“FEMA is offering one-way plane tickets to send people back to a place that is in no way ready to receive them,” Denise Collazo, chief of staff for a group that has been working with evacuees, said in statement by LatinoJustice PRLDEF.LatinoJustice said in the statement that Puerto Ricans on the mainland will be left homeless when the government ends the program.

“If this eviction goes forth, it will do irreparable harm to people who have already suffered so much,” Collazo said in the statement. “Thousands of people lost homes, jobs, cars, places to go to school, and are suffering unnecessarily.”

“FEMA can end this by activating the Disaster Housing Assistance Program (DHAP) now,” she added, referring to a longer-term housing assistance program.

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