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11/18 Water Drop
11/23 Thanksgiving Day Laborer Outreach
11/25 Caravan of Love

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After migrant woman died in San Ysidro, aid workers say nothing has changed
With growing numbers of migrants arriving in San Diego County in recent weeks, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to declare a humanitarian crisis for asylum seekers at the border and request more federal support.

More than 8,100 migrants have been dropped off in the region in the last two weeks, according to the county — an influx county officials say shows no sign of slowing.

After waiting between the layers of fencing at the U.S.-Mexico border to be processed, many migrants are dropped off at transit centers across the county, often without the resources they need to reach their destinations, overwhelming local aid groups.

Supervisor Jim Desmond and Chair Nora Vargas, who proposed the motion together, said the county had recently begun fielding requests from local groups for help. Although some have already received government funding to help asylum seekers, local advocates say it is not enough.
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More than 14,000 asylum seekers were sent to San Diego. Local support systems were overwhelmed
It has been 12 days since a 29-year-old Guinean woman died in Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) makeshift migrant camp in San Ysidro.

Since then, conditions haven’t improved. CBP personnel continue to tell migrants to wait in open-air camps so they can be processed to enter the United States.

“I really believe that another person will die unless there is a substantial change to these conditions,” said Erika Pinheiro, executive director of Al Otro Lado. The nonprofit is one of several providing humanitarian aid to the San Ysidro camp and another in Jacumba.

Conditions at these camps — which offer no protection from the outside elements and offer few medical services — have not changed since the woman’s death, she added.

“The open-air detention sites in Jacumba have continued to grow,” Pinheiro said. “We have not seen Border Patrol regularly hand out water, we’ve still had to call 911 multiple times a day for very serious medical emergencies. Nothing has changed.”
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