Just published by The New York Times:
Criminal Investigation Is Opened After Migrant Flights to Martha’s Vineyard
The sheriff of Bexar County, Texas, said it was clear that many of the 48 migrants flown to Massachusetts had been misled and lured away to score political points.
“They They had a right not to be preyed on and played for a fool,” Sheriff Javier Salazar of Bexar County said.Credit...Sam Owens/The San Antonio Express-News via AP
By Edgar Sandoval and Eliza Fawcett
Sept. 19, 2022Updated 9:06 p.m. ET
The New York Times
SAN ANTONIO — A county sheriff in Texas announced on Monday that he had opened a criminal investigation into flights that took 48 migrants from a shelter in San Antonio to the island resort of Martha’s Vineyard last week.
Sheriff Javier Salazar of Bexar County, which includes San Antonio, said that he had enlisted agents from his office’s organized crime task force and that it was too early to determine which laws might have been broken. But he said it was clear that many of the migrants had been misled and lured away from Texas to score political points.