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Florida Plans to Resume Deportation of Immigrants in Protest against Border Policies


Mon 24 Oct 2022 | 06:28 PM
Ahmed Moamar

Florida Governor Ron De Santis' office said state officials plan to continue deporting immigrants to northern states via flights in protest of federal border policies, while correspondence revealed that transit flights may resume as early as December.

And the US newspaper (The Wall Street Journal) - via its website, today, Monday - that Florida's program to deport immigrants is the most politically controversial of the Republican attempts to send immigrants from border areas to states further north.

Democrats and immigrant rights groups have condemned the deportations as a "political ploy."

But Republicans and advocates of tighter border controls said the flights drew necessary attention to the pressures southern states face from the influx of unauthorized immigrants.