I bet not. The people that love DeSantis thought this was a fine idea. The people that hated DeSantis before are merely confirmed in their belief. No minds were changed.
RW Latinos in general and Cubans in particular are real good at cognitive dissonance. Sort of like the rueful definition of a conservationist as somebody who built their mountain cabin last year, they’re here already and the ladders should now be pulled up to prevent the next generation from doing the same. Especially those from that Other country.
I was thinking more along the lines of, were crimes committed? The Repubs seems to want to sorta laugh this off as almost a practical joke. But it also seems pretty clear that the migrants were lied to, and that human trafficking laws might be involved. Some courts might disfavor fucking with human beings for a political stunt - no matter that the humans are recent illegal immigrants and may - in fact - have been benefitted by the action.
This is completely wrong. All of the people transported by both Texas and Florida were asylum seekers awaiting a decision on their case, and thus have legal right to be in the United States until a final decision is made.
Again, thank you for the correction. As I typed it, I did not pay sufficient attention to use the correct word. I will do my best to not repeat that mistake. Correctly identifying them as asylum seekers changes nothing I intended in my previous post.
Whether you believe it or not, I am firmly in favor of greatly increasing both immigration and asylum seekers from all nations.
I doubt any kind of kidnapping charges would stick. Texas’s definition of “abduct” requires the victim to be ‘secreted or held in a place they’re unlikely to be found.’ Since the victims in this case were very publicly dropped off, I don’t see how this would work.
“Unlawful restraint” is a slam dunk, though, since ‘moving somebody from one place to another by deception’ is covered. But it’s just a misdemeanor.
ETA: Actually, there were children on those planes. So it could be a felony.
IANAL but I can use Google and searching for the phrase “kidnapping by inveiglement”, I find a US government page that mentions one of the elements is “that the accused then held such person against that person’s will.” I don’t think that occurred in this case.
Only tangentially related, but on Joe Rogans recent interview with Tulsi gabbard, desantis was described as a fundamentally “reasonable” politician, and there’s “just no-one on the Left like that”.
Im glad that there’s no one on the left like desantis, but for very different reasons from Rogan.
I really don’t get it–my company (construction) just did their first H1-b visa program and it was a wild success, but the guys are going back next week since their visas are up. The consensus is we could use a whole bunch of these folks, and the situation is the same for many, many businesses in this valley. The company is sponsoring ESL and spanish classes. But the process is way too onerous.
It’s been interesting watching Greg Abbott trying to distance himself from the Ron DeSantis version of this stunt. He’s been on Spanish language media emphasizing how HIS busing scheme was done with full consent of the migrants, just helping them get where they already wanted to go, and they were given food and beverages and other supplies.
Wasn’t half the point to screw these people over? Not sure the MAGA crowd would be pleased to hear how state taxpayers are providing luxury transportation for undocumented immigrants.