DeSantis Fires Back After Texas Sheriff Opens Investigation Into Migrant Flights
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is responding to a Texas sheriff’s decision to launch an investigation into the flights taking migrants to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. During an appearance on Fox News Monday night…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is responding to a Texas sheriff’s decision to launch an investigation into the flights taking migrants to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.
During an appearance on Fox News Monday night, DeSantis told host Sean Hannity, “Millions of people since Biden has been president illegally coming across the southern border. Did they freak out about that? No.”
He added, “You’ve had migrants die in the Rio Grande. You had 50 die in Texas in a trailer because they were being neglected. Was there a freak out about that? No, there wasn’t.”
DeSantis noted there have been “criminal aliens get across that southern border, and victimize Americans, killing some, raping some, was there any type of outrage about that? No.”
He continued, “And then of course, we know fentanyl deaths are at an all time high. Where’s that fentanyl coming from? It’s coming over the open southern border.”
According to DeSantis, all of the migrants “signed consent forms to go” to Martha’s Vineyard.
The governor explained, “And then the vendor that is doing this for Florida, provided them with a packet that had a map of Martha’s Vineyard, it had the numbers for different services on Martha’s Vineyard and then it had numbers for the overall agencies in Massachusetts that handle things involving Immigration and refugees.”
DeSantis argued it was “clearly voluntary, and all the other nonsense you’re hearing is just not true.”