The number of buses arriving to the city has doubled, exhausting donations and exceeding the ability of city volunteers and mutual aid networks to respond.
The letter, which was dated July 14, asks Bowser to release the city’s contingency funds, provide city staff members to assist migrants’ arrival, create respite centers near Union Station, ensure buses arrive during daylight hours, and provide coronavirus tests, protective equipment and isolation hotels for those who have been infected with the coronavirus.
In an interview Sunday with CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” Bowser also said the influx of buses arriving at the city represents a “significant issue” and that her administration has called on the federal government to work across state lines to prevent people from “being tricked into getting on buses.”
SAMU told The Washington Post last week that the organization does not have capacity to coordinate all the buses arriving in the city every week. Tatiana Laborde, SAMU’s managing director, said in an interview that the organization can fund 30 percent of onward tickets for those migrants going to other destinations, and the organization’s shelter in Montgomery County only allows migrants to stay up to three days.
“The current FEMA grants are not nearly enough, and it is critical that we take advantage of any additional federal resources that are available. We must call on the federal government to work with the District in being fully responsive to the existing need, and would be glad to join you in doing so,” the letter read.The Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network — a coalition of D.C.
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