PICTURED: Ex-spy who helped Ron DeSantis fly migrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard is seen handing out supplies ahead of flight 

• Perla Huerta, 43, was photographed handing out supplies to immigrants at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio
• Ex-spy Huerta approached mostly Venezuelan migrants in San Antonio to lure them on-board a flight to Martha's Vineyard, reported the New York Times
• Officials in Texas said that the migrants were made false promises that included jobs, shelter and legal representation if they boarded the flights
• Huerta has previously been described as wearing cowboy boots and speaking both English and Spanish with the migrants
• Attorneys for the migrants she allegedly duped into to flying to Martha's Vineyard have filed a civil rights lawsuit against Ron DeSantis

The former military spy who allegedly helped Ron DeSantis fly 48 migrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard has been pictured for the first time.

Perla Huerta was said to have been spotted in the crowd helping to load mostly Venezuelan migrants on to a plane at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio last month before she was claimed to be a conduit for the Florida governor.

Huerta, who is believed to have been sent from Tampa to Texas to fill flights with immigrants, was dishing out supplies to them before they boarded the aircraft.

She spent two decades in the army - those included stints as a military counterintelligence agent, a combat medic and tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Perla was discharged from the US Army in August and currently lives in Tampa, Florida.

Most recently she has allegedly been identified as an instrumental player in executing DeSantis' plan to transport migrants to Martha's Vineyard.

The stunt was organized by the Florida governor to draw attention to an influx of immigrants to southern states and alleged hypocrisy of those like Massachusetts.

Migrants told the New York Times Huerta approached them in San Antonio with the proposition of flying north to Martha's Vineyard where jobs, shelter and legal representation would be available.

When Huerta first arrived in San Antonio the Times reported she recruited a Venezuelan migrant to help her find others that would be willing to board a plane.  

According to the Times, she was sent to Texas in order to convince the migrants to head north. Records show that Huerta has relatives in San Antonio. She is a divorced mother, and lived for a time in Niceville, Florida.

New York Magazine also reported that Huerta approached immigrants in San Antonio speaking both English and Spanish and offering to transport them to 'sanctuary states' in the north.

She wore cowboy boots and had blonde highlights in her hair, wrote a 27-year-old immigrant who had been on the flight.

Now an investigation is underway in San Antonio that will likely uncover the extent of Huerta's role in the scheme.

Attorneys representing the Venezuelan migrants who she allegedly duped into to flying to Martha's Vineyard have filed a class-action civil rights lawsuit against against DeSantis and other officials.

The scheme to transport the immigrants may be problematic for the governor and could raise legal issues relating to human trafficking.

Florida had previously allocated $12million to transport unauthorized migrants out of its own state. DeSantis' recent decision to cross state lines to retrieve migrants now calls into question the legality of his use of state funds to do so. 

Jason Pizzo, a Florida Democratic senator representing Miami, filed a lawsuit against the governor alleging that he broke state law because the budget that the funds were drawn from stipulates that they be used for 'the transport of unauthorized aliens from this state consistent with federal law.'