Tag: Mikayla Ortega
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Denver gives out 1,000-plus emergency backpacks
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denver’s emergency office held its second-annual DenverREADY Preparedness Fair on Saturday at the Montbello Recreation Center, an exercise aimed at helping local communities prepare amidst the backdrop of increasing frequency of natural disasters. Natural disasters in Colorado have jumped up over 275% over the last 20 years. There…
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sends first bus of immigrants to Denver
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Texas officials shipped their first chartered bus with 41 immigrants to Denver Thursday. Officials with the City and County of Denver’s Joint Information Center (JIC) disclosed Thursday that this was the first instance in which another state had coordinated and sent immigrants to the Mile High City. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said in a press…
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Huge influx of migrants prompts Denver Mayor Michal Hancock to approve emergency activation
Hundreds of immigrants who have been arriving into the metro area since last Thursday are creating such a critical overcrowding problem in Denver’s shelters that Mayor Michael Hancock approved an emergency activation late Tuesday afternoon to bring in more resources to handle the crowds. “We were anticipating an influx due to Title 42, but this…
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Denver ramps up emergency response for migrants as new influx strains nonprofit’s resources
They travelled by bus. They reached Union Station. Then — to city and shelter employees’ best knowledge — nearly 100 migrants from the southern border filtered into Denver between Monday night and Tuesday, asking people they encountered on downtown sidewalks where they could find help. That led them on a trek several blocks away to the Denver…