Trump plans to release thousands of migrants in two Democratic strongholds, Florida officials say

[JonLP24]

Florida officials are raising alarm and pressing for details about the purported intention of the Trump administration to send hundreds of immigrants a week to two heavily Democratic counties in South Florida.

Customs and Border Protection has not publicly disclosed its plans. But a partial picture of a new approach to managing a record influx of immigrants at the southern border came into view on Thursday based on the accounts of local leaders in Broward and Palm Beach counties.

Even allies of the president were nonplussed. The state’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, joined federal lawmakers from Florida — Republicans and Democrats alike — in questioning the apparent effort to foist the immigration and asylum burden on two local jurisdictions without equipping them with the resources to house, feed, educate and protect new arrivals.

"We want a better plan from our federal government,” Palm Beach County Mayor Mack Bernard, a Haitian-born Democrat, said at a news conference. “We are not a border state.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/17/trump-broward-palm-beach-thousand-migrants-week-el-paso/%3foutputType=amp

[NewJeffCT]

1. and then, come election day

they'll claim they had unspecified terrorism threats from MS-13 and close half the polling stations in each Democratic stronghold.

[spanone]

2. That's the kind of 'president' he is. Always willing to use people as pawns and inflict major harm

[mitch96]

3. Just retaliation for not voting "his" way. Like the tax plan that hits

the democratic east and west coast the most.. I hate the son of a bitch...
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[no_hypocrisy]

4. Why? Florida's red now. Antagonizing two

blue districts doesn't change that reality. And without sufficient social services for the immigrants, this doesn't help republican Gov. Rick deSantis

[Phoenix61]

5. Like they say, a silver lining for every cloud.

Hope this tarnishes DeSantis and Rubio’s reps once and for all.

[underpants]

6. He thinks this is funny. It's all for talking points

[Initech]

7. This is another white supremacist fuck you to liberals.

[C_U_L8R]

8. Refugees are PEOPLE

You don't load these innocents up into buses and railcars and ship them off wherever you please.
What kind of sick nazi masturbation is Trump up to?

[renate]

9. Sadly, that's not even a rhetorical question nt