{"id":25147,"date":"2022-09-17T23:38:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T03:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=25147"},"modified":"2022-09-17T23:38:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T03:38:47","slug":"political-theater-at-its-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/09\/17\/political-theater-at-its-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Political theater at its worse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Despite his big show and talk, the migrants awaiting asylum hearings that Disaster DeSantis flew to Martha’s Vineyard were from San Antonio, Texas, not Florida. Your tax dollars are squandered for a re-election gimmick while teachers remain woefully underpaid ranking 46 of all states in this vacation paradise where they pay year-round tourist prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Facts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The migrants who Gov. Ron DeSantis flew to Martha’s Vineyard this week were not transported from the state he actually governs, but from Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeSantis’s office confirmed that Florida charted two planes on Wednesday to pick up about 50 undocumented migrants from San Antonio, Texas, and drop them off on the Massachusetts Island, the Orlando Sentinel<\/a> reported. The migrants were from Venezuela and Colombia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesperson for DeSantis<\/a> said the planes were part of Florida’s “relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the latest example of a tactic being used by Republican lawmakers to draw attention to what they say is the Biden administration’s failure to address the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas<\/a> first began transporting migrants from border towns to cities like Washington, DC, via bus in April. Abbott said he was chartering the buses “to help local officials whose communities are being overwhelmed by hordes of illegal immigrants who are being dropped off by the Biden administration.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Florida, which migrants reach via boat<\/a>, does not directly border Mexico (a major pathway for migrants on land), perhaps explaining why DeSantis arranged to transport migrants who had arrived in Texas, a state that’s hundreds of miles away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We will help facilitate that transportation for you to go to greener pastures,” DeSantis said of migrants at a press conference Thursday, the Sentinel reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One immigration lawyer told the outlet that DeSantis’s actions, using state funds to enforce federal laws, may have been illegal. Martha’s Vineyard residents, for their part, welcomed the migrants<\/a> by quickly coordinating shelter, meals, and healthcare. Massachusetts State Rep. Dylan Fernandes said the migrants were put up in a local church and shared photos<\/a> of the temporary housing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite his big show and talk, the migrants awaiting asylum hearings that Disaster DeSantis flew to Martha’s Vineyard were from San Antonio, Texas, not Florida. Your tax dollars are squandered… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[3431],"class_list":["post-25147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-political-theater-at-its-worse"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}