DeSantis vows Florida will transport more migrants from border to other states

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🗓️ 17 September 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is vowing to use “every penny” of the $12 million his state budgeted to relocate migrants to other states saying “these are just the beginning efforts.” Officials say the migrants DeSantis sent to Martha’s Vineyard from Texas are now at a military base on Cape Cod to receive shelter and humanitarian support. Deval Patrick is a former Democratic governor of Massachusetts. He tells Anderson Cooper “it’s wrong” to treat human beings as props in a political stunt. Plus, CNN Chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst John Miller joins AC360 to discuss the safety concerns around Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, an event the London Metropolitan Police are calling the “largest single policing event” they’ve ever handled. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening, the very best this country can be was on display today as 50 migrants flown
0:05.4	to Martha's Vineyard, cheered a state government promising to shelter them and provide emergency
0:10.3	services.
0:11.3	Today, they were sent to a military base on Cape Cod after locals had donated manpower
0:16.0	in tens of thousands of dollars to help, and also greeting them.
0:19.9	CNN has spoken to more than a dozen of these Venezuelans, all of whom say they are fleeing
0:24.1	repression in their home country.
0:26.0	They are all claiming asylum and have hearings going forward in cities across the country.
0:30.6	The man who is taking credit for what President Biden has called playing politics with human
0:34.3	beings, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis promised that these flights are only the beginning.
0:39.8	So, they have been in Texas identifying people that are trying to come to Florida and then
0:45.8	offering them free transportation to sanctuary jurisdictions.
0:50.6	And so, they went from Texas to Florida to Martha's Vineyard and the flight.
0:55.6	There's also going to be buses and there will likely be more flights, but I'll tell you
0:59.1	this, the legislature gave me $12 million.
1:02.4	We're going to spend every penny of that to make sure that we're protecting the people
1:06.8	of the state of Florida.
1:09.0	Governor Ron DeSantis, along with the Governor of Texas, are transporting migrants to well-known
1:12.8	liberal enclaves.
1:14.5	Critics say they're being used as props.
1:16.3	The governors and their supporters say it's a protest against what they say is inadequate,
1:20.6	federal response, to crossings of the border.
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