FLORIDA
Opinion
by:
E. Eugene Webb PhD
As the storm continues to rage around Governor
DeSantis’s decision to export immigrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard, the
early outrage seems to be focused on the immigrants and their treatment.
People on both sides of the political
aisle and from almost every area of the political universe are weighing in on
everything from the morality of the event to the political expediency of the
process.
There's a lot to what has gone on
regarding Martha's Vineyard. It has an almost unbelievable number of moving
parts.
This whole debacle has all the attributes
of an incredibly riveting novel or movie. However, there are several questions
that I haven't heard posed yet so I thought I would raise them here:
Whose idea was this in the first place? Did
it originate in Texas? The governor of Texas has said no.
Did it originate in Florida? At this
point, nobody knows.
How or by whom was the Texas/Florida
connection made?
Who rounded up the immigrants in the
first place?
Who made the decision to take them to the
airport and turn them over to whoever was responsible for flight operations?
Who coordinated the transfer of funds to
pay for all of this?
Was any money paid to anyone in Texas to
coordinate this plot?
Like I said above: there are a lot of
moving parts here!
Governor DeSantis by himself, or with the
assistance of his closest advisors, either willingly participated in this event
or were duped by somebody they trusted.
Governor DeSantis is no dummy. It is
almost impossible to believe that when presented with this plan DeSantis could
not have anticipated most of what has unfolded in the press, from some of his
closest supporters, from immigration activists and the list goes on.
Several people have already called for an
investigation by the Justice Department, and I for one think that is fully
warranted.
There are enough legal violations
encapsulated into this problem alone that make it worthy of a full-scale
federal investigation and an investigation in Florida by the Florida Attorney
General and in Texas by Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Anyone from DeSantis right on down who
violated any law or committed any crime should be prosecuted to the maximum extent
of the law.
Think about it this way. The next plane
load of people the DeSantis decides to pack up and ship somewhere could well be
teachers, preachers, or members of the opposing political party that don't
agree with the governor's political dogma.
I would suspect the destination of that
flight will not be nearly as pleasant as Martha's Vineyard.
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