Ron DeSantis to use select companies to send MORE migrants to Democratic-led cities

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has selected multiple transportation companies to help organize the move of more migrants to Democratic-led cities in the north.

The movement, first reported by CNNis the latest development in his plans to once again move migrants from Florida to Democratic enclaves elsewhere in the country.

In September, he flew four dozen migrants from Texas to the island of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, causing an uproar among his Democratic opponents.

The selection of companies the state will use to coordinate the settlement comes just a week after the Florida legislature approved $12 million for the case.

The Biden administration also sent 1,500 troops to the southern border to deal with a possible migrant influx as a Covid-era border restriction known as Title 42 expires on Thursday.

Title 42 allowed federal agents to quickly deport migrants at the border over public health concerns from Covid-19.

In September, he flew four dozen migrants from Texas to the Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard. Pictured are Venezuelan migrants outside St. Andrew’s Church in Edgartown, Massachusetts, in September

Alecia Collins, spokeswoman for the Florida Division of Emergency Management, confirmed to CNN on Tuesday that the state had “selected multiple suppliers based on their capabilities to implement the program.”

DailyMail.com wrote to Collins for specific information about what types of companies were chosen and at what cost, but did not receive an immediate response.

On Tuesday, at an unrelated press conference, DeSantis was asked about the border crisis and said he would support building a wall and using military force to contain migration.

“I’ve always supported the walls,” he said, adding that he thought the borders were too long to effectively guard any other way.

“The cartels will send people to places where there is no surveillance,” he said. ‘So you must have it. I think it’s important.’

On Monday, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador attacked how DeSantis passed immigration policies.

‘Why does [DeSantis] must profit from people’s pain, from migrants’ pain, from people’s need, for political gain,” Obrador said at a news conference.

DeSantis isn’t the only Republican coordinating efforts to relocate migrants elsewhere, which the Biden administration has labeled “political stunts.”

“We are using the tools at our disposal to address this issue,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters.

“Republican officials want to do something different — they want to campaign on this issue, they want to pull political stunts, that’s what we’re seeing from the governor of Texas.”

Texas Governor Greg Abbott and former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey have also indicated they plan to bus buses to New York City, Chicago and Washington DC.

Abbott posted a video to Twitter on Tuesday of National Guard soldiers arriving in Texas as he announced the deployment of a new Texas Tactical Border Force to the Texas-Mexico border.

DeSantis made the controversial move in September 2022 to transport 48 migrants from Texas to the liberal island of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts

The passage of SB 1718 last week allocated $12 million to the DeSantis administration to transport out-of-state migrants to Democratic areas — just as he did last year when he flew migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard.

Lawmakers also agreed to reverse a 2014 measure that allowed undocumented immigrants to be admitted to the Florida Bar.

Florida Democrats have already criticized DeSantis’ plans, saying the ongoing crisis should not excuse pressure from the governor to fly migrants from Florida to other parts of the country.

Florida Democratic Representative Susan Valdes of Tampa says the bill “demonizes marginalized people.”

“Immigrants are people just like us, except they weren’t lucky enough to be in the United States,” says Valdes, whose parents emigrated from Cuba.

Democrats have already threatened to challenge the law in court, with some calling measures in the legislation racist.