Young Venezuelan migrant Thiago Caldera, 6, plays on a phone while his parents, Willians Caldera and Alejandra Guerrero, receive help from volunteer Nina Frias to begin the work-permitting process during a clinic at a hotel in Denver on Feb. 5, 2024.
He says it will significantly drive down the projected city budget shortfall in 2024 to just half of what was once estimated. The remaining $45.9 million would be made up from a package of cuts the administration plans to bring to the City Council for consideration this month. They include nearly $20 million saved by not filling some open city positions and nearly $10 million saved this year by deferring capital projects.
Normal rec center hours will resume on June 7, and the city also will restore disrupted Denver Parks and Recreation programs and permitting. The administration has dispatched two Denver Human Services staff members to El Paso, Texas, many migrants’ first stop in the United States, to spread the word that longer hotel stays will no longer be offered, according to the mayor.
Even if the asylum-seeker program is a success for those who are granted a slot, it will create a system with “haves” and “have-nots,” she said.
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