San Diego has released 13,000 migrants onto its streets over the past month as it continues to be overwhelmed by the influx across the border.
While thousands of people continue to be admitted into the United States daily under current immigration policies, cities and towns in the Southwest are collapsing under the enormous pressure and officials don’t know how to deal with it.
San Diego authorities receive about 500 people a day and continue to squeeze many families with children into the limited shelter space they have, but everyone else is dropped off at makeshift transit centers to leave the city.
“Many don’t know where they are: that this is San Diego, this is [the] San Diego region, the closest airport is San Diego and how to get to your final destination,” Paulina Reyes-Perrariz, managing attorney for the Immigrant Defender Law Center’s cross-border initiative, told the Associated Press.
“That’s what we’re trying to support.”
Immigrants who cross into the United States and surrender to border patrol agents are held in custody for a few days while their documents are reviewed, their identities and fingerprints are recorded, and they are evaluated to see if they have the right to remain in the United States. Joined.
A volunteer at a San Diego transit station tries to communicate with a newly arrived migrant using a translation app. California’s second-largest city has run out of shelter space and is now sending thousands of people to makeshift shelters.AP
After that, they are denied entry and deported or, as in the case of more than two million people since Joe Biden became president, given documentation and released into the United States.
This presents a logistical nightmare for places like San Diego in California or El Paso and Brownsville in Texas, as they have to deal with thousands of new arrivals a week, many of whom have little money to reach their final destination in the United States. USA wherever.
Reports have previously shown that 95% of newly arrived immigrants move from their point of arrival to the US, with the main destination cities being New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Miami and Chicago.
Migrants newly arrived from the U.S. border charge phones and stock up on supplies at the makeshift transit station in a San Diego parking lot. The city has run out of shelter space and is releasing migrants into makeshift stations like this one. AP migration figures from January to June showed the main destinations nationwide.
Last week, after a San Diego community center reported it could no longer handle cargo, the Border Patrol sent deliveries to “transit centers,” including a parking lot where charities and volunteers tried to give directions and buses to transport people to San Diego. Diego Airport or other transit centers.
Many migrants have family, friends, or networks from their hometowns already in the U.S. who help them financially to reach their destinations. There is also help from religious charities and other services, which often run buses or pay for plane tickets.
“It’s a brief moment of intervention before they can move on to connecting with their loved ones,” said Kate Clark, senior director of immigrant services at Jewish Family Service of San Diego.
But confusion is rampant among immigrants: An Eritrean migrant arriving in San Diego asked one of the volunteers: “Is California far from here?”
Urban leaders in both Chicago and New York have complained to President Biden and urged him to do something about the huge influx of immigrants into their cities.
Up to 600 people arrive in New York per day, despite saying that it does not have more capacity in the 200 shelters it has opened since the crisis accelerated.
Migrants at the US border awaiting processing. Over the past month, about 13,000 immigrants arriving in San Diego have been dropped off at makeshift transit stations because the city no longer has space to house them. ALLISON DINNER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Migrants in San Diego study a map of the US at a makeshift transit station. The city has run out of space to house asylum seekers and they are being dropped off in places like this, with officials hoping they will board buses or planes to leave the city. AP
About 3,700 migrants flooded into the city in the week ending Oct. 1, officials said, adding to the more than 118,400 asylum seekers who arrived since spring 2022.
Chicago currently has more than 14,000 immigrants in its care and has had to house people in airports and police stations to cope with the influx. However, it now faces the problem of where to place those people once the city’s sub-zero winter temperatures take hold.
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