By Casey Harper (The Middle Sq.)
Division of Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas informed reporters Wednesday that FEMA doesn’t have sufficient funding to final the remainder of the yr even because it has spent tons of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} on migrants underneath the Biden administration and extra hurricanes could possibly be on the best way.
DHS oversees FEMA, placing Mayorkas in control of the emergency aid company which has not too long ago been targeted on serving to migrants settle within the U.S.
“We’re assembly the rapid wants with the cash that now we have,” Mayorkas informed reporters. “We expect one other hurricane hitting. FEMA doesn’t have the funds to make it via the season.”
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The startling admission by Mayorkas comes as FEMA grapples with the widespread injury of Hurricane Helene, A Class 4 hurricane that ripped via the southeast costing billions of {dollars}, inflicting widespread infrastructure injury, meals shortages, and greater than 100 deaths. Many are nonetheless unaccounted for as effectively.
President Joe Biden stated earlier this week he might name on Congress to go extra funding for FEMA.
In April of this yr, FEMA announced $640 million in new funding, $300 million for “direct funding” to assist immigrants settle within the U.S. whereas the opposite $340 million went to cities by way of grants for a similar objective.
“Final yr, greater than $780 million was awarded via SSP and the Emergency Meals and Shelter Program – Humanitarian Awards, which went to organizations and cities throughout the nation,” FEMA stated in its launch.
Whereas funding is allotted by Congress and cash may be flexibly funneled via FEMA from different inside sources, Mayorkas’ feedback nonetheless present that FEMA’s sources have been targeted on migrants whereas it was left unprepared for this lethal hurricane season.
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Unlawful immigration has soared underneath the Biden-Harris administration with hundreds of thousands of migrants getting into the U.S. and overwhelming the federal authorities’s skill to course of them, not to mention catch the hundreds of thousands of unlawful immigrants crossing the southern border.
Not less than 12 million unlawful immigrants have entered the U.S. underneath the Biden-Harris administration, although many specialists estimate the determine is definitely a lot greater.
Hurricane season is predicted to undergo the tip of November.
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