Council Member Brewer Inquires About Asylum Seeker Population Estimates
Council Member Gale Brewer asks for estimates on the number of asylum seekers in the city who could benefit from targeted employment programs.
Okay.
And is there a sense of I have no sense.
I mean, I wish that every single person who came here was able to stay who was seeking asylum.
Um we need the schools, we need we need them all.
That's not the case with the person in in uh Washington.
So my question is do we have some sense of how many folks here are seeking asylum and who are obviously not everybody's in shelter, not everybody is able to be found.
You can't find the people in my house, I bet.
So my question is how do we have any sense of the numbers?
Many of whom could use these programs that Ruth is uh trying to establish.
I don't have that number handy, but we will get it and we can circle back with that.
Okay, because I think that would be helpful give some sense of where we're going in terms of those kinds of programs.