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Martha's Vineyard migrant flight may have been illegal as well as inhumane [1]
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Date: 2022-09-15
NPR’s Joel Rose revealed that when he spoke to some of the migrants, they were told that when they were waiting in San Antonio, a woman told them that if they got on the plane, it would be a lot easier for them to find jobs in their new country.
The migrants said a woman they identified as "Perla" approached them outside the shelter and lured them into boarding the plane, saying they would be flown to Boston where they could get expedited work papers. She provided them with food. The migrants said Perla was still trying to recruit more passengers just hours before their flight. Andres Duarte, a 30-year-old Venezuelan, said he had recently crossed the border into Texas and eventually went to a shelter in San Antonio. "She (Perla) offered us help. Help that never arrived," Andres said. "Now we are here. We got on the plane with a vision of the future, of making it." He went on to explain why he boarded the plane with so little information in hand. "Look, when you have no money and someone offers help, well, it means a lot."
Rose told NPR’s “Morning Edition” that “Perla” also put up some of the migrants at a hotel in San Antonio before the flight.
If I’m Perla or anyone who helped her, I’d have a lawyer on speed dial. This is so outrageously criminal that it’s impossible to point out where to start. It’s been speculated that this amounts to human trafficking. But whatever it is, the scenario spelled out by these immigrants would be illegal as all hell if true.
If I were the U.S. Attorneys for the Western District of Texas (home to San Antonio) and the District of Massachusetts, as well as the FBI chiefs in San Antonio and Boston, I’d be on this case right now. There are certain situations that are so outrageously criminal that they must be prosecuted, and this would certainly qualify.
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