Gov. Ron DeSantis sent a hired videographer on the plane with the 50 migrants relocated to MA:

[demmiblue]

We have just learned from WPRI12 (CBS) and Rep. Bill Keating that Gov. Ron DeSantis sent a hired videographer on the plane with the 50 migrants relocated to Massachusetts in order to capture footage of them being dropped off.

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[Walleye]

1. Where are the journalists on this. Are they gonna let a hired videographer give us a warped picture

[Meadowoak]

2. I hope Desatin loses the Hispanic vote over this stunt.

[RainCaster]

5. Those films were all from TX, I how the TX GOP pays

Those MAGAts need to lose the Hispanic vote

[atreides1]

6. He won't

The Hispanic community in Florida has large pockets of racists and bigots...they could form their own Klan group.

[Caliman73]

7. Maybe some, but not likely.

"Hispanics" are not a single group. Cubans and Puerto Ricans are the largest groups in Florida. Puerto Ricans are US Citizens, and while they tend to be more liberal as a group, Immigration is not a major issue in that community. Cubans, until recently also had a favored status on immigration and they tend to be more conservative.

There are Latino groups, even Mexicans (who have traditionally been the targeted group on immigration) and Central American groups (Hondurans, Salvadorian, Guatemalan, and Nicaraguan) that once established in the US, also tend to look down on later generations of immigrants from their own region.

If they have Conservative leanings at this point, then the mistreatment of people who may "look" like them, but are not them, would likely not matter much.

[LeftInTX]

12. Exactly, I get so tired of "same ethnicity", "looks like me" stuff

Do white people hate white people?
Yes

Is it racist for conservative whites to hate liberal whites and vice a versa?

Are white people who hate Donald Trump hating "their own"?

[scarletlib]

24. These folks were Venezuelan. Large community in South Florida

Also lots of Columbians.

[Mad_Machine76]

3. Disgusting

[liberalmuse]

4. Vile.

12 million spent for this stunt that could have helped so many people struggling in his state.

[Caliman73]

9. They (Conservatives) do not want to help people.

They certainly do not want the government to help poor people, minorities, and immigrants. This is what the Conservative movement is now. The direct and cruel defender of the status quo. The defender or White Power. Remember Trump was separating children from their parents FOR THE PURPOSE of harming them as some sort of sick deterrent of immigration. The choice is, likely die in your own country or have your kids taken from you here. People still made the choice for life for their children, even if they were separated.

[liberalmuse]

17. I think I'm at my limit with them.

They've become evil IMO. Their cruelty is so bad right now it makes me grieve. Transporting human beings who just want asylum around like cattle to impress the racist and hateful.

I went to the grocery store yesterday and the cashier I've spoken with many times before starts in out of the blue how Democrats have messed up everything because they have us involved in all these wars (what wars???) and that's why grocery prices are up. I told him I was a Democrat but he kept on going with his hateful rant that I did not even ask for. I finally told him I'd prefer not to discuss politics at the checkout and left, disgusted. They are getting crazier and crazier. It scared me because I live in a blue state, but this guy who used to be pleasant for the couple years I've shopped there has lost his mind.

[rgbecker]

8. Kidnapping. Clear case.

Not being told where they are going...same as taking people against their will. Can Garland please get some balls on this?

[link:https://www.npr.org/2022/09/15/1123109768/migrants-sent-to-marthas-vineyard|

[dchill]

10. Of course he did - else what would be the point?

[C_U_L8R]

11. This is blowing up in DeSantis' face

He may have gotten a quick rise out of the racists but for the most part, people find his awful stunt despicable and desperate.

[Srkdqltr]

13. And doing this will get the immigrants better attention than they would in Texas or Florida.

I think the stunt will backfire.

[Mopar151]

14. Martha's Vineyard is a RESORT.

Like Vail, or Aspen. And they were at peak occupancy 2 weeks ago! The students have returned to Boston en masse.

The Mass. governor is a good man - a Republican (Charlie Baker) primaried out of office by the Trumpists! The new Mayor in Boston is good as well, and an activist for working people.

IMHO, this is all about spite and jealousy by an absolutely infantile DeSantis, "making points" with all the mean, miserable cretins that make up his "base".

[CTyankee]

23. Please do not underestimate DeSantis. He knows what he is doing and he is not infantile.

He's a product of Yale and Harvard Business School. I am deeply suspicious of what this guy is doing and/or planning to do.

Let's all keep an eye on him!

[ultralite001]

15. DOJ - Human Trafficking

https://www.justice.gov/humantrafficking

b) The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery. (22 U.S.C. § 7102(9)).

[prodigitalson]

19. maybe

It is certainly transportation of a person through the use of fraud and coercion. Not sure about the labor services - unless it's as unpaid props for a DeSantis political ad.

[Midnight Writer]

16. Who payed for the videographer?

A) The Florida taxpayer

B) DeSantis covered it out of pocket

C) DeSantis campaign paid for it as part of a political ad

[tinrobot]

18. Subpoena that footage, please. Evidence of a crime.

[kskiska]

20. The "season" is almost over on Martha's Vineyard.

Most of the wealthy people close up their homes go to Florida and other places for winter - usually from Thanksgiving to Easter.

[peggysue2]

21. What a pleasant man DeSantis is!

Using human beings as political props bc after all--their lives are worthless.

[TheBlackAdder]

22. I heard the plane's flight plan was diverted, giving no warning to DHS/INS or Medical/Fam Svcs.

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This was a calculated endeavor to illegally mule 50 people across the country.


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