Several migrants who were taken on flights from San Antonio to Martha's Vineyard said they feel embarrassed at being used in a political stunt.
People are shown waiting outside the migrant resource center in July. Several migrants who had stayed in San Antonio's migrant resource center and were put on flights to Martha's Vineyard this week say they feel embarrassed at being used in a political stunt.
At first, he felt hopeful to hear promises of what awaited the migrants at his next destination, but as he waited for four nights and five days at a San Antonio-area La Quinta hotel, something started to feel off.Since learning the woman’s description, the League of United Latin American Citizens announced it is offering aLULAC President Domingo Garcia traveled to Martha’s Vineyard on Friday and spoke with a handful of migrants about their experiences traveling to Massachusetts.
“I would like to work here,” Aguilar said. “First, fix our immigration paperwork, but we came to work and to contribute, to help, to put in effort. If they tell me to go back to the island, I would go because the people were so kind and good.” Some of the migrants voluntarily began to share with the women where they were headed, he said, but explained that they were stuck because they didn’t have money. Aguilar said the women began to offer to take migrants to either Washington state, Oregon or other states. Aguilar said he didn’t hear the term “sanctuary states” as part of that conversation.
Rita Orpeza, a maintenance employee at the La Quinta hotel, told the San Antonio Report she first heard of the migrants staying there from coworkers. “The whole time, the movements were secretive,” Villazana said. “Everything, they did it in their own way.”
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