Non-government immigration shelters (NGOs) feel the impact as illegal entries continue to decline across the southwest border after President Trump's swift action to control borders and carry out mass expulsions Masu. Nonprofits, which received hundreds of millions of dollars from the federal government under the Biden administration, have begun to close their doors.
From Texas to California, shelters, which once relied on stable cash flows from the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) food and shelter programs, have been jointly under the Shelter and Services Program by FEMA, customs and border protection. They have released asylum immigrants from the Department of Homeland Security, no longer being accepted. The lackluster part of the equation needed to receive millions of taxpayer dollars has caused the rapid closure of Texas and Arizona shelters in the first few weeks of the new administration.
The latest private, non-governmental immigration shelter to close is located in San Antonio, Texas, just a few miles from San Antonio International Airport. The Immigration Resources Centre (MRC) has been running since 2022 in collaboration with the city of San Antonio and Catholic charities. On Monday, city officials announced that shelters will be closed once immigrants are received.
Two shelters were closed in Pima County, Arizona, in late January, days after President Trump's inauguration. County officials announced the closure in Tucson after the Border Patrol halted the release of immigrants shortly after the 47th president took office. The end of immigrant liberation in Arizona and other border areas also spelled out the fate of these two shelters.
The Arizona Shelter, located in Drexel Road in Tucson, which temporarily houses 650 immigrants as Casa Alitas, serving more than 100 immigrants, is now available for several years during the Biden-Harris administration. It was running.
Breitbart Texas visited each of Texas Arizona Shelters and Immigration Resource Centers on several occasions during the immigration intersection. A constant influx of migrants released into non-governmental agencies was observed. The facility served as a transportation coordination hub that moved hundreds of thousands of migrants from the border area into the US each year.
According to FEMA, in 2024, Congress allocated $650 million in taxpayer dollars to shelters and services programs to reimburse non-government shelters at multiple borders and internal cities across the country.
The decline in illegal border crossings since President Trump's inauguration means there is a high possibility that more shelters will be closed in the coming days and weeks. Sources within Customs and Border Protection said on Sunday, fewer than 500 migrants were arrested across the southwest border. In the US Border Patrol's Del Rio Sector, fewer than 25 migrants landed in the banks of Rio Grande that day, far from the illegal crossing of thousands of migrants in the area in December 2023. Ta.
Randy Clark He is a 32-year veteran of the US Border Patrol. Before retiring, he served as Chief of Law Enforcement Business and oversaw the operations of nine Border Patrol Bureaus in Del Rio, Texas. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @randyclarkbbtx.
