News published on Federal Newswire in March 2022

News from March 2022


News Release: WASHINGTON -- FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell addressed emergency management colleagues today at the opening of the National Emergency Management Association ’s Mid-Year Forum in Alexandria, Virginia.


News Release: GALLUP: Bidenflation Top of Mind for Increasingly Worried Americans.


President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Approves Major Disaster Declaration for Puerto Rico

News Release: WASHINGTON -- FEMA announced that federal disaster assistance has been made available to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to supplement Commonwealth and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe storms, flooding and landslides from Feb. 4-6, 2022.


News Release: Defendant recorded sexual abuse of two children and surreptitiously recorded 11 others over a span of years.


Release: Private exporters reported sales of 128,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to Mexico during the 2022/2023 marketing year.


Smugglers Continue to Place Human Lives at Risk

Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents disrupted six migrant smuggling attempts resulting in 125 arrests.



News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Chris Coons (D-Del.), chairman of the State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee, today released the below statements following the committee’s bipartisan approval of S. 3199, the Ethiopia Peace and Stabilization Act, at this morning’s business meeting:


EPA grants $52 million to Washington for drinking water, wastewater infrastructure improvements

State estimates $253.5 million available for wastewater, $22 million for drinking water



Notice published on March 28 by Interior Department

The US Interior Department published a two page notice on March 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.



Peters and Portman Legislation to Help At-Risk Communities Invest in Disaster Mitigation Projects Advances in Senate

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob Portman (R-OH) to make permanent the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Risk Index (NRI), an online tool that utilizes data to identify communities that are most vulnerable to natural disasters,...


95 Migrants Encountered in the New Mexico Desert

U.S. Border Patrol Agents from El Paso Sector encountered two large groups of migrants in the New Mexico desert on Thursday.


EM-Idaho Buried Waste Project Celebrates Major Cleanup Accomplishment

News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - U.S. Department of Energy (DOE ) Office of Environmental Management (EM ) and State of Idaho officials gathered today at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site to mark the completion of a high-priority cleanup project that helps protect the Snake River Plain Aquifer and maintains a commitment with the state of Idaho.


Australia concerned by threat of China presence: "That is our backyard'

The Solomon Islands and China have entered into a policing agreement and are discussing a wider military pact that will allow China to establish its first military presence in the Pacific region.


Brownsville CBP Officers Seize $846K Worth of Narcotics in Two Seizures

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Brownsville Port of Entry intercepted alleged narcotics in two separate enforcement actions that have a combined estimated street value of $846,030.


Castlewood Man Sentenced to Prison for Defrauding Government in Pandemic Unemployment Scheme

News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - One of the 33 individuals charged with defrauding the federal government of more than $499,000 in pandemic unemployment benefits was sentenced this week to 30 months in federal prison.


RGV Agents Arrest Five Gang Members

Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents arrested four Mara-Salvatrucha (MS-13) and an 18th Street gang members over several days.


Uvalde Agents Arrest Previously Deported Sex Offender

U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to Del Rio Sector’s Uvalde Station arrested a convicted sex offender shortly after he illegally entered the United States, March 22.