Posted on 01/03/2023 10:19:57 AM PST by real saxophonist
Denver mayor appeals to Catholic Archdiocese to shelter migrants, calls issue ‘urgent humanitarian need’
By: Robert Garrison
Jan 02, 2023
DENVER — Mayor Michael Hancock is asking the Catholic Archdiocese of Denver for help sheltering a recent surge of migrants and asylum seekers to the city.
In a Dec. 30 letter to the Archbishop of Denver, Hancock said the city has become overwhelmed with the nearly 3,000 migrants from Central and South America and called the temporary crisis an “urgent humanitarian need.”
Hancock is asking the Catholic Archdiocese to allow the city to use the Little Sisters of the Poor at 3629 W. 29th Avenue to house up to 100 migrants in what the city believes is a currently empty facility.
The mayor hopes the city and the Archdiocese can come to an agreement to use Little Sisters of the Poor as a short-term shelter to assist “migrant families in need during the winter months,” Hancock said in the letter.
The City of Denver has spent more than $1.5 million on all aspects of sheltering arriving migrants since the first week of December and is on track to spend $3 million by the end of the month, according to city leaders.
The mayor issued an emergency declaration on Dec. 15, giving the city more resources and funding without having to go through the normal expenditure process.
“This has been extremely taxing on city resources. We are not a border community. We don't have federal resources like border communities do. So, the help that we can provide in Denver is very limited. And we're at the point where we're not able to sustain much longer. We're at our breaking point,” said Mikayla Ortega, Denver Joint Information Center representative.
The Central and South American migrants began arriving in the city on Dec. 5. Hundreds more arrived in the days following. The city has scrambled to open emergency shelters to accommodate what the city said are mostly asylum-seeking refugees.
Hancock has called on nonprofits, businesses and faith communities to help with additional support.
Denver officials announced a location where donations can be dropped off if Denverites are interested in helping arriving migrants. Officials said these are the items most urgently needed:
New men’s underwear
New women’s underwear
New women’s sports bras
Feminine products
Long sleeve shirts (men’s, women’s and unisex)
Jeans (men’s and women’s with special need for M)
New Socks (men’s and women’s)
New sweatshirts and sweatpants (S, M & L, both men’s and women’s)
Closed toe gym shoes (both men’s, women’s, boys, girls, infants)
Shoelaces
Winter coats and pullovers (men’s, women’s, children, and infants)
Backpacks and/or medium-sized duffel bags
New or very gently used men’s winter clothes (S +M only)
These items can be dropped off at Iglesia Ciudad De Dios, located at 5255 W. Warren Avenue in Denver. Donated items can be dropped off on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
That’s the way to get rid of your responsibilities. Unload these reprobates on the church.
It’s tough to be a sanctuary when there are people asking for sanctuary.
Embrace the suck Denver.
In a Dec. 30 letter to the Archbishop of Denver, Hancock said the city has become overwhelmed with the nearly 3,000 migrants from Central and South America and called the temporary crisis an “urgent humanitarian need.”
Temporary? Oh good; so when and how will it end? /S
Correct...they are invaders, not immigrants. Hancock and the city council are getting exactly what they encouraged without a thought as to the consequences.These virtue posers should be providing something personal to solve this.......
The Governor’s mansion in Denver is unoccupied so far as I understand it,since the Governor lives in Boulder CO. Might as well burden Denver citizens and their children and grandchildren with more unearned expense.
I’m looking for a sanctuary from the governments.
Put ‘em in the Cathedral.
Denver is a sanctuary city, and with this designation is inviting these foreign invaders into their midst. Now they are pleading for accommodations & clothing, on television and in the local paper, for the citizenry to step up & embrace these illegals. Denver and other liberal sanctuary cities around the nation will regret their open arms policy ... countries without borders will soon lose their sovereignty as a nation.
As for a Catholic Archdiocese getting involved, Joseph and Mary were following the rules and traveling to Judea to for the census for tax purposes instead of registering in Galilee where they were staying. If the Mother and Father of Christ would follow Roman Law in relation to the census, who is anyone in the Catholic Church today to aid and abet illegal alien invaders?
Follow the money.
The Man forgot to say, And let the STUPID AMERICAN TAXPAYER foot the BILL!!
They’d have even more for stuff like this if they hadn’t doled out million because of queer priests.
Has the mayor made the same request of the churches to shelter homeless American Vets?
The same Little Sisters of the Poor that Obozo declared war on?
Of course not. They’re less likely to vote Democrat.
Denver officials announced a location where donations can be dropped off if Denverites are interested in helping arriving migrants. Officials said these are the items most urgently needed:
New men’s underwear
New women’s underwear
New men’s underwear
New women’s underwear
One of my first thoughts.
How about these free loading, law breaking assholes go back to the countries they ran away from and fix them?
Selfish bastards with no thought whats so ever to the fact they’re breaking into someone else’s country, someone else’s home demanding rights they’re not entitled to and benefits they didn’t pay for.
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