The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which spends hundreds of millions of dollars on immigration services and “equity” programs and is under-resourced, responds to about half of the calls from survivors of Hurricanes Milton and Helen. I couldn’t.
Between October 14th and October 20th, days after Milton hit Florida on October 9th, FEMA received 900,000 calls from survivors, 47% of which could not be answered. Politico reported that there was no. reported. The high number of missed calls was partially due to the agency’s lack of staffing and resources. However, FEMA spends nearly $1 billion to provide services to undocumented immigrants and aims to increase equity in disaster response by increasing investment in communities with high concentrations of racial or sexual minorities. Allocated $12 million to the grant program.
According to Politico, 53% of survivors who answered the phone waited an average of one hour and five minutes to speak to a FEMA representative. During this period, FEMA had 55 coordinators and only about 500 employees available for new assignments to respond to the high volume of calls. (Stream The Daily Caller’s documentary “Cleaning Up Kamila” here)
FEMA had 1,752 employees on duty on its busiest day after Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, agency records show. show.
FEMA’s staffing problems following the Milton incident prompted Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to warn on Oct. 2 that the agency did not have enough funds to survive the hurricane season, which typically runs through Nov. 30. I woke up in response to what I said.
FEMA spent approximately $1 billion in fiscal years 2023 and 2024 to provide goods and services to illegal immigrants, including housing, food, transportation, emergency medical care, and personal hygiene supplies. Congress and the Biden-Harris administration appropriated funds to FEMA specifically for these purposes, not disaster relief. According to In federal documents.
Members of the FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force are using search dogs to search flood-damaged areas in the wake of Hurricane Helen. (Photo courtesy of Mario Tama/Getty Images)
“Replenishing or repurposing for immigrant resettlement a large portion of the personnel that FEMA should be here to deal with this problem at a time when we need to focus on Americans, whether it’s Maui or not.” Let me point out the obvious: “Palestine, Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, or Tennessee,” said Republican Florida Rep. Cory Mills. said Washington Examiner in early October.
More than 250 people killed in hurricane Milton and helen According to some estimates, it caused more than $150 billion in damage. According to Go to CBS News.
“There is very little capacity left to handle new multibillion-dollar cases,” a former FEMA administrator told Politico. “The business model of crisis management in this country is in jeopardy. It’s overloaded.”
maggie jarryAn emergency management expert from the Department of Health and Human Services told a news conference. Internal meeting He and FEMA representatives said emergency management is moving away from providing “the greatest goods to the greatest people” and toward “disaster equity.”
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