California officials are weighing whether Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his administration should face kidnapping or other charges for arranging flights of migrants, most of them Colombian and Venezuelan, to Sacramento, allegedly under false pretenses.
Community and religious groups have provided the migrants with shelter, food and cellphones to contact relatives.
California officials say the 36 migrants who arrived on two separate charter flights were promised jobs by people who had told them they worked for Florida’s government. DeSantis and Florida legislators have approved state funding to transport migrants from Texas to other states, as they did last year when they sent a group of people to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento in Sacramento, Calif., on June 5, 2023, where sixteen migrants from Venezuela and Colombia were brought on June 2, after being flown from Texas to Sacramento.In Texas, a man who migrated from Colombia said he has known of migrants who have left after having been offered the chance to go.
"They took some people with stories that they were going to be taken to one place and they took them to a different one," Jair, a migrant from Colombia,Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg and several of the groups assisting the migrants provide an update on their situation at a news conference Tuesday.
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