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CV NEWS FEED // According to federal government data, the Biden-Harris administration’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) doled out over one billion dollars of taxpayer money to programs directly benefiting foreign nationals over the past two years.
Multiple sources reported the shocking statistics in the wake of Hurricane Helene, which devastated the American Southeast last week, resulting in a death toll of at least 200.
The storm ravaged North Carolina and Georgia. As of Thursday afternoon, it killed at least 94 people in North Carolina, and 33 in Georgia.
FEMA is the main federal agency responsible for responding to hurricanes and other natural disasters. Since 2003, it has been an agency of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
“The Biden-Harris administration took more than a billion tax dollars that had been allocated to the agency responsible for American disaster relief and used it to offer services for illegal immigrants,” wrote The Federalist Western Correspondent Tristan Justice on Tuesday.
Justice stated that FEMA “allocated nearly $364 million in the fiscal year 2023 and $650 million for the 2024 fiscal year to the ‘Shelter and Services Program.’”
Per Justice, the program’s purpose was “to provide humanitarian services to noncitizen migrants following their release from” DHS.
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Justice further indicated:
The program is run in cooperation with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) “to support CBP in the safe, orderly and humane release of noncitizen migrants from short-term holding facilities,” FEMA’s website reads.
Controversial Biden-Harris DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas oversees both FEMA and CBP.
Mayorkas told reporters on Wednesday that “FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the [hurricane] season.”
“We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have,” the embattled secretary said. “We are expecting another hurricane hitting.”
“Hurricane season runs June 1 to Nov. 30, but most hurricanes typically occur in September and October,” the Associated Press (AP) noted.
Over the past few years, Mayorkas has come under increased scrutiny due to the unprecedented number of migrants that have illegally crossed the nation’s southern border during the Biden-Harris presidency.
Per a February poll, 48% of Democrats supported Mayrokas’ impeachment for his role in the border crisis.
A chorus of critics blasted the secretary’s remarks against the backdrop of his FEMA allocating over a billion dollars to migrants.
Republican Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody said during a Thursday FOX News appearance that “Mayokas has come in like a virus and infected … what need to be healthy, strong, fundamental programs to ensure the stability and safety of Americans in times of disaster.”
The Biden-Harris administration has “taken the FEMA Emergency Food and Shelter Program program and over time siphoned off hundreds of millions of dollars into basically making it an illegal immigrant resettlement program,” the attorney general emphasized.
“They say they need more money,” she continued, “and of course they need more money because they’ve been laundering it from the true intended purpose of this fund that Congress set forth.”
Moody’s state was also hit hard by Helene. As of Wednesday afternoon, Florida’s death toll from the storm was at least 19.
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott took to X (formerly Twitter) calling on Mayorkas and FEMA to “immediately stop spending money on illegal immigration resettlement and redirect those funds to areas hit by the hurricane.”
“Put Americans first,” said Abbott, a Catholic.
“Mayorkas complains ‘FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season,’” wrote the X account of America First Legal (AFL) – a legal group founded by former Trump administration immigration policy advisor Stephen Miller.
“Kamala announces victims of Hurricane Helene will get only $750,” AFL’s post continued. “Meanwhile, FEMA spent over $1 BILLION in taxpayer dollars on providing housing and services to illegal aliens.”
Shortly after Mayorkas’ comments on FEMA not having enough funds, an X user reposted a link to a “FEMA contract spending $183,000 on a diversity, equity, and inclusion study.”
Mayorkas is not the only Biden-Harris cabinet secretary to receive criticism for a statement he made regarding the administration’s response to Hurricane Helene.
CatholicVote reported on X that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called on individuals impacted by the deadly storm “to stop using drones and instead rely on the limited ‘emergency responders’ available, as the federal government refuses to provide additional assistance.”
“Our goal is to make sure that funding is no obstacle to very quickly getting people the relief that they need and deserve,” Buttigieg said:
There’s also some safety issues that come up. For example, temporary flight restrictions to make sure that the airspace is clear for any flights or drone activity that might be involved in helping to allow those emergency responders to do their job.
