Newsom doubles down on possible legal charges over migrant flights from Florida

[jgo]

Source: The Hill

Newsom told Politico in an interview on Tuesday that at least some of the migrants who were flown to the state capital of Sacramento appear to have been misled and sent under false pretenses. He rejected the Florida state government’s insistence that the migrants all traveled voluntarily.

“When you have the smoking gun, which is the paperwork in hand that everyone hands over to you, it’s pretty self-evident,” he said.

The Florida Division of Emergency Management confirmed on Tuesday that it was responsible for the flights.

Bonta said after the flights landed that California was conducting an investigation and considering any criminal charges of civil action that might be taken. He said the flights might be instances of “state-sanctioned kidnapping.”


Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4037934-newsom-doubles-down-on-possible-legal-charges-over-migrant-flights-from-florida/

[SunSeeker]

1. Go get him, Bonta!

[usonian]

2. Why I am a Democrat: Democrats have compassion for others!

https://democraticunderground.com/100217954571
Democrats have compassion for others.

• When every person
  a. is guaranteed rights, opportunity, and equity,
  b. can make a good living,
  c. is respected,
  then all benefit and the nation benefits.
• Government invests in its citizens.
• Labor and innovation create wealth.
• Productivity gains are shared with those who are less blessed than others.
• Government is by the people and for the people.
• The legal system protects rights, especially of minorities.
In short: equality, honor and fairness.


The thugs have no compassion.
They believe that:
• Money and power are concentrated in the hands of a few.
• Business grows by monopoly aggregation and by stifling competition.
• Freedom means no regulation. Nothing more.
• Government enforces "the economic order" (a caste system)
• Workers and voters are kept from uniting, chiefly by a divide and conquer strategy, i.e culture wars.
• Welfare for the rich. The fraud called "Trickle Down" really means "golden showers". (wink, wink)
AND. THEY TREAT PEOPLE LIKE PAWNS IN A SICK AND TWISTED GAME.

In short: inequality, arrogance and privilege

or just outrage over imagined/manufactured fears.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

12. Excellent post. Florida's treatment vs. California's

of these migrant workers encapsulates in a nutshell your post comparing the left and right.

[MayReasonRule]

17. Reason Begets Equality, Honor And Fairness. Delusion Begets Inequality, Arrogance And Privilege.

In the absence of reason our rights cease to exist in application.

May reason rule across our troubled land.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

23. I'd edit that a bit

• Freedom means no regulation. Nothing more.

Freedom means no regulation for rich, white, straight, christian and right wing males, and peonage for everyone else.

[PortTack]

3. Migrants traveled voluntarily...many may not speak enough English to really understand..but oh

It was voluntary..who buys that shit??!!

[LoisB]

4. Go get 'em, Gavin.

[C Moon]

5. DeSantis is showing that he is pure evil.

He's already enacting revenge (and using innocent lives in the process) because Newsom is calling him out on his evil deeds.

[Pacifist Patriot]

7. He really is.

I wish some folks would take him more seriously. He's a clear and present danger.

[Bengus81]

14. Usually a smart person doesn't revel that side until AFTER they win an election

Not with DeSASTER. He's showing right now what he'll do on a National level if elected President

[calimary]

6. Go for it, Gavin!

Make ‘em PAY. And not just financially.

[onetexan]

10. Ditto!!

Bravo Gov. Newsom!

[Hekate]

8. Kick!

[markie]

9. Please!!

Newsom, please do it!!

[bucolic_frolic]

11. A sitting governor committing brazen crime in full view for political purposes

There is no choice but to go after DeSantis. There is no downside to seeking justice. Even if he wiggles out of it, he is now tainted meat. The alligators are circling. It has just been a mean-spirited act from the beginning. And let's not forget, Texas is involved!! These flights were from out of state. Abbott or his minions may well have signed off on it, or agreed to look the other way. Companies are involved, who willingly performed these services. This has a network to it.

[tanyev]

13. And using state funds to do so!

There's got to be some Florida law about misuse of state funds. I'd say using state funds to traffic people from a distant state to an even more distant state just to give the governor something to brag about in his presidential campaign certainly qualifies.

[riversedge]

15. Hope he smacks down DeSantis in a grand style!

[usonian]

16. Kick

Take Action Against Abuse.

[LeeM]

18. Start at the lowest fruit

Why not charge the pilots and issue a state seizure order for the plane? Charter companies will quickly refuse to risk their assets for the Florida Asshats.

[Bayard]

19. Political tug-of-war

The desperate migrants are the rope. They must be re-thinking their American dream.

I just don't see how this can be legal. But, I could get behind gathering up the rethug KY legislature and dumping them in FL or TX with no way to get back.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

25. It would probably be more worthwhile

To seize the Florida legislature and DuhSatain

And airdrop them onto Bikini Atoll.

Wouldn't take long for them to take on a "special glow."

[Bayard]

27. I could go for that one too!

[kimbutgar]

20. That airline charter company that transports these migrants should lose their license because of

Their Human trafficking.

[Happy Hoosier]

21. They need to make clear to any air carriers...

that facilitating these transfers consitutes support for a human trafficking operation.

[republianmushroom]

22. I like it

[Martin68]

24. Lock'im up!

[Cha]

26. Ohh I Hope deSADIST Gets Slapped

with Criminal Charges and it Sticks to his little Fascist Fuckface.

TY & Gov Newsom

[riversedge]

28. I wish Desantis would get his personal wallet hit hard.

[csziggy]

29. Unfortunately it's going to cost the Florida taxpayers millions

Just as DeSantis' many lawsuits have cost us. Even so I hope Newsom hits DeSantis hard and that it sticks to Desantis like shit on his lifted shoes. Hopefully once Florida voters realize how much DeSantis and the GQP have cost the state in defending the ridiculous legislation they've passed, the illegal actions they've taken, and the business it is costing the state, the voters will kick the GQP corrupt asses out.

I hope, but I'm not counting on it.