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Ron DeSantis dropping migrants off on Martha's Vineyard may be illegal – an immigration lawyer explains why

  • Written by Jean Lantz Reisz, Supervising Attorney, USC Immigration Clinic and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law, University of Southern California
imageAn immigrant mother and child stand outside a church on Martha's Vineyard on Sept. 15, 2022. Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

The unexpected arrival of approximately 50 Colombian and Venezuelan migrants on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, on Sept. 14, 2022, has prompted legal questions about how and why, exactly, Florida Gov....

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