Gavin Newsom threatens Wokey DeSantis with kidnapping charges after migrants flown to Sacramento

Mod: Wokey DeSantis is a strange and cruel little dude in need of a serious legal beat down. Hopefully Newsom gives him one.

Newsom threatens DeSantis with kidnapping charges after migrants flown to Sacramento (Los Angeles Timeslink): Gov. Gavin Newsom took his feud with Gov. Ron DeSantis to new heights on Monday, seemingly threatening him with kidnapping charges after California officials say South American migrants were sent to Sacramento by the state of Florida as a political stunt.

Newsom, a Democrat, cited state kidnapping laws in a tweet to the Florida governor and Republican presidential hopeful, whom he called a “small, pathetic man.”

“This isn’t Martha’s Vineyard. Kidnapping charges?” Newsom said in the tweet, referencing DeSantis’ action last year to send a group of Venezuelan migrants to the wealthy liberal vacation spot in Massachusetts.

Sixteen migrants from Venezuela and Colombia were transported from Texas to New Mexico and flown on a chartered jet to Sacramento, where they were dropped off Friday at a church, Newsom said.

On Monday, a plane carrying 20 migrants arrived in Sacramento. Both groups were flown by the same contractor and were carrying documents indicating that their transportation involved the state of Florida, according to officials with the California Department of Justice.

Newsom said that his administration is working with the agency to “investigate the circumstances around” who paid for the plane trips, whether migrants were misled and whether laws were violated, including kidnapping.

Calvin Kia Abbasi, a spokesperson for PICO California, a faith-based nonprofit that is helping support the migrants in Sacramento, said they “should be righted” by the state and benefit from the due process of law.

“They were taken from nowhere and dropped in the middle of the capital of California with nothing on their backs,” he said. “They deserve actions taken that are in service to their inherent dignity as people, and anything less than that would be an affront to their humanity.”

Migrants impacted in California could join a federal class-action lawsuit against DeSantis and Florida officials regarding the 2022 Martha’s Vineyard incident.

Mod: More at the link.

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