A civil rights group that has sued Florida governor Ron DeSantis for tricking two planeloads of South and Central American asylum seekers into boarding charter flights bound for the liberal Massachusetts community of Martha’s Vineyard has added two top Sunshine State officials as defendants in their lawsuit.
An amended complaint filed by Lawyers for Civil Rights now lists Mr DeSantis’ chief of staff, James Uthmeier, and Florida “public safety czar” Larry Keefe as defendants, as well as a woman named Perla Huerta, who according to court documents is believed to have served as the “lead recruiter” of the migrants, who were found near San Antonio, Texas.
