Florida Lieutenant Governor Jeanette Núñez said she plans to send migrants to the state of Delaware, following the example of other conservative states like Texas and Arizona, which have been transporting these undocumented immigrants to Washington and New York.
Núñez told a Hispanic radio station that Governor Ron DeSantis was not going to “stand idly by” and “he is going to send them frankly to Delaware, the state of President” Joe Biden.
“It is irresponsible on the part of Biden and his entire administration not to deal with the problem,” he said in response to a question about immigration in the face of the wave of Cuban rafters arriving in the state.
“This is going to be worse than Mariel,” said the lieutenant governor, referring to the 1985 mass exodus in which thousands of Cubans arrived in Florida.
The statements of the deputy governor, of Cuban origin, however, have generated criticism from the state migrant community, mostly Cubans, at a time when the peninsula has faced in recent days the massive arrival of these citizens in various groups and increasingly numerous.
In that sense, Governor DeSantis’s former press officer, Christina Pushaw, who now works for the Republican’s re-election campaign, said that Núñez was misunderstood.
According to Pushaw, the lieutenant governor assured that “clearly those who come illegally must be transported out of Florida, regardless of where they come from.”
But “if someone came to Miami on a raft from Cuba to escape communist repression, that person is a legal refugee,” Pushaw added.
The Democratic Party pointed out this Monday that these are inhumane policies and that “taking immigrants out of Florida by bus” would affect all immigrants, including Cubans, Venezuelans, Colombians and Haitians. EFE