Recently, after Hurricane Helene, Vivian P. documented here the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s failure to provide for the American citizens having a certifiable Federal Emergency, while at the same time, FEMA, which has spent $800 million (FY 2023) and $650 million (FY 2024) on illegals who crossed the border during the Biden Rush, protested that they needed funds, and said that they couldn’t possibly use the illegal alien money to help Americans.
Can FEMA redirect money from illegals to citizens?
Short answer, YES!
When I was on the Southern Border during the Trump Administration I was appalled by what went on.
First, may I mention that Attorney General Jeff Sessions was the OG of immigration enforcement when he was in the Senate. It was Sessions who repeatedly derailed the amnesty attempts made by the Uniparty like the Gang of Eight. See 27 Times Jeff Sessions Fought for Americans Against DACA, Amnesty and Open Borders, Breitbart, September 5, 2017.
Since I was in the Border Patrol and I pay attention to politics (not all Border Patrol Agents did), I knew how hard Jeff Sessions fought various amnesty attempts and how he didn’t back down. Sessions had a plan for closing the border. Yes, he was Attorney General and not Secretary of Homeland Security, but DHS arrests the aliens, it is up to the Department of Justice to prosecute them—and it’s prosecution that leads to deterrence.
Jeff Sessions wanted to expand a program called Zero Tolerance that had been in use since as far back as George W. Bush and that had been also used by Barack Obama.
An illegal alien is often just prosecuted administratively, not criminally, but (contrary to a lot of leftist publications), an illegal alien can be prosecuted criminally too.
By prosecuting them criminally instead of administratively, the illegal alien serves some jail time (although, most often they are sentenced to time served), and they can get much longer jail sentences if they try to come back into the United States after being removed or deported.
