investigating “the circumstances by which” the migrants were flown to California.

Bonta’s office will also determine “potential criminal or civil action” against any actors that arranged for the transportation, saying: “State-sanctioned kidnapping is not a public policy choice, it is immoral and disgusting.”

Știri Peg

More than a dozen migrants originally from Colombia and Venezuela were sent on a private plane to California, where they arrived carrying documentation “purporting to be from the government” of Florida, Bonta said. Those migrants had been approached in El Paso and told to sign documents before boarding, though they did not fully understand what was written on those papers, according to California officials, who added the migrants arrived at a church in Sacramento on Friday with papers labeled “Florida Division of Emergency Management” and its contracted transportation company, Vertol Systems Inc. Florida has not taken credit for the flight.

Fundalul cheie

DeSantis came under fire from Democrats and human rights organizations as details emerged last fall about two charter flights carrying migrants from San Antonio, Texas, through Florida and ultimately to Martha’s Vineyard, a resort island off Cape Cod. Officials on Martha’s Vineyard told Forbes they had no prior notice of the flights, while the passengers told the Boston Globe și Texas Tribune they were lured by a woman named Perla—identified as former U.S. Army combat medic Perla Huerta—to board the flights, though she did not say the planes would take them to a Massachusetts island. President Joe Biden chastised DeSantis for “playing politics with people’s lives,” while Newsom called for a Department of Justice probe, trantite the measure as “morally reprehensible.” DeSantis, meanwhile, has maintained the measure was designed to address what many GOP officials describe as a crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. He’s also not the only GOP governor to send migrants north: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey also led a bussing program to send migrants north to Chicago, New York City and Washington D.C., where officials condemned the measure. New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) initially declared a state of emergency last month, and later started busing migrants north of the city.

Numărul mare

$1.56 million. That’s how much Florida paid for the migrant transportation program to Martha’s Vineyard, which was also operated by Vertol Systems Inc. DeSantis restarted the controversial so-called migrant relocation program last month, after Florida lawmakers in February approved another bill earmarking $10 million for the program.

Lecturi suplimentare

DeSantis Reportedly Sending More Migrants To Northern States (Forbes)

New York City Begins Busing Migrants To Northern Suburbs—Sparking Tensions (Forbes)