“As we understand it, 48 migrants were lured — I will use the word lured — under false pretenses into staying at a hotel for a couple of days,” Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said.
around the country. He also said he wants to call attention to the Biden administration’s “reckless” border security policies.
“We want to make sure that [Florida] taxpayers are not having tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people coming in illegally,” he said.The White House has blasted DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, both Republicans, for their “political stunt” and for using migrants as “political pawns.” It said a new aggressive campaign against human smugglers had netted thousands of arrests in recent months and that border patrol agents had “removed or expelled” more people than any previous year.
So, said DeSantis, they hired a contractor to identify migrants likely headed to Florida and offer free transportation to “sanctuary jurisdictions.”Venezuelan migrant: 'I simply feel misled' Domingo Garcia, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, a Washington-based civil rights group, said the migrants were given red folders with fake documents promising jobs and housing.
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