President Joe Biden’s “Put Americans Last” policy is on full display at the chemical spill disaster in Ohio.
Fearing for their lives, local residents of the small town of East Palestine, Ohio, have been forced to evacuate their homes, their eyes burning, their skin mottled with rashes, their drinking water suspect — yet the Federal Emergency Management Agency refused to help for two weeks. What a contrast to the immediate help FEMA provides when buses of illegal immigrants roll into Washington, D.C., or New York.
To assist illegals, charity workers funded by FEMA literally meet the buses and begin distributing food, hotel rooms, rental assistance, legal counsel and health care — the very things that the East Palestine victims also need. And the omnibus spending bill Biden signed in December gives FEMA a whopping $800 million expressly to pay for migrants’ needs as they arrive in U.S. cities from the southern border.
Yet Biden is giving the people of this Ohio town — working-class, taxpaying citizens who are 98% white — the cold shoulder. Under Biden, FEMA apparently stands for First Embrace Migrants and Aliens. FEMA is the welcome wagon for illegals.
On Feb. 17, 14 days after the Norfolk Southern train derailed in this small Ohio town, spewing burning vinyl chloride into the air and water, the White House tried to produce a reason why FEMA was a no-show. “FEMA is on the frontlines when there is a hurricane or tornado. This situation is different.” That is a lame lie.
Under the Stafford Act of 1988, FEMA is empowered to respond to human-made disasters, such as fires and explosions, as well as natural disasters. FEMA was envisioned to help people like East Palestine residents Audrey DeSanzo and her two school-age children.
After the train accident on Feb. 3, Gov. Mike DeWine told families to evacuate immediately or face “grave danger of death.”
The DeSanzos fled to a relative’s empty apartment in Pennsylvania, where they slept on the floor and on a couch.
On Feb. 9, officials gave the clear for residents to return, but DeSanzo says her children quickly developed sore throats and coughs. A local doctor said many patients had these problems and advised calling poison control.
DeSanzo would like to get out of East Palestine, but she makes only $14 an hour. “Where am I supposed to go?” she asked. FEMA is footing the bill for migrants to stay in hotels, but not the DeSanzos.
Norfolk Southern is sending each family $1,000. That doesn’t cover medical bills, housing, meals and lost wages during an evacuation. Small business owners wonder how they will recover from shutting down and losing inventory ruined by chemical odors.
With a disaster declaration, these costs could be covered by FEMA. But the Biden administration has withheld it.
Meanwhile, FEMA’s website urges illegals to apply for disaster relief, supplying an Undocumented Immigrants Disaster Assistance Flyer in a staggering 18 languages — but heartland Americans can take a hike.
The White House claimed on Friday that it’s “mobiliz(ing) a robust, multi-agency effort” for the Ohioans, including help from the Department of Health and Human Services.
HHS says it will open a clinic Tuesday in cooperation with the Ohio Department of Health. It’s too little too late. Since Feb. 4, residents have complained of burning eyes and gums, rashes and shortness of breath. Vinyl chloride is a carcinogen known to cause liver cancer and possibly brain and lung cancers, lymphoma and leukemia.
Yet Ohioans have been left to fend for themselves.
Meanwhile, HHS has been busy coddling illegals. HHS recently approved a waiver for Washington State to offer illegals free health insurance for the sake of “equity.” And HHS is flying unaccompanied illegal minors from the border to their new homes under the cover of night.
Where’s the concern for helping Ohio children being subjected to dangerous toxins?
The people of East Palestine will tell you the odor of burning vinyl chloride is suffocating, but worse is the stench of Biden’s disdain for regular Americans.
American resources should be going to help Americans first.
Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York and chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths. Follow her on Twitter @Betsy_McCaughey.
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The entire purpose of the open border is to dilute and replace the American people with a population they can control!
this just breaks my heart, and infuriates me so much. WE are PAYING FOR OUR OWN DEMISE!!
EVERY politician that voted for this debacle needs to be FIRED like yesterday!
It’s not just migrants first, it’s really “white” Americans Last!
Anyone with a brain should be able to figure this out and not vote Democrat anymore, but the Democrats are a cult and will still vote Democrat no matter what. I would like to see how in the next election the people in that area vote. If anyone votes democrat that proves my point.
The big O’s, Obiden and Obama, hate American citizens and America itself. They now attack anything white and overlook everything against whites. Come on man, we all know Obiden isn’t calling the shots and we all know who has the plan to destroy US.
Should we expect anything than less for our citizens under the Biden administration ? They give to the illegal and undocumented but screw the American people.
The problem is this Ohio town was mostly white & according to Woke policy & CRT training, this Ohio town is getting what it deserves. Die you racist white people, no help for you.Only brown, Asian, & black people deserve help not white people. Whites & Christians are bad so DIE DIE!
Only way to stop this is we MUST STOP WORKING AND SHUT THE ECONOMY DOWN, TAKE UP ARMS AND TAKE BACK THE GOVERNMENT FROM THESE EVIL MARXISTS DEMONCRATS!!!
I am not against brown,Asian, or black people in fact most agree with this statement.
Only Almighty God of heaven and creation can deal with the Biden regime….And He will, just watch for it!
Biden Administration is a disgrace!
Biden is a tyrant!
America has always send aid to disaster victims all over the world.
Where in the world is there an action to help the victims of East Palestine?
Brandon is taking care of the Ukraine because he is beholden to the Ukrainian oligarchs that supplied him with 6 million dollars. He is not the president of all Americans only those that vote for him.
1,000 derailments in 1 year and nothing is done.
We white Americans that vote against Brandon have been put on the elimination list. Genocide by proxy.
Maybe someone needs to let him know he is the POTUS!
Tragically, Biden and his administration are so cynical and apathetic towards US citizens that we, the people, are often being treated as if we are outsiders in our own country. Our borders are being left wide open to all sorts of illegals. Some of these invaders are very dangerous terrorists, but Biden and his goons are too busy spreading horrible propaganda against America First patriots. Biden is visiting the Ukraine, showing his open concern for the border and people of Ukraine. However, he is totally MIA when it comes to the integrity of our own borders and couldn’t care less about the pain and suffering of the poor inhabitants of East Palestine, Ohio. Biden acts as if the huge sex and drug trade on our Southern Border is none of his doing, when in fact he is allowing the drug cartels to become stronger and stronger. Traitor Joe has absolutely no shame and is actively destroying the United States of America. He has not even attempted to uphold the rules of security and safety for the health and peace of mind of the American people. He is the number one terrorist against the welfare of his own country. He is extremely dishonest and evil.
Dear President Zelenskyy, Please send aid to the people of East Palestine, Ohio. Since the U.S. has sent you and your country billions of dollars in aid, I feel it is about time for you to return the help we have given to you and your country. Especially since our current administration is doing nothing to give aid to these people who need it. Thank you in advance for your help.
well of course biden puts illegal immigrants before any citizen. He’s just a trechorous, traitor. IR: A**hole.
There is an ever perplexing, screwy, curious; set of events coming out of the ‘Biden Era’. Something akin to warring against your own people. Just the chronology of events is getting ‘Curiouser and Curiouser’ (cried ‘Alice in Wonderland’). Look at the ‘spy balloons’, weather balloons; and the weird and unexplained things shot down from the skies! Look at Ohio; then it continues to be a ludicrous collection of unexplained events. Doesn’t it make you want to study forensics? Look at the whispers of ‘pipe bombs’, factories with explosions, and what must be ‘Classified Files’. And, speaking of ‘Classified Files’; for some unexplained reason the people responsible for the care and feeding of ‘Files Most Important’ can NOT seem to keep track of them. See what happens when we forget to return library books? Libraries keep track of their books; better than government agencies keep track of ‘Classified Files’. Book stores have devices in books; to protect from theft. Yet, the government is all beside itself; not having the ability to keep track of important documents? Sounds like we are getting on a tangent. Nope. Tangent continues when the Top Phony Fraud runs to Europe whilst the country is going through a dangerous, caustic, contaminated ‘train derailment’!
Not showing any concern whatsoever! The level of contamination is probably equivalent to the most caustic of disasters in modern history! This is all deliberate. You could just swear that it is due to senility or lack of intelligence? However, look at the chronology of ludicrous events! It would be nice and even ethical to level with the American People; about WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON! The BS Meter is a little high off the chart! And the Dems/Socialists worry about EQUITY?? May God Watch Over These United States of America!
Wow. This is a damning article about Biden and FEMA. It doesn’t exactly say it in so many words, but what it’s actually saying is, the residents of East Palestine are victims of reverse discrimination. Those 98% white citizens there aren’t worthy of government assistance, but non-American illegal aliens are. And who’s next? I’ll tell you who. African Americans are next since our country is drowning in debt and quite frankly the well will soon go dry. The Democrats are soon going to discover they can’t have their cake and eat it too.
The term “bleeding heart liberal” has been around a long time. The dems use these humanitarian programs to try to make themselves look so caring and compassionate. Their “compassionate” programs over the years have created more poverty, homelessness, joblessness and government dependency. They trip over each other to look for a new program to give away money. It’s all for show.
And this doesn’t even touch on the billions of dollars being spent to support Ukraine. Don’t get me wrong; I abhor Putan’s war on Ukraine, but I ask, why is Biden more willing to help the people from a foreign country, one that doesn’t even border America, than he is to help American citizens?
Ok..so what do you suggest that we do?? Maybe a class action civil lawsuit is needed. Problem is that the judges and RINOs what this to continue. Too many opinions and no good solutions are being published.
He should have been in Ohio instead of Ukraine kissing Zelensky’s butt. We need to impeach him and that worthless VP.
The Dems think they will win elections with immigrant votes. That is the reason they are ignoring the crisis. The Republicans will have to get real tough on this. If they don’t, they will regret it.
Biden’s whole career has been spent as a political laptop. When he needed to be a segregationist for Senator Byrd,, he was. We need to be against the white race, to fulfill Obama’s demands, and those of Susan Rice, he does. He is beholding to the Ukraine and to the People’s Republic of China, so he does their bidding too. He makes himself and his family rich, he throws America into the toilet.
I’m really tired of our government spending so much money, period, but to spend so much on people who willingly and knowingly broke the law to get here and then uses the social services to the max is completely unacceptable!! Biden knows this and Democrats know this as well but they count on all of these illegals, who have been dispersed across the country, eventually gaining the right to vote in the country where they are basically criminals!! But Democrats are hoping that these illegals will remember that Democrats are why they are even here and will cast their votes accordingly!!
I am tired of the vets and seniors being treated like the second hand citizens while the elite threaten us with loss of benefits!!! I am tired of Democrats!! I am tired of lies!!
There is no end to the despicable Biden crew. And there are no excuses, except that East Palestine won’t give kickbacks.
Free health insurance to illegal aliens (no I won’t call them migrants) who broke into our country a disrespected our immigration laws…”for the sake of equity”: THERE IS NO EQUITY in taking Americans’ hard-earned money and giving it to illegals, especially when they come with no skills and nothing to offer in exchange for their acceptance…and especially when the same is not offered to hard-working Americans who are victims of a man-made disaster in Ohio! Have all the politicians in Washington become morons? We take better care of illegal criminals who sneak in to our country and use up our facilities and supplies while ignoring thousands of U. S. Veterans who are homeless, disabled, injured and mentally incapacitated. It just makes no sense whatsoever.
Biden is giving the residents of East Palestine, Ohio the middle finger
Biden is anti-American, plain and simple. The Democratic party is anti-American and into controlling the masses, removing our freedom of speech, the right to bear arms, and creating one party rule. They must be stopped.
Liberals discourage traditional values of obeying the law, hard work and personal achievement. If you slip into the country illegally, they will love you. If you are a criminal, they will seek ways to reduce the level of your crime. They will make laws that provide for no cash bail If you can’t afford to live in our town, we provide “affordable housing” (and and the rest of us will pick up the tab on real estate taxes you get a break on). Liberals believe merit is a vestige of white supremacy and therefore discouraged. Hard work is a vestige of white supremacy and should not be rewarded. If you are the right kind of minority student, we will add points to the score you get on the admissions test for our best high schools because you are a minority. (Sorry Asians, you aren’t the right kind of minority.) In other words all of the things that led to making the United States the greatest nation on earth are the result of white supremacy and need to be trashed. We are doomed.
Joe Biden is a terrible parent and disappointing president. The American taxpayer deserves so much more, but we’ll never get it from this man.
How does Biden get to stay as President?
He has not lived up to his sworn oath to preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States or even follow the rules in making laws and he spends taxpayers money illegally.
What does it take to make him a responsible leader of the United States?
Why has no one called for impeachment with his overstep of Executive orders? If Trump did what he is doing their would be protests in every city.
It’s been America LAST since 11-8-20, and came into full play 1-21-21.
I’m so happy that the REAL president DJT went there. God bless him and the people in E. Palestine. #AmericaFirst
biden is a joke – those who stick up for him are losers too. President Trump has always stood up for this country and the people in it, both sides!! He does what he sayx he will do so people when 2024 comes around vote for the best and that is Donal J. Trump
DEPORT ALL libs, illegals AND THE ONCE HONORABLE, fbi, STAT, TO MAGA
The trickle down economy
The US has a boom. The CEO compensation grows by an order of magnitude making him a billionaire. The CEO gives a 5% raise to a very good worker making a modest salary calling it very generous.
The US has a recession. The CEO lays off that same worker with no notices and promises one months of severance. The company doesn’t send the check and the worker complains. The CEO who is still a billionaire gets really angry and humiliates and sues the worker. Worker can’t afford a lawyer.
Another, of too many to count, ways our Anti-American, Commie/Globalist traitor-heavy government expletives give legal residents the middle finger.
Nothing to see here. More of the fraudulent administration’s bullet train to the destruction of us, and our Constitutional Republic. Corrupt Commie Traitor Obamie’s “fundamental transformation” morphed into ‘Build Back Better” (first they gotta destroy the Republic!), and now the Great Reset, via Commie/Globalist/Demmunist’s cheated into office unindicted felon fraud puppet traitor, corrupt pedo Joe.!
it’s not a policy; it’s just a terrible idea in the real world.
Biden is a communist want to be president he never should have been president to begin with the sooner people find that out the better off will be
The truth will set you free I’m told!!!! Does anyone here believe that all the trillions spent are really used for what was intended in print!! How many envelopes are handed out over and over again!!! If the Cayman Islands sank with all their deposits the crying would be heard all the way to Saturn!!! I can complain all day but what to do??? None violence please!!! Trump is one answer but how to do it??? Vote??? Impeach??? Revolution??? For the FBI reading this I support only legal avenues !!!
Clowns in circus’s were always funny,but the clowns that are destroying AMERICA are not including the chief figurehead robot.AMERICA first and always,NO OTHER WAY!!!!!!!!!
That community most likely voted for Trump.
Everything this administration does is a complete failure. Am still trying to figure out what these morons have done to help the American citizen !
If you want “this” Federal Government’s help, you had better voice your support of Jackass Joe and his America Last policies!
IMPEACH Bozo Biden and the cackling HO.
It is very sad that when Governor DeWine of Ohio asked for help from FEMA, Ohio was given the cold shoulder. He asked for help on Feb 4, the next day after the derailment. After Trump visits East Palestine, then FEMA wakes up.
Maybe it is because the local responders in Ohio (with support from western PA) were able to keep this accident to NO fatalities (so far).
Cut Joe some slack! California is in crisis! It’s snowing in San Bernardino so I’m guessing FEMA is too busy there to respond to Ohio.