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co_matic t1_j6spvti wrote

Many homeless people avoid shelters because they have tight, cramped conditions and force people into close proximity with others who may be unstable or have drug or alcohol problems. Theft can be rampant and shelter rules and curfews don't work for everybody (especially if they're working while homeless).

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeless/comments/ujdrhq/why_do_homeless_people_consider_shelters_unsafe/

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co_matic t1_itzubt7 wrote

>The shelter complex’s opening on Oct. 19 coincided with a drop in the number of Venezuelan nationals entering the U.S. illegally after the Biden administration announced an agreement to expel many of them to Mexico, according to border aid groups. Most migrants who have traveled north on buses in recent months came originally from Venezuela, in part because the government-sponsored rides brought them to cities with large Venezuelan populations.

Biden started using Title 42 - a Trump-era policy used to turn back asylum-seekers on pretext of stopping COVID transmission - to turn back Venezuelan asylum-seekers, after failing to repeal the policy earlier this year. Seems like Dems saw the Abbott bus stunt as being bad for their midterm chances, and so basically adopted the GOP policy on immigration for the time being.

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