Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff for the Department of Homeland Security in the Trump administration, said that former President Donald Trump once asked his team to find murderers, rapists, and criminals at the border and send them to Democrat-controlled states and cities
Republican governors in Texas and Arizona have started to send buses of migrants to liberal cities and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took it a step further last week and sent two plane load of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard.
During an appearance on CNN this week, Taylor was asked if Trump had ever considered doing something similar while he was president.
“Not only did the Trump administration think about something like this, I think they’re the progenitors of the concept,” Taylor answered
“In January and February of 2019, Donald Trump directed us to go and take immigrants from the border and, quote, ‘bus and dump them into Democratic cities and blue states,'” he added. “But he was much more specific. He wanted us to identify the murderers, the rapists, and the criminals, and, in particular, make sure we did not incarcerate them, and we put them in those cities.”
Taylor said lawyers told them at the time it would be illegal to take people from the border and just dump them in blue states.
Earlier this week, advocacy groups helping the nearly 50 Venezuelan migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard sued DeSantis.
They argued that the relocations violated the migrants’ Fourth and 14th Amendment rights and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
“These immigrants, who are pursuing the proper channels for lawful immigration status in the United States, experienced cruelty akin to what they fled in their home country,” the suit says. “Defendants manipulated them, stripped them of their dignity, deprived them of their liberty, bodily autonomy, due process and equal protection under law, and impermissibly interfered with the Federal Government’s exclusive control over immigration in furtherance of an unlawful goal and a personal political agenda.”
