Thread by @LucianRandolph

1) Sorry for the delay in getting up more videos. I've also been working with the team of attorneys who are helping get immigrants detained

2) released who have been detained by ICE without any legal representation. They have currently secured the release of 20,000 people.

3) I am back now and working closer with Jason and his wife Aleisha to continue the emergency aid work in Puerto Rico. My wife's cousin

4) lives in Puerto Rico and works for United Airlines at the airport. Here is the message he sent her last night (Friday October 13, 2017)

5) FB post from David Suarez - Carolina, Puerto Rico 10/13/17: Ok so you want to know how bad it is??? Its soo bad that first responders

6) that volunteered to help are approaching airline personnel asking them to please get them out on any flight as they can't take it no more

7) Airport is without power and no A/C its literally a sweat-box. 10,000 people are expected to leave the island today and I am here looking

8) at them, and guess what? The folks leaving are not tourists! It is so sad to see all these people leaving, elderly folks saying goodbye

9) to their family members and vice versa! Families are being separated! This is becoming a humanitarian crisis, if it has not become one

10) yet! Sorry, can't write much more as I am choked up by what I am seeing! God Bless Puerto Rico!

This message is directly from the

11) island. He also said the airport is now without power and the temperature is sweltering. Aid is not getting through. There is no excuse

12) for the airport to be without power. And I have more videos from Jason and the team in Añasco. The town and distribution centers are now

13) out of food and water! This is the town they are talking about, not up in the mountains. Supplies are not moving across the island.

14) FEMA needs to relinquish their command role to the military and POTUS needs to allow the military to take over the distribution of aid

15) supplies and care. Only a rapid deployment of airlifted supplies across the island will prevent this from becoming a massive loss of

16) American lives. The situation is not improving. It is getting worse. There is no reason to let this suffering continue. The entire

17) was damaged by the storm. It is unreasonable to expect any of the local government to be fully functional because the infrastructure

18) needed to operate at any level was either damaged or completely destroyed. These citizens need the Federal Government to step in and

19) provide immediate, overwhelming and dramatic help... Time is running out for these people. This is a tropical island and millions of

20) American citizens are in imminent mortal danger. If help doesn't get out immediately, the death toll will be staggering. And it will be

21) our fault, the rest of the American citizens, who have failed to help save our fellow countrymen. This is not how America behaves. We

22) may not always get along or agree with each other. But Americans do not let fellow Americans die from lack of help in a tragedy. <end>