Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ latest move on immigration, which includes using taxpayer money to fly migrants from Texas to California’s capital in private jets, is prompting criticism from El Paso’s Roman Catholic bishop, who calls the move “reprehensible.”
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and ELLIOT SPAGATFILE - Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso sits for a portrait in his office in El Paso, Texas, on April 4, 2022. Seitz, the Roman Catholic bishop of El Paso, Texas, tells The Associated Press that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' flights of migrants from the Texas border to California are "reprehensible" and "not morally acceptable.
SAN FRANCISCO — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ recruiters set their sights on Sacred Heart Catholic Church in the Texas border city of El Paso in search of asylum-seekers they could take from its bustling migrant shelter to California’s capital on taxpayer-funded private jets. Intentionally or not, envoys for Florida’s Catholic governor and Republican presidential candidate infused an element of his own religion into his latest move on immigration, which has drawn sharp criticism from El Paso’s Catholic bishop.
“Without going into the details of the politics of it, it does seem clear that they were being used not out of concern for the migrants but in an effort to make a political point,” Bishop Mark Seitz told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Seitz said many migrants arriving in the U.S. don’t know the geography, including how far cities and states are from one another, and are just anxious to move on.
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