VIEW LARGER People wait for assistance at a shelter that's part of the Casa Alitas program on March 1, 2024. County administrator Jan Lesher told the Pima County Supervisors Tuesday that federal officials have assured them about the county’s portion of the $650 million dollars in the appropriations bill for short-term services to asylum seekers.
“It is our ongoing hope that we will be out of this business, but that the way out of the business for us is not to simply stop providing services and allow for a thousand individuals to be released, but staff is continuing to work with some of our other partners in the community to see who might best serve as our fiscal agent in the long term opportunity," Lesher said.
The county has served more than 400-thousand people since 2019, receiving federal funding in short-term tranches and repeatedly coming close to running out.
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