San Diego (AP) – Hundreds of migrants were left at the San Diego bus stop on Friday instead of a reception center, serving as a staging area, as it was soon out of local funding from expecting, showing that the largest city on the southern border of the country is struggling to face the acting of the people on the southern border.
The migrants first had a safe place to charge the phone, use the bathroom, eat food and go elsewhere in the US, now left on the road as migrant support groups scored to help the best as they could do with the meakshift arrangement.
Border petrol buses carrying migrants from Senegal, China, Ecuador, Guatemala and many other countries arrived outside a transit center. Pravasi aid groups stated that they would be taken to a parking lot where they can charge their phones and get a ride for the airport. The vast majority planned to spend a few hours in San Diego before flying or before taking anyone.
“Are we in San Diego?” A 30 -year -old Gabriel Guzman, a painter from the Republic of Dominican, was asked, who was released on Thursday after crossing the border in the remote mountains. He was asked to appear in an immigration court in Boston in June, where he expects to earn money to send his three children home.
Abd Boudhh of Mauritania flew through Nicaragua, Tijuana, Mexico and followed other migrants for an opening in the border wall, where he surrendered the agents on Thursday after walking about eight hours. Former molecular engineering student said he ran away from harassment to be gay and planned to settle in Chicago with a cousin, which was in the US for 20 years.
The 23 -year -old Baudahe said in innocent English, “I have dreamed a lot about this (moment), and thank God that I am here.”
Volunteers instructed small groups in English, Spanish and French, all of them single men and women. He used the translation app for other languages.
A volunteer said in his phone, “We are going to cross the road together and line up,” later translated it into Hindi for a group of men from India.
“Tired of the street,” 31 -year -old Alikan Radyar of Kazakhstan said in Russian, as he was waiting for a friend of Los Angeles who was going to pick him up. The border petrol gave him a notice to appear in the immigration court in Philadelphia in August 2025 – a city he did not hear.
The transit center parking site was filled with cars, which were not for migrants to stand anywhere, and there were no public bathrooms. A taxi driver offered a ride for the San Diego International Airport for $ 100, who was charging a double ride-sharing app. Some migrants were unable to reach them with instructions to wait on the pavement when the volunteers scattered in the neighborhood.
San Diego County has given $ 6 million to SBCS since October, a non-profit organization known as South Bay Community Services in the east, which was to provide phone-charging stations, food, travel advice and other services in a pre-primary school. The group targeted to keep it open through March, but Thursday was the last day.
San Diego is one of several local governments who have fought to help migrants without renouncing major services including New York, Chicago and Denver. Like other border cities, migrants live in San Diego a day before proceeding, but the Jewish families have been fulfilled by services and large shelters run by Catholic charity for months, which prefer families.
Nora Classas, president of San Diego County Board of Supervisors, continuously supported the migrant reception center, but said that the county had to stop the expenses as it assesses the damage to the frightening January floods and addresses the lack of health care among the homeless and its inhabitants. “We have to be financially prudent about it,” he said.
Spokesperson Margi Pneumon Tse said that SBC, which came under criticism of some migrant advocacy groups, told County that its services are priced at $ 1.4 million per month. County asked that this is a target of $ 1 million.
“It’s not that the fund went out quickly, it was extended as far as the funds could go,” said Namman Tse.
Help groups have given significant support to new arrival, criticizing some quarters. Texas’s Attorney General Kane Pasteton threatened to prosecute and shut down a decades -old organization this week, sheltering migrants in El Paso. Paxton stated that the group may “facilitate illegal entry into the United States.”
Ruben Garcia, Director of Announcement House, gathered supporters at a news conference on Friday to deny the strategy of the Paxon. “It is a complete warning for other institutions that also act as hospitality that they can be very well ahead,” he said.
SBCS said it had served 81,000 migrants in San Diego from 11 October. A report to County showed that it was spent $ 750,000 on personnel on 24 December. 24 December and including asylum, transport and security at operating expenses through $ 152,000.
“I could have done a lot with $ 6 million,” Erica Pinhiro said, Al Otro Lado’s Executive Director, a migrant support group that is assisting with road release.
Classes, who wrote the last week seeking support to the President Joe Biden, defended the performance of SBCS and noted his previous work that sheltered illegal child migrants at the San Diego Convention Center in 2019.
“No one is perfect, especially when you are trying to fill a gap from the federal government,” Sawas said, the echo of a common approach among the mayors of the big city.
From October to January, the border petrol released more than 500,000 migrants with orders to appear in the immigration court. Migrant support groups are generally able to provide temporary shelter, but road release is not unheard. The San Diego Transit Center was also a large -scale release scene last year.
San Diego has emerged as one of the busiest corridors for illegal crossings, an average of 800 arrests a day in January. Many are from West Africa and Asia, with more than 100 daily average from China in January.
The Border Petrol asked the migrant support groups to expect a 350 street release on Friday, “said Pedro Rio, director of the US Mitra Seva Samiti’s US-Maxico Border Program, Pedro Rios. The border petrol had no immediate comments.
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