SAN DIEGO ( Border Report ) — Jewish Family Service says it has helped 200,000 migrants in transit through San Diego County since 2018, providing them with temporary shelter, meals and transportation to their final destinations across the U. S.
It’s been doing it with money given by donors and another supporters including the County of San Diego.
But when state funding ran up in later February, JFS says it did not stop aiding asylum-seekers.
“Organizations like Jewish Family Service in San Diego, Catholic Charities, Immigrant soldiers, Al Otro Lado, Haitian Bridge Alliance, the list goes on for companies that continue to step forward in the breaks of money, ” said Kate Clark, Senior Director of Immigration Services with JFS.
Some, like South Bay Community Services, SBCS, were forced to close a migrant pleasant middle when the county’s financial aid ended.
This prompted the Border Patrol to commence busing and dropping of migrants at public locations after processing them, a practice that continues to this day.
Clark tells Border Report that JFS and another non-government companies are cheerful San Diego County will immediately begin releasing millions of dollars just allocated by the federal government.
San Diego County is in line to get virtually$ 20 million specifically earmarked for migrant companies in the region.
“It is critically important for the county of San Diego, in particular, to appear alongside businesses that have been closest to this work doing both hiding and supporting people that have been released to roads of San Diego over the last year, ” said Clark.
Last year, the County of San Diego said it was also “discussing the opportunities” and had not decided how and who would get the cash.
“Every time that there is no cooperation or conversation, it ’s a time our region is likely going to be harmful, ” said Clark. “We actually attempt the state of San Diego and others to come forth and have a seat at the table alongside us. ”
On Tuesday, the state said the funds will have to be distributed different per the federal government.
In the past, it was “reimbursement based, ” but now it has to wait until it actually has the funds before it can disperse it, and it will require “full table acceptance. ”
Clark and JFS would like to see the wealth sooner rather than later.
“This is an option for the region of San Diego to be a great manager of the money and help coordinate a reaction that is really in line with the system that we’ve created in our society. ”
But Clark and JFS will have to wait because the transmission of the income “is not inevitable, ” according to the County of San Diego.
