Video has resurfaced on social media of White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre talking about FEMA funding for the resettlement of illegal immigrants. The clip flatly contradicts Jean-Pierre’s denials to the press this week that such funding was being provided by the agency.
In a briefing in September 2022, Jean-Pierre was asked how migrants were being transported around the country and supported by the government.
“So FEMA regional administrators have been meeting with city officials on-site to coordinate available federal support from FEMA and other federal agencies.”
She added: “Funding is also available through FEMA’s emergency food and shelter program to eligible local governments and not-for-profit organizations upon request to support humanitarian relief for migrants. We’ll continue to do what we can as a federal government to support these cities as we rebuild our asylum processing system after it was gutted by the Trump administration.”
In Sept 2022 the White House said FEMA was distributing funds to cities for emergency food and shelter for migrants and that the Biden-Harris admin would continue to support those cities in this way. pic.twitter.com/vUJdiNMFXP
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When Jean-Pierre was asked FEMA’s role in rehousing illegals this week, she said, “It is not true, it is a false statement, and look, the fact of the matter is, I think Washington Post fact-checker did a piece, and the headline recently, just moments ago, not too long ago, and the headline was ‘No, Biden didn’t take FEMA relief money to use on migrants — but Trump did.’”
Much of the anger at the bungling government response to Hurricane Helene Has been directed at FEMA, which it has been revealed allocated a billion dollars over the last two fiscal years to rehouse illegal aliens across the US.
In an exclusive report for Frontlines Turning Point USA, Savanah Hernandez travelled to Brunswick, Maine and spoke to residents of apartments that are being provided for up to two years, free of all costs, to migrants. The apartments come fully furnished, including with flatscreen TVs.
“There is a housing crisis going on currently for residents, and these buildings were initially created for Maine residents, and then it was decided that homeless migrants would be living here,” Hernandez explains in a video posted to Twitter.
According to a statistic displayed during the video, 79.1% of Maine families were unable to afford a home in 2023.
At current local rates, the apartments being given to migrants would cost between $1800 and $2300 dollars a month, depending on the number of bedrooms.
The average price for a house in Brunswick is over $480,000.