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BumRushDaShow

(158,599 posts)
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 03:18 AM Jul 26

US states to get $608 million from FEMA to build migrant detention centers

Source: Reuters

July 25, 2025 4:31 PM EDT Updated 10 hours ago


WASHINGTON, July 25 (Reuters) - The Federal Emergency Management Agency is preparing to send $608 million to states to construct immigrant detention centers as part of the Trump administration's push to expand capacity to hold migrants.

FEMA is starting a “detention support grant program” to cover the cost of states building temporary facilities, according to an agency announcement. States have until August 8 to apply for the funds, according to the post.

The Trump administration has been encouraging states to build their own facilities to detain migrants. This program provides a way for the administration to help states pay for it. The funds will be distributed by FEMA in partnership with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, according to the post.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, said on Friday morning the state would apply for FEMA reimbursement to pay for its new immigrant detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz.” DHS officials said this summer the facility will cost an estimated $450 million annually.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-states-get-608-million-fema-build-migrant-detention-centers-2025-07-25/



This is an example of what they "projected" onto Obama - "FEMA CAMPS". And this will be them for real - under a trifecta GOP government.
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Irish_Dem

(73,299 posts)
2. No money to help with disasters, only money to build concentration camps.
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 06:04 AM
Jul 26

We live in an insane world now.

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,089 posts)
5. Monies to build Immigration Concentration Camps...
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 08:23 AM
Jul 26

But NO monies to rebuild infrastructure and lives after a Natural disaster.

I get it now! CRUELTY is the name of the game. Soon TACO Don and his co-horts in Congress will BLAMS immigrants seeking a better life in this country for the weather.

Linda ladeewolf

(986 posts)
8. Alligator Auschwitz, more death camps if you ask me.
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 11:56 AM
Jul 26

If the states were smart, which most republican states aren’t, they’d take that money and do what they want with it and not build detention centers.

ananda

(32,856 posts)
10. Interesting that FEMA is now creating a huge national disaster...
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 12:22 PM
Jul 26

instead of helping with already existing, and about to exist,
climate and natural disasters.

Diraven

(1,514 posts)
12. Remember when "FEMA Camps" were a right wing conspiracy?
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 12:42 PM
Jul 26

Now they're real and everything is fine.

patphil

(8,167 posts)
13. So, FEMA has changed it's mission from helping disaster victims to harming ICE victims.
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 03:34 PM
Jul 26

The hearts of these people are as cold as a mid-winter night on Mt. McKinley.
This nation needs to be de-ICED.

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