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Who Is Perla? A Central Figure in Florida’s Migrant Flights Emerges. [1]
['The New York Times']
Date: 2022-10-03
In the weeks since Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida orchestrated a plan to deliver two planeloads of unauthorized migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, questions have arisen over how the state rounded up the asylum seekers, most of them from Venezuela, on the streets of San Antonio.
Florida officials have provided little information about the program or how it was engineered. But according to many of the migrants, their journeys began with an offer from a woman they knew only as Perla.
Here is what we know about Perla and the role she played in the effort that led to 48 asylum seekers’ being transported to Massachusetts at Florida taxpayers’ expense.
Who is Perla?
Until now, little has been known about the woman who migrants said had identified herself only by her first name, Perla, when she solicited them to join the flights. A person briefed on the investigation by the Bexar County sheriff’s office into the matter told The New York Times that the person being looked at in connection with the operation was a woman named Perla Huerta.
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