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highplainsdem

(58,414 posts)
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 08:17 PM 8 hrs ago

In unusual move, FEMA halts preparedness grant money, orders states to recount their populations excluding deported migr

Source: CNN

In unusual move, FEMA halts preparedness grant money, orders states to recount their populations excluding deported migrants

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has halted the release of hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency preparedness grants, requiring states to prove their population counts before they can access the money, the agency told CNN.

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States began receiving notices Tuesday that they must now submit a population certification as of September 30 detailing their methodology and confirming that individuals removed under US immigration laws are not included in the tally.

According to the notice, which CNN obtained, “FEMA will rescind the funding hold upon its review and approval of the State’s methodology and population certification.”

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The notices to states were sent hours after a federal judge temporarily blocked the administration from diverting similar FEMA grants away from about a dozen Democratic-led states.

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Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/politics/fema-halts-preparedness-grant-money-migrants



FEMA claims this new requirement is unrelated to any court ruling
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In unusual move, FEMA halts preparedness grant money, orders states to recount their populations excluding deported migr (Original Post) highplainsdem 8 hrs ago OP
Ideology trumps practicality, for these goons. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz 8 hrs ago #1
They know it isn't practical, except as a way to keep that money from Democratic states by claiming highplainsdem 8 hrs ago #2
How are states supposed to do that when ICE won't even say who they removed nor to where? SunSeeker 6 hrs ago #3
So what exactly are "deported migrants"? FakeNoose 5 hrs ago #4

highplainsdem

(58,414 posts)
2. They know it isn't practical, except as a way to keep that money from Democratic states by claiming
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 08:26 PM
8 hrs ago

they didn't recount the population accurately.

SunSeeker

(56,837 posts)
3. How are states supposed to do that when ICE won't even say who they removed nor to where?
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 10:49 PM
6 hrs ago

And regardless, hurricanes don't care about green cards!

FakeNoose

(38,832 posts)
4. So what exactly are "deported migrants"?
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 10:57 PM
5 hrs ago

If they've been deported, then I guess they aren't migrant workers. Or is there a new definition of the term that I'm not aware of?

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