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Multiple reports allege the Biden administration has been secretly flying migrants to other states after they have entered the U.S. illegally along the border from Mexico.
Republican Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida says the Biden administration has sent more than 70 migrant-filled flights to an airport in Jacksonville during the night.
State officials were not notified of the flights until local law enforcement reported them.
The Washington Examiner notes that the Department of Homeland Security “struggles to empty overflowing border facilities.”
DeSantis has reportedly worked “frantically over the past several weeks” to find out who is facilitating these secret flights.
The flights are landing daily in northern Florida, the report continues.
“Over 70 air charter flights [on] jetliner airliners coming from the southwest border have landed at Jacksonville International Airport,” Larry Keefe, DeSantis’s public safety chief, said.
“On average, there’s 36 passengers on each of these flights. And that has been going on over the course of the summer through September.”
“We’re in a sad situation of trying to run an investigation. Who is facilitating this travel? How are they getting here? Who are the support people? Who are the sponsors?” Keefe said.
“We don’t know definitively or specifically as to why Jacksonville is the chosen place,” Keefe said.
“[We’re] having to watch and observe — in effect, spy on the government to see what it is that they’re doing in the middle of the night out of these airport facilities.”
Watch DeSantis respond to Biden’s open border policy:
A mid-20s illegal alien posed as a 17-year-old, crossed the Southern Border, was dumped in Jacksonville and has now taken an innocent Floridian’s life.
Biden’s reckless open borders policies are deadly. pic.twitter.com/BPB2kbFoXG
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) November 6, 2021
From Biz Pac Review:
Frustration over the secret flights comes amid anger over an alleged incident involving one illegal migrant, Yery Noel Medina Ulloa, who lied to Border Patrol officials as well as local police in Jacksonville, claiming to be 17 years old and also known by another name, who may have been aboard one of the night flights after pretending to be a minor.
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Ulloa, reportedly in his mid-20’s, has been charged with stabbing Francisco Javier Cuellar to death in his home Oct. 6. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office says that surveillance video from Cuellar’s home shows Ulloa “stabbing the victim numerous times and repeatedly hitting him with a chair.”
At a press conference on Saturday, DeSantis lambasted the Biden administration and accused the federal government of malfeasance.
“There was an individual who had posed as a 17-year-old, actually was in the mid-20s, brought here, had been here, ended up committing a murder,” DeSantis said. “And so now this individual has been detained, should have never been in this country to begin with, and definitely should not have been dumped in the state of Florida.
