Catch in federal funding leaves border cities unable to house or feed undocumented migrants

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : More: Border Security Expo draws Homeland Security top brass as El Paso faces migration crisis
53% : While FEMA has been providing grants from its Emergency Food and Shelter program for 40 years, Congress in 2019 created a separate track of the program to provide services for migrants encountered by the Department of Homeland Security at the southern border.
48% : "We are on the front doorstep, and it's not just El Paso: It's every community along the southern border," he said.
48% : If audited, grant recipients must be prepared to provide the names of those served along with the "Alien Identification Number," often called an "A" number, assigned to them after being processed by Border Patrol or another federal authority.
44% :"Having thousands of people with limited resources, limited English skills, trying to figure out how to get to other parts of the country that is unfamiliar to them, with no food, little money, no place to sleep, is deleterious to the health, safety and welfare of everybody in this country," Garcia said.
42% : It was not supposed to cover food and shelter for migrants who entered illegally and have not sought asylum.

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