In unusual move, FEMA halts preparedness grant money, orders states to recount their populations excluding deported migr

[highplainsdem]

Source: CNN

In unusual move, FEMA halts preparedness grant money, orders states to recount their populations excluding deported migrants

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has halted the release of hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency preparedness grants, requiring states to prove their population counts before they can access the money, the agency told CNN.

-snip-

States began receiving notices Tuesday that they must now submit a population certification as of September 30 detailing their methodology and confirming that individuals removed under US immigration laws are not included in the tally.

According to the notice, which CNN obtained, “FEMA will rescind the funding hold upon its review and approval of the State’s methodology and population certification.”

-snip-

The notices to states were sent hours after a federal judge temporarily blocked the administration from diverting similar FEMA grants away from about a dozen Democratic-led states.

-snip-

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/politics/fema-halts-preparedness-grant-money-migrants

---

FEMA claims this new requirement is unrelated to any court ruling

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Ideology trumps practicality, for these goons. . . . . nt

[highplainsdem]

2. They know it isn't practical, except as a way to keep that money from Democratic states by claiming

they didn't recount the population accurately.

[SunSeeker]

3. How are states supposed to do that when ICE won't even say who they removed nor to where?

And regardless, hurricanes don't care about green cards!

[FakeNoose]

4. So what exactly are "deported migrants"?

If they've been deported, then I guess they aren't migrant workers. Or is there a new definition of the term that I'm not aware of?