September 16, 2022 HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
FLORIDA GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS HAS AN OPPONENT, CHARLIE CRIST WHO HAS WIDESPREAD SUPPORT & IS DOING WELL IN THE POLLS. September 16, 2022 Heather Cox Richardson Sep 17 The big story in the news over the past couple of days is that Florida governor Ron DeSantis chartered two planes to fly about 50 migrants, most of whom were from Venezuela, to Martha’s Vineyard, off the coast of Massachusetts. The story is still developing. Although DeSantis is the governor of Florida, the migrants appear to have come from Texas, and it currently appears that they were lured onto the planes—paid for with taxpayer money—with the false promise of work and housing in New York City or Boston. In addition, there are allegations from a lawyer working with the migrants that officials from the Department of Homeland Security falsified information about the migrants to set them up for automatic deportation. As I write this, it is not clear what their actual status is: have they applied for asylum ...