Douglas County, Colorado, passes emergency ban on buses carrying migrants from making unscheduled stops. Law breakers face hefty $1,000 fines per violation.
that make unscheduled stops in Douglas County, Colorado, could face hefty fines or have their vehicles seized, according to a new emergency ban passed Tuesday.of resources to help the 40,000 immigrants who have come to the city over the past 15 months lacking basic needs, such as food, water, and shelter.
City officials recently told immigrants staying in a shelter that the opportunities for them have dried up in Denver and said the city would pay for 20,000 one-way bus tickets to anywhere else. The offer immediately raised concerns in neighboring suburbs, cities, and towns that have far fewer resources than Denver.Douglas County commissioners passed a resolution late last year saying the county would not be a “sheltering solution” for Denver’s problems.
Already, Aurora and El Paso County have warned Denver not to send immigrants their way. In Lakewood, a suburb about 15 minutes from Denver, just the idea of immigrants flooding in prompted hundreds of people to gather at an office park near the Colorado Mills shopping center in February and vent. “We do not want to be Denver,” former Councilwoman Mary Janssen said at the gathering. “I live in Lakewood. When did we decide to give away our immigration laws?”Tuesday’s meeting in Douglas County was a preventive measure. No buses carrying immigrants have stopped there, and officials said they want to keep it that way. Any bus caught trying to offload passengers at unscheduled stops will face a $1,000 fine per passenger.
“We want to be very proactive and make sure that these bus companies don’t think we’ll just bring them to Douglas County because we have no shelters in Douglas County,” Douglas County Commissioner Lora Thomas said, adding there are “no funds” to cover housing or medical treatment.
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