‘Just plain wrong’: White House condemns migrant flight to Martha’s Vineyard
Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s office said the White House is “full of a bunch of hypocrites, led by the Hypocrite-in-Chief who has been flying planeloads of migrants across the country and oftentimes in the cover of night.”
The statement comes hours after the White House said Mr Abbott and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ use of migrants to punish leaders of Democratic-led state and local governments is a “deeply alarming” stunt that placed innocent children in danger to score political points.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that the two governors were disrupting the federal process for handling migrants and using the migrants as “political pawns”.
Earlier on Thursday, Mr Abbott had sent two buses carrying migrants to the doorstep of Vice President Kamala Harris’s home in Washington, DC.
Meanwhile, Mr DeSantis doubled down on his unannounced decision to send two planes carrying 50 migrants to Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday.
“The minute even a small fraction of what those border towns deal with everyday is brought to their front door they all of a sudden go berserk ... it just shows you, you know their virtue signalling is a fraud,” he said on Thursday.
