The Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM) confirmed on Tuesday that it was responsible for sending two planes carrying a total of 36 illegal migrants to Sacramento, California. The departure came not from Florida, however, but from Texas.
FDEM insists that the flights were completely voluntary on the part of the illegals, a claim that’s borne out by statements from the migrants themselves. A video shared by FDEM shows at one point a man saying, in Spanish, “We made it to California. Thank God. Very thankful to God.” Elsewhere a group is shown dancing and celebrating inside a vehicle, and, a minute into the video, a woman asks the group if they feel like they were treated poorly, to which the group collectively responds “No.”
Nevertheless, the state of California, which always assumes its elite rulers know best, contends that the migrants were “misled” and couldn’t possibly have wanted to go to their miserable failed state. California Governor Gavin Newsom muttered the following Twitterthreat to Florida Gov. DeSantis:
@RonDeSantis you small, pathetic man. This isn’t Martha’s Vineyard. Kidnapping charges?
Since those two could conceivably end up facing one another nationally next year, it may be that Newsom is taking a page from the Biden playbook by trying out the latest in Democrat politicking: just have your opponent indicted for something.
For his part, DeSantis, when asked, replied sensibly that sanctuary cities and states should bear the burden of their policies. The retort we prefer, however, was one he used last year, in a similar context, when he suggested that Newsom’s “hair gel was interfering with his brain function”!
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