The anticipated arrival of a migrant flight from Florida to Delaware was quite the hot topic yesterday for the mainstream outlets.
Delaware braces for migrant flight in U.S. political standoff https://t.co/uVnU8vlrxj pic.twitter.com/MY6vxyd2mA
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 20, 2022
Delaware officials prepare for a possible flight of migrants from Texas and Florida. @edlavaCNN reports. https://t.co/6VpSPB8Aju
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) September 20, 2022
Everyone was braced for another heartwarming tale of how a small wealthy suburban town would be enriched by the arrival of a planeload of migrants, until such time as the Army could round them up and make them someone else’s problem, of course.
And then…it didn’t happen.
“The media, the Democrats, everyone got punked who decided to heed some s— on Twitter instead of waiting for confirmation from the governor’s office. The entire point of this is to put a spotlight on the border. It’s what the governor has said.”https://t.co/wj9AIHNZd1
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) September 21, 2022
From NBC News:
The White House and the Delaware governor’s office were ready. So were the news media and political onlookers.
Everyone who gathered at a small airport in Georgetown, Delaware, near President Joe Biden’s home on Tuesday, was waiting in anticipation of a planeload of migrants to be flown from San Antonio, Texas, as part of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ program to send a message about illegal immigration.
But by late Tuesday night, no plane had arrived in Delaware. Instead, it landed in Teterboro, New Jersey, just outside New York City, where Biden was in town for the annual U.N. General Assembly meeting.
There were no migrants aboard the plane.
There were no migrants aboard the plane.
There. Were. No. Migrants. Aboard. The. Plane.
So not only did the flight not go to Delaware, but there were no migrants aboard the plane. Apologies for the repetition, but this is just too funny. DeSantis, once again, played the media like a fiddle and watching them dance to his tune never gets old.
Lol yup. All these reporters who are suddenly so interested in illegal immigration that they swarmed Delaware today, should try visiting the border once in a while. They’ll find plenty of illegal immigrants there.
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) September 21, 2022
Ron DeSantis is bringing attention to a humanitarian crisis. One the administration would rather ignore for political reasons. They said they were “sanctuary cities,” Florida never said that. Why can’t they handle them? They invited them.
— sam (@AntiNewDems) September 21, 2022
Migrant flights for thee, but not for me. They can’t handle them because they would prefer that people not get hung up on little technicalities such as what they said vs. what they really mean.
And Governor DeSantis continues to expose them for it.
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