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   From: NOT-SURE@idiocracy.gov   
      
   On 10/4/22 5:50 PM, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:   
   > https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/04/as-nyt-identifies-the-mysterious-   
   > perla-all-the-medias-marthas-vineyard-lies-unravel/   
   >   
   > Everything the media tried to convince the public was illegal about the   
   > DeSantis-facilitated migrant flight was just proved wrong.   
   >   
   > As soon as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his administration took credit   
   > for flying nearly 50 illegal border-crossers on a charter plane to   
   > Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, in mid-September, Democrats and their   
   > allies in the corrupt corporate media freaked out.   
   >   
   > They called the flight “evil,” “inhumane,” “disgusting,” and a   
   “cruel”   
   > thing to do and demanded DeSantis answer for the “blonde woman” called   
   > “Perla” whom migrants in San Antonio, Texas, reportedly claimed had   
   > “tricked” them into taking the long trip North.   
   >   
   > Immigration lawyers who jumped at the opportunity to represent the   
   > migrants called the flight an act of “kidnapping” to an undisclosed   
   > destination orchestrated by DeSantis. NPR reported that migrants were   
   > “lured” into boarding the plane because Perla told them they were going   
   to   
   > Boston where “expedited work papers” were waiting for them.   
   >   
   > According to The Washington Post, Perla, decked out in a cowboy hat and   
   > riding around in a “rented white SUV,” coerced migrants into making the   
   > journey with the promise of “food, jobs and transportation.” The New York   
   > Times said this Perla woman likely “misled” migrants to the point of   
   > breaking the law.   
   >   
   > One blogger even claimed that the informative brochure given to migrants,   
   > which outlined Massachusetts and Martha’s Vineyard migrant assistance   
   > programs, was a “smoking gun” that indicated DeSantis is potentially   
   > guilty of a crime. Federalist Senior Editor John Daniel Davidson quickly   
   > debunked this claim, but it still got tens of thousands of likes and   
   > shares on social media.   
   >   
   > Shortly after these reports made their rounds, several Democrats including   
   > California Gov. Gavin Newsom asked the Department of Justice to   
   > investigate red states such as Florida and Texas for “trafficking”   
   > migrants against their will. U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco all   
   > but confirmed in an interview with Bloomberg that her agency would   
   > eventually get involved. Other Democrats including Bexar County Sheriff   
   > Javier Salazar in Texas pledged a full criminal investigation into the   
   > matter.   
   >   
   > Fast forward a few weeks to Sunday, Oct. 2, when The New York Times   
   > published an article identifying the mysterious “Perla” who talked to   
   > migrants in San Antonio as Perla Huerta, an alleged former combat medic   
   > and counterintelligence agent who now resides in Tampa, Florida. Buried   
   > more than two dozen paragraphs into the NYT article is a quiet   
   > confirmation that, regardless of Perla, the migrants not only agreed to   
   > get on the plane voluntarily but that they knew their final destination   
   > was the wealthy East Coast island of Martha’s Vineyard.   
   >   
   > “The migrants each received a red folder containing a map of the United   
   > States, with an arrow stretching from Texas to Massachusetts. Another map   
   > in the shape of Martha’s Vineyard had a dot for the airport and one for   
   > the community services center,” the New York Times story states.   
   >   
   > Using information from “a person briefed on the San Antonio sheriff’s   
   > office investigation,” the Times affirmed what DeSantis and his office had   
   > claimed all along: These illegal border-crossers knew where they were   
   > going when they boarded the plane to Martha’s Vineyard. And they did so of   
   > their own will.   
   >   
   > Suddenly, everything the press tried to convince the public was illegal   
   > about the DeSantis-facilitated domestic flight was proven wrong.   
   >   
   > It’s not surprising, given their history of brazen lying in the service of   
   > Democrat narratives, that the corporate media readily bought into and   
   > peddled a hoax fed to them by dozens of immigration lawyers with fiery   
   > rhetoric. The worst part about this Perla arc is that most of it was wrong   
   > from the very beginning.   
   >   
   > Effectively buried in the press’s panicked coverage of the Perla narrative   
   > was a quote at the bottom of a Texas Tribune article from one of the   
   > migrants. Eduardo Linares told the Tribune that, after allegedly hearing   
   > Perla’s pitch, he voluntarily decided not to get on the plane. The article   
   > also noted that Perla was offering “a free trip to islands off the coast   
   > of Massachusetts,” not Boston.   
   >   
   > Multiple publications including The Boston Globe amplified Linares’s   
   > quotes about being lied to by the blonde woman. But the migrant’s   
   > acknowledgment in the same Tribune article that “he is second-guessing   
   > whether he should have gone, too” after hearing that the other migrants   
   > who flew to Martha’s Vineyard were faring well is predictably missing from   
   > those accounts.   
   >   
   > “I’ve heard … from people that say they are good, they’re working and   
   > they’re good,” Linares told The Texas Tribune.   
   >   
   > Additional evidence the media ignored while it fabricated an alternative   
   > narrative about migrants being “tricked” included this account from a   
   > Telemundo reporter who said the illegal border-crossers who did take the   
   > trip to Martha’s Vineyard considered themselves the “lucky ones.”   
   >   
   > “I can tell you, they’re not angry at Ron DeSantis,” Telemundo’s   
   Cristina   
   > Londoño Rooney told MSNBC. “They are actually thanking him for having   
   > brought them to Martha’s Vineyard.”   
   >   
   > Even The Martha’s Vineyard Times talked to a migrant who said, through an   
   > interpreter, “that they wanted to come to the Island and are seeking   
   > employment.”   
   >   
   > None of this mattered to the corporate media, which were salivating at the   
   > chance to blast DeSantis.   
   >   
   > The same media outlets that accused DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott of   
   > using migrants as “political pawns” by shipping them to blue states and   
      
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