Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar (D) has opened a criminal investigation into Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' decision to send approximately 50 asylum-seeking migrants from Venezuela, who volunteered to leave a migrant shelter in San Antonio, to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
According to Salazar, it's unclear if any laws were broken. Nonetheless, the sheriff claimed that 48 migrants had been “lured under false pretenses” before being flown to Florida and then to Martha's Vineyard.
Salazar said the investigation was in its early stages. At first, he declined to name suspects. But later he added: “Everybody on this call knows who those names are already.”
Last night, DeSantis appeared on Fox News' “Hannity” and excoriated liberals for not being outraged by migrant deaths near the U.S.-Mexico border, from drownings in the Rio Grande to the recent discovery of 53 dead migrants in and around an abandoned tractor-trailer in San Antonio.
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Salazar said his office's organized crime investigators would handle the investigation.
Immigration advocates and lawyers called for a criminal investigation into DeSantis' effort to move the migrants under a $12 million program aimed at relocating “unauthorized aliens” to what his administration has described as “sanctuary” jurisdictions.
In a statement Monday, a spokesperson for DeSantis said that Florida had helped the migrants access “greener pastures” in a place with more resources after they'd been “abandoned” in Bexar County.
DeSantis and his administration have previously denied breaking any laws with the program, and at a news conference Friday, the governor said he would “spend every penny” he could on it.
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Send buses to Bexar County OK they need more illegals
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DeSantis is the next white supremeist, terrorist, MAGA, conservative that the Dems will try to destroy. He will not backdown.
Terrorist? DeSantis? The word you’re looking for is “Patriot”
Maybe Governor Abbott should begin a criminal investigation against this Democratic sheriff for harboring illegal aliens and thereby violating our immigration laws.
That sounds like a good job for the Texas AG. Some of those sheriffs down that way need to start enforcing the United States immigration laws, not glossing over the laws that they should be enforcing.
They should send them back to wherever they came from, not just move them around the US.
Freedom of speech?????
That Texas sheriff is a loser. You have no right to investigate A governor from a different state. How about you do your job to deport all illegals coming into your own city. Lets check and see if he is a illegal immigrants. I bet he not a American citizen.
That’s precisely what I was thinking. A Texas sheriff has absolutly no jurisdiction over a Florida governor. Don’t know about his legal status. I’m just wondering about what majority of Yahoos elected him sheriff.
The Yahoos here in San Antonio vote by skin color and the (D) next to your name. He’s got everything you need to win in this “great” city.
Another 2-bit sheriff trying to get his name in the news.
Just another simpleton who should have a badge and a gun.
Just another simpleton who should NOT have a badge and a gun.
Fixed it for you.
Seriously? Children in Florida are missing school because of a lack of bus drivers, while the narcissistic governor is more concerned about his presidential future. Pick one job, and do it well, but stop using the children and immigrants as pawns.
Seriously? Children miss school because they lack bus drivers? Do they not have legs? Do they not have parents with one or two vehicles? Ever hear of car-pooling? Boo hoo. My heart breaks for you all. If that’s the worse life has treated you, then you need to keep your ugly pie-hole shut.
Wow. Spoken like a well educated individual.
I guess that’s how extremely obnoxious Democrats get you.
Why don’t you move to a Sanctuary state?
Education has nothing to do with you.
I repeat… education has nothing to do with you.
Why don’t you get a job as a bus driver?
Governor Ron is doing exactly what’s expected of him. You should be pointing at the main cause of everything border related
The biden administration is what’s doing the unthinkable.
What rights aside from human decency (wow, that’s been out the window for a while) do law breaking illegal aliens have? Why wouldn’t Desantis and Abbott just keep sending them back across the border. This exposes nothing most conservatives are already aware of, the socialist hypocrisy of the Dems, so what’s really gained by continuing the practice? Sure, it was great and was a stroke of genius, now the socialists will find a way to use this against the majority of the Nation? This Sheriff is a local official and has no jurisdiction here. Strange times!
If nothing else this sheriff has proven once again how obnoxious and useless the Democrats are.
It’s really simple, the illegals should be dumped off at the feet of the Elite Leftest Liberals who are the authors of this Retransformation Of America, such as ObamaJoe, too bad they couldn’t make a stop over at George Soros Estate but now they are blaming the Republicans. All they had to do is CLOSE THE BOARDER! So now that Retransformation is rubbing all of them the wrong way.
Hey Sheriff, where are you opening an investigation into Biden for breaking our immigration law. Look in the mirror, you idiot!
Martha Vinyard just doesn’t want immigrants in their town, nor does Delaware where the President is come. It’s okay for them to be a blue state and stand for welcoming immigrants at all other towns in the USA but not theirs. Are they saying, they are better than anywhere else that is overrun with immigrants? They are rich cities and they do not want trash in their towns, but it’s okay to send these people by the millions everywhere else. That is double standard. Either you believe what you say and do, or you are just a bunch of liars.
Sherif Salazar, while you are at it, please look into the thousands of Ghost Flight travelers shipped to the State of Pennsylvania. When I questioned my representative It was suggested I was heartless, and the only reason for stealthily salting the State was “for the childrens safety”…..to me, many of the supposed children coming across the Southern border looked like Regiment ready, healthy well dressed young men. Sherif Salazar, since I was also told the Ghost flights had been going on since 2014, and it was suggested I was rude questioning why they were continuing, for close to a decade, I would appreciate knowing why Marthas Vineyard citizens are considered sacred, and the border citizens, plus millions of the rest of us, flotsam. No one vetted any of what can be dangerous people, not children.
Another investigation…??? It’s becoming a tradition for democrats to launch a investigation into nothing.
The sheriff is overwhelmed with immigrants and he wants to point at someone for doing the right thing and sending them to a secure place.
Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar: the little publicity seeking PUNK. A lawsuit should be filed for his initiation of a criminal investigation WITHOUT identifying any laws that were broken!
This sheriff needs to be dismissed, and investigated himself for a blatantly partisan political expenditure of police resources. HOW does a state law enforcement officer in one state have ANY legitimate jurisdiction in the action of a Governor in Another separate Sovereign State, that only affects in the most benign way imaginable the residents of another ENTIRELY separate state from the Sheriff’s jurisdiction. THIS IS SCREAMING POLITICAL THEATER, and a DISGUSTING WASTE of TEXAS taxpayer’s resources.
So what does this bozo think he’s going to do; come to Florida and arrest our governor? Good luck with that. I think he might end up cooling his heels in a nice air-conditioned Florida jail cell.
How on earth can you kidnap any transient who has NO HOME?
NIBYism in its most FLAGRANT form. As long as the Demokratz don’t ACTUALLY see the migrant horde invasion, everything is great! Let the horde touch their miserable lives, all hell breaks loose.
Seems like someone needs to look into the /Good Sheriff’s bank accounts to see who is paying him to do this. Obvious misuse of public funds. He should be charged and removed from office. The public needs to organize a protest and invite the media to attend. Wonder if any of them would?