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Brett Wilkins

UNCOVERED: Migrants flown to mass suing desantis - Caught on Camera

Venezuelan migrants and volunteers celebrate together on Sept. 16 outside St. Andrew's Parish House on Martha's Vineyard. (Carlin Stiehl for the Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Lawyers representing Venezuelan migrants who were recently flown to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, on orders from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis filed a class action lawsuit Tuesday alleging the Republican governor and his state's transportation secretary perpetrated a "fraudulent and discriminatory scheme" against them.

The suit, which was filed Tuesday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Boston, said the legal asylum-seekers who boarded two flights from Texas to the wealthy island resort were told they would be sent to Boston or Washington, D.C.

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