FEMA Did Not Spend Emergency Relief Funds to House Illegal Immigrants

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“The claim is false. FEMA does provide nonfederal entities with grant funding to assist noncitizens in the country, but the program’s funding is separate from FEMA’s disaster relief efforts.” - The Dispatch

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JD Miller
Tue, 10/08/24 4:01 pm

So if FEMA uses the accounting technique of saying that "these" funds are for emergencies and "these other" funds are for immigrants, then we can say that FEMA is not using emergency funds for Immigrants. They are using "these other" funds. Is the conversation about this subject being framed in a dishonest way?

Here is another article with "Fact Check" in the title that looks at this issue from a different direction: Fact Check: Did FEMA Spend Hundreds of Millions of Dollars on Illegal Immigrants This Year? (msn.com)

The truth is that FEMA did NOT spend ALL its money on illegals but it did spend a substantial amount of it on them. This is more evidence that the Dispatch does not give the whole story, but tries to frame issues in a way to build a narrative. Don't get me wrong, the Dispatch is not alone in this, but we should not put it on our "unbiased source" list.