Gov. DeSantis considering lawsuit to stop migrant flights into Jacksonville

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday he’s looking into ways to halt planes with migrants from landing successful Florida.

His bureau said a 24-year-old antheral from Honduras posed arsenic a teen astatine the borderline and was enactment connected a formation to Jacksonville backmost successful August. That man, Yery Noel Medina-Ulloa, is present accused of sidesplitting a begetter of 4 successful Arlington past month.

There are present tons of questions astir these flights.

News4Jax asked the politician astir it connected Wednesday erstwhile helium held a quality league astatine a Jacksonville charter school.

His bureau said 78 flights person travel to Florida from the confederate border.

“One of the things concerning to me, look you can’t beryllium immoderate of this stuff, they were bringing flights successful May and June we recovered retired here. Why was that? Jacksonville, you saw what they had to woody with immoderate of the COVID stuff. Why? Why not fto folks alone? There’s absolutely, we’re going to person enactment connected a wide assortment of fronts,” DeSantis said.

The national authorities controls the airspace truthful DeSantis said he’s looking astatine ways to artifact charter planes from landing. He says he’s besides considering filing a lawsuit.

When News4Jax asked national officials astir the flights into the Florida, the Department of Health and Human Services referenced the Office of Refugee Resettlement, and responded successful a connection that reads successful part:

“It is our ineligible work to safely attraction for unaccompanied children until they tin beryllium swiftly unified with a genitor oregon a vetted sponsor. As portion of the unification process, ORR facilitates question for the children successful ORR’s attraction to their sponsors oregon different attraction providers successful the astir expeditious way. ORR lone cares for Unaccompanied Children 17 years of property and younger, not adults oregon families.”

What remains chartless is the root of the passengers, their ages, oregon a full number of the fig that person arrived successful Florida. Attorney General Ashley Moody is pursuing ineligible enactment to enactment a halt to migrants relocation to the Sunshine State.

“We brought a suit against this medication due to the fact that they’re blatantly failing to travel the law,” Moody said. “Since I took office, I’ve been saying we request to absorption connected shoring up weaknesses successful our communities that whitethorn beryllium starring to crime.”

News4Jax has requested documentation, formation logs, and immoderate pertinent reports successful the possession of the Office of Public Safety, which whitethorn besides see the ages of the passengers arriving connected the flights successful question to Jacksonville. DeSantis said Wednesday that the national authorities controls the airspace, and helium says he’s looking astatine ways to artifact charter planes from landing.