Posts Tagged ‘FEMA’
Undocumented Residents of Hurricane Impacted Areas Need to “be careful” with FEMA
2:00 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Uncategorized · Comments Off
4 Aug 2008
Undocumented immigrants have good reason to feat seeking federal assistance, with raids popping up all over the country, even those left in desperate situations in the aftermath of Hurricane Dolly feel safer keeping quiet.
Since 2003, Federal Emergency Management Agency joined the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. FEMA officials are insisting that undocumented residents are at no risk of deportation if they seek aid available through President Bush’s local disaster declaration last week.
Hmmm so are undocumented immigrants expected to trust Homeland Security? Not so fast….
“Information is shared (between DHS departments), but only on a need-to-know basis,” FEMA spokesman Don Jacks said. “We’re not a law enforcement agency; we’re here to help people.”
But what exactly is need to know? The current actions and rhetoric coming out of Homeland Security certainly sounds like they want to know who is undocumented. After all, they want undocumented people to self-deport!
Latinos Left Out of Katrina Response
6 Mar 2006
A report released February 28 by the National Council of la Raza states that the disaster didn’t stop for the Latino community after Hurricana Katrina pased through, that it continues into today. The report, titled In the Eye of the Storm: How the Government and Private Response to Hurricane Katrina Failed Latinos states that a big reason why Latinos were left behind in the rescue and post Katrina aid effort was because of a lack of understanding about exactly how many Latinos were in the Gulf Region. Evacuation warnings in English went unheeded by the estimated 230,000 Latinos in the region. Notices may have been done in Spanish because initially the numbers of Latinos was put at about 100,000.
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