Due to flight delays from winter storms, migrant shelters haven't been able to move guests through as quickly as normal and are now at capacity, meaning many new arrivals have been left on the streets
Federal officials left dozens of migrants scattered at bus stations across San Diego County on Friday as winter storms blocked travel nationally and the region’s migrant shelters filled to capacity.
“We will resume welcoming additional asylum seekers as capacity and weather conditions improve, while also calling on the federal government to prioritize rebuilding our country’s broken asylum and immigration systems, including improved processes for migrant shelter services across the border region,” the shelter added.
Normally, after crossing the border, migrants who are released in the San Diego area go to one of two shelters, one run by the San Diego Rapid Response Network and the other by Catholic Charities. Both shelters provide hotel rooms for migrants to stay in due to pandemic precautions. Asylum seekers from Peru wait in the San Diego International Airport after being dropped off by federal officials at a transit center in Oceanside. They planned to sleep at the airport because they couldn’t afford the current prices for flights.
But some children still ended up at the bus stations. At the El Cajon Transit Center, one woman from Nicaragua held her 2-year-old daughter for hours while she waited for someone to come from Los Angeles to get her. A Chinese family that included a 5-year-old boy also waited to be picked up. “We didn’t believe it,” one man from Nicaragua said in Spanish about the moment when they realized where they’d been taken.
An Ecuadorian man, who didn’t want to be named, becomes emotional when talking about his journey to the United States at the San Diego International Airport. He was separated from his pregnant wife after being taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol.
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