Tag: migrant
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Chicago to begin shutting down separate migrant shelter system
The city of Chicago will overhaul its migrant response strategy, including by closing its “landing zone” and migrant-only shelters, as it responds to a decline in the number of people arriving to the city in recent months. Chicago, along with New York and Denver, have had to adapt over the past two years as their migrant…
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Migrant deaths spike outside El Paso
SUNLAND PARK, N.M. — In each of the last two summers, Laura Mae Williams, who recovers bodies for the New Mexico Medical Investigator’s Office, has had to visit the U.S.-Mexico borderlands multiple times a week. “It’s not uncommon for me to come down for one body that’s been found, and then Border Patrol finds another…
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Texas policy, heat fuel rise in migrant deaths
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Operation Lone Star and extreme heat have transformed a small patch of desert in the suburbs of El Paso into one of the most dangerous stretches of the southern border–with the number of migrant deaths in the area 10 times…
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The Republican mayor in Aurora is pushing back at Trump’s migrant depictions
AURORA, Colo. — The Republican mayor of Colorado’s third-largest city doesn’t think former President Donald Trump will follow through on his promise to visit the mountain community, which has become embroiled in the national debate over immigration that the GOP nominee is helping fuel. “I kind of doubt it by now,” Mike Coffman said in…
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Denver will discontinue its migrant support program next year as border numbers fall
Five months after launching an ambitious plan designed to help newly arrived migrants transition into more stable lives through temporary housing, job training and other supports, Denver officials said this week that the city will not continue the program next year. City officials said the Biden administration’s border policies have greatly reduced the number of…