Florida's governor lets migrants fly to Nobel Island - Democrat outraged: "Evil and inhuman"

Created: 09/15/2022, 20:35

By: Momir Takac

As here in New York, migrants from the southern United States keep arriving in democratic states.

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Republicans and Democrats are deadly enemies when it comes to US migration policy.

Now the governor of Florida caused outrage with a provocative action.

Washington - The issue of migration is discussed controversially in many European countries, but especially in the United States.

For years, Republicans and Democrats have fought bitterly over immigration policy.

After Donald Trump came to power, the Republican president took a particularly tough stance.

So he had a wall built on the border with Mexico and tried to keep migrants out by tightening the asylum law numerous times.

Trump also didn't shy away from separating children from their parents at the border.

Florida migrants suddenly end up on a noble island

Now Trump is no longer in power and his migration policy has been revised by his successor Joe Biden, but even under Biden his Republicans are apparently leaving no stone unturned to dissuade the Democrats from their liberal approach.

A new provocative action by the Republican governor of Florida bears witness to this.

Ron DeSantis flew migrants to Martha's Vineyard Island in Massachusetts.

In the posh holiday area, dozens of people surprisingly got off the plane on Wednesday (local time).

US immigration policy: Florida's governor mocks democratic states

Several US media published a seemingly cynical statement by DeSantis.

It said that states like Massachusetts or New York would take better care of these people.

They "invited" people to come to the US by incentivizing illegal migration and supporting US President Joe Biden's "open borders policy."

Massachusetts seems to be well thought out.

Although the state is governed by a Republican governor, it is otherwise considered to be democratic.

The two Democrats who sit as representatives in the Senate also testify to this.

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Martha's Vineyard, in particular, is known as a popular vacation spot for prominent Democrats, including the families of former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

The Obamas have owned a luxury beachfront villa on the island for a few years.

Other celebrities and the wealthy have houses there or spend vacations on the island.

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Local Democratic MP Dylan Fernandes wrote on Twitter that the community immediately arranged beds, meals and medical care for the migrants.

He sharply criticized the Republicans' actions: "Republicans, who call themselves Christians, have planned for some time to use human lives - men, women and children - as political pawns.

It's evil and inhuman." Fernandes accused DeSantis of only wanting to make "cheap political points" with the action.

That was "corrupted".

Republican governors bus migrants into major Democratic cities

The idea of ​​bringing migrants to democratically governed areas is not new.

In the spring, the Republican governors of Texas and Arizona, Greg Abbott and Doug Ducey, began busing people from the border areas to major cities such as Washington, New York and Chicago.

Because thousands of migrants arrived in Washington alone, Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser recently declared a state of emergency.

With the aim of receiving support from the federal government to cope with the rush.

DeSantis has now added a new dimension to the bizarre protest.