Let cities and counties decide monuments’ fate | Letters to the editor: A reader says the fate of those Confederate monuments should be decided locally ...
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With Haiti in turmoil, remember the lessons of a 1980s migrant surge in South Florida | Opinion
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Battle over Florida’s immigrant transportation law plays out in Miami court. Will a judge block it?
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Official: Migrants Flown To California Went Willingly, Refutes Claims Of Coercion
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Quick Glance: Newsom threatens DeSantis with kidnapping charges over migrant flights to Sacramento
- Gov. Gavin Newsom escalates his feud with Gov. Ron DeSantis by confronting him with kidnapping charges in a tweet.
- 16 South American migrants were flown from Florida to Sacramento, which California considers a political stunt.
- Newsom cites kidnapping laws and calls DeSantis a 'small, pathetic man'.
- A lawsuit against DeSantis and Florida officials was filed on behalf of impacted migrants in Massachusetts.
Dreamers may not be able to vote, but they convinced GOP lawmakers to aid their cause
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Gov. DeSantis is banking on Americans hating immigrants more than high insurance rates | Opinion
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Florida’s new Ron DeSantis-backed laws address immigration, guns and more: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Employers who hire immigrants in the country illegally will ...
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Florida prosecutor sorry for racist memo that singled out Hispanic residents: Document that advocated more severe punishments for Hispanic defendants ‘not the ...
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Florida lawmaker sues DeSantis to block future migrant flights from the border: A Democratic lawmaker in Florida filed a lawsuit Thursday evening asking a court ...
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Quick Glance: Florida migrant flight funds went to a company affiliated with a DeSantis adviser
- So far, Keefe's connections to Vertol Systems provide the strongest explanation for why the state selected the firm.
- Matt Gaetz, who Keefe hired, previously represented Vertol Systems in two complaints filed in 2010.
- The contractor was ordered to pay $2,500 and to refrain from competing with Vertol Systems Company.)Keefe and Vertol Systems Company sued Dogwood Services, a Niceville lawn care company, in 2012.
- The judge ruled in favor of Vertol Systems.
DeSantis tested on immigration as he weighs 2024 candidacy: DeSantis highlighted illegal immigration last fall by sending dozens of immigrants from Texas to an ...
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DeSantis’ migrant flights to Martha’s Vineyard appear outside the scope of Florida transport program guidelines, state documents show
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Quick Glance: more Florida data raise more concerns about DeSantis' migrant flights.
- The parameters, outlined by the Florida Department of Transportation and made public in public records released by the state late Friday, raise new questions about whether the program violated state protocols when DeSantis officials chartered two planes to fly 48 migrants from San Antonio, far from Florida's shores, to Massachusetts last month.
- Davis' email to Montgomerie had the subject line "Florida Charter Flights."
- When asked for comment on Saturday, Taryn Fenske, the governor's communications director, did not answer whether the DeSantis administration may have violated state guidelines with the Texas flights.
- "I'm with Floridians right now," Fenske explained.
Florida governor Ron DeSantis will fly migrants to Illinois and Delaware: Spokesperson confirms plan to continue with immigration stunts which have attracted ...
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Quick Glance: Records indicate that DeSantis migratory flights may continue, including to Delaware and Illinois.
- A Miami Herald investigation discovered that 20 migrants were recruited and housed in a hotel.
- The flight was scheduled to depart from San Antonio.
- So far, Florida taxpayers have paid $1.565 million for the relocation program, out of a $12 million budget set by the Legislature.
- After their flight to Delaware was postponed on Tuesday, Sept., about 20 migrants were bused back to a shelter in San Antonio.
Surprise is key part of migrant travel from Florida, Texas: EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — The chief executive of Martha's Vineyard Community Services was wrapping up ...
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Quick Glance: Democrats are outraged over a migrant "political stunt" in Martha's Vineyard.
- Greg Abbott (R), who has flown and bused Venezuelan migrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
- "Now they come to the United States and have the governor of Texas heap this indignity on them."
- DeSantis and Abbott were also backed by John Cornyn (R).
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Surprise is key part of migrant travel from Florida, Texas: EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — The chief executive of Martha's Vineyard Community Services was wrapping up ...
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Quick Glance: Crist blasts DeSantis in new ad for "cruel political stunt" in Texas.
- For "his heartless move" to fly immigrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard, Ron DeSantis.
- Charlie Crist issued a digital ad on Saturday criticizing Republican Gov. Rick Scott.
- "It's who he is," Crist adds.
- My faith tells me that we are all God's children, something Ron DeSantis seems to have forgotten.
DeSantis Anti-Immigrant Law Sparks Mass Worker Exodus in Florida: "How can one man pass one law and destroy all these businesses in Florida?" asked a ...
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Flying migrants to Massachusetts was political, critics say. But was it legal?: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican who is running for reelection ...
npr.org/2022/09/18/1123644692/desantis-migrants-texas-massachusetts-marthas-vineyard-legal-questions
Quick Glance: Republicans are sending migrants "to the doorstep" of the US government.
- Martha's Vineyard has a fantastic reputation not only among Americans; the island in the northeastern United States is regarded as one of the country's best addresses.
- The former estate of Jackie Kennedy Onassis is alleged to have been sold for millions of dollars a few years ago.
- The age of 49 marks the pinnacle of sadness.
Florida is slow-rolling public records about migrant flights. What’s DeSantis hiding? | Opinion
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Florida spent almost $1 million for two more migrant flights : Florida has paid nearly $1 million to arrange two sets of flights to transport about 100 migrants ...
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DeSantis migrant flights could last until June, records show: Vertol Systems has until the end of next June to run through the $12 million approved by the ...
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Florida’s public safety czar has ties to migrant flight contractor: Florida’s Public Safety Czar Larry Keefe has emerged as a potentially key figure in the ...
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Florida, Texas escalate flights, buses to move migrants: Flights to Massachusetts were part of an effort to “transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary ...
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Florida officials began planning transport of migrants in July: documents: Documents provide new details about the program that culminated in the Sept ...
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Watchdog wants Desantis’ office held in contempt over unreleased migrant flight records
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DeSantis aides celebrated success luring migrants onto flights. Then the law stepped in
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Surprise is key part of migrant travel from Florida, Texas: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took from the playbook of a fellow Republican, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ...
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Did Florida’s lieutenant governor say ‘illegal’ Cuban migrants will be sent to Delaware?
tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2022/08/22/did-floridas-lieutenant-governor-say-illegal-cuban-migrants-will-be-sent-to-delaware/
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