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The Department of Homeland Security released a second round of August funding for Hurricane Helene relief this week, even as the agency directs increased resources toward President Donald Trump’s "mass deportation" framework.

Secretary Kristi Noem’s latest $28 million allocation formally offered Sunday brings the month’s total to $124 million in funds from FEMA, which sits within DHS, for the deadly Category 4 hurricane that made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend and devastated the Smokies.

The funding will go to road repairs and critical infrastructure restoration – which is especially needed in North Carolina and Tennessee.

In that regard, a crucial stretch of Interstate 40 washed into the Pigeon River near that state li

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