Feds say there is not enough funds for FEMA disaster relief despite spending more than $1 billion on housing illegal immigrants in the past two years.

 

Damage in Chimney Rock North Carolina from Hurricane Helene. New York Post/AFP/Getty.

The Federal Government says there is not enough funds in FEMA to deal with further hurricanes despite spending more than $1 billion on housing for illegal immigrants. New York Post. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said that though they had the funds to deal with Hurricane Helene, they would not have the funds to deal with another hurricane, which is very possible before the end of the year. However, FEMA has spent $1.4 billion on housing aid for illegal immigrants. The government claims that those funds can not be used for disaster aid, but that has not quelled critics who say the money should go to American citizens displaced, injured or killed in Hurricane Helene. The victims of the hurricane have gotten comparatively little aid, with $4 million being allocated for victims to get $750 for groceries. 

My Comment:

I think there is real anger about the response to Hurricane Helene. The general feeling is that the government could not care less about the victims of this hurricane and the reason why is that they are mostly Republican white folks. Obviously, that's not entirely true, Asheville, the biggest city to get hit, is a Blue bastion in a sea of Red counties and towns, but it sure seems like the response to this Hurricane is dramatically worse than other similar disasters. 

It does not help that the folks in North Carolina are not getting much in the way of aid. The $750 for groceries is a joke when illegal immigrants are getting $1.4 billion over two years just for being in the country. In a sane world those folks would not even be in this country and all of that money would go to American citizens who lost everything. 

To be fair, it's not like the funds can be easily moved from illegal immigration to FEMA disaster relief. That would take an act of congress or some kind of presidential order. Congress isn't in session until after the election and Biden's barely a president. Even if he wanted to, I don't think Biden is capable of doing much of anything at this point. It's possible that Congress will reconvene in an emergency session and either redirect these funds or authorize new ones but unless we get hit by another hurricane I doubt that will happen. 

Regardless, it sure feels like these folks are getting left behind, even without the rumors on the ground of FEMA largely being absent and even preventing aid from getting in. Certainly there have been bad reactions to storms before but the fact that it took a week for Biden to even show up is greatly contributing to the idea that they simply don't care about these people. 

And it's not like the government isn't wasting their money on other things than illegal immigration. We have given Ukraine and Israel billions of dollars for reasons that are hard to explain. The money we have given to Ukraine alone could have been used to not only give the folks affected by this storm a new start on life, but it could have easily paid to repair the damage the storm has caused to local infrastructure. But that money was sent to Ukraine so they can delay the inevitable outcome of the war. It's absurd. 

It has to be said that it's even worse that this money is going to illegal immigrants. These folks broke our laws for the most part and are only being brought into America to undercut American workers and to increase the cost of housing. The only money that should be spent on illegal immigrants is the cost of a plane ticket to a country of their choice. Putting our country into debt for these folks is insane...