Inside the covert op behind DeSantis' migrant flights

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NEW: Money left at dead drops. Encrypted messages. A woman whom one Venezuelan migrant called "Perla Hermosa." Here's the inside story of the covert operation behind Gov. Ron DeSantis' migrant flights https://miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article266767796.html… w/ @Blaskey_S + Carl Juste

Emmanuel, a 27-year-old Venezuelan migrant who worked for Gov. DeSantis’ migrant relocation program and is now cooperating with the sheriff’s criminal investigation.
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Perla was his boss. He was her ace. Inside the covert op behind DeSantis’ migrant flights
The final of three cash payments — $700 total — was left under a chunk of broken concrete behind the East Terrell Hills location of a San Antonio barbecue chain.
5:39 AM · Oct 17, 2022

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The final of three cash payments — $700 total — was left under a chunk of broken concrete behind the East Terrell Hills location of a San Antonio barbecue chain.

It was Sept. 20. The day everything fell apart.

Perla Huerta, a 43-year-old former U.S. Army counterintelligence agent working for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, got out her phone and opened the secure messaging app Signal.

“The money is going to be in the Bill Miller [restaurant] near your house,” Huerta wrote in Spanish to a 27-year-old Venezuelan migrant named Emmanuel. “It’s going to be behind the dumpster outside in a white envelope.”

She added two photos of the area, using her finger to circle the exact location in a thick magenta line.

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