New Mexico Governors Office Paid $4000 To Bus Asylum Seekers To Denver-Area Churches

(Denver Post) Saja Hindi May 14 2019 6:30 p.m. The New Mexico Governors Office paid about $4000 for a bus to transport 55 Central American asylum seekers to Denver early Sunday morning in an arrangement negotiated between nonprofits in both communities a spokeswoman confirmed on Tuesday. The office of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham coordinated with Annunciation Home a nonprofit that works with migrants alongside the El Paso Texas/Juarez Mexico border to send the asylum seekers to Denver because their shelters were over capability. It was the first time Annunciation Home had sent migrants to a different state. The shelters in Las Cruces N.M. have been inundated with migrants and asylum seekers since April 12 New Mexico governors spokeswoman Claudia Tristn stated. Because the shelters had reached capability border patrol agents were releasing asylum seekers to bus stations giving them no way to contact their sponsors. The asylum seekers are individuals who through sponsors have applied for legal status in the United States to seek refuge from persecution and are waiting on a court to make a determination on their claims.