FEMA Isn't Running Out of Hurricane Relief Money Due to Migrant Aid
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"FEMA spent over $1 BILLION in taxpayer dollars on providing housing and services to illegal aliens," an X user claimed.
  • Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    532·
    15 hours ago

    Hi, I’m an immigrant.

    Fuck everyone who blames immigrants for everything. Fuck infrahumanisation.

    • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world
      1·
      42 minutes ago

      I love you, tho, bro. I know I have no more right to this land than anyone, as we are all guests on this spaceship.

      Btw if you haven’t already, watch gangs of new york. Us Americans are all the product of one immigrant or another. Doesn’t matter where they were from.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Immigrants are awesome. I only know a few, but the ones I know from Iraq, Iran, Syria, El Salvador, Colombia, are all insanely productive. Their work ethic is next-level above my own, and I don’t consider myself particularly lazy even if my 2 jobs is less than my dad’s record of 5.

      Tech, service, trades, proserv; landed immigrants show us how to get shit done.

      Okay. Enough sucking up. I’m back to work.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      12·
      11 hours ago

      Child of an immigrant here. He was a professor. He created a department at his university that no one thought to create before that. He contributed to the education of an uncountable number of students. Quite a few of them wrote back to him over the years to tell him how much his classes meant to them.

      Fuck anti-immigrant assholes. My dad probably did more than most of them to make this country better.

  • yeahiknow3@lemmings.world
    919·
    13 hours ago

    FEMA shouldn’t do shit for anything related to global warming. Americans voted for ecological collapse. They voted to have their homes destroyed by hurricanes. So what’s the issue? Now you want to suckle on the government teet because what you voted for actually happened? Fuck off.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      221·
      11 hours ago

      Yeah! Let people die because the Americans who can vote in their gerrymandered districts “voted for ecological collapse!” Especially in those blue states where they elect politicians who want to do something to at least mitigate climate change.

      Millions of people deserve to die due to the actions of some of them! Especially the children who can’t vote! That’s only fair!

      • yeahiknow3@lemmings.world
        17·
        2 hours ago

        Lmao. Americans with their big cars and suburban blight and meat eating and manicured lawns. You deserve this apocalypse you created.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 hours ago

          Tampa is a city, thus urban, and many people there don’t own cars or have lawns.

          As far as meat eating, do tell us the name of the country that doesn’t have a significant number of meat eaters.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
              2·
              1 hour ago

              I thought this was about your suggestions that FEMA should just allow all of these people to die. The poor, the homeless, the infirm, infants and children…

              I mean we could just speed up the process by opening camps and putting them inside. What do you think?

              • yeahiknow3@lemmings.world
                13·
                1 hour ago

                I’ve mentioned several times that children and animals and maybe carless vegans are not at fault. So sure, we can have FEMA save these people. Everyone else voted for this with their actions and choices. They wanted this.

                Also, living in deserts and shitholes like Florida and Louisiana is a choice. Why do I have to pay for people’s horrible choices? This isn’t Pakistan where the whole country is an oven you can’t escape. Move somewhere, stop eating meat, vote for progressive policies. Or die. Honestly at this point I think we are all doomed so whatever.

                • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
                  3·
                  1 hour ago

                  I see, so you want some sort of super-intensive spying system to figure out exactly who everyone voted for and then only give aid to ones who voted a certain way.

                  Sounds quite fascistic.