Washington state supplemental budget includes $32M for asylum seekers

Published March 22, 2024 7:41am ET

(The Center Square) – A year after a small church in Tukwila began taking in hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers, lawmakers are offering some major help in the form of $32 million in the supplemental budget passed by the Legislature this session set aside for new migrant arrivals in Washington state.

Many of the asylum seekers ending up in the Evergreen State have come from violence-plagued parts of southern Africa, including Angola, while others have left Columbia, Guatemala and Venezuela.