{"id":1972412,"date":"2023-07-13T18:54:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T22:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-attorney-general-warns-justice-department-against-opening-political-investigation-into-immigrant-flights\/"},"modified":"2023-07-13T18:56:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T22:56:56","slug":"florida-attorney-general-warns-justice-department-against-opening-political-investigation-into-immigrant-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-attorney-general-warns-justice-department-against-opening-political-investigation-into-immigrant-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida AG cautions Justice Department against probing immigrant flights as a &#8216;political investigation&#8217;."},"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\">26<\/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%2Fflorida-attorney-general-warns-justice-department-against-opening-political-investigation-into-immigrant-flights%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=1972412&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--><h2>Florida Attorney General Pushes Back Against Investigation into Immigration Flights<\/h2>\n<p>Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody has firmly responded to a request from California leaders for the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate the state&#8217;s immigration flights. In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, Moody labeled the request as a &#8220;ridiculous political stunt&#8221; and defended Florida&#8217;s lawful immigration relocation program.<\/p>\n<h3>Moody Slams California&#8217;s Request<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;California\u2019s letter requesting that the U.S. Department of Justice investigate Florida is a ridiculous political stunt. Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-attorney-general-warns-justice-department-against-opening-political-investigation-into-immigrant-flights\/\" title=\"Florida AG cautions Justice Department against probing immigrant flights as a 'political investigation'.\">voluntary immigration relocation program<\/a> is lawful, and California\u2019s request fails to identify any violations of federal law. As an Attorney General who leads hundreds of highly-qualified lawyers and has led dozens of legal challenges against this administration, it is jarring that California is not competent enough to articulate even a minimal legal basis for its request,&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Moody further criticized California&#8217;s stance, highlighting the irony of the state claiming to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gavin-newsoms-6-worst-policies-as-california-governor\/\" title=\"Gavin Newsom\u2019s 6 Worst Policies as California Governor\">support illegal immigrants<\/a> while opposing the arrival of more immigrants. She stated, &#8220;I thought California loved to tout its commitment to illegal immigrants, but now its governor does not want more immigrants in California, claiming that more of them could break his state \u2014 how ironic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Florida&#8217;s Response to the DOJ<\/h3>\n<p>In her letter to Garland, Moody emphasized that California officials failed to identify any violations of law and condemned their request as purely political. She also issued a warning, stating that if the DOJ proceeds with an investigation, Florida will not hesitate to question and subpoena Biden Administration officials.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;While I would urge you not to bail out California or engage in another political investigation or litigation, if you make the unconscionable and unfounded determination to do so, Florida stands ready to fight against DOJ\u2019s overreach. Florida has had tremendous success litigating against DOJ under the Biden Administration and I and Florida\u2019s lawyers stand ready to depose, subpoena, and question Biden Administration officials in connection with such a proceeding,&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Moody also criticized the Biden administration&#8217;s border policy, claiming that previous legal actions have revealed their facilitation of a surge in illegal entries at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">southern border<\/a>. She argued that further litigation would expose the administration&#8217;s failure to address immigration responsibly.<\/p>\n<h3>California&#8217;s Allegations<\/h3>\n<p>California officials requested the DOJ to investigate the transportation of immigrants to Martha\u2019s Vineyard, Massachusetts, in 2022 and Sacramento, California, earlier this year. They alleged that Florida deceived migrants into traveling to these locations with promises of jobs and shelter.<\/p>\n<p>However, Governor Ron DeSantis&#8217;s office has stated that the immigrants provided written or verbal consent before boarding the planes. DeSantis himself has dismissed California&#8217;s request as &#8220;absurd.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that other governors, including Governor Greg Abbott of Texas, have also participated in transporting immigrants from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-leguizamo-upset-latinx-talent-not-represented-at-oscars\/\" title=\"John Leguizamo Upset \u2018Latinx\u2019 Talent Not Represented At Oscars\">southern border towns<\/a> to major cities like New York City, Washington, D.C., and Chicago.<\/p>\n<p><em>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody has cautioned United States Attorney General Merrick Garland against initiating an inquiry into the state&#8217;s immigrant flights. This follows a plea from California leaders urging the Justice Department to investigate these flights, which was endorsed by Governor Moody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1972413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972412","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1972413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}