A civil rights group that’s suing Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Florida officials over their politically charged scheme to fly nearly 50 migrants to Martha’s Vineyard in September has added San Antonio native Perla Huerta to its list of legal targets.
in September has added San Antonio native Perla Huerta to its list of legal targets.
Boston-based Lawyers for Civil Rights, the group suing DeSantis, added Huerta, 43, to its list of defendants in an amended lawsuit it recently filed in federal court in Massachusetts.Text messages and other documents cited in the suit show that the Republican governor’s chief of staff, James Uthmeier, and Florida’s public safety czar, Lawrence Keefe, were intimately involved in the plot from start to finish. Keefe was in San Antonio for the operation.
The suit asks a judge to stop DeSantis from mounting future immigrant relocations and seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages. The federal government had authorized them to remain in the United States as they sought asylum through immigration proceedings.
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