What did Ron DeSantis claim about immigration on 10 Mar 2023?
Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida ·
They said all the refugees and illegals are welcome and then they deported them the next day, are you kidding me?
Massachusetts did not deport them. Two days after the flights, the state offered the roughly 50 migrants a voluntary move to an emergency shelter at Joint Base Cape Cod, inside Massachusetts.
Two days after the Sept. 14, 2022 flights, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker's administration announced that the approximately 50 migrants would be offered transportation from Martha's Vineyard to a temporary emergency shelter at Joint Base Cape Cod, with access to legal, health care and other services, and that 'this move will be voluntary' (Massachusetts governor's office, Sept. 16, 2022). The record describes a voluntary move to shelter inside Massachusetts, not a removal from the country.
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- Event on public education with Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds in Des Moines, Iowa, sponsored by the And to the Republic PAC.
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