“What we’re trying to do is profile, ‘OK, who do you think is trying to get to Florida?’” he said, adding: “If they end up coming to Florida, that’s going to impose a lot of costs on the community.”
He said his administration had hired a contractor. “There’s a bunch of stuff that goes into creating the infrastructure” to identify and transport the migrants, he said.
“There’s going to be buses and there’s likely going to be more flights,” he said.
By Friday afternoon, a Venezuelan migrant named Eliomar, 30, who had left his children in Falcón state in Venezuela, was on a ferry crossing the Vineyard Sound on his way to the military base.
“It’s beautiful,” he said, standing on the bow of the ferry.
Eliomar said he is a painter and wants to “work, to find a good job,” hopefully in Boston. “I don’t have any friends, but I know I can do it.”
“We don’t have family, we don’t have anything,” he said. “We came to find a better future.”
Remy Tumin reported from Edgartown and Michael D. Shear from Washington. Patricia Mazzei contributed reporting from Miami, Brooke Kushwaha from Edgartown and Zolan Kanno-Youngs from Washington.
Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/16/us/politics/migrants-marthas-vineyard.html
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