More migrants now than ever are living in the U.S. legally, but only through a temporary program. San Diego County resources for immigrants in this limbo period haven’t caught up.
One afternoon in late July, a group of Venezuelan migrants fought against gusts of wind to tie a blue tarp to a chain-link fence on a highway overpass in downtown San Diego.
In recent months, Venezuelan migrants have joined San Diego’s growing unhoused population as a record number of them have fled their country amid intense economic and political turmoil. The dozen gathered on the overpass that day are just part of a larger group now living on the streets, in vehicles or in homeless shelters.They are among thousands of Venezuelans entering the U.S.
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