Every American who dies at the hands of an illegal immigrant is a victim of both a heinous crime and a system of illicit, government-sponsored trafficking that will continue to take the lives of our citizens as long as it continues. Unfortunately, that death toll just grew higher, thanks to the preventable deaths of even more Americans: this time at the hands of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) their very tax dollars support.

Looking back now, a few weeks after the media furor, it is clear that FEMA ran short of operational funds for storm response, and fell down on the job operationally, because it was diverted from its mission. FEMA was hijacked to prioritize the needs of illegal aliens over those of Americans. How do we know that to be true? Because a government’s priorities are expressed in dollars, and illegal immigrants received over $1.4 billion of much needed money in North Carolina, Florida, and other states in the heartland.

At the critical time immediately following Hurricane Helene, those Americans most affected have widely reported that FEMA was nowhere to be found, begging the question, “Why has the Biden administration not sent the promised federal relief?” Compounding the suffering, only two weeks after Helene, it remains to be seen how Florida victims of Hurricane Milton will fair with this administration.

Ten painfully long days after Helene, FEMA reported on October 7^th that its efforts have brought “the total number of active-duty military personnel supporting the response to 1,500” to areas of the ravaged western North Carolina. Comparatively, over 53,000 National Guardsmen were activated by President George W. Bush after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in 2005.

At the Remembrance Project, we remember the names of Felicia Ruiz, Spencer Golvach, Lizbeth Medina, Jocelyn Nungaray, Elizabeth Bowie, Laken Riley, Samantha Dailey, and Lauren Bump, just to mention a few who were murdered by an illegal immigrant. We also remember Billy Funderburgh and his wife Natalee Funderburgh, Peter Hacking and his two children Grason and Emily Hacking, Maria Tambunga and her granddaughter Emilia Tambunga, and the other families lost to a drunk driving illegal immigrant. And now, in North Carolina and elsewhere, there are perhaps hundreds more American names whose stories the media will never tell. Whose names belong on our grief-stricken list.

Our list is much longer than that, longer even than the pitiful report from FEMA on October 7^th that “dozens of Disaster Survivor Assistance staff are on the ground” in North Carolina. The federal government spared only a few dozen when over 4,000,000 North Carolinians were without power and many displaced. It is little wonder why these victims feel abandoned by their federal government. Fortunately, the Red Cross and other mostly Christian disaster relief organizations were activated immediately post-Helene, or the loss of life would be much, much higher than the 227 deaths now reported across Helene’s path.

Now, nearly 3 weeks after Hurricane Helene struck the U.S. mainland, it is clear why thousands of hurricane victims are still awaiting contact with FEMA representatives. Firstly, the Biden administration, from top down, was woefully unprepared for a well-tracked storm promising to devastate large portions of Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina. Instead, the Biden-Harris Administration had long placed a higher priority on using taxpayer dollars from U.S. citizens to fund the illegal invasion of millions of foreign invaders, so-called “migrants,” into the U.S.; thus, creating the supposed “migrant crisis.”

In a stunning interview just days after Helene, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ statement that “FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season” was made prior to Hurricane Milton. This government-made shortage (from an already bloated and wasteful $6.1 trillion 2023-24 federal budget) is as unnecessary as it is shocking.

Our nation is almost $36 trillion in debt, and that tally is increasing daily. We are facing catastrophic natural disasters, which will cost billions and billions in reconstruction, not to mention the economic loss which will last for years to come.

As Senator Tom Cotton has said, “this administration seems to have no problem finding money when they want to spend it on their priorities. […] When it’s trying to get helicopters to deliver food and water and cellular service and life-saving medicine into these mountain valleys, they somehow can’t seem to find the money.”

With FEMA essentially broke, very little taxpayer dollars are left for tax-paying citizens. The Biden-Harris Administration must stop wasting taxpayer dollars on its intentionally created migrant crisis, which is greatly hindering FEMA’s ability to take care of the tax-paying citizenry and jeopardizing our nation’s security.

The saying, “Look at the results and you will know their intentions” could not be more applicable, as it has proven to be in the Biden-Harris Administration’s handling of the latest natural disasters.