Abstract
For the past two decades, the Department of Homeland Security has housed both the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This article discusses two ways that DHS’s structure has impaired FEMA’s ability to equitably provide disaster aid: the historical refusal to guarantee undocumented people that FEMA would not share their information within DHS for removal purposes, and DHS’s reprogramming of appropriated funds from FEMA to ICE. This article frames these issues in the context of climate change, arguing for legislative solutions to ensure that ICE’s immigration enforcement functions do not overwhelm FEMA’s disaster relief mission.
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