Posted on 01/01/2023 5:18:04 AM PST by real saxophonist
‘It has been significantly overwhelming,’ Denver says they cannot sustain migrant influx much longer
by: Gabby Easterwood
Dec 31, 2022
Denver, Co. (KDVR) – The City and County of Denver says to their resources to respond to the steady flow of migrants coming in is completely at capacity.
The city shared new numbers from Friday night: 110 new migrants arrived overnight, bringing the total to 3,037 since Dec. 9.
“It has been significantly overwhelming for not only our staff but our overall system here in Denver.” said Mikayla Ortega, the communication manager with Denver’s Office of Emergency Management.
Donors, volunteers urgently needed to help migrants
The city has spent $1,144,032 and are projecting to spend approximately $3 million over the next few months.
“We’re not able to sustain much longer and we really are trying to strategize as fast as we can how we can A, figure out how to help these people so they can exit our shelters,” Ortega said, “and B, figure out we can communicate with nonprofits at the border as well as border groups that we are just not able to sustain anymore.”
The city has asked for federal assistance but hasn’t received any yet, Ortega said.
“The city and county of Denver is not a border town, so we do not receive border funding that states along the border get,” she said. “So what were able to do here in the city and county of Denver is very limited and we are truly very, very taxed on all of our resources as we continue to shelter 1500 people a night.”
The city has also opened an additional shelter to handle the overflow.
“Early on we saw that people would leave the shelter and that’s not happening anymore,” Ortega said. “They’re not leaving at the rate that they initially were.”
Ortega said shelter workers have been able to get some insight into why the migrants have chosen Denver.
“We’ve heard that they’ve come through other nonprofits that they were sheltered with that send them to Denver, we’ve heard that they have self-coordinated a trip and have connected over social media and got on a bus and other border groups that we haven’t been able to identify,” she said.
The city is still taking donations because the turnaround is so fast. People can drop off donations to the Temple Emanuel on Mondays from 5 to 8 p.m. and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to noon.
Where did I say he invented it?
Close enough
Nope
People who grew up in Denver remember West High
Such a sad article about how the MASSIVE illegal invasion affects a sold Democrat city and state. So very sad.
Los Angeles ADMITS to over 40,000 homeless-—
Denver ain’t seen nothing yet.
Happy for Denver, another bastion of liberalism. You reap what you sow,
Awww...poor babies.
From 2017:
Denver Strengthens Sanctuary City Policy
https://www.numbersusa.com/news/denver-strengthens-sanctuary-city-policy
I don’t know why the government of various cities provides any housing or welfare for these invaders. When they come here they should just join the homeless in the streets.
Wasn't too long ago denver puffed out its chest, patted itself on the back when it was 'cool' to be a sanctuary city, a mecca for the homelese.
"Come to Denver!!" was the rally cry. "We are here for you"
now it a crap town. Extremely overpriced..illegals...homeless..Denver has fallen into the 'another democrat run city that turned into a shithole'.
It doesn’t matter. Show libs both men and women the hordes pressing to enter the US and the same response is given ‘We have to do something for those poor people’. “It is our obligation as Americans to help these poor people. We have so much, it is just not fair that they have so little. We must share our wealth.’
Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind (see: Hosea 8:7)
So don't provide sustenance to these illegal invaders. Deny them shelter and support. Keep the taxpayer dollars for support to USA citizens. Period. Problem solved.
CO
DENVER
The City and County of Denver – the capital city of Colorado with a population of 727,000 – became an illegal alien sanctuary on the basis of an April 2014 Sheriff Department memo stating that Denver no longer honors immigration detainers. This was codified into law by a City Council ordinance from August 2017.
Also in 2017, the city stopped sending federal officials its daily booking sheets in order to limit immigration officials awareness of criminal alien activities.
https://www.fairus.org/issue/sanctuary-policies/10-largest-sanctuary-cities-united-states
Tell it to anyone who lives within a hundred miles of our Sothern border.
Meanwhile at our Northern border refugees from actual tyranny must face the full force of our immigration laws. And those refugees aren’t asking/demanding handouts and just want to be left alone and be given a chance to be free.
As a Texan, I would tell them ZFG.
Y’all wanted this crap to happen as long as it wasn’t in your backyard.
Screw you and suffer.
You got what you voted for.
Plenty of room for favelas, colonias, and barrios.
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