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Trump ratchets up rhetoric, calls for death sentence for migrants who kill Americans
Donald Trump represented migrants as hazardous bad guys during a rally in Aurora, Colorado, on Friday, calling for the capital punishment for migrants who eliminate U.S. people as he escalates the anti-immigration rhetoric that has sustained his presidential run. Flanked by posters of alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, Trump also said that if chosen he would launch a nationwide Operation Aurora to target the gang members. Trump , the Republican governmental candidate, has visibly solidified his anti-immigration rhetoric in the last weeks of the Nov. 5 election project, where he aims to defeat Democratic prospect Kamala Harris . Unlawful migration is a leading voter issue, and Trump is seen by a lot of voters as the individual best able to resolve it, opinion polls reveal. I'm thus requiring the death penalty for any migrant that kills an American resident or a law enforcement officer, Trump said to loud cheers from a large crowd of fans. Trump has actually already proposed a growth of the death penalty for other wrongdoers, consisting of individuals founded guilty of sex trafficking women and kids. Almost half of U.S. states prohibit the capital punishment. While there is a federal death sentence, it is seldom utilized, according to the Death Penalty Info Center, a non-profit group. An growth of qualified criminal activities would need an act of the U.S. Congress. One of the trademarks of Trump's 3rd presidential run has been his focus on what he calls migrant crime, although scholastic studies show immigrants do not devote crimes at a. higher rate than native-born Americans. The Harris campaign did not right away respond to a. ask for comment related to the death sentence proposition. Vice President Harris strengthened her stance on border. security after ending up being the Democratic nominee in August, and. faults Trump for assisting suppress a bipartisan border security. costs in Congress earlier this year. SPOTLIGHT ON AURORA During a Sept. 10 governmental debate with Harris, Trump. claimed that members of Tren de Aragua managed numerous. worn out Aurora apartment complexes - allegations refuted by. top city officials. At the rally on Friday, he reiterated a promise to focus. enforcement on Aurora if reelected. I will rescue Aurora and every town that has been. gotten into and conquered, Trump stated. We will put these vicious. and bloodthirsty crooks in prison or kick them out of our. nation. Regardless of Trump's remarkable statements targeted at awakening his. base, no town in America has actually been taken control of by migrants. Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman, a Republican, stated in a statement. ahead of the rally that issues about Venezuelan gang activity. have actually been grossly exaggerated and welcomed Trump to explore the. city. Major criminal offenses in Aurora have actually dropped year-on-year, according. to Aurora Cops Department stats. V Reeves, a neighborhood organizer with the Housekeys Action. Network, stated locals fidgeted about the Trump see. They're stressed over Trump advocates appearing and. threatening them, Reeves stated. At two of the apartment buildings at the center of the. debate, Reuters observed broken windows and litter on. Thursday. One building had portable police cam stations that. locals said were installed today. Jesus, a 30-year-old Venezuelan who works in landscaping and. lives in among the buildings, stated that all Venezuelans are. being blamed for the actions of a few. We are not all bad individuals, stated Jesus, who declined to. offer his last name. The conflict over gang activity in Aurora comes from an. effort by the city to force the owner of several apartment or condo. complexes where migrants lived to address repair work, garbage, insect. infestations and other grievances. A public relations firm employed by the property manager, CBZ. Management, said in early August that Tren de Aragua gang. members had actually taken over the properties, according to documents. obtained through a Colorado Open Records Act demand. CBZ Management did not react to requests for remark. The allegations got nationwide attention in late August. when a clip of gun-toting men in among the apartment buildings. went viral. Cindy Romero, a former homeowner at the apartment complex,. captured the video footage with her 2 security video cameras. Speaking at. the rally on Friday, she said she was a long-lasting Democrat but. that she would choose Trump due to her experience with crime.
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Mosaic says fertilizer waste center's water went into Tampa Bay after Hurricane Milton
Mosaic Co said on Friday that water supporting the chemical company's storage of a. waste by-product from fertilizer production in Florida. probably made its method into Tampa Bay following a rainstorm from. Cyclone Milton. The discharge of perhaps more than 17,500 gallons from. Mosaic's center in Riverview, a fast-growing Tampa residential area,. raised potential environmental concerns. The industrial by-product, phosphogypsum, is known to. produce radon, a cancer-causing radioactive gas. Mosaic said a storage system for water around a pile of. phosphogypsum became overwhelmed in Riverview. The site got. almost 15 inches of rain during Hurricane Milton less than two. weeks after Cyclone Helene, the business said in a declaration. Water quality impacts in Tampa Bay are anticipated to be. modest, if any, Mosaic stated. The company dealt with the overflow concern on Thursday and. it was not continuing on Friday, it stated in the declaration. We have actually been in consistent communication with regulators who are. onsite today. The affected phosphogypsum stack is closed, suggesting the. company is not adding new product to it, Mosaic stated. Phosphogypsum consists of radium, which decomposes to form. radon gas, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency stated, noting. that radium and radon are radioactive and can cause cancer. The EPA needs that phosphogypsum be managed in. crafted stacks or stacks to limit public exposure from radon. emissions. The EPA informed Reuters the Florida Department of. Environmental Protection controls the style, building,. operation and maintenance of phosphogypsum stack systems and. they must continue to abide by all regulative requirements. The Florida Department of Environmental Management had. no immediate comment. Mosaic, which mines phosphate rock in Florida and. produces about three-quarters of The United States and Canada's phosphate. fertilizers, said it idled Florida operations in anticipation of Milton.
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Duke Energy to take four days to bring back power in Florida after Cyclone Milton
Duke Energy anticipates to take at least 4 more days to bring back electricity to much of its clients in Florida after Cyclone Milton caused power failures across the state, the U.S. utility firm stated on Friday. Milton made landfall on Florida's west coast on Wednesday as a Classification 3 cyclone before raking into the Atlantic Ocean a. day later, according to the U.S. National Cyclone Center. ( NHC). The cyclone triggered widespread flooding and fatal. tornadoes, eliminating at least 16 people in the state. Duke Energy approximated its clients in 12 counties would. have their power brought back by 1159 pm ET (0359 am GMT) on Oct. 13, while those in Pasco and Pinellas counties would need to. wait till at least 1159 pm ET on Oct. 15. According to Duke Energy's power blackout map, at least. 750,391 clients were without power since 15:56 pm ET. On the other hand, data from PowerOutage.us suggests 2.2 million. homes and businesses in Florida did not have access to. electrical power. Duke Energy was the energy with most clients hit,. followed by Florida Power & & Light Business, with 677,681 customers. doing not have electricity, the information showed.
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Stocks get on bank incomes increase, United States yields dip
International stocks increased on Friday, lifted by U.S. bank incomes, and on track for a weekly gain while U.S. Treasury yields were primarily lower after inflation and customer confidence reports solidified expectations for the course of Federal Reserve rate cuts. The U.S. manufacturer rate index for final demand was unchanged in September, a little below the projection of economic experts polled for a gain of 0.1%. It followed an unrevised 0.2%. increase in August, indicating inflation continues to cool and. giving the Fed freedom to continue cutting rate of interest. In the 12 months through September, the PPI increased 1.8%. versus the 1.6% price quote. On Thursday, the customer rate index turned out to be. slightly higher than expected as items costs increased. The University of Michigan's initial reading on the. general index of customer sentiment was available in at 68.9 this month,. compared to a last reading of 70.1 in September and listed below the. 70.8 price quote as high prices prevented shopping. On Wall Street, U.S. stocks advanced, with the Dow and S&P. 500 closing at record highs, as bank shares leapt. 4.21%, its most significant everyday percentage gain since May 2023, at the. start of the quarterly revenues season. JP Morgan increased. 4.44% and Wells Fargo soared 5.61%. As we get to the latter part of this year and into next. year, you're going to see earnings development in the more comprehensive market. and not just a small group of stocks and what the banks are. telling us today is that's occurring, stated Craig Sterling, head. of U.S. equity research study at Amundi U.S. in Boston. Banks have been as big an enigma as anybody - the. level of rates, the yield curve, capital markets activity, et. cetera - and 2 of our biggest banks today are saying well. everything's going to be respectable. S&P 500 revenues growth is expected to be 4.9%, LSEG. data revealed, down slightly from 5.2% at the start of October. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 409.74 points,. or 0.97%, to 42,863.86, the S&P 500 increased 34.98 points, or. 0.61%, to 5,815.03 and the Nasdaq Composite rose 60.89. points, or 0.33%, to 18,342.94. Gains were topped, nevertheless, by an 8.78% tumble in Tesla. shares as the electrical automobile maker promised much at. its robotaxi event with couple of useful details. MSCI's gauge of stocks around the world rose. 4.56 points, or 0.54%, to 852.75 and was on track for its 4th. weekly gain in five weeks. In Europe, the STOXX 600. index closed up 0.55% as investors moved their focus to. China's fiscal stimulus, corporate earnings seasons and the. European Central Bank's (ECB) anticipated rate cut next week. Bets that the Fed will cut rates by 25 basis points at its. November meeting have been choppy in current sessions, and stand. at 88.4%, with markets pricing in a 11.6% opportunity of no modification in. rates, CME's FedWatch Tool revealed. Markets had actually been fully pricing in a cut of a minimum of 25 basis. points, with a chance for another outsized 50 bps cut last week,. up until a strong U.S. payrolls report triggered financiers to dial. back expectations. Comments from Fed Chair Jerome Powell and other central bank. authorities have actually signified a shift in focus from combating high. inflation to labor market stability. On Thursday, a number of policymakers said the information offers the. Fed space to continue cutting rates, but Atlanta Federal Reserve. Bank President Raphael Bostic informed the Wall Street Journal he. was open to skipping a rate cut. U.S. yields were choppy around the data as financiers determined. the Fed's rate path before heading lower. The benchmark U.S. 10-year note yield 0.5 basis point to 4.089% while. the 2-year note yield, which usually moves in action. with interest rate expectations, declined 5 basis indicate. 3.949%. The 10-year yield is up about 11 bps for the week, poised. for its fourth straight weekly advance. The 2-year yield is. almost 7 bps on the week, on track for a second straight weekly. climb. In currency markets, the dollar index, which determines. the greenback against a basket of currencies, edged up 0.05% to. 102.94, with the euro down 0.03% at $1.0932. The. greenback is up 0.44% on the week, on track for a second. straight weekly gain after four straight weeks of decreases. Against the Japanese yen, the dollar enhanced. 0.4% to 149.15. Sterling reinforced 0.05% to $1.3065. but stayed near a one-month low after information showed Britain's. economy grew in August after 2 successive months of. stagnation. Crude prices slipped, but secured a second straight weekly. climb, as financiers weighed the impact of cyclone damage on. U.S. need against any broad supply disruption if Israel. attacks Iranian oil sites. U.S. unrefined calmed down 0.38% to $75.56 a barrel and. Brent fell to settle at $79.04 per barrel, down 0.45% on. the day.
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ADVISORY-Holiday schedule for US energy information
The Columbus/Indigenous Peoples federal vacation on Monday, Oct. 14 will impact the release schedule of some significant energy information to be launched during the Oct. 13 week. Below is the schedule for the release of U.S. petroleum, oil and natural gas supply and inventory for the week. WEEK OF OCT. 13: AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE - OIL API's weekly petroleum stocks report will be postponed to Wednesday, Oct. 16 at 4:30 p.m. EDT (2030 GMT). The report is usually released on Tuesday. ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION - GAS EIA's weekly gas stocks report will be launched as usual on Thursday, Oct. 17 at 10:30 a.m. EDT (1430 GMT). ENERGY INFO ADMINISTRATION - OIL EIA's weekly report of petroleum, extract and fuel stocks will be postponed to Thursday, Oct. 17 at 11 a.m. EDT (1500. GMT). The report is normally released on Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. EDT (1430 GMT). NOTES: API hold-ups its Weekly Statistical Bulletin when a federal. holiday falls on a Monday or Tuesday. Holidays later on in the week. do not impact the schedule. The schedule is readily available at https://www.api.org/products-and-services/statistics/api-weekly-statistical-bulletin#tab-release-schedule EIA's Weekly Petroleum Status Report schedule is published at https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/supply/weekly/schedule.php EIA's Gas Storage Report schedule (published at http://ir.eia.gov/ngs/schedule.html). is as follows: Monday or Friday holiday: launched Thursday, 1030 ET Tuesday or Wednesday holiday: released Friday 1030 ET Thursday vacation: launched Wednesday 1200 ET
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United States broadens sanctions versus Iran's 'ghost fleet' of oil tankers
The United States broadened sanctions versus Iran's petroleum and petrochemical sectors on Friday in response to an Iranian missile attack on Israel, the administration of President Joe Biden said. The U.S. relocation adds petroleum and petrochemicals to an executive order that targets essential sectors of Iran's economy with the objective of rejecting the federal government funds to support its nuclear and rocket programs. The new classifications today also include steps versus the 'Ghost Fleet' that brings Iran's illegal oil to buyers around the world, Jake Sullivan, the nationwide security advisor, said in a declaration. These steps will help even more deny Iran financial resources used to support its rocket programs and provide support for terrorist groups that threaten the United States, its allies, and partners. Israel is vowing to respond to Iran's Oct. 1 missile attack, introduced in retaliation for Israeli strikes in Lebanon and Gaza and the killing of a Hamas leader in Iran. The U.S. Treasury can now impose sanctions on anyone identified to operate in the petroleum and petrochemical sectors of the Iranian economy, it stated in a declaration. Biden has actually said Israel must seek options to assaulting Iran's oil fields. Gulf states are lobbying Washington to stop Israel from attacking oil websites because they are concerned their own facilities could come under fire from Tehran's proxies if the conflict intensifies, three Gulf sources told Reuters. The Treasury Department also stated it was designating 16 entities and identifying 17 vessels as blocked home, pointing out their involvement in shipments of petroleum and petrochemical items in support of the National Iranian Oil Company. Concurrently, the State Department took steps to interfere with the money flow into Iran's weapons programs and support for terrorist proxies and partners. It imposed sanctions on 6 entities involved in Tehran's. petroleum trade and identified 6 ships as blocked residential or commercial property.
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Stocks increase on lift from bank profits, US yields dip
Worldwide stocks increased on Friday, powered by U.S. bank profits, on track for a weekly gain while U.S. Treasury yields dipped after inflation and consumer self-confidence reports solidified expectations for the course of Federal Reserve rates of interest cuts. The U.S. producer rate index for final need was unchanged in September, somewhat below the forecast of financial experts polled for a gain of 0.1%. It followed an unrevised 0.2%. boost in August, indicating inflation continues to cool and. giving the Fed freedom to continue cutting rates of interest. In the 12 months through September, the PPI increased 1.8%. versus the 1.6% quote. On Thursday, the customer rate index ended up being. somewhat greater than anticipated as items costs increased. The University of Michigan's initial reading on the. overall index of customer sentiment can be found in at 68.9 this month,. compared with a last reading of 70.1 in September and below the. 70.8 price quote as high prices dissuaded shopping. On Wall Street, U.S. stocks advanced, with the Dow and S&P. 500 hitting record highs, as bank shares jumped nearly. 5% at the start of the quarterly incomes season. JP Morgan. increased 5.3% and Wells Fargo shot up 6.3%. As we get to the latter part of this year and into next. year, you're visiting incomes development in the wider market. and not just a small group of stocks and what the banks are. telling us today is that's occurring, stated Craig Sterling, head. of U.S. equity research study at Amundi U.S. in Boston. Banks have been as big a question mark as any person - the. level of rates, the yield curve, capital markets activity, et. cetera - and 2 of our most significant banks today are stating well. everything's going to be pretty good. S&P 500 earnings development is anticipated to be 4.9%, LSEG. data revealed, down a little from 5.2% at the start of October. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 371.94 points,. or 0.88%, to 42,826.06, the S&P 500 advanced 34.36. points, or 0.59%, to 5,814.41 and the Nasdaq Composite. climbed up 63.04 points, or 0.34%, to 18,345.09. Gains were capped, however, by an 8.2% drop in Tesla. shares as the electrical vehicle maker assured much at. its robotaxi event with few practical information. MSCI's gauge of stocks around the world increased. 0.55%, to 852.84 and was on track for its fourth weekly gain in. five weeks. In Europe, the STOXX 600 index closed up. 0.55% as financiers moved their focus to China's financial. stimulus, corporate profits seasons and the European Central. Bank's (ECB) expected rate cut next week. Bets that the Fed will cut rates by 25 basis points at its. November conference have actually been choppy in current sessions, and. currently stand at 89.2%, with markets pricing in a 10.8% chance. of no modification in rates, CME's FedWatch Tool showed. Markets had actually been completely pricing in a cut of a minimum of 25 basis. points, with a possibility for another outsized 50 bps cut recently,. up until a strong U.S. payrolls report prompted financiers to dial. back expectations. Remarks from Fed Chair Jerome Powell and other central bank. authorities have actually indicated a shift in focus from combating high. inflation to labor market stability. On Thursday, numerous policymakers stated the information gives the. Fed room to continue cutting rates, but Atlanta Federal Reserve. Bank President Raphael Bostic told the Wall Street Journal he. was open to skipping a rate cut. U.S. yields were choppy around the information as investors assessed. the Fed's rate course before heading lower. The benchmark U.S. 10-year note yield fell 1.7 basis points to 4.077%. while the 2-year note yield, which usually moves in. action with interest rate expectations, declined 5.8 basis points. to 3.941%. The 10-year yield is up about 11 bps for the week, on speed. for its 4th straight weekly advance. The 2-year yield is. almost 7 bps on the week, on track for a second straight weekly. climb. In currency markets, the dollar index, which measures. the greenback versus a basket of currencies, shed 0.03% to. 102.86, with the euro up 0.06% at $1.0942. The greenback. is up 0.4% on the week, on track for a second straight weekly. gain after four straight weeks of decreases. Against the Japanese yen, the dollar reinforced. 0.34% to 149.06. Sterling strengthened 0.13% to $1.3075. but remained near a one-month low after data showed Britain's. economy grew in August after two successive months of. stagnation. Crude rates slipped, however were set for a second straight. weekly climb, as financiers weighed the effect of typhoon. damage on U.S. demand against any broad supply disturbance if. Israel attacks Iranian oil websites. U.S. crude fell 0.36% to $75.58 a barrel and Brent. was up to $79.18 per barrel, down 0.28% on the day.
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Ardent Mills flour mill near Tampa escapes significant damage from Milton, partially functional
Ardent Mills' Port Redwing flour mill near Tampa, Florida, did not sustain any major damage from Hurricane Milton and the facility was partially operating on Friday, stated Troy Anderson, the company's vice president of operations. Port Redwing and the majority of the Tampa Bay location is still without power. We have a generator that is powering electrical power to some locations of the plant and our facility is up and running at a decreased capability, Anderson said in a statement. The business is working to provide its customers, although area-wide power interruptions and limited fuel products have actually postured some difficulties, he included. Typhoon Milton struck Florida's Gulf Coast on Wednesday as a Category 3, causing widespread wind damage and flooding and leaving millions without power. However the storm did not trigger the devastating rise of seawater that had actually been feared. The Port Redwing mill, opened in 2022 on the eastern bank of Tampa Bay, can produce up to 1.8 million pounds (816,466 kg) of flour a day from imported grain or wheat grown in the Midwest and Southeast. The hurricane-hardened center, constructed with its very first flooring 12 feet (3.66 meters) above water level, likewise left significant flood damage from Typhoon Helene two weeks earlier. Ardent Mills is a joint venture in between ConAgra Foods , Cargill Inc and CHS Inc. .
Hurricane Milton: Fact-checking conspiracies, rumors and AI images
By Esther Chan, Hardik Vyas, Lydia Morrish
Oct 11 - The aftermath of Hurricane Milton has left a path of false information surrounding relief efforts in hard-hit Florida, consisting of conspiracy theories about officials controlling the weather.
The storm's devastation was not as serious as initially feared in Florida, among the lots of states that were battered by Hurricane Helene nearly two weeks earlier.
A wave of misinformation saw a minimum of three congressional Republicans condemn conspiracy theories duplicated by fellow members of their party.
Social media accounts likewise shared AI-generated material showing incorrect imagery of the damage. Others used AI to enhance political messages ahead of the Nov. 5 election.
This concept of affecting people's perception of reality, and the real impact it has, is huge, stated Henry Ajder, an independent adviser on generative AI.
We are seeing on social networks the narrative around Democrats controlling the weather, AI-generated imagery of how FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Firm) are stopping working ... fueling a quite despiteful and impactful fire. This makes it more difficult for these people to do their job in extremely challenging scenarios.
Here are some of the false information narratives that emerged:
CLAIM: Images reveal flooded Disney World in Orlando
WHAT WE UNDERSTAND
AI-generated images were shared online together with incorrect captions stating they showed the devastation triggered by the storm at the theme park.
An analysis run through TrueMedia.org, an online deepfake detection platform, concluded there is substantial proof of control, adding that text-to-AI image generator Steady Diffusion was the likely source of these images.
Hany Farid, a digital forensics professional at the University of California, Berkeley, said in an e-mail that their designs flagged these images as most likely AI-generated.
These 3 images are (not very good) AI-generated images, he added. There are tell-tale and apparent structural problems in all images including inconsistent reflections in the water.
The danger of this content is that it even more muddies the waters as authorities are trying to save lives and it casts everything we see into doubt. This poisoning of the details environment is exceptionally hazardous for our society and democracy.
The amusement park, which was closed on Wednesday and Thursday, reopened on Friday however its website did not define if there was any damage at the place. Walt Disney World did not react to an ask for comment.
CLAIM: Video revealing frequency waves pumping through Typhoon Milton are not natural
WHAT WE UNDERSTAND
A 41-second clip shared on X, clocking over 1.5 million views, reveals a wall of clouds turning around a central core and periodic blue flashes appearing in or around those clouds.
The video was shared as supposed proof of abnormal frequency waves emerging from Milton, recommending the storm was crafted to be a weapon.
But the video can be traced to an Instagram post released by the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environment (CIRA) at Colorado State University.
A CIRA representative told Reuters that frequency waves do not exist and the video shows cloud motion throughout the formation of Milton with lightning colorized blue for exposure.
CLAIM: Underwater images shows HAARP facility managing Florida weather condition
WHAT WE UNDERSTAND
A video shared online reveals a person utilizing Google Maps' satellite images around Florida to zoom in on an underwater facility, claiming it belongs to the Alaska-based High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), which has actually often been invoked in stories suggesting the federal government can control the weather condition.
However the image shows a coral nursery off the Florida Keys run by a preservation group, not a HAARP center.
A spokesperson for HAARP also told Reuters: HAARP can't produce, modify or manipulate a hurricane.
CLAIM: FEMA official states they have strategies to execute individuals in an audio clip
WHAT WE UNDERSTAND
A 2021 audio clip repurposed online to make false suggestions that FEMA had plans to execute people as Cyclone Milton barreled towards Florida earlier today collected over 800,000 impressions.
In the initial clip (timestamp 20:03) from a Senate Armed Solutions Committee hearing on the Afghanistan withdrawal, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is seen making an evident verbal slip-up, stating, we prepare to perform ... before remedying himself while detailing the evacuation prepare for 70,000-80,000 people.
CLAIM: FEMA funds for catastrophe relief are utilized to house prohibited immigrants
WHAT WE UNDERSTAND
This is deceptive. Posts on social networks have accused the Biden-Harris administration of diverting funds allocated for FEMA disaster relief to assist home prohibited immigrants.
These unproven claims were amplified by Republican governmental candidate Donald Trump and Congressman Jim Jordan.
But FEMA's page responding to hurricane-related reports states, No cash is being diverted from disaster response requirements.
FEMA's Catastrophe Relief Fund got over $20 billion from Congress for fiscal 2024, according to its Budget Overview (page 7).
The Shelter and Solutions Program, created in 2023 and administered by FEMA, is a different appropriated grant program to supply shelter to noncitizen migrants following their release from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
When the program was first created, Congress directed U.S. Customs and Border Security to move $800 million from its operations budget plan to FEMA for the Shelter and Solutions Program.
(source: Reuters)