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Migrants who were flown to Martha's Vineyard nearly two years ago on charter flights coordinated by Florida <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/ron-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gov. Ron DeSantis</a> can sue the aviation company that transported them, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled on Monday. Fifty Venezuelans were flown in 2022 to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/conservatives-blast-marthas-vineyard-leftist-hypocrisy-deporting-illegal-immigrants-island" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Martha’s Vineyard</a> — famously known as a playground of rich progressives — from San Antonio, Texas, and had been promised work and housing.Under the terms of the ruling, the migrants can proceed with a lawsuit against Florida-based Vertol Systems Co., which coordinated the flights for $1.5 million. Fox News Digital has reached out to the company. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/previously-deported-illegal-immigrant-charged-murder-25-year-old-michigan-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PREVIOUSLY DEPORTED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHARGED WITH MURDER OF 25-YEAR OLD MICHIGAN WOMAN</a>"These facts, taken together, support an inference that Vertol and the other Defendants specifically targeted Plaintiffs because they were Latinx immigrants," the 77-page ruling from U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs states. DeSantis was named in a lawsuit but was dropped by the judge, citing "insufficient facts" presented in the case. Burroughs said the court could not "ascertain what actions were taken by whom and therefore cannot determine which, if any, of those individual Defendants transacted business or caused injury here, leaving it no choice but to find that, at least on this record, personal jurisdiction has not been established." <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/border-patrol-chief-suggests-jail-time-tougher-consequences-stop-illegal-us-mexico-border-crossings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BORDER PATROL CHIEF SUGGESTS 'JAIL TIME,' TOUGHER 'CONSEQUENCES' TO STOP ILLEGAL US-MEXICO BORDER CROSSINGS</a>DeSantis, like his counterpart in Texas, had the migrants <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ron-desantis-sends-two-planes-illegal-immigrants-marthas-vineyard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">flown to the Massachusetts</a> island to highlight the Biden administration's border policies, which have been heavily criticized by Republicans amid record-numbers of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. His office told Fox News Digital that the flights were "conducted lawfully and authorized by the Florida Legislature.""We look forward to Florida's next illegal immigrant relocation flight, and we are glad to bring national attention to the crisis at the southern border," said DeSantis Deputy Press Secretary Julia Friedland.Residents on the island were caught off guard and scrambled to provide resources for them upon their arrival. The <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/military/national-guard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Guard</a> was eventually activated in response. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/immigration/illegal-immigrants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The migrants</a> were loaded onto buses after two days and taken to military housing on the Cape Cod mainland.Fox News Digital's Bradford Betz contributed to this report.

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content: Migrants who were flown to Martha's Vineyard nearly two years ago on charter
 flights coordinated by Florida <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/ron-desantis"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gov. Ron DeSantis</a> can sue the aviation company
 that transported them, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled on Monday. Fifty
 Venezuelans were flown in 2022 to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/conservatives-blast-marthas-vineyard-leftist-hypocrisy-deporting-illegal-immigrants-island"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">Martha’s Vineyard</a> — famously known as a playground
 of rich progressives — from San Antonio, Texas, and had been promised work and housing.Under
 the terms of the ruling, the migrants can proceed with a lawsuit against Florida-based
 Vertol Systems Co., which coordinated the flights for $1.5 million. Fox News
 Digital has reached out to the company. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/previously-deported-illegal-immigrant-charged-murder-25-year-old-michigan-woman"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">PREVIOUSLY DEPORTED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHARGED
 WITH MURDER OF 25-YEAR OLD MICHIGAN WOMAN</a>"These facts, taken
 together, support an inference that Vertol and the other Defendants specifically
 targeted Plaintiffs because they were Latinx immigrants," the 77-page ruling from
 U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs states. DeSantis was named in a
 lawsuit but was dropped by the judge, citing "insufficient facts" presented in the
 case. Burroughs said the court could not "ascertain what actions were taken
 by whom and therefore cannot determine which, if any, of those individual Defendants
 transacted business or caused injury here, leaving it no choice but to find that,
 at least on this record, personal jurisdiction has not been established." <a
 href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/border-patrol-chief-suggests-jail-time-tougher-consequences-stop-illegal-us-mexico-border-crossings"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">BORDER PATROL CHIEF SUGGESTS 'JAIL TIME,'
 TOUGHER 'CONSEQUENCES' TO STOP ILLEGAL US-MEXICO BORDER CROSSINGS</a>DeSantis,
 like his counterpart in Texas, had the migrants <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ron-desantis-sends-two-planes-illegal-immigrants-marthas-vineyard"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">flown to the Massachusetts</a> island to highlight
 the Biden administration's border policies, which have been heavily criticized by
 Republicans amid record-numbers of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. His
 office told Fox News Digital that the flights were "conducted lawfully and authorized
 by the Florida Legislature.""We look forward to Florida's next illegal immigrant
 relocation flight, and we are glad to bring national attention to the crisis at
 the southern border," said DeSantis Deputy Press Secretary Julia Friedland.Residents
 on the island were caught off guard and scrambled to provide resources for them
 upon their arrival. The <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/military/national-guard"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Guard</a> was eventually activated in response. <a
 href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/immigration/illegal-immigrants" target="_blank"
 rel="noopener">The migrants</a> were loaded onto buses after two days and taken
 to military housing on the Cape Cod mainland.Fox News Digital's Bradford
 Betz contributed to this report. 
summary: A federal judge has ruled that migrants flown to Martha&apos;s Vineyard in
 2022 can sue the aviation company, saying they were targeted because of their ethnic
 background.
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