Immediate and sustainable help is needed from all levels of government to help keep asylum-seeking migrant families off the street, the San Diego Rapid Response Network announced Thursday. According to the SDRRN, a coalition of local human rights, service and faith-based organizations, U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has released scores of asylum seekers into San Diego and Imperial counties since the end of October. These migrants often have no local support networks and little access to local resources, with some eventually living on the street while waiting to appear at their asylum hearing.
The coalition has provided shelter and humanitarian aid to more than 1,700 asylum-seekers in recent months, but the growing number of asylum-seeking migrants entering the country is putting a strain on the coalition’s ability to continue providing aid.
According to the SDRRN, an average of 80 migrants are released by ICE into the San Diego region each day on asylum claims.
