As the federal COVID-era immigration policy known as Title 42 ended Thursday, leaders of cities and immigrant-serving nonprofits across the United States had been preparing for an anticipated influx of migrants
. The country’s failing economy has pushed millions into poverty and made it impossible to access food, safe water, education and health care.
So they left. For months, they traveled by foot and bus. They crossed borders and the 60-mile span of deadly jungle on the border between Panama and Colombia, walking in knee-deep mud and passing the bodies of other migrants lying on the side of the trail. They survived robbers who preyed on migrants and paid bribes to keep from being arrested. Some became survivors of assault and rape on their journeys while others didn’t make it.
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock addresses the migrant crisis during a press conference at the City and County building on Thursday, May 11, 2023. LEFT: Recent migrants await processing at a migrant reception center in Denver on Thursday, May 11, 2023. RIGHT: Venezuela migrant Kleiber Medina, 23, checks his phone while waiting to be processed at a migrant reception center in Denver on May 11, 2023. Kleiber will be traveling to New York with his family. Denver is among numerous cities grappling with an increasing number of migrants.
The United States is just one of the countries absorbing large numbers of migrants, Price said. Cities across the Western Hemisphere have taken in people fleeing crumbling societies, like those in Venezuela and Haiti. More than 2 million Venezuelans have moved to neighboring Colombia in the past five years — quadruple the size of the entire Venezuelan population now living in the much larger United States.
In November, Denver-area nonprofit groups were hearing from organizations like Annunciation House in El Paso that they were at capacity and people were trying to find other places to stay. Denver’s immigrant groups have been working with city and state officials for about a year on strategy. Vive Wellness partnered with nonprofit Papagayo in Denver to assist migrants who were leaving shelters and planning to stay in Denver — about 10% of arrivals in the winter surge, Vive Executive Director Yoli Casas estimated. The organizations helped 850 people find housing and 210 families sign leases.
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