Bexar Sheriff to investigate migrants ‘lured’ into flight

Fresno CA

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Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said Monday that his office will launch an investigation into who was behind the recruitment of nearly 50 migrants in San Antonio to be flown on a charter plane to Florida and Massachusetts. Salazar said the migrants were “lured” Wednesday from a North Side migrant resource center on San Pedro Avenue under false pretenses of work by someone who was paid a “bird-dog” fee. The migrants were allegedly told of jobs and housing if they agreed to board the plane, Salazar said. “Somebody preyed upon these people,” Salazar said at a Monday afternoon news conference. Salazar said that all people in the United States, regardless of immigration status, have rights that he believes were potentially violated. (That 'somebody' is Governor Abbott.)