5 Ways to Avoid Being Herded into a FEMA Camp

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Imagine a nationwide emergency hits, and your rights as an American citizen are stripped away in an instant.

FEMA agents knock on your door, promising safety but demanding your weapons and food supply. The looming threat of forced relocation to a FEMA camp has many in the prepping community on high alert.

This isn’t just a theory—it’s a scenario that could unfold in the wake of a disaster. If you ever find yourself facing this, knowing how to avoid being herded into a government-controlled camp is crucial to maintaining your freedom and survival.

Who Is Responsible for Security in FEMA Camps

Technically, local law enforcement is the first option to handle security and order in FEMA camps. However, this is rarely possible with so many people packed into one small area during such a high-stress time.

Usually, the state’s national guard is called in to further help with security, protection of resources, and maintaining curfew. FEMA also has its own personnel who can help with security in collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security. In some extremes, even the US Army or other military organizations might be called in to handle security.

All these different agencies trying to work together, during a disaster, with little experience working together in the real world can be a problem. In some ways, personal liberties are overly restricted, and people feel herded within the FEMA camps. While security and resource allocation gaps are created in others.

So, it’s understandable why a prepper, who’s taken every conceivable measure to be able to weather a disaster, would rather remain self-reliant.

The Right to Refuse Evacuation

You have several rights guaranteed by the US Constitution and many state laws that might prevent you from being herded into a FEMA camp. Yet it helps to know the fine-print details and the potential consequences that often go with them.

You have the “Right to Refuse Evacuation” which prevents authorities from taking you from your property, even after a state of emergency is declared. This includes the right to remain on your property.

Except in a case where there’s a legal order, such as a mandatory evacuation during a natural disaster.

Local law enforcement and FEMA agents might strongly recommend evacuation for your safety, but they typically do not have the power to force you unless it’s clearly an immediate life-threatening situation.

However, there is a “Public Health & Safety Exception” which they might apply in the case of a severe pandemic, hazardous material spill, or similar extreme leading to the imminent loss of life.

In a situation like this, authorities can take the power to impose quarantine or mandatory evacuation orders to effectively protect public health and safety.

If you still refuse to evacuate despite their warnings, local law enforcement and other presiding authorities, likely won’t respond to future requests for emergency aid or rescue. It’s important to understand this and the risks of being left on your own.

Be Self-Sufficient & Secure

The best way to avoid having to go to a FEMA camp is to be self-sufficient enough that you can exercise your right to refuse evacuation, and not end up so desperate that you have to go anyway. This involves multiple forms of sufficiency.

Your shelter needs to be strong enough to not only weather the types of natural disasters that can befall your area. It also needs to be secure enough that no one can take you from it or gain access after you deny it.

Your non-perishable food supply needs to be stocked enough to get you through the short-term aftermath of a disaster, as well as the aftermath of a prolonged recovery.

This might mean as much as six months of non-perishable food, or agricultural assets you can use to grow, raise, and harvest your own sustainable food sources.

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