Dem Denver Mayor on Migrant Crisis: Our City Is Very Close to Its Breaking Point Now

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JONES: "At what point does your city reach its breaking point?"
JOHNSTON: "Yeah, I think our city is very close to its breaking point now. And we've been talking to leaders in D.C. and around the country about why we needed to take action here. I think we have successfully welcomed almost 40,000 migrants in the last year and -- and we know what it takes to do this successfully, we just need that help. And the things we need are, yes, we need federal dollars, but the most important thing is we need, you know, work authorization for folks when they arrive, and we need those resources at the border, so you can add more security at the border, and so you can help process those asylum claims so the folks that do arrive here can work. The challenge we have is you have someone that will arrive in Denver, has been admitted on an asylum claim, but their court date for their asylum case is six years away. And they're in Denver for six years without an ability to work and support themselves. And that means we have to support them. And that's not what they want to do or what we want them to do."