WORCESTER, Mass. - A group of Venezuelan migrants are fighting back against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, but a local immigration attorney believes their lawsuit won't hold up in court. 

Three Venezuelan migrants, only identified as Yanet Doe, Pablo Doe and Jesus Doe, worked with a civil rights law firm to file a federal class action lawsuit over DeSantis' plan to send 50 immigrants to Martha's Vineyard without knowledge of their destination. 

In court documents, they claim to have been lured by false promises including "employment, housing, educational opportunities, and other like assistance upon their arrival."

Randy Feldman, a Worcester-based immigration attorney, said although the migrants' claims portray a cruel scheme borne from political gamesmanship, the lawsuit faces a number of challenges centering around the fact migrants signed off on the flight.

It's a question of how far DeSantis and his accomplices went to deceive the unwitting passengers. 

"As far as a lawsuit is concerned, unless they can make some consumer action protection action that says informed consent wasn't fully informed enough since they were in a position of disadvantage to understand exactly what was going on, that lawsuit probably won't go anywhere," Feldman said. 

On Wednesday, CNN reported that a Democratic state senator in Florida is also planning to file a lawsuit to prevent DeSantis from sending additional migrants to unknown locations, but DeSantis said he fully intends to continue the flights. 

As someone who works to help migrants on the path to lawful immigration status, Feldman said the developments have been demoralizing. 

"It is gamesmanship to the point where there's no morality left to think about the people you're moving around in the game, and that is what DeSantis did," Feldman said. "He played a game with people's lives, and that has to be called out. And people in the center and people in the left who call out DeSantis on that are well within their rights to point out that it is cruel."

The lawsuit asks for migrants to be given compensation for emotional distress and attorneys' fees while preventing DeSantis and others from "inducing" migrants to "travel across state lines by fraud and misrepresentation."