President Biden made light of the potential arrival of migrants at an airport near his “summer White House” in Delaware on Tuesday by sarcastically inviting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to the area.
During an unrelated event at the White House, Biden brushed off a reporter’s question about DeSantis’ apparent plan to send a planeload of migrants to the president’s home state, just days after targeting a posh liberal enclave in Massachusetts.
“He should come visit,” Biden cracked.
“We have a beautiful shoreline.”
Earlier, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the White House was bracing for the migrants’ pending arrival.
“We have received word of the flights,” Jean-Pierre said during an afternoon briefing.
“We are coordinating closely with state officials and local service providers who are prepared to welcome these families in an orderly manner as they pursue their asylum claims.”
A charter jet that DeSantis used to send migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., was scheduled to take off Tuesday morning from San Antonio, Texas, and make a stop in Crestview, Florida, before landing at the Delaware Coastal Airport, according to the founder of the Popular Information newsletter.
The tiny airport, outside Georgetown, Del., is less than 20 miles from Rehoboth Beach, where Biden and first lady Jill Biden bought a $2.7 million vacation home just blocks from the Atlantic Ocean in 2017.
But flight tracking sites listed the plane as delayed or with an “unknown” status and San Antonio Kelly Field airport confirmed to the Post no flight had taken off for Florida by midday, four hours after the plane was scheduled to depart.
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