Texas Democrat Sheriff Opens Criminal Investigation into DeSantis’ Migrant Flights

On Monday, Democrat Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar announced that his office opened a criminal investigation into what he says were 48 Venezuelan migrants who were “lured” last week to board flights from San Antonio, Texas, to Martha‘s Vineyard under a plan orchestrated by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for “nothing more … than a photo op.”

 “We are opening up a case with — an investigation with regard to these suspected activities involving the 48 migrants from Venezuela that, as we understand it at this point, the facts of the case at this point, are that on Wednesday, September 14th, here in Bexar County in the city of San Antonio, our understanding is that a Venezuelan migrant was paid what we would call a bird dog fee to recruit approximately 50 migrants from the area around a migrant resource center on San Pedro, here in San Antonio. As we understand it, 48 migrants were lured, I will use the word ‘lured,’ under false pretenses into staying at a hotel for a couple of days, they were taken by airplane at a certain point, they were shuttled to an airplane where they were flown to Florida and then eventually flown to Martha’s Vineyard, again under false pretenses is the information that we have, that they were promised work, they were promised the solution to several other problems. They were taken to Martha’s Vineyard, from what we can gather, for nothing — for little more than a photo op, a video op, and then they were unceremoniously stranded in Martha’s Vineyard.”