White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Thursday blasted Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision to fly migrants to Matha’s Vineyard, calling the maneuver a “political stunt" that threatens the wellbeing of vulnerable families and children.
Jean-Pierre, speaking during a regularly scheduled press briefing, was responding to questions about both the decision from the DeSantis administration to fly migrants to the Massachusetts vacation island and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s concurrent move to send a different group of migrants by bus to Vice President Kamala Harris’s residence in Washington, D.C.
The moves from the governors ignited a national controversy Thursday and renewed a debate about the state of the southern border and the federal and state governments’ responses to a surge of migrants seeking entry into the country.
