FEMA to require states use terrorism prevention funds for migrant arrests

Source: Reuters

FEMA to require states use terrorism prevention funds for migrant arrests

Courtney Rozen
Tue, July 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM EDT
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Emergency Management Agency will require states to spend part of their federal terrorism prevention funds on helping the Trump administration arrest migrants, as part of the U.S. president's transformation of the agency.

This is latest example of the Trump administration tying its goal to arrest migrants to federal funding for states.

States must spend at least 10% of their funds from the Homeland Security Grant Program on enforcing immigration laws “against all inadmissible and removable aliens,” according to an agency announcement. They can use it for tasks that support President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration, including to construct detention facilities or set up partnerships between police officers and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to the post.

States have until Aug. 11 to apply for their portion of $373.3 million, according to the post.

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