A flight inbound to Nantucket that local police anticipated would drop off migrant passengers is actually carrying business executives, local police confirmed.
After Nantucket Police made preparations for an influx of migrants similar to that which arrived in Martha’s Vineyard weeks ago, they reported Monday that the plane, scheduled to arrive Tuesday, “will be carrying executives from an investment company.” Police confirmed the situation with the charter company directly, according to the Boston Herald.
“We believe this information to be credible,” police said in a statement.
The update comes after police warned that the flight appeared to have very similar characteristics to the one sent to Martha’s Vineyard by Florida governor Ron DeSantis, which caught residents by surprise and reportedly overwhelmed the small affluent Massachusetts island.
The charter company reported that it was a business flight for a group out of Chicago. Police suspected that illegal immigrants could be on board because the flight was operated by the same private air company that transported migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, according to the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror.
Nantucket Police Central Dispatch received a call from the Nantucket Memorial Airport Operations on Friday about the flight. “The purpose of the call was to inform the Nantucket Police Department that the reported scheduled flight had many similarities to the flight and incident that occurred on Martha’s Vineyard,” Nantucket Police said in a statement.
“In the event there is an arrival of a plane carrying migrants, the Nantucket Police Department and many other Town departments have a detailed plan to manage such a situation,” police had said.
A number of progressive organizations and politicians have filed lawsuits against DeSantis over the flights to Martha’s Vineyard, calling them a political “stunt” that violated the migrants’ human rights. Just Monday, the Florida Center for Government Accountability sued the governor to compel disclosure of records about the flights from Texas to the wealthy enclave.
On Thursday, several buses carrying illegal immigrants arrived in New York City and Washington, D.C., including one bus that parked outside Vice President Kamala Harris’s residence at the Naval Observatory.