$60 million spent by FEMA on luxury hotel rooms in New York last week

Damn libbies love to waste our money.
Their sins will not be forgiven.

 

How about they prove it?

 

https://apnews.com/article/fema-mig...on-musk-doge-268ca7eda43011a501dfad0fa88a4775

 

So why hasn't ICE Barbie gone in and removed them yet? Surely it's like shooting fish in a barrel if they know where the money is going...

 

Not in dispute the city houses people in hotels temporarily, I very much doubt the city uses “luxury hotels”. Kind of rich considering the reason NYC had this issue in the first place was red state governors burning taxpayer funds to illegally traffic immigrants and essentially dump them 100 at a time.

Personally I don’t think FEMA is the correct agency to be running such a program - nevertheless that’s how it was allocated by Congress and sounds to me this is another case of this administration not following the law, then wanting to reframe the civil servants who are following the law as being “insubordinate”.

 

Until they slash electric vehicles subsides this will all continue to be unsubstantiated right wing misleading nonsense. When Musk slashes money out of his own interests I'll believe he's genuine.

 

the judiciary needs to get back to the concept of “speedy trial”. Set up tents with judges, lawyers, etc and cut the backlog of all asylum seekers — get them through the system. it will be cheaper to get a tent city of judges than Trump Plaza hotel rooms.

 

Of course, but that “need more judges” solution would be operating under the premise these were good faith actors who wanted an orderly process vs. criminals who want chaos.

 

Yeah, I'm sure the "mass deportation" people want to make sure people's rights are respected

 

Good point. There is no perfect solution and there is a 100% probability that a legitimate asylum seeker will be deported. Sadly, the enemy of good is perfect.

Agreed. That is why anyone that feels strongly about rights being abused should sign up to provide legal representation to asylum seekers. If you are a lawyer, get off the key board and help people.

 

Who is in charge of FEMA?

#TrumpsAmerica

 

great. lots of desperate homeless immigrants without the ability to legally work put out into the freezing cold. does the thought of that give you a thrill?

here's another feel good story for you. came from Mexico in 2010 at age 19. lived, worked, raising a family for 15 years here..now deported because he was at the same gas pump as Ice agents. three little girls, wondering where their dad is and where they are going to sleep now. who is goign to feed them? he was sole bread winner for the family. another thrill??

wwjd?

A father of five was detained by ICE on his way to work. Now his family is losing their home
Jose Luis had stopped to pump gas on his way to work in southern Texas when his family’s whole life changed. ICE agents pulled up out of nowhere and demanded to know his immigration status. The father of five, who came to the United States from Mexico in 2010 when he was 19, was quickly placed in handcuffs and taken away.

Now, he is facing deportation and permanent separation from his wife and kids — and the family’s sole income is gone. “His little girls ask every day ‘Where’s Dad? What time is he coming home?’” his wife, Rosa, who doesn’t want to break her children’s heart by revealing the truth just yet, tells The Independent. “I have to tell them he’s out working.”

“I’m really stressed right now, like really, really stressed. I don’t know what’s next,” she says.

The deportation drive has created a climate of fear in immigrant communities across the United States. Restaurants are being raided by ICE teams every day, traffic stops are turning into family separations and some parents worry about sending their children to school over fears they may be detained.

 

Those people do exist, these are the people the anti-immigration people claim are "coaching" them and bolstering their claims, people they are trying to sideline or get rid of altogether. Anyways, it seems a little quaint that you are placing the onus on largely powerless people to force respect for the law, rather than say the people who are actively breaking it. There probably needs to be active law breaking / resistance in response, TBH, like interfering with deportations and ICE raids as much as possible too. I dont think the fight is limited to one area.

 

Only applies behind your keyboard denouncing the atrocity of someone else’s government.

 

The cost of operating Guantanamo is like $500 million a year or something (in 2019). How much do people think building new detention facilities costs? Like putting people up in hotels is the cost-effective option, not government waste!

The Cost of Running Guantánamo Bay: $13 Million Per Prisoner (Published 2019)

 

And to think, I didn't even paid to go on stage there. Bastards.