A Texas sheriff’s office yesterday announced it has recommended criminal charges to the county district attorney over the two flights of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Via NBC News Miami:

Johnny Garcia, a spokesman for the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, said at this time they are not naming suspects. It’s not clear whether the district attorney will pursue the charges, which include misdemeanor and felony counts of unlawful restraint, according to the sheriff’s office.

The 49 Venezuelan migrants who were flown to the wealthy Massachusetts island from San Antonio last year said they were told they were going to Boston. An attorney who met with several migrants said they “had no idea of where they were going or where they were.”

The news comes as the state of Florida picked up asylum-seekers on the Texas border Monday and took them by private jet to California’s capital city Sacramento at taxpayer expense for the second time in four days, California officials said.

Meanwhile, Gov. Gavin Newsom responded to another similar DeSantis migrant stunt in California:

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Monday escalated his war of words with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican presidential candidate, calling him a “small, pathetic man” and floating kidnapping charges over a flight of migrants sent to his state.

The Democratic governor lobbed the barbs on Twitter after California’s attorney general said Florida’s government appeared to be behind a flight of South American migrants who arrived unexpectedly in Sacramento last week.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) said Monday the migrant flight is still under investigation, but the individuals who arrived in Sacramento by private plane “were in possession of documentation purporting to be from the government of the State of Florida.”