Headline : Did Florida fly out 16 migrants on a private jet to jettison them in California?

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Sixteen South American migrants were brought to Sacramento by private plane—and Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor and presidential hopeful, may have something to do with it.

The migrants, from Venezuela and Colombia, were transported from the El Paso border in Texas to New Mexico, “before being flown by private chartered jet to Sacramento and dumped on the doorstep of a local church without any advance warning,” Gavin Newsom, the California governor, said in a statement on June 3.

The migrants turned up “with no prior arrangement or care in place,” Rob Bonta, the California attorney general, said in a separate press release on the same day. Officials are investigating how the individuals reached California, and “evaluating potential criminal or civil action against those who transported or arranged for the transport of these vulnerable immigrants,” Bonta added.

The signs point to Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor—and the most obvious of these signs is that the migrants were “carrying documentation purported to be from the State of Florida,” Bonta’s office noted, without elaborating on the nature of this paperwork. A feeling of déjà vu is inescapable; DeSantis, a 2024 Republican presidential hopeful, has done this before.

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