DeSantis diverts $400 million in FEMA funds to build Alligator Alcatraz as hurricane season starts.

Playing politics with FEMA disaster relief

Why divert $400 million FEMA Funds to build a concentration camp as hurricanes approach?

Where is Aligator Alcatraz? How is it being funded? What's the rush? Is it connected to the $10 million DeSantis’ diversion scandal? What's behind the concentration camp? Connect the dots for yourself.

• DeSantis' office announced the state will be using emergency powers to seize the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport away from Miami-Dade County. - Naples Daily News

• Ron and his wife Casey DeSantis dynastic power grab mired in scandal - The Sunday Times

• The Florida House abruptly ended its probe into the diversion by Ron DeSantis’ administration of $10 million from a Medicaid settlement to a nonprofit tied to his wife, questions linger. What happens next? - Tampa Bay Times

What happens when FEMA does not have the funds to help you after a hurricane destroys your home? Use this StoryMap to follow the dueling Trump-DeSantis political agendas, DeSantis family power grab, defunding FEMA, building a concentration camp as hurricane season approaches.

Trump and DeSantis divert FEMA funds to build concentration camp

A lot could depend on the attitudes of Trump and Bondi toward DeSantis

Relations between DeSantis and Trump have soured... Trump has endorsed U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds to succeed DeSantis as governor, even though Casey DeSantis is reportedly mulling a run.

Could Trump use the Justice Department to intimidate him? Darryl Paulson, a professor emeritus of government at the University of South Florida, said he doubts it, but the threat is there. “We may be a nation of laws,” Paulson said, “but the president often decides which laws are enforced and which are ignored.” - Tampa Bay Times

Trump threatens DeSantis

Encroachment on sacred homelands

Native American leaders in the region have seen the construction as an encroachment onto their sacred homelands, which prompted Saturday’s protest. In Big Cypress National Preserve, where the airstrip is located, 15 traditional Miccosukee and Seminole villages, as well as ceremonial and burial grounds and other gathering sites, remain. - AP News

How FEMA will fund "Alligator Alcatraz"

The new Florida immigration detention facility will largely be funded by FEMA’s Shelter and Services Program ... FEMA has roughly $625 million in that program’s funds that can be allocated to build the "Alligator Alcatraz" facility. - Kristi Noem spokesperson in Politifact

Defunding FEMA

TakeAway: Call Ron DeSantis and your MAGA rep: don't play politics with FEMA disaster relief funds.

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