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Sarah Burris

Trump mad DeSantis stole migrant idea

Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis speaks with U.S. President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at the Pensacola International Airport on November 3, 2018 in Pensacola, Florida. (Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images)

Rolling Stone reported Sunday that former President Donald Trump is not happy with Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., who some say will use his 2022 win to propel himself to the Republican nomination for president in 2024. DeSantis tried to throw himself into the same stunt that Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, was doing, shipping immigrants and refugees off to other cities around the country and politicizing it with Fox.

It put DeSantis in a difficult position, commentators said, so he went to Texas to ship their immigrants to Martha's Vineyard instead of immigrants in Florida. One of those was a one-year-old baby. It has become the major news story for the past several days, with immigrant rights groups revealing that the migrants were lied to about where they were going and what was happening. Some were told they were being taken to Boston, others had appointments to appear in immigration courts in Seattle but were shipped to the northeast instead.

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