Florida and Texas HAVE found a way to embarrass Democratic led states up North and the Democratic President….
Yes, it’s a political stunt…
The numbers of migrants are small….
But iit seems the free rides by bus and plane ARE voluntary and they do get people closer to where they want to go…
The migrants are NOT illegal….
They have made it into America and have dates to go before an immigration judge to plead their case for asylum …
The states and Biden admin are hustling to find a response to this as it is generating exactly what the Florida and Texas Republican Governor’s want…
Immigration is, and has been an ongoing problem for American politicians …
It’s NEVER going away…..
It’s NEVER going to have a real solution…..
And people are going to keep risking their lives to get here……
“This appropriately belongs in the Department of Justice and Merrick Garland should take a close look at it,” he said.
Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco on Friday, in an interview with Bloomberg, said the DOJ is reviewing “a number of inquiries and letters” it received about the GOP governors transporting migrants, including Newsom’s demand for an investigation. But even if the DOJ decides not to act, groups and legal experts say there are avenues to take legal action.
A core legal concern is whether migrants have given their consent to travel by plane to Massachusetts or bus to Illinois, New York or Washington, where migrants have also been transported.
“If they’re being transported against their will, it calls into question the human trafficking statutes. So far, nothing indicates they’re being held captive. They’re not being handcuffed and put on buses. So it’s unlikely that federal criminal trafficking statutes will come into play,” said Steven Block, a Chicago attorney at Thompson Hine and former assistant U.S. attorney who handled trafficking and corruption cases.
But if migrants are being coerced, “then it gets more nuanced,” he said in an interview…..
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“There’s a concern of whether people are being unduly coerced to take the buses,” Shaw Drake, ACLU’s senior counsel on border issues, said in an interview. “If they’re being offered a free ride and choose it voluntarily, that’s one thing. But if they’re being pressured or coerced that’s another.”….