Asylum seekers are increasingly flying to Tijuana and walking across the border from Mexico.
The executive director of Refugee and Immigrant Services Northwest in Everett said more than 30 people have arrived in Snohomish County from Ukraine in the last couple of weeks.
“We know many more will start coming to the United States and we know they’re primarily coming for the moment to California and Washington,” said Rabbi Will Berkovitz, CEO of Jewish Family Service in Seattle, which works with refugees. Berkovitz said although President Biden has pledged the U.S. will welcome up to a hundred thousand Ukrainian refugees, the system isn’t set up, and people fleeing the current war are not arriving with formal refugee protection.
“There’s no social safety net, the only thing they get is the ability to apply for work, but that’s a months-long process,” Berkovitz said. Seattle-area Jewish organizations have launched a fundraising effort to help people fleeing the invasion.
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