Portland resident rips city leadership for prioritizing illegal immigrants over homeless Americans amid the costly reopening of another shelter.
But the city is reaching its maximum capacity for housing migrants, accounting for both the reopening of the arena and another emergency shelter that hit its 208-person capacity on opening night last month, according to Kristen Dow, Portland's director of Health and Human services.
"I think we should be taking care of Americans first," Ward said."It's not that the asylum seekers are bad people. Some of them are great people. But we have Americans here sleeping under bridges, people sleeping in tents. There's just no shelter for them."
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