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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Olga R. Rodriguez and Elliot Spagat

DeSantis recruiters eyed Catholic church for migrant flights that bishop calls ‘reprehensible’

Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ recruiters set their sights on Sacred Heart Catholic Church in the Texas border city of El Paso in search of asylum-seekers they could take from its bustling migrant shelter to California's capital on taxpayer-funded private jets.

Intentionally or not, envoys for Florida's Catholic governor and Republican presidential candidate infused an element of his own religion into his latest move on immigration, which has drawn sharp criticism from El Paso’s Catholic bishop.

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