Migrants flown from Texas to Massachusetts sue “Perla,” who recruited them for flights

Venezuelan migrants stand outside St. Andrew’s Church in Edgartown, Mass., on Sept. 14, after being flown by private charter plane from Texas. Florida’s governor took credit for arranging the flights, which have triggered a lawsuit. (Credit: Ray Ewing/Vineyard Gazette/Handout via REUTERS)

A Boston-based law firm suing Florida’s governor for his scheme to transport asylum-seekers from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard under false pretenses has added Perla Huerta — the San Antonio woman accused of recruiting the migrants — as a defendant in its class-action lawsuit.

Lawyers for Civil Rights, the law firm that filed the lawsuit in a federal court in Massachusetts in September, initially had known Huerta only as “Perla.” The firm amended its lawsuit on Tuesday, saying “Huerta was the lead recruiter tasked with finding immigrants in San Antonio and transporting them to Martha’s Vineyard.”