DeSantis planned another migrant stunt and for some reason (could it be because of the intense backlash? lawsuits?) he cancelled it at the last minute
And, guess what?
WOW. It gets even worse. “Perla” lied to dozens more asylum seekers, put them up in a hotel for days with false claims about jobs and housing, and when DeSantis suddenly cancelled the Delaware flight yesterday, she dumped some back at the shelter and stranded the others.
It looks like the Miami Herald now has photos of “Perla” that multiple people have confirmed is her.
Her true identity is likely going to come out very soon, I imagine.
Aaaand one migrant at the shelter got “Perla” ON VIDEO cruising around the shelter and “recruiting” people for DeSantis’s stunt with lies.
She was driving around in a comically conspicuous black SUV and acting so sketchy a random guy at the shelter started recording her.
For the people at the hotel, there was nothing funny about what DeSantis’s people had done.
One man had been hoping the flight to Delaware might help get him closer to Washington, DC, where he has a court hearing (may be an ICE check-in).
Now he’s stranded in Texas.
One 19-year-old, a kid, was out in the streets when “Perla” gave him somewhere to sleep and promised him a better future.
He told the Herald that her deception left him devastated: “I want to cry because I feel hopeless. I have nothing. How do I work? How do I survive?”
When DeSantis cancelled the flight yesterday and “Perla” got a bus to dump people back at the shelter, not everyone got told.
“‘They left and that was it,’ [Luis Oswaldo] said. ‘They didn’t give out more food. I have water from the lobby.’
‘I’m ‘eating’ water now,’ he said.”
For those who didn’t click through at the top of the thread, this fantastic reporting from @Blaskey_S and @NickNehamas is a must-read. Boots-on-the-ground reporting at its best.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article266089771.html
Originally tweeted by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) on September 22, 2022.
WHEN FLORIDA GOV. RON DESANTIS set out on his stunt to highlight liberal hypocrisy last week, he contracted with Vertol Systems, Inc., to pull it off. For $615,000, the aviation firm founded in Oregon agreed to fly 48 Venezuelan migrants from the San Antonio, Texas, area to the chic Massachusetts vacation destination of Martha’s Vineyard, where they were left to fend for themselves.
It was a political win-win for DeSantis: In Florida, Vertol and its president have contributed exclusively to Republican causes, including to the Florida legislature’s appropriations chief, his DeSantis transportation-appointee father, and the state Republican party, according to campaign finance records reviewed by The Intercept.
Niiiiiice….