Judge: Government can end housing for Puerto Rican evacuees

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Alanna Durkin Richer, Associated Press
Updated 2:39 pm CDT, Thursday, August 30, 2018

BOSTON (AP) — Puerto Rico hurricane evacuees living in hotels across the U.S. can be evicted in two weeks, a Massachusetts judge ruled Thursday, saying he didn't believe it was the right thing to do but that his hands were tied by the law.

Worcester-based U.S. Judge Timothy Hillman denied an effort to force the government to continue the temporary housing voucher program until all of the evacuees either receive temporary housing or find permanent housing. But he ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to keep the program in place through Sept. 13 to give the evacuees time to make other plans.

Hillman said he was forced to issue the ruling because the evacuees weren't likely to succeed on the merits of their case.

"While this is the result that I am compelled to find, it is not necessarily the right result," Hillman said. He said he could not order the government to do "that which in a humanitarian and caring world should be done."

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Judge-Feds-can-end-housing-aid-for-Puerto-Rican-13193766.php

[irresistable]

1. Trump wants to get all of those voters out of the states where they can vote.

[sandensea]

2. Luckily, soon these squatters will be ejected from their government housing too.

[melm00se]

3. This is an Obama appointee

[onethatcares]

4. stick his ass in

a motel in Puerto Rico. Better yet, let him live in a home that a Puerto Rican family has been living in the past 8 months.

Since I'm a kind, democratic, left wing, socialist, he should only stay there 30 days until he has to find his own way of surviving.

(pssst, my adjectives are my own )