The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees more than 20 agencies, including ICE, Secret Service, and FEMA, previously said that ICE will not carry out any immigration enforcement activity near vaccine sites, including the clinics that FEMA has set up under President Bidenâs administration.David Goldman/Associated Press
PROVIDENCEâ When Rhode Island asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency for help building out the stateâs vaccination efforts on Feb. 23, numerous federal agencies, not just FEMA, deployed workers to the Ocean State.
Two months later, personnel from at least 16 different federal agencies have helped administer vaccines and fulfill support staff roles at the stateâs two mass vaccination sites supported by FEMA: the Dunkin Donuts Center in Providence and the former Bennyâs store at 1400 West Main Road in Middletown.