Sheriff Javier Salaza, whose jurisdiction includes San Antonio, says his department's understanding is that a Venezuelan migrant was paid what's known as a 'bird dog fee' to recruit 50 others from the area around a local migrant resource center.
“Somebody coming and preying upon people that are here minding their own business and are here legally, not bothering a soul, but somebody saw fit to come from another state, hunt them down, prey upon them and then take advantage of their desperate situation just for the sake of political theatre, just for the sake of making some form of a statement and putting peoples lives in danger," Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said during a Monday news conference.
Monday morning and met with some of the migrants. They said the migrants used words like"tricked" and"kidnapping" when describing their journey to Massachusetts, and that one migrant told him he thought he was going to Washington, D.C. Many of the migrants who arrived in Massachusetts told federal lawmakers said they felt manipulated and that they were lied to about where they were going and what to expect when they got here.
Both of the lawmakers said they think Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis broke the law and called it a"political stunt" using"human beings as political pawns" — a sentiment that U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren evoked Monday as well. "Immigrants have been more than willing to leave Bexar County after being abandoned, homeless, and 'left to fend for themselves,'" Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' office said in a statement."Florida gave them an opportunity to seek greener pastures in a sanctuary jurisdiction that offered greater resources for them, as we expected.'', calling the current system"very screwed up.