True to form, Donald Trump enhanced his world-wide image by opening
his mouth and spewing filthy bile down his chin. And that's a good
thing, since we're stuck with him for another year plus. If he said
something positive or kind, we might become confused.
Carl Jarvis
On 8/28/19, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Trump's DHS Moves Money From Disaster Relief to Immigrant Detentions as
Puerto Rico Prepares for Storm
By Naomi LaChance, Splinter
28 August 19
President Donald Trump's administration is reportedly interested in taking
money from within the Department of Homeland Security aimed at disaster
relief and putting it toward immigration detention facilities.
According to a report published by NBC News on Tuesday, the government is
planning on moving $271 million, including from the Federal Emergency
Management Agency's Disaster Relief Fund and the Coast Guard, toward spaces
to detain asylum seekers and hold them for hearings. The changes were
allegedly sent to Congress as a notification, not a request.
Meanwhile, Puerto Rico was under a hurricane watch Tuesday night for
Tropical Storm Dorian. Still recovering from Hurricane Maria, which killed
thousands of people on the island almost two years ago, Puerto Rico is in a
precarious spot and unlikely to receive any useful help from the U.S.
government.
According to the NBC News report, which was based on a letter from Rep.
Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-Calif. shown to NBC News, $155 million from FEMA's
Disaster Relief Fund would go to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Officials apparently said that $116 million from the Coast Guard would go
toward 6,800 beds for people being held in detention, which would allow ICE
to detain 50,000 people at one time. According to CNN, $23.8 million for
immigration policing would come from the Transportation Security
Administration.
"Taking money away from TSA and from FEMA in the middle of hurricane season
could have deadly consequences," House Homeland Security Chairman Bennie
Thompson (D-MS) told CNN.
A DHS official told NBC News: "We would not say this is with no risk but we
would say that we worked it in a way to.minimize the risk. This was a
must-pay bill that needed to be addressed."
I happen to have one very, very cost-effective solution when it comes to
detention facilities, whose terrible conditions are sometimes deadly. It's
a
bit of a galaxy brain take that I have so please bear with me: abolish ICE
and the concentration camps. Now you don't have to pay for them anymore.
Roybal-Allard told NBC News: "I object to the use of funds for that purpose
because the Department has provided no substantiation for a claim that this
transfer is necessary due to 'extraordinary circumstances that imminently
threaten the safety of human life or the protection of property.'"
FEMA also told CNN that their efforts would not be hit, saying that their
major disaster relief fund would remain at $27 billion. The base account,
they said, would still have $447 million. Given the amount of destruction
natural disasters have created in the U.S. over the past two decades or so,
it does start to make some sense that the agency would have so much money
left over.
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