The legality of what occurred last week, when a group of 48 Venezuelans were flown from Texas and dumped on swanky Martha’s Vineyard — a heartless relocation effort financed by the state of Florida and crowed about by Gov. Ron DeSantis — is being investigated. Good, we need more answers, since it appears DeSantis has moved on, saying less and less about the misguided stunt.
Whether there’ll be enough evidence to file criminal charges probably is a long shot. Still, we might get to the bottom of the governor’s sinister plot — that’s no cliche — to fly unsuspecting immigrants from another state to a third state.
Texas Sheriff Javier Salazar is responding to DeSantis’ stunt with what could be a stunt of his own. And the immigrants in question are also firing their own salvo. Late Tuesday, they filed a class-action suit against DeSantis and Florida, claiming what was done to them was “cruelty akin to what they fled” in Venezuela.
