DeSantis recruiters eyed Catholic church for migrant flights that bishop calls 'reprehensible'
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June 9, 2023
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' recruiters set their sights on Sacred Heart Catholic Church in the Texas border city of El Paso in search of asylum-seekers they could take from its bustling migrant shelter to California's capital on taxpayer-funded private jets.
Intentionally or not, envoys for Florida's Catholic governor and Republican presidential candidate infused an element of his own religion into his latest move on immigration, which has drawn sharp criticism from El Paso's Catholic bishop.
"Without going into the details of the politics of it, it does seem clear that the...
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