What he says, may be disgusting. What he's doing, is much more important. Sasha
Abramsky was interviewed on The Real News and he talked about what Trump's
administration is doing, about the rules regarding detention of
Miriamchildren. If you come across it, listen. It will make you weep.
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 5:45 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Trump's DHS Moves Money From Disaster Relief to
Immigrant Detentions as Puerto Rico Prepares for Storm
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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