Just over 800 migrants have been enrolled or identified so far, but the city hopes to find more.
Denver city agencies and nonprofits have enrolled hundreds of migrants in Mayor Mike Johnston's new program offering six months of free rent, English classes and job training while they seek last month as part of his new migrant response plan intended to cut expenses. Per the new plan, shelter services to migrants will be ramped down, but the city is now offering six months' rent and job training.
Initially, the program would only take 1,000 migrants at a time, but only about 800 participants were identified as candidates after the city and nonprofits found that fewer migrants were seeking asylum than originally thought. That's because most migrants that the city talked to while recruiting for DASP are already eligible for work permits after scheduling immigration proceedings through U.S Customs and Border Protection.
Plastino wants"to ensure that they want to be part of the program" and what asylum entails first, she notes. Because once they start, there's no going back. "The people that come up to me and ask, by and large, have quite strong cases," she says."Most people qualify for asylum based on the reasons they left their country and why they're afraid to go back."
William Rodriguez and Marcy Mora came to the United States a month and a half ago with their one-year-old daughter, leaving two other kids behind in Venezuela. They've been staying atwest of downtown Denver, which is run by the city, but visited the Mullen Home to learn more about application for asylum.
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