Tag: South America
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Denver closes last immigrant shelter but will adjust in case of another surge
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denver has closed the last of its immigrant shelters as the number of people who traveled to Denver after illegally crossing the border has dwindled. Over the past 18 months, some 42,000 immigrants from central and south America traveled to Denver, forcing the city to…
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Denver helped more than 5,000 immigrants since December
More than 5,000 immigrants from South and Central America have arrived in Denver since early December when an influx of new arrivals prompted city leaders to set up temporary shelters and declare an emergency. Denver hit the milestone over the weekend. During the height of the migration, the city saw busloads of immigrants from El…
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Denver Public Schools sees bump in new Spanish speaking students
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save More than 350 new Spanish-speaking students enrolled in Denver Public Schools within the first weeks after an influx of immigrants from South and Central American arrived in the Mile High City, school district data shows. The Denver Gazette requested, under the Colorado Open Records Act,…
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Colorado steps in to transport immigrants to other states
Gov. Jared Polis confirmed Tuesday the influx of immigrants arriving in Denver compelled the state step in and help transport immigrants to their “desired destination” — meaning cities in other states. The City of Denver has been doing this since at least early December when a busload of immigrants, mostly from Venezuela, were dropped off at Union…
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2022 Year in Review
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It seemed like 2022 would be the “get back to normal” year as Colorado pulled itself out of the pandemic, and the business and travel shutdowns that came with it. That manifested itself with things like Red Rocks setting an attendance record in 2022 with an estimated 1.54 million attending ticketed events making it the…
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Immigrants continue arriving in Denver from southern border
Immigrants from the southern border continue to arrive in Denver — more than 200 came over the holiday weekend — as the city relies on a system of emergency shelters to support them. Since Dec. 9, the city has served approximately 2,295 migrants, according to a Monday news release. There were 656 migrants at city emergency…
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Why immigrants from South America choose Denver
In early November — long before the crisis at the border in El Paso, Texas spilled over into Denver — a bus of immigrants rolled into the Mile High City. Andrea Loya, executive director of Casa de Paz, had been communicating with a volunteer organization in El Paso since August to see if the Denver…
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Denver nears ‘breaking point’ trying to deal with influx of immigrants
Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock said his city is nearing a breaking point after spending roughly $2 million in response to the influx of immigrants who have traveled from South and Central America since the beginning of the month. The mayor blamed the unfolding crisis in Denver on the nation’s broken immigration system that has cities taking “the…
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Migrant influx costs Denver $800K; Mayor Hancock issues emergency declaration
Mayor Michael B. Hancock issued an emergency declaration Thursday because of the recent wave of immigrants fleeing Central and South America to Denver — which has to date a price tag for taxpayers of about $800,000. Staffing is one of the main drivers of the cost, Hancock said at a press conference. Other expenses include food,…
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James Webb Space Telescope images wow the world
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save GREENBELT, Md. — A sparkling landscape of baby stars. A foamy blue and orange view of a dying star. Five galaxies in a cosmic dance. The splendors of the universe glowed in a new batch of images released Tuesday from NASA’s powerful new telescope. The…