More than 14,000 asylum seekers were sent to San Diego. Local support systems were overwhelmed
by Paulina Velasco in San Diego from US news | The Guardian on (#6FPQ2)
Cash-strapped NGOs and legal aid groups are jumping in to help migrants figure out next steps as California cut funding
About 150 people, most of them men, were milling around on the corner of the Iris Avenue transit center parking lot in southern San Diego last Wednesday.
It's one of several locations in the southern California city where Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the US border agency, since mid-September has been releasing asylum seekers who have crossed the US-Mexico border.
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