The Aftermath of Hurricane Helene: Americans Left Behind

Immigrants continue to receive their funding though!

In the wake of Hurricane Helene, many communities across the United States faced flooding, loss of power, a lack of food and water, and of course limited monetary and logistical support in order to see that Americans received the aid they so desperately need.

Devastation in Asheville after Hurricane Helene [Wikimedia Commons, Credit: Bill McMannia]

To make it worse, the governments of several states, Joe Biden’s administration, and even some local governments, have done nothing but get in the way of Hurricane recovery.

All the while hundreds of thousands of people continue to stream across the Southern frontier of the United States and receive ample food, water, medical care, and plane tickets courtesy of the very American taxpayers receiving lackluster support from their own government(s).

The Storm's Impact

Hurricane Helene made landfall, causing significant damage to coastal areas, particularly in the southeastern U.S. Homes were destroyed, infrastructure was compromised, and many residents were left without basic necessities.

A week on from the storm nearly 850,000 Americans remained without power. It is worth saying that I do not blame the fantastic linemen who are out there from across the nation attempting to restore power, but I do blame the various levels of government for not providing more support.

Linemen in South Carolina had to team up with the University of South Carolina for food, housing, and meal needs. While the state may take credit for this (and indeed it is) it says a lot that FEMA and other agencies are not stepping up.

Similarly, many towns remain without proper internet connections and one mayor was forced to give emergency updates from the only location in his town with Wi-Fi: the supermarket

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The Politics

I will acknowledge from the outset that FEMA does not have the money to rebuild every home, compensate everyone for Hurricane related costs, or cover the restoration of every road and bridge being destroyed. However; FEMA has ample resources that it dispenses to immigrants who arrive to this country instead of Americans.

The agency spends more than $800 million each year on shelter programs for recent immigrant arrivals, including and especially for illegal immigrants, but can only be bothered to help out with $750 to individual Americans effected by Hurricane Helene. And it’s not just the United States government neglecting Americans in favor of immigrants.

The United Nations is handing out hundreds of millions of dollars in pre-paid debit cards to immigrants who are in transit to the United States, but I could not find a single United Nations page that said the sprawling international bureaucracy was spending a single dime to assist American flood and Hurricane victims. American taxpayers fund 22% of the United Nation’s annual budget, by far the largest share, and these tax dollars are not only not being used to support Americans in the aftermath of a disaster but are being used to support continued mass migration into our country.

Still, it is our domestic politicians that have failed the most spectacularly. With more than 100,000 people still crossing the Southern frontier of the United States each month and more than $183 billion in spending going to these immigrants per year it’s little wonder that Americans are so furious. The Hurricane response has been lackluster and FEMA’s crisis budget has just $20 billion to work with. The question that every American should be asking themselves is why are we only worth $20 billion while people illegally crossing our Southern border are worth nearly $200 billion, United Nations Support, countless NGO dollars, and an endless parade calling for sympathy and understanding.

And all of this is not to mention the fact that FEMA response has still not reached many areas of the Carolinas. Instead, volunteers, many of whom report being harassed by local and government authorities, are still doing much of the heavy lifting in regards to search and rescue operations.

Hurricane Helene served as a stark reminder that our government has a set of priorities and that those priorities focus on everyone except Americans. We exist to pay taxes, to keep the infrastructure running, and to vote in whatever political candidates the elite tell us to. The one thing we certainly do not deserve, at least not in the eyes of the raging liberal elite who run this country, is support or sympathy.

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