You said this has been run for a few weeks now? How long have the refugees by you known that a cut off was coming?
Based on the news stories, at least a couple weeks. It started with sob stories about how FEMA wouldn't continue paying apartment rents until the evacuees died of old age. This past week, the focus was morbidly obese single mothers complaining they'd be homeless after FEMA quit paying for their hotel rooms. Looked like their efforts were spent eating rather than job hunting. I suspect that these poster children for the welfare state were living on the government dime in Section 8 housing in New Orleans. Of course, the reporters didn't delve into these issues...the point was to make FEMA and Bush appear heartless.