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Crossroads with Joshua Philipp

Debates Begin Over FEMA Money for Disasters and Illegal Immigrants

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp

The Epoch Times

Education, Government

4.9594 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

There’s a heated debate starting up over where FEMA money is going. Relief efforts are still underway in states hit by Hurricane Helene. At least 227 people have lost their lives, and many more lost their homes and their sources of income. The relief efforts are now bringing attention to the government programs for housing and feeding illegal immigrants, and specifically to the money FEMA has spent on these programs. We’ll discuss what’s taking place in this episode of Crossroads. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and guests, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.    ⭕️ 🇺🇸Josh's Special Offer👉 https://ept.ms/JoshSpeicalOffer ⭕️ Support our fight for the truth👉 https://donorbox.org/crossroads

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome to Crossroads.

0:09.0

Folks, with all the recent damage for the hurricanes, there's a lot of debate taking

0:13.0

place over where exactly all that FEMA money is going.

0:16.0

Now look, relief efforts are still underway from a lot of states that get hit by the hurricane.

0:21.6

At least 230 Americans have lost their lives and a lot more lost their homes and the sources of income.

0:26.6

Now the relief efforts on both the FEMA side and on the private citizen side are now bringing focus to a contrast on the government programs for housing and feeding illegal immigrants,

0:39.3

and especially to the money that FEMA has in fact spent on those programs.

0:43.3

In fact, we're at $1.4 billion at least.

0:46.3

Now, let's go over some of the claims that are coming out.

0:50.3

And I want to show you kind of both sides and dig into some of the language. From what I've been seeing, there's a lot of technicality within language, and it seems that they're using that

1:01.0

all this is misinformation, when it's not really the case.

1:06.0

Now, first off, FEMA has published a page on its own website, specifically to address what it calls rumors around the relief efforts for Hurricane Helen.

1:15.6

Let me start by showing you what they say, then we'll dig into this.

1:19.6

Now this is the official FEMA website.

1:21.6

Hurricane Helen, rumor response, they say.

1:24.6

They say, help keep yourself, yourself your family and your community safe after

1:28.1

Hurricane Helen by being aware of rumors and scams and sharing official

1:32.6

information from trusted sources they say do your part to stop this spread of

1:37.7

rumors by doing these things find trusted sources of information share

1:42.3

information from trusted sources and discourage others from sharing information from unverified sources.

1:49.0

Now I question what an unverified source is by the definition, but that's a statement, right?

1:54.0

Now, it then goes on to address some of the different claims that are going around and declares that many of them are false

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