DENVER — Denver has set up an emergency shelter to accommodate as many as 100 immigrants from the U.S.’s southern border after the group arrived in the city by bus overnight Monday into Tuesday, according to the Denver Office of Emergency Management.
Staff with the Denver Rescue Mission say that the roughly 100 people the city is housing is only a portion of the influx of immigrants, mostly from Venezuela, who arrived at the doors of the organization’s downtown shelter over a 48-hour period dating back to Monday night.
“Last night we housed approximately 50 people at our Lawrence Street downtown shelter,” Denver Rescue Mission spokesman Stephen Hinkel said of the facility located at the corner of Lawrence Street and Park Avenue West. “And then we transported 100 to the rec center.”
