'WaPo: FEMA Offers Illegal Migrants Disaster Aid in North Carolina'

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'The federal government is offering FEMA disaster aid to illegal
migrants in North Carolina, according to a report in the Washington
Post.

The federal government aids illegal migrants because it wants to
demolish the once-clear legal borders and dictionary distinctions
between Americans and foreigners. For example, the government is
granting aid to foreign migrants if they form a business in the United
States, the Post wrote on October 18. “These are people [migrants] who
are not in the country legally, but their businesses are legal and
they’re paying taxes,” Silvia Martín del Campo, the director for
programs for Latino students at McDowell Technical Community College in
Marion, North Carolina.

The aid to migrants would otherwise go to Americans who have lost their
homes, land, jobs, and wealth to Hurricane Helene.

The vast majority of Americans are personally sympathetic to migrants,
most of whom work hard in low-wage jobs where they also need taxpayer
aid to keep them out of poverty. Moreover, many of the migrants — like
Americans — have lost their jobs, hard-earned possessions, and even
homes to the disaster.

However, the migrants are in North Carolina only because the federal
government has spent many billions of dollars to help smuggle illegal
migrants across the border and settle in the states. Roughly $1 billion
of that funding has come from FEMA accounts since 2021.

The government aid for migrants is part of a post-1990 economic
strategy, dubbed “Extraction Migration.” The strategy seeks to inflate
the consumer economy by quietly extracting low-wage workers,
apartment-sharing renters, and taxpayer-funded consumers from poor
countries.

The resulting government inflow of poor migrants blurs the border
between Americans and migrants, and it also shrinks Americans’ wages and
personal wealth. The policy is very unpopular, so the government hides
its role by obscuring the language, loopholes, and funds that help
migrants.

For example, the Post’s article about aid for migrants uses words that
blur the distinction between ordinary Americans and the illegal migrants
who sneaked across the border as it describes how the migrants are
offered aid:

Two of the people [emphasis added] who applied with Martín del Campo’s
help are [migrant] sisters who own a cleaning service that specializes
in mountain cabin rentals. All those reservations have been canceled,
she said, leaving them with no business. They applied for a $30,000
loan, which is about as much as they usually make in six months.

“I don’t want to take advantage of the system and I don’t like borrowing
money,” one sister said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because
of her immigration status [emphasis added]. “But my bills are due
whether I can work or not. … This kind of loan would help a lot.”

Another low-wage migrant, restaurant worker José Elguera-Camacho, told
the Post that he was allowed to apply for the fast-track $750 disaster
grant offered by FEMA. “I usually work more than 40 hours a week this
month,” he said. “Now I’m at zero,” he said.

FEMA offers the $750 “Serious Needs Assistance” grant to migrants by
hiding the loophole in the fine print. The fine print allows paroled
illegals to be treated as “qualified non-citizen[s].”

The government is also offering benefits to illegal migrants if they
have a son or daughter born in the United States: “Most of the people
[aid worker Neyda] Juarez sees are parents applying for FEMA aid on
behalf of their children, who are U.S. citizens.”

Juárez is employed by Centro Unido Latino Americano, which is one of the
very many non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that are being used by
the government to fund migrants so they settle in American communities.

The NGO is supported by various grants delivered via U.S. charities and
the Mexican government. The group has also received taxpayer funding
from some of the vast federal spending for migrants and migration.

Most of the government funding for migration is hidden by routing it
through myriad NGOs for later distribution to smaller NGOs that
commingle funds for Americans and migrants.

Some of the disaster aid that flows through the NGOs is used to pay
their operating costs — and their subsequent lobbying for more migration
said Krikorian.

This kind of aid run through NGOs is necessary for the NGOs to stay in
business. They also are defacto working for more illegal immigration and
for allowing the illegal immigrants here already to stay. So even
something like disaster aid provided to these nongovernmental groups is
helping establish the illegals.

The Centro Unido NGO is also helping the North Carolina migrants by
funding their transfer to other U.S. communities, said the Post:

For [migrant] families who lost homes or jobs and don’t qualify for
government aid, Centro Unido is raising money to help them pay rent, put
down security deposits for new apartments or trailers or move to cities
where there’s more work.

The federal disaster aid would be better spent helping migrants return
home rather than making it easier for them to illegally stay, “which the
disaster aid is obviously meant to do,” said Krikorian.

Sending migrants home with some disaster aid in their pockets “would be
an efficient use of money” if it allowed officials to avoid deportation
costs, said Krikorian.

Americans would also be aided once the repatriated illegal migrants were
no longer competing for the limited supply of local jobs, homes, and
social services, he said.

The return of the migrants would also be good for the migrants’ home
countries, he added. “Not only would the migrant return home with money,
they would also bring their [work skills] … [and] they speak English
better,” he said'