Mayor: Santa Fe won't be hosting migrants
The city of Santa Fe will not be providing temporary housing to asylum-seekers after all.
But the city will still assist the large number of migrants crossing the state’s border with Mexico in other ways, including raising money, organizing volunteers and collecting clothes, nonperishable food and other donations, Mayor Alan Webber said during Wednesday’s City Council meeting.
“The best way for Santa Fe to help, largely because of the issue of logistics, which is the most significant part of this situation, the greatest help we can provide is not to stand up our own shelter,” Webber said, explaining that the city is not well-positioned for sheltering those headed to out-of-state destinations.
A vast majority of the asylum-seekers who are being dropped off by the Border Patrol in Las Cruces are not looking to settle in New Mexico but are headed to other states to join their sponsors, Webber said.
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