Florida has faced pushback from officials in both California and Texas, who have said the flights may be breaking the law. Florida officials have justified arranging the migrant flights in the past. DeSantis, a presidential candidate and fierce critic of President Biden's immigration policy, signe...
“Florida gave them an opportunity to seek greener pastures in a sanctuary jurisdiction that offered greater resources for them, as we expected,” his office said in a statement at the time. The governor has maintained that many of the migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas p...
The Florida governor — whose state's economy relies heavily on undocumented immigrants— evidently enjoys using the flights as a cruel cudgel to beat Democrats. But last week's quiet and meager release of information about the program suggests there could be plenty more details he and his admini...
Jackie says the migrants seemed shell-shocked. Some were sick. Help soon poured in from every corner of the island along with a flood of reporters after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took credit for the flights as part of his newly minted$12 million migrant relocation program. Governor De...
Florida is expecting another of its state-backed rescue flights from Haiti -- likely arriving later Tuesday evening. The time and location were not yet available.
000 Cubans to the United States in 1980--changed longstanding American policy and revoked the automatic right of entry into the United States that all Cuban political refugees had been granted. Instead, the President ordered the Coast Guard to pluck the rafters out of the Florida Strait and ...
Last week, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials disclosed the death of a 17-year-old migrant teen from Honduras who was being housed in one of the department's shelters for unaccompanied minors in Florida. HHS is also investigating that death, which officials said likely s...
Florida has faced pushback from officials in both California and Texas, who have said the flights may be breaking the law. Florida officials have justified arranging the migrant flights in the past. DeSantis, a presidential candidate and fierce critic of President Biden's immigration policy, signe...
The Bexar County Sheriff's Office has alleged unlawful restraint was involved in the migrant flights. Officials have said they are looking into howmigrants "were luredfrom the Migrant Resource Center, located in Bexar County, TX, and flown to Florida, where they we...
Alecia Collins, the communications director for the Florida Division of Emergency Management, confirmed the state's involvement in both flights Tuesday night. She also claimed that those who boarded the flight chose to go of their own volition and were subsequently handed off to a non-profit. “...