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Surprise is key part of migrant travel from Florida, Texas

An immigrant family makes their way to the bus transporting from St. Andrews in Edgartown, Mass., to Vineyard Haven and the ferry to Woods Hole, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took the playbook of a fellow Republican, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, to a new level by catching officials flat-footed in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., with two planeloads of Venezuelan migrants. On Friday, the migrants were being moved voluntarily to a military base on nearby Cape Cod, Mass. (Ron Schloerb/Cape Cod Times via AP)

Cleiver Rodriguez, 24, poses for a portrait, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022, in New York. Rodriguez, an immigrant from Venezuela, arrived to Manhattan in a bus sent by Texas governor Greg Abbott and is thankful for a free ride to New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

Surprise is key part of migrant travel from Florida, Texas