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Arrive in denver who have no intention of arriving in denver never meant to come to denver they do have family in the united states they have networks they have a friend was a job for them or place to stay and they were trying to get to chicago or los angeles or nevada. they were sent to denver through no goal of their own we help them arrive at the city where they were trying to arrive in other cities to the same with us we are folks to get sent to us from new york or from chicago because they ...

Arriving without work authorization, without federal support. it is going to be a huge strain on cities, but that doesnt mean we cant solve it. we could solve it if we actually had work authorization, if we had resources at the border so that you could adjudicate these asylum claims faster. mike motorcycle is it just about processing the migrants, or should we be focused on enforcing the law? >> well, i think the denver mayors partially correct. this is about adjudicating these claims and determ...

Sheriff and others told me and the local mayor michael johnston also told me. >> we have folks that arrive in denver, and the court dates are 2029, and five years out because the courts are so backlogged. so if you put the capacity out to asylum in 30 to 60 days and give them a work authorization, we koucould put them to work an solve this. >> yet, they are going to meet in washington again, to discuss the curbing of the influgs of immigrants into the u.s. with mexico, and this is going to inclu...

And that is the fact that we had one governor in the state of texas that is refusing to cooperate with other governors and other local officials and quirky efforts to address a challenge that our country, which this country should stand united to address that our country is facing. and it is a remarkable failure of governance to refuse to cooperate with ones fellow, local, and state officials. but we have dispatch teams to chicago, denver, new york to namath just three. to assist them in managin...

>> dana: texas bus population to various states according to abbotts office theyve sent 95,000 or a little more than that out of their state. they have had 1.5 million just this year cross into texas. do you have some empathy for what abbott is dealing with given that border is so wide open? >> i do have empathy and i dont think any one state should have to solve the problem alone or every one city. ive offered to work together with abbott. what we want is what would help him also. a coordinated...

People arrive to the destinations they tried to seek. so we have people come to denver and they want to be in denver, we help them integrate and succeed here. well have folks in denver and say i never had a plan to go to denver. i wanted to go see my family in l.a., but someone put me on a bus to denver. if you arrive without work authorization, without support, we do think its important to help you arrive to the place where you have networks and family support. well do that for folks that ask f...

Calls from employers every day, mike, i know these folks have arrived. i have open jobs. can i please hire them? and we need congress to act because right now we have people who want to work and employers who want to hire them, and we cant connect them to those jobs without federal policy change. >> speaking of that federal policy change, when you asked the white house to and made direct appeals to them to help saying you need dollars, you need help getting those work permits sped up, do you thi...

To exact political punishment on. and then they arrive in our cities without either the ability to work or federal resources to support them. so we know the current system isnt working, but its also very clear to us that there is a path that does work here, and that is if we can have folks that arrive with work authorization, with federal support, and with a plan for coordinated entry throughout the country. we actually as mayors can make this system work, if we can get congress to actually act ...

Or three months dont have that work authorization. thats why we see more and more folks ending up on the streets or encampments with additional needs. i think the biden administration understands this. they understand they want to speed up asylum claims. thats why in this federal supplemental bill, you have dollars for more adjudication at the border, dollar support for cities. they see what has to get done, the challenges we have the white house republicans have been trying to hold up the dolla...

Where are the migrants coming from? Organizers are demanding President Joe Biden issue work permits for Mexican migrants in Chicago.