Legal and Political Controversies Surrounding Florida's Migrant Airlifts.

Legal analysts say that prosecuting anyone for the migrant flights chartered by the state of Florida to California and Massachusetts may be challenging and would depend on whether the migrants were misled when they boarded the planes. State officials insist that the flights were voluntary and that organizers had obtained both verbal and written permission from migrants who they said clearly wanted to go to California. Any civil or criminal liability would arise if it emerged that the consent was not fully informed, as appeared to be the case with some of those who were flown to Massachusetts in 2022.