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Anonymous ID: e90ba7 Oct. 5, 2024, 6:27 a.m. No.21712442   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>2537 >>2556

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-admin-pulling-millions-fema-disaster-relief-send-southern-border-n1046691

 

Trump admin pulling millions from FEMA disaster relief to send to southern border

 

The Trump administration is pulling $271 million in funding from the Department of Homeland Security, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Disaster Relief Fund, to pay for immigration detention space and temporary hearing locations for asylum-seekers who have been forced to wait in Mexico, according to department officials and a letter sent to the agency by a California congresswoman.

 

To fund temporary locations for court hearings for asylum-seekers along the southern border, ICE would gain $155 million, all from FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund, according to the letter from Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-Calif., which was seen by NBC News.

 

The allocations were sent to Congress as a notification rather than a request, because the administration believes it has the authority to repurpose these funds after Congress did not pass more funding for ICE detention beds as part of an emergency funding bill for the southwest border in June.

 

as for the storms that season

Four storms made landfall in the U.S. during the 2019 season. Barry breached Louisiana’s coast as a Cat 1 hurricane July 13; Tropical Storm Imelda hit near Freeport, Texas on Sept. 17; Nestor made landfall near St. Vincent Island on Florida’s Panhandle as a post-tropical cyclone Oct. 19; and Cat 1 Hurricane Dorian arrived at Cape Hatteras, N.C. on Sept. 6.

 

None of the magnitude of a Helene