The Associated Press is reporting the JoeBama administration is planning to use the Dallas Convention Center to house illegal border crossers. Within the AP article you might note the following claim: “
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Saturday directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help manage and care for children crossing the border.” However, due to the implications of the admission, Joe Biden has
not declared a federal emergency…. that means any FEMA activation is moot.
In order for FEMA to carry out action their first mandate requires the issuance of a federal declaration of a national emergency. As of this morning JoeBama has not made that federal declaration, so the stories of the FEMA activation are essentially useless.
The grants were unanimously approved by the Mayor s Disaster Relief Fund advisory committee.
The committee is chaired by former U.S. Ambassador and current Hunt Consolidated Senior Vice President Jeanne Phillips.
The other members of the committee are the Dallas Foundation President and CEO Matthew Randazzo, UT Southwestern Vice President for Community and Corporate Relations Ruben Esquivel, the Beck Group s Executive Chairman Peter Beck, Dallas City Manager T.C. Broadnax, and Mayor Eric Johnson s Chief of Staff Mary Elbanna.
“Last week’s brutal winter storms and catastrophic power outages tested our city’s resolve and our resilience, but our generous donors and the work of our grant recipients show the interminable strength of our communities,” Mayor Johnson said. “The people of Dallas are our city’s greatest asset, and I am thrilled that we will be able to help them recover and rebuild.”
Community organizers scramble to help the vulnerable during power outages and freezing temperatures
‘Don’t ever ask what else can happen,’ said one Vickery Meadow leader.
Patricia Broadway (left) and Leon Morris put the cover back after shutting the water off in Broadway s home in East Dallas on Feb. 17, 2021. Broadway noticed a pipe busted under her kitchen even though she said she did everything right.(Juan Figueroa / Staff photographer)
Without electricity to work computers and phones, the city’s go-to multi-taskers were facing Herculean challenges.
In Vickery Meadow, nonprofit leader Martha Stowe has for years served a neighborhood of refugees and immigrants, where half the population is foreign-born and low-income. She thought she was battle-tested. But then the storm and outages came.
A migrant prays during a Mass at Posada Belen migrant shelter in Saltillo, Mexico, Nov. 10, 2020. A federal circuit court of appeals said Jan. 8, 2021, that a Trump administration executive order that would allow state and local government officials to reject refugees in their jurisdiction violated long-standing resettlement practices. (CNS/Reuters/Daniel Becerril)
Less than a week after Joe Biden s election victory, Rachel Pollock began receiving emails and phone calls from Catholic refugee resettlement officers across the country asking how soon it would be before they could get back to work.
During the last four years, Pollock, director of resettlement services for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has seen program after program shutter due to the continual slash in refugee admissions by the Trump administration.
The program that this incoming administration is inheriting is on its last breath, said Danielle Grigsby, director of policy and practice at Refugee Council USA. It s going to require both political will and an early investment in overturning policies to see the program begin to operate as it can and is intended to.
On Tuesday, transition officials reiterated Biden s commitment to restoring the US immigration system but cautioned that it would take time, given the abundance of policy changes over the last four years.
Read More The infrastructure within the government, as well as the infrastructure in the NGO community, has been very badly affected by the last four years, so we re assessing that in order to figure out how quickly the administration can move, a transition official told reporters during a Tuesday press call.