The responses of migrants who were transferred from Florida to Sacramento, California, have been publicly shared.
Between June 2 and June 5, 36 migrants arrived in the Golden State through a number of aircraft that made stops in Texas and New Mexico on route to their destination. They carried paperwork that had been obtained by the Sacramento Bee from the Florida government when they arrived.
Each immigrant agreed to go without any promises “regarding employment, benefits, health care, immigration status, immigration assistance, housing, clothing, food, services, or any other consideration of any kind,” according to the contracts, which were read in both English and Spanish.
The paperwork also said that the migrants understood the hazards of air travel and agreed not to sue the state of Florida in exchange for the free flight. The administration of Republican governor Ron DeSantis confirmed to the publication that either verbal or written approval was acceptable.
Despite the documents they arrived with, several of the migrants assert that promises were made to them before to boarding their aircraft.
“We are here because they offered us a job,” an anonymous Venezuelan migrant told CNN. “We were deceived by the people who provided the flight service. They offered us jobs and housing.”
“All we received was abandonment,” another anonymous migrant reported to the Los Angeles Times.
Since then, Florida has received public records requests from the attorney general of California, Rob Bonta, requesting copies of all correspondence between the governor’s office, Berry Aviation, the Florida Department of Transportation, the Division of Emergency Management, and the independent contractor Vertol Systems Company, Inc. This appears to be an effort to ascertain “whether the law has been violated.”
This year, more immigrants from Florida and Texas have moved to places with Democratic governments, such New York City, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Martha’s Vineyard.
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