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MIGRANT CRISIS SPREADS TO A REMOTE MOUNTAIN TOWN AS WINTER DESCENDS

By Karin Brulliard
December 22, 2023 at 7:00 a.m. EST

Oscar Flores walks to the recently purchased car that serves as home for him and
his girlfriend outside an improvised shelter in Carbondale, Colo. The pair are
from Venezuela and sleep in their vehicle with two other migrants. (Michael
Robinson Chávez/The Washington Post)

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CARBONDALE, Colo. — This small mountain town sits 6,181 feet above sea level, 25
minutes from an interstate and 700 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. But it is
a new front line in a crisis spreading and straining local governments across
the country.

As temperatures dipped well-below freezing one evening, dozens of young men,
nearly all from Venezuela, rested on cots in an events hall now housing 60
migrants. In the snow-fringed dirt parking lot outside, dozens more prepared to
spend the night in cars they had purchased in the weeks since they crossed into
the United States and made this an unlikely haven down-valley from ritzy Aspen.


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