47 Comments

https://substack.com/@peternaylandkust/note/c-71595695?r=2w9z3a&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

The federal government did use the FEMA on migrants. Here is the White House spokesperson saying so.

Expand full comment

Those are different programs with separate budgets. The emergency relief being supplied to WNC is not depleted nor drawn on by the program used for migrant housing even though they both have the word “relief” in their names.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/04/no-biden-didnt-take-fema-relief-money-use-migrants-trump-did/

Expand full comment

I now see the issue as being one of misplaced priorities by shifting money. The president signed a bill in 22 to transfer of $800 million from the US Customs and Border Protection to FEMA. $785 million of it went to the “Shelter and Services Program” to provide financial support migrants. It should have went to disaster relief for our own citizens. Thank you for clarifying the different budget issue.

Expand full comment

Why are you playing stupid?

Expand full comment
Comment deleted
Oct 5
Comment deleted
Expand full comment

F off dork.

Expand full comment
Comment deleted
Oct 5
Comment deleted
Expand full comment

Yeah I "shore" did. Ffs you people are dumb as fck not to mention soft. You can sit here and spin in circles pissed off obsessing all day long, your opinion doesn't matter because you will do nothing. Just an angry old geriatric, a waste of space

Expand full comment

Every taxpayer dollar that's been spent on illegals should be available to help Helene victims instead...EVERY dollar. And every one of those dollars not needed are dollars that didn't need to be borrowed. We should not be spending anything on illegals except for law enforcement and deportation.

Expand full comment

For every $1 spent on undocumented immigrants, they pay at least $100 in federal taxes. You go ahead and return to them $100 in taxes, and they'll return $1. In the meantime, you can take your ignorance elsewhere.

Expand full comment

You're full of shit

Expand full comment

You asked to be rebutted, I rebutted you and cite facts and receipts, and your response is this childish nonsense. You can go now. Feel free to return when you’re an adult. Thanks.

Expand full comment

It's not true just because you say so. You posted not data to support your bullshit claim. The House Committee on the Budget released a report that says illegals "do not come close to covering the cost they create".

Expand full comment

You didn’t read the article or the detailed report by a non partisan org. Smh absurd.

Expand full comment

From their website:

WASHINGTON -- Together with state, tribal and federal partners, FEMA is actively supporting Hurricane Helene response efforts.

I guess we can quibble about what “active”means while others are digging out bodies.

Expand full comment

A religious non-profit spokeswoman with a close-up view of the situation in Asheville, which is horrific. Where is the FEMA disinformation?

NBC nitwit asks “Can you believe this is happening in this country?” How clueless can you get? FAFO Mother Nature is entering the FO phase! Strap in!

Expand full comment

The immigrants are the politicians "scapegoats" when they can't admit any wrong doing.🤫

Expand full comment

If Fema didn't spend almost a billion on illegal aliens we would have plenty of money. There is no excuse for putting foreigners before Americans

Expand full comment

💯

Expand full comment

My north carolina senator who declined fema funding for this exact storm, wants to be very clear that the failure of fema funding is a direct result of immigration issues 4 states away. I shit you not.

Expand full comment

Well it is. There would be plenty of money for actually Americans if it wasn't for the waste. Just sent 160 million to Lebanon. There's no excuse for the inaptness

Expand full comment

Their hypocrisy is only surpassed by their cruelty.

Expand full comment

Thank you. How do we get this information out to the widest possible readers if the media is awol? Your readers maybe can forward your letters to others and ask them to do the same. The lies and misinformation are stunning!

Expand full comment

Welcome. I'm grateful to you for reading and sharing. Hopefully we can spread this far and wide.

Expand full comment

I see that you like to reply to those who stroke your ego or those attuned to your echo chamber. How about trying to refute my comment from Oct 5

Expand full comment

If you'd read my article instead of spewing racist ignorance, you wouldn't have made that comment in the first place.

Expand full comment

A bit off the subject, but a MAGA friend told me the other day that Mexicans are the ones causing problems by bringing crime, drugs and overpopulation because they don’t do anything but breed. I said I’m of those people, but her argument was stunning.😖. Magats don’t care about facts. Facts are boring and can’t fulfill their hate laden fantasies.

Expand full comment

They don't at all care about facts. I have a post coming soon on IG that debunks these anti-immigrant myths.

Expand full comment

BRAVO, Qasim, and thank you for the facts.

Expand full comment

Thank you Elizabeth

Expand full comment

FEMA running out of money is going to be a regular thing now, because climate change could really give a shit whether or not you believe in it. It’s going to bend you over either way. Sure would have been a lot smarter to do something about this back when it was still possible, huh?

We actually made a few baby steps back during Jimmy Carter’s term - he even had solar panels installed on the White House. Then that sonofabitch Reagan got in and had the solar panels TORN DOWN. That stupid asshole threw away free power because he thought it was some hippie shit. It’s not a coincidence the SUV craze started during Reagan’s term.

Expand full comment

👍

Expand full comment

Exactly

Expand full comment

This is the Republicans’usual pattern-ruin something good, then blame what they’ve ruined for being awful. Public education, for another example. Dangerously cynical.

Expand full comment

And the lame MSM certainly won’t inform their readers what a sorry Congress we have that have failed to properly fund FEMA! Vote Blue!💙

Expand full comment

In fact, FEMA is NOT lacking funds at all. They are fully funded and ready, willing, and able to provide assistance for those in need from this most recent hurricane in Florida, contrary to Republican's, intentionally deceitful propaganda. Disgusting! Shameful. Reach out to disasterassitance.gov. Or, call 1-800-621-FEMA if you need assistance.

Expand full comment

What is deceitful is your FEMA propaganda that they are doing a robust operation instead of their grotesque mismanagement. See what they are saying on their website about their response.

There are so many horrible stories of them not being found, while the locals dig the bodies out of the mud.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CKC1Oh-3BAg&pp=ygUVTmJjIG9uIG5vcnRoIGNhcmxvaW5h

https://x.com/GardensR4Health/status/1842217894349885942

Expand full comment

Those of us who read Mayorkas’ full statement know this, but not the edited-for-unclarity excerpts in the NY Post. Secretary Mayorkas did say there might be a shortfall later in the season if another big event struck…which is not unlikely.

Expand full comment

You’re right. Basic civics would tell you the funding issue is a Congressional one. Not an immigrant or Biden/Harris issue. Articles like the Post are so infuriating.

Expand full comment

The feed off people's fears and insecurities to foster hate and discord. It's beyond deplorable.

Expand full comment

It’s slimy.

Expand full comment

And it’s making society dumber, to be blunt.

Expand full comment

The on-purpose Republican-made problem is that kids do not get to learn critical thinking in school, and are leavingschool as a mature adult who has the capability (and also willingness) to question everything. It is all done on purpose. All!

Expand full comment

“I love the poorly educated.” - America’s Hitler

Expand full comment
Comment deleted
Oct 5
Comment deleted
Expand full comment

I am not stupid but are you confessing to something? The House does in fact have the purse strings. Every House budget bill has been passed by the Senate. The GOP led House has been the blockade to more budgeting for FEMA. My statement is true. Your attempted rebuttal is uninformed. You have no point.

Expand full comment

If you are claiming my statement “The Dem controlled Senate Appropriations Committee is fully capable of proposing legislation to fund the FEMA DRF” is false, please state so clearly and unequivocally. I will happily engage you regarding Article I, Section 09, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution and its evolution over the past 200+ years. If you are claiming your statement “Every House budget bill has been passed by the Senate” is historically accurate I withdraw my statement about your manifest stupidity. You’re blowing smoke and doing it badly.

Expand full comment
Comment deleted
Oct 5
Comment deleted
Expand full comment

I am not stupid but are you confessing to something? The House does in fact have the purse strings. Every House budget bill has been passed by the Senate. The GOP led House has been the blockade to more budgeting for FEMA. My statement is true. Your attempted rebuttal is uninformed. You have no point.

Expand full comment

Thank you for this. The mental midgets are the ones who don’t understand how the government works!

Expand full comment