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The city of Denver has begun ejecting around 800 migrant families
from shelters as it scales back on aid for illegal immigrants.

On Monday, about 140 families were booted out from temporary
accommodations in Colorado's capital, with the remaining 660
families expected to be removed over the next few weeks, according
to city officials.

The sanctuary city has been struggling to stretch its limited
resources to support the growing number of migrants in the city.
Texas has transported thousands of migrants to sanctuary cities like
Denver, to showcase the problems border states face when migrants
flood their cities.

With overcrowded shelters and overrun hospitals, Denver state
officials have begun enforcing a limit on the amount of time that
migrants can stay in state-provided rooms to accommodate the daily
influx of individuals, according to a report from NBC News.

As of last week, Denver was sheltering 3,813 people with more waves
of illegal immigrants still descending on the city. Denver Mayor
Mike Johnston, a Democrat, said the city is at full capacity.

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"We have filled every single hotel room that we have available in
the city and county of Denver," Johnston said during a town hall
meeting last week.

"Now we have the terrible decision that if we don’t start exiting
folks, we will have 250 folks that will arrive today or the day
after who don’t have anywhere to go at night," Johnston said.

Johnston told Fox News last week that the city was "very close" to
breaking point due to the crisis.

The city had initially paused shelter exits due to the colder
weather, but due to space and timing, that pause will end this week,
according to 9News. Previously, migrants with children were allowed
to stay for 37 days,

"As of Monday, Feb. 5, 2024, Denver has supported 38,380 migrants
from the southern border at a cost of more than $42 million," a
statement on the city’s website reads.

DENVER MAYOR WARNS CITY IS ‘VERY CLOSE’ TO A ‘BREAKING POINT’ WITH MIGRANT SURGE

"This influx of migrants is straining capacity, and based on current projections, could force the city to cut as much as $180 million
from its annual budget," the city said in a press release.

Yoli Casas, of the nonprofit ViVe Wellness, said the number of
migrants arriving in the city is unprecedented. ViVe Wellness is
helping the city address its migrant crisis.

"We have never seen so many people come and so many people in the
last year… so Feb. 5 for me is a date that hurts a lot because it’s
a date that, for various reasons, we’re full," Casas told 9News.
"There’s just no more space."

The city has also been helping migrants leave the city by purchasing
bus tickets. In January alone, the city purchased more than 2,000
tickets, sending people to other destinations within the United
States, with most going to New York City and Chicago, according to
Denverite.

The influx of migrants has also put the city’s health system at a
breaking point.

About 8,000 illegal immigrants recorded about 20,000 visits to
Denver Health last year, receiving services such as emergency room
treatment, primary care, dental care and childbirth. The visits
contributed to the system being in the red by about $22 million.

Denver passed laws to become a sanctuary city, but it doesn't
include a right-to-shelter provision, which means there is no
official policy that compels the local government to provide shelter indefinitely.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/800-migrant-families-booted-denver- shelters-city-nears-breaking-point

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