Migrants: FL Contractors Tricked Us To Board Planes

The Los Angeles Times reports:

“She said I should go, that there were people there to receive us who would give us lodging, that they would help us… get our [immigration] papers in order,” said María, who asked to be identified only by her first name, out of fear of potential repercussions from the woman who approached her. What María didn’t know was that the woman was a contractor hired by the administration of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The contractor, along with another woman and two men, spent the afternoon walking around trying to recruit migrants like María to board a charter flight to Sacramento. María and other migrants said the contractors did not identify themselves beyond saying they were there to “help the migrants.” The contractors managed to recruit two planefuls of migrants — 16 on a Friday flight, 20 on Monday — whom they drove two hours west to a small airport.

Read the full article. Both planeloads of migrants were dumped outside an unaware Catholic Church in Sacramento.

What a surprise that Desantis’s mercenary coyotes lied to migrants and misled them to get them in the planes to CA. https://t.co/mKqg6DLtdG

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 11, 2023