{"id":1648941,"date":"2022-09-20T11:04:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T15:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1648941"},"modified":"2022-09-20T11:04:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T15:04:56","slug":"desantis-illegal-immigrant-flights-to-marthas-vineyard-clearly-voluntary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-illegal-immigrant-flights-to-marthas-vineyard-clearly-voluntary\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis: Illegal Immigrant Flights to Martha\u2019s Vineyard \u2018Clearly Voluntary\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdesantis-illegal-immigrant-flights-to-marthas-vineyard-clearly-voluntary%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1648941&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said on Monday that the flights he chartered for illegal immigrants to Martha\u2019s Vineyard were voluntary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was clearly voluntary, and all the other nonsense you\u2019re hearing is just not true,\u201d DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/transcript\/hannity-migrant-flights-marthas-vineyard-gov-youngkins-education-agenda\">told Fox News\u2019s<\/a> Sean Hannity about last week\u2019s flight to the exclusive Massachusetts island. \u201cAnd why wouldn\u2019t they want to go, given where they were?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All the illegal immigrants who were transported from Florida to Martha\u2019s Vineyard had to sign consent forms and were given maps and numbers for services in the area, DeSantis said.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have claimed that DeSantis and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-texas\">Texas<\/a> Gov. Greg Abbott, also a Republican, have engaged in human trafficking by sending groups of illegal aliens to other parts of the country. For months, Abbott has been busing people who illegally entered the United States to New York City, Chicago, and Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat sheriff of Bexar County, Texas, announced he opened an investigation into DeSantis\u2019s transport of illegal immigrants. The sheriff\u2019s office claimed that one illegal alien was paid to recruit the others, and they were allegedly promised work or other benefits.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for DeSantis, however, denied those allegations to news outlets and said they were\u00a0\u201cabandoned, homeless, and left to fend for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were in really, really bad shape,\u201d DeSantis also said during Monday\u2019s Fox News interview. \u201cThere are jobs available in Martha\u2019s Vineyard. There is lodging available in Martha\u2019s Vineyard. Had they lived up to \u2026 what they bill themselves out as a sanctuary jurisdiction, they could have absorbed those people without a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis, who is up for reelection in November and is seen as a possible presidential contender in 2024, claimed credit for the two flights from San Antonio to Martha\u2019s Vineyard. He also targeted President Joe Biden\u2019s handling of a record number of crossings along<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said on Monday that the flights he chartered for illegal immigrants to Martha\u2019s Vineyard were voluntary. \u201cIt was clearly voluntary, and all the other nonsense you\u2019re hearing is just not true,\u201d DeSantis told Fox News\u2019s Sean Hannity about last week\u2019s flight to the exclusive Massachusetts island. \u201cAnd why wouldn\u2019t they want [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1648941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1648941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1648941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1648941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1648941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}