San Diego is feeling the heat as funding for immigration centers dries up and President Joe Biden’s Border Patrol buses continue to drop off thousands of illegal aliens a week through the city.
Officials are scrambling to figure out what to do with the thousands of homeless illegal aliens Biden is still sending to San Diego, even as the city’s immigration center runs out of both federal and private funding. There is.
The city’s last migrant welcoming center closed on February 22 after running out of funding, forcing all newcomers to be removed from Border Patrol buses and thrown onto the street to head to their destinations.
Migrants arrive at a bus stop and unload their luggage from a bus after leaving a processing facility in San Diego on February 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Since just December, the Border Patrol has Dropped There are 42,000 undocumented immigrants in San Diego County, overwhelming the city and local non-governmental organizations.
San Diego County Supervisor Joel Anderson is hoping to get new federal funding from the Biden administration amid a wave of migrants.
Anderson implored Biden to temporarily close the border to give San Diego breathing space and time to find new sources of funding. KGTV-TV report.
More than 1,300 people have been thrown onto the streets in San Diego over the past three days. This is entirely the fault of the federal government, which has an open borders policy, and the state of California, which has encouraged people from all over the world to come here. pic.twitter.com/XiuDBBYH2W
— Supervisor Jim Desmond (@jim_desmond) February 25, 2024
Despite Mr. Anderson’s pleas to the administration, Mr. Biden’s buses continue to flood the city, releasing thousands of people. And now, the $6 million in funding that has flowed into the city since October has dried up.
Lindsay Tocilowski, executive director of the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, lamented that the large sums of cash spent on Biden’s immigration crisis in San Diego appear to have burned through without lasting impact.
“It’s amazing that $6 million has been spent in less than four months and we, as a region, have absolutely no permanent welcoming infrastructure to show for it. This is unacceptable,” said Tocilowski. .
A steady stream of “street releases” has pitted officials in Deep Blue County.
County officials say the Biden federal government has expelled 100,000 immigrants to the San Diego area in just six months. Karmatters.
According to the Border Patrol, San Diego County has no choice but to dump illegal aliens on the streets, the site added. The storage center is overcrowded and there is no more space, so the buses have nowhere else to go.
Republican San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond blamed the Biden administration for the continuing crisis.
“The federal government has to manage the mess it has created,” Desmond said. “We need our borders to be secure and laws to be followed, including asylum cases being heard on a case-by-case basis, not just mass releases. If we allow it, the federal government must fund the mess it has caused.”
NEW: We were broadcasting live as the first of many Border Patrol buses arrived and began mass releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants onto the streets of San Diego.We spoke live with many of them – they come from all over the world and are planning to visit the blue cities of the US pic.twitter.com/7AZlNL0TFP
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) February 23, 2024
But the buses keep coming. On Friday, Border Patrol dropped off dozens more migrants from Senegal, China, Ecuador, Rwanda and a number of other countries, the Associated Press reported. report.
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