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FEMA Can’t Pay Undocumented Disaster Victims. California Is Stepping In.

Source: The Wall Street Journal

PAJARO, Calif.—Federal officials doled out more than $6 million to victims of last year’s floods here and in other parts of Monterey County. Despite losing many of their belongings and missing months of work picking strawberries, Carmela Lopez and Laureano Flores didn’t get a penny of the federal aid.