Jared Kushner (left), Ron DeSantis.Photo: John Lamparski/Getty; Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/Getty
Jared Kushner said this week he finds recent reports of migrant flights “troubling,” suggesting that Republicans including FloridaGov. Ron DeSantisare using migrants as “political pawns.”
“I personally watch what’s happening, and it’s very hard to see at the southern border,” 41-year-old Kushner said in an interview on Fox News Thursday. “We have to remember that these are human beings, they’re people, so seeing them being used as political pawns one way or the other is very troubling to me.”
Kushner’s remarks came days after DeSantis claimed responsibility forsending two planes of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, following in the footsteps of conservative governors in Texas and Arizona, who have sent bus-loads of migrants to Washington, D.C. in recent months.
According to Cyr, there was “no advance notice” given to anyone in Massachusetts.
“The island scrambled to respond,” he told the network. “They essentially set up shelters, the equivalent of a hurricane or Nor’easter. They set that up in a matter of hours and these families received a meal. They were Covid tested and are spending the night in shelters at several churches on the island.”
As Kushner explained on Fox News, the migrants being flown or bussed from Republican states to more liberal areas — often as a means to publicize the conservative stance on immigration — are fleeing dangerous situations and seeking a better life in America.
Elsewhere in his interview, Kushner criticized PresidentJoe Biden’s border policies, saying thatthe current administration should not have reversed the policies of former PresidentDonald Trump(Kushner’s father-in-law).
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DeSantis' shuttling of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard comes as other Republican governors have done the same: moving refugees out of their states and to Democrat-led areas.
In Texas, Gov.Greg Abbottclaimed responsibility for a similar recent stunt in which two buses of migrants arrived at the US Naval Observatory — Vice PresidentKamala Harris' residence in Washington, D.C. CNN reports that the volunteers who staff the observatory were surprised at their arrival, andhad not been previously notified.
That move came after Abbott, who isrunning for reelectionthis year, announced in April that he was busing migrants from the Lone Star State to the Big Apple.
In May, Arizona’s Republican Gov. Doug Duceymade a similar move, sending migrants from his state’s southern border to Washington, D.C.
source: people.com
