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Many Republican politicians like to boast that they are prominent members of the Party of Family Values, with a capital letter like this.
It is the same party that in the past launched the cruel and inhuman separation of migrant families, the same party that installed barbed wire and deployed national guards on the border with Mexico to block requests for help from fleeing mothers, fathers and minors. . hunger, violence or totalitarian governments.
His most recent political ploy was played by Republican Party Governor Ron DeSantis, of Florida, who in his eagerness to compete in the race of lack of humanism, sent with deceptions and false promises, fifty Venezuelan migrants from Texas, not from Florida, on the island of Martha’s Vineyards, to “punish” the politicians of the democratic states.
This is not the first time that the political class has exploited immigrants, especially lattes from Latin America. The Democrats also did this with false promises of immigration reform and contacted our community late or when they needed it to win the election.
But the actions of Ron DeSantis and his Texan friend Gregg Abbott reach a new level of callousness and shamelessness. “Our customers have been lured to board planes and cross state lines under false pretenses. Several people, in collaboration with the Governor of Florida, have made numerous false promises to our clients, including job opportunities, education for their children and immigration assistance, to induce them to travel “, the Venezuelan Lawyers have denounced. for Human Rights (LHR).
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In fact, the migrants thought they were headed for a job in Boston and only discovered that they were flown to Martha’s Vineyard, the exclusive summer resort for politicians and personalities, until they were on the run. The attorneys asked the Massachusetts Attorney General to initiate a criminal investigation against DeSantis. But the sheriff of Bexar County in Texas, Javier Salazar, was already in front of him, who described it as a human rights abuse.
When the migrants arrived on Martha’s Vineyard they were welcomed with open arms. Although they have only been there for about 44 hours, their case was a stark reminder that in some states they are welcome and needed. Many of them have sensitized the residents of the island, and the entire country through the press, about the personal odyssey that represents the escape from a country like Venezuela.
Hopefully, DeSantis’s ploy has a clear political, or legal cost if he broke the law. Same as Abbott, who spent 12 million sending migrants to Washington, New York or Chicago.
There is a reason why the number of Venezuelans, Cubans and Nicaraguans has increased by 175%. They flee from poverty and totalitarianism. It is now clear to American voters how family values party candidates welcome them as exploitable pawns for political gain.
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