Homeland Security orders Red Cross out after Katrina

2005 Hurricane Katrina: News broke that the Red Cross had been kept out of New Orleans by the Department of Homeland Security – Media reports and an announcement on the American Red Cross's own website (page created Friday, September 2) explained that the Red Cross had stayed out of New Orleans and not provided food and water to New Orleans residents dying of heat exhaustion and hunger, on orders of the Department of Homeland Security.

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