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The New York Times reported on Monday that a former army medic and counterintelligence officer named Perla Huerta was involved in recruiting Venezuela asylum seekers for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
There is a church on Marthas Vineyard.
CNN confirmed that the woman who approached the migrants in San Antonio was a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq.
At the moment, we don't know why she was chosen to help the migrants.
They were told there were jobs waiting for them in Massachusetts if they agreed to take a free flight to the state.
The location of Massachusetts and directions to the community services center at Martha's Vineyard were given to the people who agreed to board the flight.
According to the Times report, the migrants received a fake brochure that promised up to eight months of financial support.
The person who helped recruit the migrants told CNN that he was led to believe that they would be provided with help and shelter in Massachusetts.
A group of migrants were flown from San Antonio to Martha's Vineyard on two charter flights. A staffer for the Florida governor took credit for the stunt on Fox News. The treatment of the migrants, many of whom were asylum seekers, caused a wave of criticism and even caused tensions between the two Republican governors of Texas, Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis. A class action suit has been filed by a civil rights law firm on behalf of some of the migrants.
$605,000 The 48 people from San Antonio were flown to Martha's Vineyard by Vertol Systems. They were flown to Martha's Vineyard on a jet owned by Ultimate Jet Charters.
Vertol Systems has close ties with Republican leaders. NBC reported that the company had been represented by two people, one of which was a congressman. According to the Times, both Vertol and the company's President James Montgomerie have donated to the campaigns of Gaetz and Jay Trumbull, who played a key role in carving out $12 million from the state's budget to fund the migrant flights.
Two weeks after the first $615,000 payment, Vertol was paid an additional $950,000. The migrants were flown to Delaware to be with President Joe Biden. Unscrupulous immigrants and asylum seekers were shuttled from the state with $12 million in the budget.
There is a story behind the migrant flights to Martha's Vineyard.
CNN named the woman who helped arrange migrant flights to Martha's Vineyard.
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