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Three Venezuelan migrants flown from Texas to Massachusetts sue Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis

The lawsuit alleges an elaborate scheme of people luring migrants with hotel rooms, McDonald’s gift cards, hundreds of dollars in cash and false information about their final destinations.

The Texas Tribune

In lawsuit, migrants say DeSantis flights ‘cruelty akin to what they fled in’ Venezuela

Three migrants who were part of a group that was flown from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard last week by the state of Florida are suing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state officials, alleging they were duped into traveling to an isolated island in the northeast as part of a…

Miami Herald

Advocates for migrants who were sent to Martha’s Vineyard sue Ron DeSantis

Suit says Venezuelans were ‘used as political pawns’ in a ‘fraudulent and discriminatory’ scheme

The Guardian - US

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GOP's hard-line tactics on migrants refocus midterm debate

The Republican governors of Florida and Texas have delivered migrants on planes and buses to Washington, D

The Independent UK

Ron DeSantis dropping migrants off on Martha's Vineyard may be illegal – an immigration lawyer explains why

The unexpected arrival of approximately 50 Colombian and Venezuelan migrants on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, on Sept. 14, 2022, has prompted legal questions about how and why, exactly, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis chartered planes to drop them in this unlikely destination.

The Conversation

Migrants flown to Martha's Vineyard sue DeSantis - Roll Call

Three Venezuelans flown last week to Martha's Vineyard by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have sued him, alleging fraud.

Roll Call

U.S. House Republicans to push energy, crime and immigration agenda in midterms push

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives will unveil plans this week to support the U.S. energy industry, fight crime and combat illegal immigration as they seek to gain the upper hand in the Nov. 8 midterm elections.

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Texas Sheriff Opens Criminal Investigation Into Migrants 'Lured Under False Pretenses' to Martha's Vineyard

Plus: Pentagon investigating U.S. propaganda on social media, 1,648 books banned last school year, and more...

Reason

Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott pull from segregationists' playbook with their anti-immigration stunts

As a historian of racism and white supremacy in the United States, I’ve become accustomed to callous actions like those of Republican governors who organized transportation for Latin American migrants to states run by their political opponents.

The Conversation

Rwanda policy ‘has heralded an increase in use of immigration detention’, warns charity

The Government has increased the use of detention among small boat arrivals

Evening Standard

7 weeks from Election Day, migrants take center stage in political theater

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took something of a victory lap this weekend for his controversial flight sending migrants to the tony northeastern island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

WEKU

These migrants were flown to California from Texas. They don't know why or who paid for their flights

Eight Venezuelan migrants were flown last week from Texas to Sacramento with little cash — some without shoes — and the men have no idea why they were sent or who paid for the flights, an advocacy group said.

Los Angeles Times

EXPLAINER: Bused, flown migrants can live in US -- for now

Republican governors have been sending more migrants released at the U.S. border with Mexico to Democratic strongholds, raising questions about their legal status, how they are lured on board buses and planes, and the cost to taxpayers

The Independent UK

Spending Down $12 Million in Pandemic Relief Money on an Immigration Stunt Isn't 'Responsible Fiscal Policy'

Ron DeSantis paid for the Martha's Vineyard migrant flights through interest earned on American Rescue Plan money, which he's said was designed "to bail out the poorly governed states.”

Reason

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Los Angeles Times

Shut out of DACA, and traditional jobs, young immigrants start businesses to get ahead

LOS ANGELES — Ten years ago, Alessandro Negrete missed out on the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program — better known as DACA — a policy that gives certain immigrant youth who were brought to the United States as children a work permit and protection from deportation. In 2008,…

The Times of India

VFS Global rolls out Indonesian fast-track visa on arrival for Indians

MUMBAI: VFS Global on Monday announced its exclusive agreement with TLP, the Immigration Department for Republic of Indonesia and Bank Mandiri, to provide online pre-payment of fees, fast-track access and concierge services to international passengers upon arrival in Jakarta.

The Guardian - AU

Priya Nadesalingam, mother of Biloela family, signs book deal for memoir of asylum ordeal

Mother of Tamil family will recount their remarkable journey, from fleeing war-torn Sri Lanka to enduring Australia’s immigration detention system

Bangkok Post

11 immigration police, officials arrested on bribery charges

Eleven government officials, including six immigration police, have been arrested and charged for allegedly taking bribes.

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WEKU

Flying migrants to Massachusetts was political, critics say. But was it legal?

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican who is running for reelection, said the flights from Texas were "voluntary" but if they were lured, some argue the migrants could now be victims of a crime.

Tribune News Service

Border arrests on track to break record as divide grows over states’ handling of migrants

DALLAS — Complications for the Biden administration over immigration intensified as migrants were transported by Republican governors to cities governed by Democrats and rising migration along the southern border remains on pace to exceed a record 2 million.

Liverpool Echo

How immigration, betrayal and neglect caused feeling of 'Scouse, not English'

Many Liverpudlians reject their national identity in favour of civic pride

Bangkok Post

11 immigration police, officials arrested on bribery charges

Eleven government officials, including six immigration police, have been arrested and charged for allegedly taking bribes to facilitate the release of five foreign fishing trawlers earlier confiscated for illegally fishing in Thai waters.

Salon

Anna Sorokin calls immigration "broken"

"There’s no such thing in ICE as the United States Constitutional right to legal representation," Sorokin says

The Independent UK

Ron DeSantis breaks fundraising record for governors amid Martha’s Vineyard immigration stunt

The Florida governor has raised $175.8m for his re-election campaign

The Independent UK

Hillary Clinton says DeSantis sending migrants to Martha’s Vineyard is ‘literally human trafficking’

Ron DeSantis abandoned around 50 migrants on Martha’s Vineyard on Thursday without warning in a pushback against the Biden administration’s immigration policies

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