Over 100 asylum seekers forced out of Kent hotel, now in encampment in Seattle park

KENT, Wash. — Inside a Kent hotel room, two mothers, both named Adriana, will be the first to say they don’t have answers. 

“Even now, we don’t know how much time we’re going to have to camp. We don’t have these answers. We can’t tell anyone what we’re doing because we don’t know ourselves,” Adriana Medina said in Spanish.

More than 100 asylum seekers, including many children, say they plan to camp in a Seattle park Monday night as hotel funding has run out — most of them are from Venezuela, and some are from the Republic of Congo. 

Adriana Medina and Adriana Figueira crossed into the United States via the southern

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