Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-16-2022
Publisher
Boston University
Language
en-US
Abstract
Massachusetts officials say Florida may have broken the law by transporting 50 Venezuelan immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard on September 14.
Rachel Rollins, US Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, says she’s reviewing whether the unannounced transport violated laws against human trafficking, coercion, or other crimes. Lawyers and aid workers on the Vineyard report that the immigrants were lied to about jobs and housing awaiting them in Massachusetts, about landing in Boston, and about having to register their new addresses with federal citizenship and immigration officials.
Recommended Citation
Rich Barlow & Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes,
Florida Governor DeSantis’ Transport of Migrants to Massachusetts Is a “Crude Political Tactic…Playing with People’s Lives,” LAW Expert Says
,
in
BU Today
(2022).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/shorter_works/178
Publisher URL
https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/desantis-transport-of-migrants-to-massachusetts-is-crude-political-tactic/?utm_campaign=bu_today&utm_source=email_20220920&utm_medium=intrograph&utm_content=politics#comments
