"Newsom rebukes DeSantis &hints at kidnapping charges" after flight dumps asylum seekers in Cali"

[Hekate]

My Guv, and glad of it. Someone has to try to stop DeSadist, and I hope AG Bonta anf Governor Newsom can do it.

Los Angeles Times
June 6, 2023
Front page

Migrant Flights Escalate Leaders’ Feud. Newsom rebukes DeSantis and hints at kidnapping charges after asylum seekers are sent to California.

Gov. Gavin Newsom took his feud with Gov. Ron DeSantis to new heights on Monday, seemingly threatening him with kidnapping charges after California officials say South American migrants were sent to Sacramento by the state of Florida as a political stunt.
Newsom, a Democrat, cited state kidnapping laws in a tweet to the Florida governor and Republican presidential hopeful, whom he called a “small, pathetic man.” “This isn’t Martha’s Vineyard. Kidnapping charges?” Newsom said in the tweet, referencing DeSantis’ action last year to send a group of Venezuelan migrants to the wealthy liberal vacation spot in Massachusetts.

Sixteen migrants from Venezuela and Colombia were transported from Texas to New Mexico and flown on a chartered jet to Sacramento, where they were dropped off Friday at a church, Newsom said. On Monday, a plane carrying 20 migrants arrived in Sacramento. Both groups were flown by the same contractor and were carrying documents indicating that their transportation involved the state of Florida, according to the California Department of Justice.
Newsom said his administration is working with the agency to “investigate the circumstances around” who paid for the plane trips, whether migrants were misled and whether laws were violated.

It is unclear what legal action the state plans to take. After Newsom tweeted the threat of kidnapping charges, his spokesperson deferred questions to Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta’s office. Bonta said over the weekend that he was “evaluating potential criminal or civil action” but did not release additional details Monday.
DeSantis representatives did not respond to written questions from The Times. His campaign press team, which is active on Twitter, made no mention of Newsom’s tweeted accusation, and DeSantis did not mention the incident on a Monday morning appearance on Fox News radio.

The question is whether Newsom will follow through with legal action over the interstate transportation of migrants or risk being accused of using the incident to stage his own political theater as the two governors jockey for national attention.


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[calimary]

1. DeSadist! I love it!

[Cha]

2. MoRon is a "Sadist"..

I imagine if there's grounds for Kidnapping and Gov Newsom thinks the charges would stick he would file charges.

I don't know but "Huma Trafficking" sounds descriptive, too.

Maybe it would depend on how the Sadist got the Migrants on the bus?

I'm reading that there are calls in Florida to get the Migrants BACK, too.

Mahalo, Hekate!

Good Luck to Gov Newsom VS that little creepy Fascist in Florida.

[Gruenemann]

3. With a little help from Texas!

The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office says it has completed its investigation into the transport of 49 migrants from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard last September by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration and filed criminal charges with the local district attorney.

A statement from the sheriff’s office says it has filed several counts of unlawful restraint, both misdemeanors and felonies. The sheriff’s office didn’t name any individual suspects and didn’t specify when the investigation was turned over to the Bexar County district attorney.

“At this time, the case is being reviewed by the DA’s office. Once an update is available, it will be provided to the public,” the statement said.

In a separate statement from the sheriff’s office, spokesperson Johnny Garcia said the case was turned over to the DA’s office “recently,” adding, “At this time we are not naming the suspects involved in the case.”

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/05/texas-san-antonio-migrant-flight-marthas-vineyard-criminal-charges/

[Cha]

4. Ty! I was just coming to Cross post

your OP on the Texas Sheriff.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217975052#post2