Biden mocks Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over possible asylum seeker flight to Delaware: ‘He should come visit’

President Biden brushed off Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s latest effort to score political points by possibly sending a plane filled with asylum seekers to the president’s home state of Delaware.

As local officials scrambled to prepare for the potential arrival of incoming immigrants on Tuesday, Biden refused to take the bait from reporters who shouted questions about the GOP stunt after an unrelated White House event.

“He should come visit. We have a beautiful shoreline,” Biden quipped.

The plane that started the day in Texas is the same aircraft that DeSantis used to ferry immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts over the weekend.

Migrants, who arrived on a flight sent by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, gather with their belongings outside St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022, in Edgartown, Mass., on Martha's Vineyard. (Ray Ewing/Vineyard Gazette/)

But a flight tracking website said the plane was en route to Teterboro Airport in New Jersey Tuesday afternoon. It was unclear if it would continue to an airport in Georgetown, Delaware, about 20 miles from Rehoboth Beach, where Biden has a vacation home.

DeSantis refused to comment on the flight or its final destination.

Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) slammed DeSantis for tricking immigrants into agreeing to take a flight 1,000 miles away from where they will have to appear in court to apply for asylum.

“What a cruel stunt to a group of folks who are applying for asylum,” he said.

Meanwhile, a group of Venezuelan migrants filed a class action suit accusing DeSantis and other Florida officials of tricking them into agreeing to be flown to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.

A San Antonio sheriff has opened a criminal investigation into the flights, suggesting that asylum seekers were tricked into boarding the flight by Florida officials who produced bogus brochures falsely promising jobs and benefits.

DeSantis and fellow Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas say they are shipping the migrants north to Democratic-run cities and states, including New York and Washington D.C., to dramatize the urgency of the situation at the southern border.

Democrats call it a shameless political stunt and accuse the conservative leaders of using human beings as pawns.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has feuded with Abbott over the Lone Star State’s convoys of buses ferrying migrants to the Big Apple, which Hizzoner says has strained city services.

A 32-year-old mother of two from Colombia who was put on a bus from Texas to New York City killed herself in a Queens shelter over the weekend, sparking a new round of recriminations.

“People should not be used as political pawns in any circumstances and for that, Governor Abbot should be ashamed,” Murad Awawdeh, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition, said in response to Sunday’s suicide. “Now is the time that we demand more from all levels of government to ensure the health and safety of every New Yorker — whether they are newcomers or not.”