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October 5, 2022

Ex-Counterintelligence Agent Helped DeSantis Scheme to Send Migrants to Martha's Vineyard
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The New York Times has confirmed the identity of a woman who played a
key role in recruiting and tricking a group of 48 Venezuelan asylum
seekers in Texas to board a flight to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts
as part of a political ploy by Florida Governor Ron De Santis. The Times
identified the woman as Perla Huerta. She is a former combat medic and
counterintelligence agent who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. She was
discharged by the Army in August. The group Lawyers for Civil Rights has
filed a class-action civil rights lawsuit against Huerta, De Santis and
others involved in the scheme.


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