Nothin says "Welcome to America!" like being kidnapped by a wannabe dictator and then filing a lawsuit against on of their conspirators.
Specifically the part about suing one of the conspirators instead of the actual guy in power who did the thing.
From OP's summary text, emphasis added:
The 77-page ruling, which also named DeSantis, Florida’s transportation secretary, Jared Perdue, and other state officials as defendants
I understand not clicking through to read the article, but c'mon now, is the summary too much to ask?
Pretty sure the courts in Florida have also already ruled that what DeSantis did (taking money that was ringfenced for dealing with migrants in Florida and paying his friend's charter airline to fly migrants from Texas to Massachusetts) was illegal and a misappropriation of taxpayer funds.
You can still sue civilly over something that's already been tried criminally, it makes suing even easier
What’s the over/under on anything actually being done about it?
So unlikely that even the sleaziest backroom bookies aren't taking bets 😮💨
god bless america
A country so modern its currency references bronze age superstition!
Still if people/company that conspire with him start to get sue they might stop helping him real fast rightwing are not known for their courage or loyalty once shit begin hitting the fan
Yeah we'll see how the Q Cucks Clan likes a taste of their own medicine lol
Maybe if DeSantis (and Abbott) make the USA a shitty enough place to live, people will stop wanting to go there?
It's already happening. Canada just had to tighten the screws on visas from Mexico because Mexicans are skipping America and coming right to Canada at a volume that is apparently concerning the Feds lol
Only if the CIA and other of the worst parts of the US government also stop fucking with South and Central America.
They're not coming because Florida and Texas are wonderful. They're coming because US meddling destroyed their countries of origin.
Which is funny since the plane owner is one of High-heel Ron's buddies.
Using foreigners as political props is one thing, but inconveniencing rich people is over the damn line and there will be consequences
It's the migrants suing, not the residents of Martha's Vineyard who did their best to treat the unannounced visitors well.
I think its more that the martha's vineyard people have a disproportionate amount of law backgrounds and have informed the migrants of their rights. I havent read anything suggesting anyone rich was inconvenienced.
I mean, the island is disproportionately rich, and doesn't have a lot of infrastructure, so flying migrants into a tiny local airport in an area filled with snow birds' houses and summer tourists could be considered "incoveniencing the rich" simply by the island having to help the migrants.
For example, there's a single hospital on the island. 50 migrants who need to be checked out to make sure that they're okay would be a strain on the medical infrastructure there if something else were to happen on the island.
It's why DeSantis chose Martha's Vineyard. To piss off a bunch of wealthy liberals by having to deal with what he considers a bunch of "dirty migrants." Little did he know, people in Massachusetts actually care about helping people like them.
Okay but then why not sue the people who are responsible, not the transportation company. Unless they specifically mistreated them in some way, they just did the job they were paid for.
Transport company should know it's illegal to transport these people over state lines like they did. Knowing laws like what you can and cannot transfer over state lines is what logistics companies are for.
Source: I work in logistics. "I didn't know I wasn't supposed to haul that in this place" is not a valid defense.
But yeah they should be able to sue Abbot and DeSantis and shit as well
is the program really to transport "illegal" migrants?
Yes. US immigration currently has the lowest maximum number of permits in the history of the country, set at, I think, 3,000 per year under Trump. I might be misremembering an extra zero there, because at first I wanted to say 300. There are tens of thousands of people at the border trying to get into the country, many desperate enough to enter illegally.
This specifically was DeSantis being upset at a bunch of liberal states declaring themselves "sanctuary states" that wouldn't deport people, so he sent this group by plane to an island of wealthy liberals to be spiteful and hoped it would piss off the rich. It did not. But they, or the state, happily told them their rights and that they could sue after getting them housed.
I think Texas did something similar where they sent a bunch of migrants by bus to another sanctuary state?
Cry, cuckflakes.
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