Migrants' attorneys want lawsuit against Ron DeSantis over Martha's Vineyard flights to stay in Massachusetts
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Attorneys representing migrants flown from the border to Martha's Vineyard object to moving their case against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis out of Massachusetts.
"Defendants chose to send class plaintiffs to Massachusetts, and Martha’s Vineyard specifically, because they believed it presented the ideal conditions to abandon the individual plaintiffs, catch a small community off guard, generate the most media coverage, and harm their political opponents," the motion says. Danielle Wallace is a reporter for Fox News Digital covering politics, crime, police and more. Story tips can be sent to danielle.wallace@fox.com and on Twitter: @danimwallace.
If DeSantis, his administration, and the private companies said to have helped coordinate flying the migrants from San Antonio, Texas, briefly to Florida and then to the Massachusetts island last September wanted to "‘protect litigants, witnesses and the public against unnecessary inconvenience and expense,’ they could have chosen to forgo this scheme and leave the individual plaintiffs alone entirely," the migrants' attorneys wrote in court documents filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts last week.