Officials offered to bus the illegal immigrants to the Canadian border, Chicago, New York, and “wherever” in the US.
Denver officials begged illegal immigrants who arrived in the city to move away and offered to bus them to the Canadian border and other American cities.
In the video obtained by 9NEWS, the City’s Newcomer Communications Liaison Andres Carrera told a crowd at one of the city’s shelters, “The opportunities are over.”
“You don’t have to walk anywhere, we can buy you a free ticket,” Carrera told the illegal immigrants. “You can go to any city. We can take you up to the Canadian border, wherever!”
“New York gives you more. Chicago gives you more,” he said to the group in Spanish. “So, I suggest you go there where there is longer-term shelter. There are also more job opportunities there.”
“We have received too many migrants and that is why we ran out of resources,” Carrera said. “Look, we are not going to block you if you want to stay here. I am not here to block you.”
The liaison warned, “If you stay here, you are going to suffer even more, and I don’t want to see this.” Carrera told the group that their path had not ended, but that the city would buy them a free ticket to any city, or even the Canadian border.