Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis warned that Haitians fleeing the gang-controlled nation to South Florida could get shipped off to the destination island of Martha's Vineyard.
"We do have our transport program also that's going to be operational," DeSantis said Tuesday on Dana Loesch's podcast.
"Haitians land in the Florida Keys -- their next stop very well may be Martha's Vineyard."
Florida is roughly 850 miles from Haiti and has been hit by an influx of migrants showing up to the Sunshine State's shores by boat amid the nation's conflict.
He explains why he can't just send them back home:
"The problem when you get to a situation like Florida is if they have people in our state and we wanted to fly them, say, back to Haiti, you have to get clearance to be able to do that. If you wanted to fly somebody to a South American country, wherever they're from, it becomes a little bit more difficult because the federal government's going to tell the host countries not to accept our planes," DeSantis said.
"It's a little bit different for a maritime state like us," he continued. "That's why we've really got to get them before they reach the shores, and that's why we're working so hard to do that."