California is releasing up to $ 28 from its budget to help immigrants who arrive from Mexico and are released in the United States until their hearing date. asylum, a stark contrast to other border states that have declared themselves enemies of President Joe Biden’s immigration policies.
Funding, expected to last through June, is allocated at a time historic, when Biden undoes former President Donald Trump’s policy of making asylum seekers wait in Mexico until their court hearings.
These funds are used to pay for hotel rooms so that immigrants can be quarantined, before going to their final destinations throughout the United States.
The money will also go to Jewish Family Service of San Diego to provide food, transportation and assistance with travel logistics.
The state will also fund to health services for short stays, including COVID tests – 19.
Last week, the Biden administration began allowing people to enter the United States who had been forced to wait south of the border under Trump’s “Stay in Mexico” policy . On its first day, Biden suspended the program for newcomers.
It is estimated that some 26, 00 people with active asylum cases, and that some 25 people will be released daily in San Diego.
“This is what happens when California and Washington are talking to each other instead of against, ”said HD Palmer, spokesman for the California Department of Finance.