San Diego migrant shelter closes doors with numbers plummeting after Trump immigration crackdown: report

A ample migrant structure successful San Diego is closing its doors arsenic the region continues to spot a drastic driblet successful asylum seekers since President Donald Trump took office. 

As of Monday, CBS8 News San Diego reported, the Crowne Plaza Hotel successful Mission Valley is returning to its archetypal intent and nary longer serves arsenic a migrant shelter. 

The structure was reportedly tally by Catholic Charities. Fox News Digital reached retired to the enactment for remark but did not instantly person a response.

This latest migrant structure closure comes aft the Jewish Family Service of San Diego announced successful February it would adjacent its halfway and laic disconnected 115 employees owed to "changes successful national backing and policy." 

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Empty beds astatine a migrant shelter. (Stephanie Bennett/Fox News)

"Jewish Family Service of San Diego (JFS) is moving to conscionable the evolving needs of the assemblage successful effect to caller and anticipated national argumentation changes," the enactment antecedently said. "With a heavy committedness to its halfway worth of 'Welcome the Stranger,' JFS is focusing its migration efforts connected providing pro bono ineligible services and assemblage enactment resources."

The structure had operated successful San Diego County arsenic a determination migrant structure for implicit six years anterior to its closure. 

The non-governmental enactment (NGO) said it has not received caller asylum-seeking families oregon individuals since the CBP One telephone app went down Jan. 20. 

The app, which allowed immigrants to beryllium paroled into the U.S., was created during the archetypal Trump medication to assistance with scheduling cargo inspections. 

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A migrant structure successful San Diego is shutting down aft receiving nary caller arrivals aft the Trump administration’s termination of the CBP One app connected Inauguration Day. (FOX 5 San Diego/Salvador Rivera/Border Report/Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

It expanded successful 2023 to let migrants to marque an assignment astatine a larboard of introduction to beryllium allowed in, initially owed to an objection from the Title 42 nationalist wellness order. Since May, they person had the imaginable to beryllium paroled into the U.S. arsenic portion of the Biden administration’s enlargement of "lawful pathways." 

U.S. Border Patrol reports that year-over-year migrant encounters with its agents successful February declined by astir 95%.

According to the Los Angeles Times, arrests person gone from much than 1,200 per time during their highest past April to 30 to 40 per day.

"To accidental determination has been a melodramatic alteration would beryllium an understatement," Jeffrey Stalnaker, acting main patrol cause of the San Diego assemblage of the border, told the newspaper.

President Donald Trump has cracked down connected amerciable immigration. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

As of the extremity of December, much than 936,500 individuals had made appointments to beryllium paroled done the app, according to Customs and Border Protection.

"With migrants nary longer capable to usage the CBP One application, the San Diego Rapid Response Network (SDRRN) Migrant Shelter Services, operated by JFS, has not received caller asylum-seeking families and individuals released from short-term national custody into our care. Due to these changes successful national backing and policy, the SDRRN Migrant Shelter Services volition beryllium paused until determination is amended knowing of aboriginal assemblage needs," the connection continued.

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The enactment received $22,077,365 successful taxpayer-funded FEMA wealth successful fiscal twelvemonth 2024 contempt claiming it received nary funds, according to assistance records connected the FEMA website.

Illegal immigrants encamped successful a Denver shelter. (Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

A monolithic migrant structure successful Manhattan was besides closed successful February aft New York City Mayor Eric Adams' bureau announced that "fewer than 45,000 migrants are successful the city’s care." 

His bureau said that this fig was "down from a precocious of 69,000 successful January of 2024 and retired of the much than 232,000 that person arrived successful New York City seeking metropolis services since the outpouring of 2022."

Adams' bureau said the Roosevelt Hotel structure opened successful May 2023 "during the tallness of the planetary asylum seeker crisis, with the metropolis receiving an mean of 4,000 arrivals each week."

"The tract has provided a assortment of supportive services to migrants, including ineligible assistance, aesculapian attraction and reconnection services, arsenic good arsenic served arsenic a humanitarian alleviation halfway for families with children," it added. "In caller months, the mean fig of registrants has decreased to astir 350 per week. Going forward, these intake functions and supportive services volition present beryllium integrated into different areas of the system."

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The converted site, which has astir 1,000 rooms, has processed much than 173,000 migrants since its opening successful May 2023, according to a erstwhile connection by the city.

The City of Denver besides scaled backmost migrant services that aforesaid month, closing 4 migrant shelters and announcing it would "consolidate shelters with the extremity of redeeming the metropolis millions of dollars."

During the last fewer weeks of Joe Biden’s presidency, astir 400-500 caller migrants were requesting metropolis assistance each week, the New York Post reported. 

Fox News' Bill Melguin, LIndsay Kornick and Greg Norman contributed to this report.

Stepheny Price is simply a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. She covers topics including missing persons, homicides, nationalist transgression cases, amerciable immigration, and more. Story tips and ideas tin beryllium sent to [email protected]