Americans pull together to help hurricane victims; migrants arrested for looting
Americans are pulling together to help the victims of the Hurricane Helene in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida, moving swiftly ahead of the Harris-Biden administration’s slow, pokey, bureaucratic response, with food, water, Starlink, generators, transport, GoFundMe campaigns and other ways to help amid the devastation of the storm. President Trump is among them. It’s just like what Mr. Roger used to say amid disasters: “Look for the helpers.”
But then there are those who’d rather take advantage of the situation, using the disaster to rob and steal from the thousands of Americans who have been rendered vulnerable and helpless by the storm for their own profit.
According to the Daily Mail:
A group of migrant workers have been accused of looting properties in a flooded part of Tennessee after storm Helene tore through the southern state.
Deputies with the Washington County Sheriff’s Office arrested all eight men on Saturday, according to Sheriff Keith Sexton.
Police say the men looted structures in one of the county’s flood zones.
Jesus Leodan Garcia-Peneda, 51, Josue https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/10/americans_pull_together_to_help_hurricane_victims_migrants_arrested_for_looting.htmlBerardo Ortis-Valdez, 30, and Ersy Leonel Ortis-Valdez, 33, were all charged with burglary.
The other five – Albin Nahun Vega-Rapalo, 24, David Bairon Rapalo-Rapalo, 37, Kevin Noe Martinez-Lopez, 25, Marvin Hernandez-Martinez, 43, and Dayln Gabriel Guillen Guillen, 37 – were charged with aggravated burglary because they allegedly broke into occupied structures.
So it wasn’t gap-toothed, barefoot, whiskey-swilling Appalachian lowlife of hillbilly fame who are accused of doing this in the area, nor was it the Black Lives Matter “activists” in this instance, it was criminal migrants accused of doing this deep in the interior of the country, people who obviously hadn’t been vetted and clearly have little to contribute to the U.S. in terms of skills or education or even simple acculturation, yet who somehow got into this country. They’ll probably get let off easy and be permitted to stay.
