How FEMA Distributes Moneys to Cope with the Surge of Migrants
And a related New York City scandal
By David North on September 19, 2023
The Biden administration has decided it must help localities with the harm it has imposed on them by opening the flood gates for illegal aliens (some now appearing in the guise of parolees and asylum seekers).
It has done so through an agency that has lots of experience with emergencies of various kinds, but none with international migrants, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which is part of the Department of Homeland Security. (My colleague Andrew Arthur offered some background on why FEMA is involved here.)
Instead of working through any middle-man entities, such as the states or the formerly termed “voluntary agencies” (volags), it is responding to pleas for help directly with a long series of grants to local service agencies of one kind or another.
And, like the hurriedly put-together federal financial assistance operations of the Covid era, it faces massive potential waste as seen in one New York City entity that has, understandably, stirred the interest of the New York Times.
So, while we do not have comprehensive data on these new programs, we do have two sets of clues.
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