Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who was impeached by the House of Representatives earlier this year for his mishandling of the border and immigration crisis, was seen by the Washington Free Beacon as “strolling through the mens section of Sid Mashburn, a high-end menswear store, surrounded by security.
He appeared to purchase some items at the store, where suit jackets go for as much as three thousand dollars.
His failed and suspicious leadership of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), is being broadly criticized as Americans are struggling to recover from the devastation of Hurricanes Helene and Milton.
Under Mayorkas, millions of Americans are seeing him as a traitor not only failing to help secure the border, but his maneuvering against citizens impacted by Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Now residents of these impacted areas are reporting FEMA is actually stopping other Americans from attempting to help.
A U.S. Coast Guard veteran from South Carolina traveled to Boone, North Carolina, to help with recovery efforts, planning to use her K-9 dogs to locate and recover missing persons and bodies.
“Here’s the situation: FEMA is in the area and we’ve been told that if we see any FEMA agents, like, high-tail it and go.” She revealed, “We’ve been told to just turn around and go the opposite direction, because what they’re doing is they’re just confiscating everything. They would confiscate my gear, my car, my dogs, literally everything.”
She indicated that rescue and recovery volunteers have “been tracking” FEMA agents who confiscate supplies and donations.
“Essentially what they’re doing is they’re taking these supplies to sanctuary areas for illegal migrants and giving it all to them,” she explained. “They are telling the locals here that they have no more money, that they can’t give them money, they can’t do anything, but they are confiscating volunteer supplies as they come through and they are giving it to people who are not legal within the country.”
Corrupt FEMA’s Puerto Rico Failures
The Coast Guard veteran recounted that during her 11 years of service, she was stationed in Puerto Rico when both Hurricane Maria and Hurricane Irma hit in 2017.
“FEMA did the same stuff there, to the point where the Coast Guard, we did not work directly with FEMA because they were doing shady stuff,” she said. “They were confiscating supplies, they weren’t issuing supplies, they mishandled money, they mishandled distribution of supplies, and the locals suffered for it. And they’re doing the same thing in North Carolina.”
“This is not a ‘conspiracy theory,’ this is not ‘false information.’ Like I’m here, I’m boots on the ground.” She summarized, “FEMA is here and they’re doing really sketchy, shady stuff.”
Coast Guard response in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands during that time included 13 cutters and 10 aircraft working to reopen affected ports and waterways to help the flow of humanitarian aid and resume maritime commerce.
Puerto Rico was extremely poor. At least 46% of its residents, 1.3 million people, were on welfare before the hurricanes.
● Two years after the hurricanes, there remained at least
62,000 Puerto Rican victims who were denied emergency help for “technical reasons.”
● That was in despite a record amount of U.S. tax money being devoted to recovery.
● An estimated $48 billion dollars for Puerto Rico came from emergency recovery funds.
● $43 billion more was appropriated by Congress, as it was estimated the recovery effort in Puerto Rico would amount to $91 billion U.S. tax dollars.
● By 2019, of that total budgeted amount, the island had only received about $14 billion.
● The biggest single chunk, $5 billion was spent repairing the electric system, which was already failing before the hurricane.
● Nearly $20 billion was earmarked for housing and shelter under “community planning and development” but two years after Maria, less than a million ($913,000) dollars had been paid out.
● Not even one damaged Puerto Rican school had seen permanent repairs.
Florida Has Learned From FEMA’s Failures
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R), whose state was struck by Helene first, noted that the federal government’s response to the disaster has been so poor that he authorized Florida’s National Guard and Department of Transportation to travel to North Carolina and conduct search and rescue operations, rebuild roads and bridges, and assist with recovery efforts.
“We learned in Florida long ago, we don’t rely on FEMA to do any of that type of activity,” DeSantis continued. “We rely on FEMA to basically be a bank account. … We take matters into our own hands for the preparation and the rescue and response.”
DeSantis told Fox News on Monday that Kamala Harris “has no role in this process. I’m in contact with the president of the United States. I’m in contact with FEMA director. I’m obviously managing all our state agencies. We’re supporting all our local government.”
FEMA’s Threats to North Carolina-Tennessee Citizens
Many reports (not mentioned by mainstream media) indicate citizens using their own helicopters, trucks, and boats to conduct search and rescue missions in these impacted states have been stopped by FEMA and even threatened with arrest.
● Supplies being donated for hurricane victims have been confiscated by FEMA and diverted away from rural communities and unincorporated areas.
● In other instances, donations have been rejected by FEMA.
● A supply company tried to “donate pipe for repairs, to expedite city/county water being restored” but was turned down by federal officials.
Criticism of Mayorkas
FEMA has been accused of using hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to benefit illegal immigrants, leaving much needed resources unavailable for Americans in need.
Before his luxury shopping last weekend, Mayorkas said that FEMA does not have enough funding to address the destruction caused by the hurricanes.
“We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have. We are expecting another hurricane hitting,” Mayorkas said Wednesday.
“FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season,” he added.
FEMA has spent $1.4 billion since 2022 on housing, feeding, and even transporting illegal immigrants “encountered by the Department of Homeland Security.”
Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) responded to FEMA’s poor disaster management saying, “This isn’t just poor management from FEMA[.] It’s tyranny[.] The feds take money from Americans [u]sing government’s coercive force[,] [t]hen they use it *not* to help Americans [b]ut to facilitate an invasion by illegal aliens [a]nd harass those trying to help hurricane victims.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said on the subject on Saturday’s live edition of “This Week on the Hill,” that while Democrats and their allies may argue that FEMA only used certain designated funds for illegal immigrants, “the point is that this administration has the wrong priorities. They have prioritized everybody around the world by opening the border wide and subjecting us to catastrophe upon catastrophe, meaning the humanitarian catastrophes that are involved in this.”
He continued, “But the failures and the subversive activity is highlighted in a moment like this, when the American people need the full attention of the Biden administration. But they don’t have it because their focus is in the wrong places.”
Johnson added, “I think people understand this and I think that’s why we are going to have a very successful election in about 30 days from now. People have had enough of this and they want sanity restored.”
Useless Kamala Harris
Even after taking a photo for Big Media to tout her president worthiness, Vice President Kamala Harris received much continued criticism for her failure to address the suffering of hurricane survivors.
On Tuesday of last week, while Americans in Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee were facing mass flooding, Harris recorded an interview on “Call Her Daddy,” a sex podcast known for its vulgar and explicit language.
The Make America Great Again PAC posted a video showing clips from Harris’s interview interspersed with video footage of the damage being done by the hurricane, including houses being swept away, streets being flooded, and Americans looking for missing family members. The video ended with the words “She doesn’t care.”
Obama’s Crooked Legacy
Years after the hurricanes devastated Puerto Rico, rotting and faded tarps left over from Barack Obama’s failed leadership have become a symbol of the neglect.
FEMA’s bureaucracy remained their culture of staying in the way by preventing actual funds from being dispersed to individuals.
Certainly contractors and Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), as in Maui, Hawaii; Paradise, California; North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida will be making money, but individuals will not get much relief.
Obama’s own Homeland Security advisor, Ahsha Tribble took the lead on getting Puerto Rico’s electric grid fixed. She was accused of taking bribes to steer a $1.8 billion dollar contract to a company called Cobra.
Cobra’s CEO Donald Ellison and Tribble both pleaded guilty. The grid’s destruction caused the world’s second-longest blackout, leaving many Puerto Ricans without power for more than a year.
A third former FEMA employee involved in the case, Jovanda R. Patterson, pleaded guilty to committing acts affecting her personal financial interest. Patterson was originally accused alongside Tribble and Ellison in 2019.
Also arrested were Julia Keleher, Puerto Rico’s former education secretary, and five other Puerto Rican officials and consultants. They were charged with stealing millions of dollars in federal funds through fraudulently obtained contracts.
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Keep on telling it. Thank you.
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Thank you. When ALL the Democrat Senators voted to dismiss the charges against Mayorkas, they figuratively shook his hand in agreement. The blood on his hands is now on their hands. Whenever I think that the Democrats can’t get any lower, they always seem to find a way. Samaritan’s Purse seems like a great charity and doing great work after the hurricanes.
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