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Newsom Calls for DOJ Probe Into Florida’s Transporting of Illegal Immigrants to California US News | The Epoch Times https://ift.tt/vJP1obQ California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday penned a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland calling for an investigation into the recent transport of illegal immigrants from Republican-led border states under “deceptive representations.” In the letter, Mr. Newsom and his co-signatories say that illegal immigrants purportedly seeking asylum in the United States have been transported from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts and Sacramento, California under false pretenses in a program funded by Florida. The letter is co-signed by California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar of Texas. They acknowledge that it’s common for local jurisdictions and nongovernmental organizations “to facilitate onward travel from the border.” But their letter describes the recent efforts to move illegal immigrants to California and Massachusetts as a “scheme” in which, “according to news reports, recruiters deceived migrants into taking flights to these particular locations based on promises of jobs and shelter.”... July 07, 2023 at 02:09AM https://ift.tt/AwGVpIS Caden Pearson https://ift.tt/mnLuN7o