Only 2 of those 3 offices are involved in immigration. The 3rd is the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL), which supports the Homeland Security’s mission to secure the nation while preserving individual liberty, fairness, and equality under the law for all American citizens:
https://www.dhs.gov/office-civil-rights-and-civil-liberties
https://moskowitz.house.gov/posts/fema-independence-act-2025
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5213057-noem-plans-eliminate-fema/
https://www.fema.gov/about/offices/civil-rights
This bill from a Florida Rep is proposing to liberate FEMA to allegedly free it from DHS red tape, but was introduced the same day DHS secretary said during a televised cabinet meeting she plans to eliminate FEMA from DHS. With FEMA eliminated, a 4th office of civil rights under FEMA is also eliminated.
If this bill succeeds, it means that FEMA no longer responds to an emergency situation as an agency. It will be under control of a single cabinet member who answers to the president.
This means that in an emergency, we also lose protection of the civil rights office within FEMA. The FEMA Office of Civil Rights is committed to the full enforcement of federal civil rights laws before, during, and after disasters.
Does that mean it’s 100% effective at doing that? Hell no. It means it’s a seatbelt that only works sometimes, but these people are arguing we might as well just cut the seatbelts out of a cars for being inefficient and only working sometimes.
I am in no way arguing that FEMA doesn’t need some serious fixing, but please understand that if we lose protection of civil rights during a disaster, we lose any expectation of rights being upheld by the National Guard, which is now in full control over an emergency response in Louisiana.