Riverside County is the only non-border county in the country receiving drop-offs from border officials.
Their bed capacity is 300. Most immigrants stay 48 to 72-hours before they are moved to sponsoring agency shelters, mostly outside the county.
"If we reach capacity, where we are not able to move people out of our system as quickly as they are coming into our system, we will inform Customs and Border Protection. We are hopeful they will be able to reallocate, if not that is going to result in street releases.""I don’t think they should be doing it," said one resident.
"I am an immigrant myself so I agree we need to have a law that helps those people," added another. "I think they should wait and do it the legal way. I was born in Mexico and I had to wait for the process. And I think everybody should do the same thing," another resident said. that I have read and agree
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