In a tweet Monday California Governor Gavin Newsom blasted Florida Governor Ron DeSantis after a group of 16 migrants was abandoned in Sacramento late last week.
There is a long history of backlash against progress, going back to when white supremacists used violence to reverse the enfranchisement of Black people.
"We have a responsibility to remind officials they work for us," says Rev. Rhonda Thomas. "If you can’t do your job, then maybe you should be unemployed.”
"The governor is treating us like this is a plantation and he is a mini-king," said Father José Rodríguez of Orlando's Jesus of Nazareth Episcopal Church.