Trump Under Fire for Diverting Disaster Relief Workers to Immigration Policing

by Mike Ludwig | Jul 16, 2026 | Alex Pretti, Border Patrol, CBP, DHS, disaster relief, Disasters, DOGE, Donald Trump, Federal Disaster Aid, FEMA, ICE, ICE Raids, immigration, immigration jails, Joan Sebastian Guerrero, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, mass deportations, News, Policing, Renee Nicole Good, Trump Administration

Floods, storms, wildfires, and other disasters can strike in every state and district, and members of Congress in both parties have incentives to improve the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the nation’s premier disaster relief outfit. However, current FEMA officials in the Trump administration were notably absent from a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing on…
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