Human rights advocates are denouncing ongoing efforts by Republicans to send dozens of buses full of asylum seekers to sanctuary cities across the United States. In Texas, a San Antonio-area sheriff has launched a criminal investigation into whether recruiters tricked a group of 48 asylum seekers into boarding flights that took them ultimately to Martha’s Vineyard, an island off the coast of Massachusetts. The Boston Globe reports the migrants, who were mostly from Venezuela, were approached by a tall blond woman promising free transportation to Boston. Lawyers for the migrants say she also gave them a brochure with false information. The Massachusetts-based Lawyers for Civil Rights shared the brochure online, with, “numerous false promises to our clients, including of work opportunities, schooling for their children, and immigration assistance, in order to induce them to travel,”.
speaking to 60 years ago, 1962, the White Citizens’ Council, which was an organization in the South and viewed themselves as a — viewed themselves as more moderate than the Ku Klux Klan, but basically also a white supremacist organization. And in efforts to humiliate, as they saw, Northern Democrats, Northern liberals, particularly the Kennedy family, this was a stunt pulled where they put impoverished people — this would be coming from Arkansas, Mississippi, the Carolinas and Georgia — put impoverished people on buses and sent them directly to Main Street in Hyannis. The idea was — and told them that the Kennedys would be there to welcome you — and, basically, identical to what’s happening now on Martha’s Vineyard, where they were promised all sorts of things — in fact, some were even given money — and were sent to Hyannis. And, of course, this was an idea — the idea was to humiliate the — even as the clip you mentioned pointed out, the target was to humiliate the Kennedys, the NAACP and the Urban League.
— source democracynow.org | Sep 20, 2022