Attorneys for ‘duped’ migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard call for criminal investigation

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Republican governors made ‘false promises to migrants in order to induce them to travel’, lawyers say

Attorneys representing Venezuelan asylum-seekers flown thousands of miles to an affluent holiday island inat the behest of Republican governors have formally requested authorities open a criminal investigation, claiming the victims were “induced to board airplanes and cross state lines under false pretences”.

LCR has written to the US attorney Rachael Rollins and the Massachusetts attorney general, Maura Healey, requesting they open criminal investigations, as “we strongly believe that criminal laws were broken by the perpetrators of this stunt”. The political fallout may bring unintended consequences for DeSantis as Florida is home to the largest Venezuelan diaspora outside the country. The Venezuelan population in the US has more than doubled in the past decade amid an unprecedented exodus caused by the country’s economic and political crises, which have driven out millions of people from the once stable and prosperous South American country.over the weekend, accusing the governor of political game playing.

A protest is planned for Sunday, when activists from the country’s oldest and largest Latino civil rights group, the League of United Latin American Citizens , plan to make a human chain in order to physically stop further buses departing Eagle Pass, Texas.

 

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Martha's Vineyard is part of the USA & if their agricultural staffing problems are as dire as Australia then what's the issue. It's not as if the plane landed in Caracas. GuardianAus australian auspol nytimes BostonGlobe

I suppose if you are going to dump people in wealthy areas in the US you may find out why they are wealthy. ie they have great lawyers and the capacity (money) to use them as they wish.

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