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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Josh Marcus

Migrant says he was paid to recruit migrants for Florida’s controversial Martha’s Vineyard flights

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More details are emerging about how nearly 50 migrants, many of them from Venezuela, ended up on a pair of surprise flights that the state of Florida sent to Martha’s Vineyard, a ritzy vacation island in Massachusetts, in a widely criticised political stunt.

Migrants say they were promised work papers, jobs and even paid to board the flight and encouraged others to join them.

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