It isn't as though DeSantis called and said, "Hey, Chuck, I need you to take a some immigrants off my hands."
The children will need to begin school to keep up with their classmates. All will have to receive physical exams and COVID vaccines.
September 16, 2022
Baker praised residents and officials on Martha’s Vineyard for taking care of the nearly 50 migrants after their unexpected arrival on Wednesday but said the island lacks the resources to house the migrants for the long-term.
At Joint Base Cape Cod, the migrants will be given dormitory-style housing, food and services, Baker said. Families will be given separate housing....
It is almost guaranteed the immigrants will be filing for asylum.
People continue to leave Venezuela (click here) to escape violence, insecurity and threats as well as lack of food, medicine and essential services. With over 6 million Venezuelan refugees and migrants worldwide, the vast majority in countries within Latin America and the Caribbean, this has become the second-largest external displacement crisis in the world.
Children, women and men continue to leave Venezuela for neighbouring countries and beyond due to the ongoing political, human rights and socio-economic developments in their country. Many arrive scared, tired and in dire need of assistance....
Under the guise of containing the spread of COVID-19, (click here) the policy known as Title 42 has resulted in the summary expulsion of thousands of asylum seekers and has become a centerpiece of U.S. border policy since 2020. The policy is a failure from every angle. Denounced by public health experts, immigration, and human rights advocates alike, it continues to inflict immeasurable harm on vulnerable people seeking safety. By foreclosing legal pathways to people seeking asylum, it has produced record levels of “recidivism” – repeat, irregular crossings – among migrants who have no option but to attempt entry without inspection. Though the Biden administration finally acknowledged the need to end Title 42, they dragged their feet for too long, and have not fought hard enough to stop the deadly expulsion from continuing, relying on specious public health justification when convenient and on baseless border control rationale when politically helpful. Both excuses have been debunked. Now, we must contend with the resulting humanitarian disaster, and the Biden administration must do more to defend and implement its decision to finally end Title 42....
The Title does allow for refusing people for asylum in the case of a health emergency, HOWEVER, the people are not to be sent back to the place that caused them to flee in the first place.
In other words, the Texas and Florida Governors don't know what to do and do not want to shoulder the cost themselves so they are sending the immigrants around to other states. The Venezuelans coming to the USA are in fear for their lives. Sending them directly back to Venezuela to prohibited by Title 42. It would be sending them back to face the same danger they left.
Title 42 recognizes asylum as a legitimate form of immigration, however, in the case of a health emergency the people can be refused asylum, but, another country that harbors no danger to the immigrants must be contacted and travel arranged. Title 42 does protect human life.
Nowhere does Title 42 recognize the right by any state to shuttle people around by any means of transportation to other states. Title 42 is about a health emergency. Title 42 assumes the health emergency exists in all 50 states and USA territories, so to simply shuttle the immigrants around is actually increasing the health emergency. An example would be a person infected with COVID-19 that arrived at the southern border to the USA. That person would then bring the virus to the transportation vehicle and to the place where disembarkation took place as well as all those along the way. In sequestering the immigrants to the point where they entered the USA is to contain the virus. Containing the virus is good public policy.
The states receiving the immigrants for political purposes (click here) can sue Florida and/or Texas for endangering the public and not finding suitable countries to place them. Florida and Texas are in violation of Title 42 and the USA Attorney for these states need to examine whether or not the Governors can be prosecuted for their violations.
Washington - U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), (click here) Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today delivered the following opening remarks at this morning’s full Committee hearing entitled “Assessing U.S. Policy Towards Venezuela.” Testifying before the Committee were Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian Nichols and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean Marcela Escobari.
“Venezuela is the epicenter of the second largest refugee and migration crisis in the world. The Maduro regime has overseen the collapse of the economy—taking down with it the country’s entire education and healthcare systems,” Chairman Menendez said, underscoring the regime’s crimes against humanity and invitation to Russian, Cuban, Iranian, and Chinese governments into the country. “So as we review United States policy towards Venezuela, we must reckon with how—in the span of a generation—a trusted democratic partner has become a mafia state. A criminal enterprise that uses brute force to cling to power.”
Continued Menendez: “Now, I want to be clear that this Committee believes in diplomacy. And Congress has long supported – and continues to support – a negotiated solution to Venezuela’s crisis. But a one-sided deal with a regime that kidnaps American citizens to increase its leverage is simply unacceptable. Unilateral concessions to a leader that tortures his political opponents is unacceptable. It’s not the path towards a successful negotiation. And it’s something the Biden administration—as well as newly elected leaders across Latin America—should keep in mind. Because given Maduro’s track record – given that he makes Al Capone look tame – there can be no return to normalcy with his regime.”...
Americans need to remember Venezuela's administration under Nicolas Maduro is a Russian sanctioned regime. Venezuela is hostile to the Western Hemisphere and is a national security threat to the USA in a near border war potential.
What could Maduro ever expect from an American that has done nothing but good works for humanity and feel in love with a woman he met? He has committed no crimes yet Maduro holds him as a political hostage in Venezuela.
September 16, 2022
By Michael Wilner and Antonio Maria Delgado
...Her son, Osman Khan, a 24 year-old U.S. citizen, (click here) had been working remotely for months from the small city of Bucaramanga in Colombia, living with a college friend after graduating from the University of Central Florida. Around Christmas, Khan told his sister that he had started dating a girl there, and that the relationship was getting serious. But he did not mention that he planned on crossing the Colombian border to visit her family in Venezuela.
On the night of Jan. 17, Valdes says the anonymous group sent her a video showing Khan apprehended in a nondescript office. They sent her voice messages of Khan pleading for help.
The group initially asked Valdes for $1,200 to secure Khan’s freedom. On the advice of friends and family, she negotiated them down to $600, to send his captors a message that they could not ask for more. She transferred the funds. They asked for more anyway. Huddling with family in her Winter Garden home, Valdes decided to act. “One of the phone numbers that called me had a picture on the profile,” Valdes told McClatchy, sharing Khan’s story publicly for the first time. “My family and I began investigating on our own. We started going through social media in Venezuela, looking through pictures, searching for names.”...
