The funding comes amid an immigration crackdown and growing pressure on states to build temporary facilities, raising fiscal, ...

FEMA is making $608 million grant available for states to build immigration detention facilities. The funds come from a ...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, said on Friday morning the state would apply for FEMA reimbursement to pay for ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will require states to spend part of their federal terrorism prevention funds on ...

States can apply for federal funds to make their own replicas of the controversial Alligator Alcatraz facility amid Trump's ...

The Trump administration has been encouraging states to build their own facilities to detain migrants and is now offering a ...

The Trump administration announced on Friday that it would allocate over $600M in grants to states willing to build migrant ...

The grant allows the Trump administration to further assist states with their deportation and migrant detention efforts. FEMA ...

But FEMA funds make up a huge proportion of the funding. In the chaos of a major disaster, FEMA can greenlight hundreds of payments and spend billions of dollars in just days.

Those grants support a long list of initiatives, such as emergency planning and training, counterterrorism, cybersecurity upgrades, fire department equipment and staffing and public safety ...

A version of this article appears in print on July 11, 2025, Section A, Page 12 of the New York edition with the headline: FEMA Delays $2.4 Billion In Grants to Fight Terror, And States Feel the ...

According to the American Immigration Council, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit organization that advocates for immigrant rights, FEMA grants are not directly given to migrants.