Quote:As Americans suffer through the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, and communities in North Carolina continue to search for over 200 missing loved ones lost in flooding, there is a glimmer of hope for non-citizens.
If you are one of the millions of non-citizens that the Biden-Harris regime granted asylum to, you may qualify for FEMA aid.
FEMA will grant illegals assistance including:
* Permanent Residents
* Non-citizens granted asylum
* Certain non-citizens of their spouses or kids
 

Quote:A: A qualified non-citizen national includes:

• Legal Permanent Residents (“Green Card” holders).
  
• Non-citizens granted asylum.
  
• Refugees.
  
• Non-citizens whose deportation status is being withheld for at least one year.
  
• Non-citizens paroled into the U.S. for at least one year for urgent humanitarian purposes or significant public benefit.
  
• Cuban/Haitian entrants.
  
• Certain battered non-citizens or their spouses or children.
  
• Certain victims of a severe form of human trafficking, including persons with a “T” or “U” visa.
  

For the rest of you – Kamala is rewarding you with $750 in assistance. That ought to cover your groceries for a week or two.

(10-05-2024, 01:15 AM)Maxmars Wrote: But why is it that the disaster, which is affecting so many, and destroyed so much, has anything to do with political ideology?

Is the suggestion that while people were barraged by decimating powerful natural forces, left without any means to help themselves, we now should withhold help unless you 'qualify' socially somehow?

I get the point your making, and I feel sympathy for the notion (a very real possibility) that the political/ideological cast will use it project social virtue signaling.  This is what they do... it is almost ALL they have done in the past few decades.  Political opportunities are seized during disasters... I heard one of these politicians proclaim that once, a while back.  "It's all about appearances."

But my sympathy for suffering people is not dependent I whether I think they belong here or otherwise. 
When people need help... we help them. 
That was a core "American" value... not so very long ago... we've even helped those who once called themselves our enemies...

Of course, I don't want to see the government going out of its' way to 'find' the undocumented and give them support while other people languish because 'they are only Americans'... which I fear might happen - depending on how hard the party wants to "pretend play" social justice warfare.  Of course this might happen because of the lucrative amounts to be handled... by 'middlemen' and 'political appointees.'  

Politicians are screwing up left and right recently... someone should advise them that they really should stop talking... altogether. 
They suck at it because they have no true content to bring, it's all fed to them by committee. 
Let the committee talk - come out of hiding.

FEMA (and every other federal agency) is supposed to operate without "political" considerations... yet it is the "political appointee" the rules over them...  that's a problem.

Quote:Politicians and others have spread false information about the response to the storm on social media. For example, some have claimed that the agency has run out of disaster response money and that storm victims can only receive $750 in federal assistance.

Several right-wing influencers have used their large online followings to amplify these claims on X, which has declined to remove these posts or label them as misleading. The trend underscores how election-year politics — combined with lax misinformation policies by major tech platforms — are complicating efforts to keep communities safe.

Quote:“I’m actually impressed with how much attention was paid to a region that wasn’t likely to have experienced the impact that they did,” Tillis told reporters, adding, “I’m out here to say that we’re doing a good job, and those who may not be on the ground, who are making those assessments, ought to get on the ground.”

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Hurricane Helene hit especially hard in heavily Republican areas of Georgia and North Carolina — a fact that could work to Donald Trump’s disadvantage in the two swing states.
Research has shown that major disasters can influence both voter turnout and voter preference. And Helene has pushed this contest into novel territory: It’s the first catastrophic event in U.S. history to hit two critical swing states within six weeks of a presidential election, based on a POLITICO’s E&E News analysis of data compiled by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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Western Carolina is completely devastated with flooding, power outages, downed trees, bridges collapsed, & over 400 roads closed People are stuck Roy Cooper hasn’t given a address in almost 24 hours. And now he seems to be handing responsibility over to the feds. Such a lack of leadership in a time of need Please pray for the people of Western NC 
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BREAKING: Rep. Nancy Mace has introduced a bill to force FEMA to redirect all funds from supporting illegal immigrants to disaster relief. No more America Last… let’s get back to America First!  FEMA has spent over $1 billion on accommodating illegal immigrants in recent years, and now they claim there aren’t enough funds for hurricane relief.

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Please DOCUMENT everything, especially interactions with FEMA and TEMA officials. Help is coming even if the feds want to get in the way. If you are trapped and needing relief let us know and we will push aid efforts your way.

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(10-05-2024, 02:38 AM)IdeomotorPrisoner Wrote: Yeah, The October Surprise is going to be my nightmare, but hard to redirect how things trend. Biden/Harris get a Katrina. We'll it's kinda getting forced into being a Katrina.

And it doesn't even have to be true..

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/10/04/fema-hurricane-helene-relief-money-misinformation-conspiracies/


Some of these influencers that care more about spreading misinformation to manipulate opinion during tragedy, all to trash the FEMA response (to go after immigration policy) all whilst they slap on some foundation of faux-concern, are fucking heartless. Worse than using a mass shooting to ban the weapon used.

"Oh look a disaster. Let's use anything FEMA does that's lacking to call democrats inept and blame immigration somehow. Let's also virtue signal our empathy like we care about anything else but using this to sway people's opinion."

Define callous.

Yet a republican NC Senator had some great things to say.


I have also read some isolated communities are just cut off and really hard to reach. And it's nothing more than the logistics of reaching them.

But Newsweek is dead center on the bias and I agree with their assessment.

https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-fema-hurricane-helene-relief-funding-biden-1963998

(10-05-2024, 11:38 AM)putnam6 Wrote:

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WOW, so all the Helene FEMA ruckus is just Republican social media influencers posting?

Damn, I always love discussing your viewpoints, I usually learn a lot and can find common ground. 

I'll have to try hard to do that, on this post 

"Forced to be Katrina" sounds rather dismissive, I could be wrong

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When MSNBC reports is this considered factual or is this just social media embellishments?

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(10-05-2024, 01:44 AM)guyfriday Wrote: I'm willing to bet that the rumors that FEMA was being used to launder money out of the taxpayer's hand, might be why all the fuss about lack of money is getting tossed around. Politics only became a thing when political players saw it as an advantage to exploit instead of helping the people. "Never let a crisis go to waste" is becoming the official FEMA motto at this point. 

All this fuss about impeding private citizens from helping out and limiting reports, which backfired grossly, is waking people up to a failed government, and sadly seems to be creating sparks near that "Civil War" powder keg.