The Daily Signal - Hurricane Helene Leaves Nearly 200 Dead, FEMA Funding, Melania Trump Voices Support for Abortion | Oct. 3

Starting point is 00:00:00 Former President Donald Trump is bashing the Biden administration's response to Hurricane Haleen. I'm Virginia Allen, and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Thursday on Kirt Worthers. Nearly 200 lives have been taken by Hurricane Haleen. Former President Donald Trump is accusing the Biden administration of incompetently managing the disaster. Trump wrote on True Social today, Kamala and Sleepy Joe are universally being given poor grades for the way that they are handling the hurricane, especially in North Carolina. It is going down as the worst and most incompetently managed storm at the federal level, ever seen before. Hundreds of people are still missing and millions remain without power. President Joe Biden was in Florida and Georgia today surveying the damage. Biden surveyed the damage in North Carolina yesterday, and Harris was in Georgia

Starting point is 00:01:06 yesterday as well. With only a month until the election, the hurricane response has become a hot-button political issue, especially considering the fact that two of the states that were hit hardest, Georgia and North Carolina, are swing states. So you can expect to hear more from both Trump and Harris on the hurricane and response to it in the coming days and weeks. When it comes to the federal response to Hurricane Helene, the federal emergency management agency or fees, FEMA is the lead agency when it comes to responding to hurricanes. But Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is warning that FEMA does not have enough money to make it through all of hurricane season. Per Fox News. Let's take a listen.

Starting point is 00:01:52 We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have. We are expecting another hurricane hitting. We do not have the funds. FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season. Hurricane season does last until the end of November, and as you heard there, Mayorka said that more hurricanes are expected before the season ends. But Congress did just approve FEMA funding. At the end of September, Congress approved $20 billion for FEMA's disaster relief fund

Starting point is 00:02:24 in the short-term spending bill. And over the past two years, the Daily Caller News Foundation reports that FEMA has allocated over $1 billion for a migrant assistance program. The Migrant Assistance Program has provided humanitarian services to non-citizens. Florida Republican Representative Corey Mills said FEMA had utilized a large majority of the personnel who should be here taking care of this to be replaced or repurposed for immigration resettlement when we need to be focused on Americans, whether it be in Maui, Palestine, Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, or Tennessee. Trump says that he will work to deport illegal aliens in the U.S. if he is elected.

Starting point is 00:03:12 Specifically, Trump said that he will end temporary protected status for Haitian migrants living in Springfield, Ohio, and return them to Haiti. News Nation's border correspondent Ali Bradley interviewed Trump yesterday and asked him about his plan specifically to deport those Haitian migrants. In Springfield, what's happening there is horrible. You have a beautiful community, 52,000. people and about 30,000 people were put into that community rapidly, and the community is so nice, and they want to be so politically correct. You have to remove the people. You cannot destroy. We cannot destroy our country. You had a beautiful, safe community. Everyone's in love with everybody. Everything was nice. It was like a picture community. And all of a sudden, in a short period of time, they have 32,000 more people in there. It doesn't work. It can't work.

Starting point is 00:04:05 has nothing to do with Haiti or anything else. It doesn't work. You have to remove the people and you have to bring them back to their own country. They are, in my opinion, it's not legal. It's not legal for anybody to do. It's not even on a human basis. It's not acceptable to the people that are there

Starting point is 00:04:21 and certainly to the people that are in Springfield. Springfield is such a beautiful place. Have you seen what's happened to it? It's been overrun. You can't do that to people. They have to be removed. So you would revoke the temporary protected status? Absolutely. I'd revoke it and I'd bring them back to their country.

Starting point is 00:04:39 What if they won't receive them? They're not. Well, they're going to receive them. They'll receive them. It is estimated that about 20,000 Haitian migrants arrived in Springfield within recent years. Many of those Haitian migrants are in the U.S. under temporary protected status. This status is granted to residents of a specific nation or region due to conditions in their home country that temporarily prevent the country's nationals from returning safely or within certain circumstances where the country is unable to handle the return of its nationals adequately. That's according to U.S. citizenship and immigration services. So right now, Haitian nationals

Starting point is 00:05:19 in the U.S., many of whom are under that temporary protected status, and they're permitted to stay in the United States until February 3, 2026. Simon Hankison serves as a senior research Fellow in the Border and Immigration Center at the Heritage Foundation. And he told the daily signal that temporary protected status is just when the federal government simply pauses enforcement of immigration law, i.e. deportations for certain nationals. Hankinson says that the designation of temporary protected status is just that, temporary, and confers no permanent legal status. Abortion remains one of the biggest hot-button issues of this election. Former President Donald Trump has stepped back from some of his previous pro-life rhetoric,

Starting point is 00:06:08 and today, former First Lady Melania Trump released a video in which she seems to indicate her support for abortion. The video is in promotion of her new forthcoming memoir titled Melania, in which she reportedly discusses her views on abortion. Individual freedom is a fundamental principle that I safeguard. Without a doubt, there is no room for compromise when it comes to this essential right that all women possess from birth. Individual freedom. What does my body, my choice, really mean?

Starting point is 00:06:47 The memoir does not come out until October 8th, but according to the Hill, in it she writes that it's imperative to guarantee that women, have the autonomy to decide their preference on having children based on their own convictions, free from any intervention or pressure from the government. With that, that's going to do it for today's episode. Thanks for joining us here for the Daily Signal's top news. Be sure to catch our interview edition tomorrow morning. We are rounding out our Money and Transparency series with a conversation with Louisiana State

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The Daily Signal - Hurricane Helene Leaves Nearly 200 Dead, FEMA Funding, Melania Trump Voices Support for Abortion | Oct. 3

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