Since June 8th, nearly 300 asylum seekers — all families — have been bussed to Portland from Texas and New Mexico. Meanwhile, the local soup kitchen, Preble Street is providing nutritious African meals to the migrants — breakfast, lunch, and dinner, a far cry from what kids are being fed at the border (“oatmeal, a cookie and a sweetened drink in the morning, instant noodles for lunch and a burrito and cookie for dinner”).
