Shipment of Migrants to Martha’s Vineyard and Other Locations
/On September 14, 2022, a group of approximately 50 Venezuelan migrants were flown from San Antonio, Texas, to Martha’s Vineyard. These migrants were lured onto planes with promises of shelter and jobs. However, these promises made to get them to board the flights were untrue. No one on Martha’s Vineyard had been advised of their arrival or was prepared for it. This surprise was the goal of the Governor DeSantis of Florida who engineered the transport of the migrants and funded it through the Florida state legislature.
Most of the migrants arrived in the U.S. to seek asylum due to economic deterioration, societal unrest, a collapsed health system and shortages of essential resources such as water, fuel and medicine in Venezuela. Seeking asylum via crossing the border is a legal process and to then be misled and used as political pawns by the very government they were seeking assistance from is unconscionable.
Since their arrival, the firm Lawyers for Civil Rights, along with Alianza Americas, filed a federal class action lawsuit on behalf of the migrants and all similarly situated people who have been fraudulently convinced to cross state lines by Governor DeSantis and the State of Florida.
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